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Novel Marketing And Christian Publishing With Thomas Umstattd Jr.

The Creative Penn Podcast For Writers

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How to Be a Successful Author With an Email List

Facebook did not move the numbers Facebook activity didn't sell books at all and this was back in 2015 2016 when Facebook was still people thought it worked. An author with an email list sold so many more books than an author without an email list especially at launch which then gives them that momentum to carry through often for months ahead of time. The next most important thing again that hasn't changed is owning your own platform. If you want to be effective in your marketing you need to see it as something you spend money on rather than just time like I've been hot and cold on Facebook ads for a long time and have recently gone back into it because I now has my own store creativepenbooks.

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