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The Great Writing Audience Challenge – Week 31 Results

September 7, 2020 by Robert C. Worstell Leave a Comment

Great Writing Audience Challenge - Week 31 Results

Weird week. All the reasons in the world for not getting things done. At least I’m fighting the catch-up earlier this week. Glad to have you along for this journey…


“Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson


Metrics

Subscribers:

Total Subscribers – 2489
Heritage Subscribers – 67
IF Subscribers – 2305
New IF subs – 10
New Non-IF subs – 1
Webform Subs – 5
Inactive – 8
Veteran Subs – 358

Still dwindling. Need to ramp up promotion to get subscribers from other areas.

(I did get a yahoo pointing out that text-only readers of email don’t flag the “opened” bit – so they’ll simply be unsubscribed eventually. Last week, I set that back to two years before I delete them for non-opening during the last 90 days. Should help out that tiny bit of people. I’ll check that out sometime later…)

Book Sales: Back to usual. Higher with the scamdemic scare.

Books (pre-)published:

  • Ray Cummings: Golden Age Space Opera Tales
  • A Parody Outline of History

Fiction Books In Progress: 

  • “Idylls of a Lazurai” has come into view, which then aligns the whole series with the “Their Eyes” kids.
  • “Their Eyes” characters to establish: Felicity, Augie -> What Their Eyes See -> Book Five (Augie is next – this coming week.)
  • Corona-Xi series and anthology – way back-burner now.
  • Case of the Sand Dune Demise, Death and the Dreamcatcher > Book Five
  • Book Four needs villain established.
  • Two Ghost’s Salvation Book Two (series) -> Book Three
  • Wolfer’s Nation -> Book Three

Non-Fiction Books In Progress: 

  • Get Everything You Want Out of Life Anthology – ebook only (see below).
  • PMA Science of Success Introduction – revision
  • PMA Science of Success Complete Lessons
  • Why Leftists Fail with Violence
  • A Parody Outline of History (Parody/Satire – actually fiction)
  • A book of talks by George Washington Carver

Courses in Progress:

  • “PMA: Science of Success” (now in beta)
  • “Strangest Secret” (now in beta),
  • “Get Everything You Want Out of Life”, (now in beta)
  • “If You Can Count to Four…” (now in beta),
  • “Completely Change Your Life in 30 Seconds” – still in alpha.
  • Common-Sense Marketing That Works – pre-alpha
  • Raising Gentle Cattle – pre-alpha
  • How to Write Less and Profit More – pre-alpha
  • And some more that I already recorded for podcasts…

Analysis

There’s more to do on subscribers, as usual. And somethings that don’t make sense.

Instafreebie/PW

Occasionally, I do a retrospective to find out how effective IF/PW actually is. And since I have a high rate of unsubscribes (freebie seekers) I know the actual retention rate is quite low. Most of it is far worse if I compare how many books I give away there without getting subscribers to opt-in. It always raises more questions when I start something like this. I’d love to dig in, but I’m a full day behind, if not close to two.

Up to a year ago today, IF/PW said they sent me 9748 subscribers. My mailing list has only 1168 of these still onboard.  12% retention. So, if you include those books you give away on that site (50% more) then you have 6% of those people. What I can work with is the 12%. And converting then through other opt-ins (back of book, site, other book sales.)  A rough figure out had 77 that weren’t from IF/PW, but around 362 who came from other sources, not just IF/PW. Meaning that I’m cross-converting them at 5 to 1. Small potatoes, but this is where I need to concentrate in order to have stable opt-ins.

Does it pay? IF/PW costs me $120 a year. 4247 subscribers from them. 1172 actually made it onto my list. So, 12% of those is 140 subscribers. I paid just under $10 for each of these.

Simple math.

Original Fiction

Going back to this, since my habits are now bringing me more stories on a regular basis. They don’t get fewer because I don’t write them. But writing tends to make everyone queue up. And this is my real joy in life, where I can lose myself for a couple of days of bliss.

Walking among the cows give similar relief – where the world just drops away for awhile.

Peace of mind is one of the 12 riches Nap Hill talks about.

Meanwhile, Classic Publishing Continues

Worked out a way to promote these – which is to post a short story every week to my blog, which then also posts to Medium. Take a short story out of one of the books, and then split it up into parts. Give the link on my site where they can find out more about that book – which then promotes sales.

Don’t know when I’

Pointing to Next Year’s Challenge

Most of where I’m headed is in testing Nap Hill’s PMA: Science of Success lessons for myself. I already have an independent income, but making more would be nice.

Two podcasts each week is what I want to move up to. Those are for the PMA:SOS course itself as a generic course, then one which is tailored just to writers. Pulizzi had 6 stated parts to his Content Inc system, but he devoted a huge part at the beginning to Nap Hill’s TGR and goals. So that makes a seventh.

Courses

Each course I make should come backwards from the podcast. 14-minute TED talk is ideal, then split that up into 3-5 lessons of 3-5 minutes each. So the podcast becomes a module or a mini course. The podcasts repeat several times during the year – so each of those audio bits will play three times for the 17 parts of PMA:SOS. There are three parts to the “Becoming a Wealthy Author” mega-course, so it’s feasible to get this huge course built in a year. Provided I stick to it.

Last week’s to-do’s:

  • Sun: This analysis & emails – Late, but yup
  • Write the next short fiction – Nope
  • Publish one each of PD SF and Mysteries – Yup
  • Any “other” time – produce courses (PMA:SOS Intro) – Nope
  • Set up blog/podcast/lesson pattern – Nope

This week’s to-do’s:

  1. Sun: This analysis & emails
  2. Write the next short fiction
  3. Publish one each of PD SF and Mysteries
  4. Any “other” time – produce courses (PMA:SOS Intro)
  5. Set up blog/podcast/lesson pattern
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