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Your Subscriber Surge Giveaway is underway, and new readers are signing up for your mailing list. Exciting, right? But growing your email list is only the first step. The next is turning those new ...
The holidays are coming, and for indie authors, that means more than festive decorations, endless shopping emails, and the occasional questionable fruitcake. It means opportunity. Holiday sales are...
Listen & Subscribe: Apple Podcasts Spotify YouTube About the Episode: The holiday season isn't just one big shopping rush; it's three distinct marketing windows, and indie au...
Breaking news: Amazon announced today that Kindle Unlimited is being renamed Kindle+ and that eligible audiobooks will now be included in the subscription. We'll continue updating this article as m...
Publishing an audiobook used to mean navigating distributors, contracts, and a fair amount of industry jargon before your book ever reached listeners. Spotify for Authors gives self-published au...
If you have multiple audiobooks in a series on Spotify, you want listeners to know exactly what comes next. The good news is that linking a series on Spotify is relatively simple. You don't manu...
Listen & Subscribe: Apple Podcasts Spotify YouTube About the Episode: This episode is a milestone; the Written Word Media Podcast just hit 10,000 downloads. To celebrate, Ric...
If you’ve spent any time researching author marketing, you’ve probably encountered the terms reader magnet and lead magnet. Sometimes they’re used interchangeably. But there’s a useful distinction ...
Direct sales are giving self-published authors more ways to build sustainable author businesses. When readers buy through your own store, you can have more control over the customer experience, ...
Every author knows they should be building an email list. It's the one audience no algorithm can take away from you. Platforms change their rules. Ad accounts get shut down. Reach comes and goes...
