by kev_partner | 1 Aug 2017 | Indie Publishing, Production
Don’t wait until your latest novel goes up in a puff of dust to set up a backup strategy. Here’s a selection depending on how you write your drafts. Last Line of Defence To be completely safe, you need at least two backup methods. The belt and braces...
by kev_partner | 7 Jul 2017 | Blog, List Building for Authors
In this video, I walk through the process of creating a Bookfunnel group promotion. I cover: Setting up your giveaway Creating a Bundle Creating a group promo How to set up tracking links How to import author details into MailerLite to help organise the promo How to...
by kev_partner | 26 Jun 2017 | Indie Publishing, Marketing
Mark Coker, the CEO and founder of Smashwords recently published the sixth annual Smashwords survey. In the survey he analyses the data gathered by his aggregation network which distributes books primarily to retailers other than Amazon, something that indie authors...
by kev_partner | 26 Apr 2017 | Blog, List Building for Authors
Readers are unlikely to give you their email addresses unless you give something to them – something that has a value. The opportunity to receive your newsletter every now and again does not qualify. Indeed, given that you are probably entirely unknown to your...
by kev_partner | 12 Apr 2017 | Indie Publishing, Technical
So, you convince Amazon to set the price of your first book as free by matching it with other sites. You check via the KDP dashboard, hopping to the US and UK sites and yes, it’s showing as free. You email your subscribers to give them the great news. Within...
by kev_partner | 3 Apr 2017 | Blog, List Building for Authors
Having an active blog is a great way to keep engaged with readers and potential readers, but it can be a huge pain to have to work out what you’re going to post about. So, I’ve analysed a range of the most active author blogs and come up with a list of the...
