Great Fiction Writing Challenge - Week 23 Results Subscribers still steadily growing. Some from free ebooks as lead magnets. Some breakthroughs in writing production… Metrics Published Words Fiction: – free – 7774 – paid – 12521 Published Words Non-Fiction: – free – 5115 – paid – 0 Subscribers: Mailerlite: 270, MailChimp: 1, Instafreebie – 481 – New Total: … [Read more...]
The Great Fiction Writing Challenge – Week 22 Results
The Great Fiction Writing Challenge – Week 22 Results Same old success, as usual. People still coming in and leaving, overall improving trends on subscribers. More improvements as the tests continue... Metrics Published Words Fiction: – free – 0 – paid – 16478 Published Words Non-Fiction: – free – 4886 – paid – 0 Subscribers: Mailerlite: 352, MailChimp: 3, Total – … [Read more...]
Writing: The Most Important Element – Earl Nightingale
Writing: The Most Important Element - Earl Nightingale Another essay by Earl Nightingale from the How to Completely Change Your Life Series “What is the single most important element necessary to make an effective speech - or book?” I don’t think that’s a difficult question at all. The most important element necessary to make any communication effective is to be interesting. … [Read more...]
The Great Fiction Writing Challenge – Week 21 Results
The Great Fiction Writing Challenge – Week 21 Results Still regular. People coming in and leaving, overall improving trends on subscribers. Some breakthroughs this week... Metrics Published Words Fiction: – free – 0 – paid – 18055 Published Words Non-Fiction: – free – 4124 – paid – 1657 Subscribers Mailerlite: 154, MailChimp: 1, Total – 155 Instafreebie – … [Read more...]
The Great Fiction Writing Challenge – Week 20 Results
The Great Fiction Writing Challenge – Week 20 Results Regular progress. Things getting down to a dull roar of regular subscribers - and, hopefully, regular sales. Metrics Published Words Fiction: – free – 0 – paid – 7121 Published Words Non-Fiction: – free – 5952 – paid – 15764 Subscribers Mailerlite: 166, MailChimp: 1, Total – 167 Instafreebie – … [Read more...]
Self-Publishing: How to Build A Buyer’s Journey Road
Self-Publishing: How to Build A Buyer's Journey Road More commonly known as a "sales funnel", that's both inaccurate and pretty crass. Your buying readers are on a journey. You want them to buy more from you regularly, so you build a road for them. Both non-fiction and fiction have a road to build. Fiction has a "sales funnel" of their back list. This isn't really laid … [Read more...]
Publishing: Building Audience With Wattpad Syndication
Publishing: Building Audience With Wattpad Syndication Reference: http://livesensical.com/writing-publishing-building-audience-avid-readers/ This is a deeper dive just into Wattpad. I've distilled their recommended articles to pull the key startup actions you should be taking on that platform. It has its idiosyncrasies, but the point is finding your audience(s) and letting … [Read more...]
Publishing: How to Publish Paying Fiction on Medium
Publishing: How to Syndicate Paying Fiction on Medium After some months working at this, and finding no real answers, but a lot of restrictive dead ends, here is my conclusion: Just publish. Publish as syndication from what you already published, or before you hit "submit." You can publish stories too short to get above Amazon's arbitrary 2500 word limit. Normally, you'd … [Read more...]
Publishing: The Great Fiction Writing Challenge – Week 19 Results
Publishing: The Great Fiction Writing Challenge – Week 19 Results Writing this between storms, while the Internet is out temporarily - you gotta love satellite broadband... Meanwhile Instafreebie continues to impress. Metrics Published Fiction: – free – 0 – paid – Published Non-Fiction: – free – – paid – 0 Subscribers Mailerlite: 94, MailChimp: 1 Total – … [Read more...]
