Plan For Success In Your Indie Author Business And TikTok Marketing With Adam Beswick
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- Опубліковано 26 тра 2024
- How can you plan for success as an indie author even early in your writing career? How can you create multiple streams of income and multiple marketing channels, while still writing your books? Adam Beswick goes into his strategies.
In the intro, Kickstarter announces new functionality to help creatives (updates.kickstarter.com/a-new...) ;Watch out for a scam email about ALLi [Writer Beware (writerbeware.blog/2024/05/17/...) ]; Gary Vaynerchuk on the shifting marketing arena [Marketing Against the Grain Podcast (open.spotify.com/episode/4Dmi...) ]; Day Trading Attention (amzn.to/4ay9l9p) by Gary Vaynerchuk; Camera free video options [Brave New Bookshelf (bravenewbookshelf.com/episode-6/) ]
Plus, Microsoft Build event with new AI-enabled PCs and Copilot agents [Microsoft (blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2024...) ]; My thoughts on seeing Hamilton; and Spear of Destiny (www.jfpenn.com/destiny) coming this week!
Today's show is sponsored by ProWritingAid, writing and editing software that goes way beyond just grammar and typo checking. With its detailed reports on how to improve your writing and integration with Scrivener, ProWritingAid will help you improve your book before you send it to an editor, agent or publisher. Check it out for free or get 25% off the premium edition at www.ProWritingAid.com/joanna (www.prowritingaid.com/joanna)
This show is also supported by my Patrons. Join my Community at Patreon.com/thecreativepenn ( / thecreativepenn )
Adam Beswick is the best-selling author of the Levanthria series which has taken readers on epic journeys from corner to corner of the world. While mastering the craft of fantastical storytelling, Adam simultaneously embraces the rewarding challenges of family life as well as being an authorpreneur.
• Setting the foundation for your author business
• Having the confidence to financially invest in yourself
• Wrestling with the “importance” of choosing a writing career
• Creating multiple streams of income
• Overcoming the initial fear of creating video marketing content
• Staying consistent with your TikTok marketing and growing your viewership
• How to diversify away from reliance on any single platform
You can find Adam at APBeswickPublications.com (apbeswickpublications.com/) .
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I needed this sooo much today. Thanks to you and Adam for helping me with my mindset. Hearing about another's success and willingness to keep pushing gives me the confidence to keep pushing too.❤
I'm so glad it helped!
Interview starts at 18:20
Ah, I ADORE Hamilton! I was meant to see it on Broadway in December 2021 (I was visiting my sister in the States for Christmas) but it got cancelled because the cast caught COVID... 😭 However, it's coming to Dublin this October so I'll soon see it live at last! 🎉 It's such an amazing show - the lyrics are incredible and the emotion hits me every time I listen to it. Lin-Manuel Miranda is a genius of a writer. Okay, I'll stop gushing now.😆And thank you (and Adam) for another excellent podcast episode!
Enjoy the show in Dublin!
This is a really interesting show. I can relate to it having just started a business (in a different sector).
Yes, I think starting a business is similar whatever your products are. We all have to have things to sell and reach people who will buy them :)
Wonderful podcast. Much enjoyed. Is it an effective strategy to increase your sales of a book or series that may not be doing well by promoting it in the back matter of a book or series you have that is?
You have to think about how far readers will go into your back matter and what the order of things are - for example, most of us use a Call to Action at the back like 'please review' and 'sign up for my email list.' You could include sample chapters etc and see what happens.
Hey, Joanna, if I set up my own Shopify store, do I need to use ISbn numbers for my books?
Thanks
If you want to distribute print books in stores, then yes. But i you want to just sell ebooks or audio or even print to just your audience, then it's not necessary. It's just a good way to track things. I also sell my books everywhere else, bookstores, libraries etc, so I use my own ISBNs.
@thecreativepenn Thank you. I use Amazon and D2D for Print and eventually want to do what you did opening a Shopify store. That seemed like a great pivot for you - have your own store and take control of your own destiny in a sense. Has that helped your overall sales?
I'm not one to talk, and Im giving me my own advice, dont be afraid to put your face out there. Many people know you already and know your face. You are your brand, and you're a likable charismatic person.
Also, has any of your books been pitched for movies? If there was one book, which one would you pitch first if you were in an elevator with Steven Spielberg?
Great podcast by the way...its kept me a float for many years.
Just like writing your Audience dictates all of your content creation and social media creativity.