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John Walsh is a successful funeral director with a loving family but he has a weakness for other women. The modern world thinks cheating is a victimless crime, but is it?
John Walsh is a successful funeral director with a loving family but he has a weakness for other women. The modern world thinks cheating is a victimless crime, but is it?
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coloring page from Google Drive
John Walsh is a successful funeral director with a loving family but he has a weakness for other women. The modern world thinks cheating is a victimless crime, but is it?
Click above or here to download an 11" x 17" Halloween Digital Door Poster.
Print out on cardstock and hang on your front door! Strong enough to last from year to year.
John Walsh is a successful funeral director with a loving family but he has a weakness for other women. The modern world thinks cheating is a victimless crime, but is it?
Click above to download a 8.5" x 11"
image document from Google Drive
John Walsh is a successful funeral director with a loving family but he has a weakness for other women. The modern world thinks cheating is a victimless crime, but is it?
I have heard that many, many tech workers have been let go due to AI. I am looking to start a new Catholic Ministry to help these people. First I need to find out if there is a need to get jobs for enough Catholic men or women.
I am thinking of either employment agency and/or online business to offer tech services, websites, database services, etc. This is not a come on to make money. This is meant to test the waters to see if there are any Catholics who have been caught up in this recent purge.
If you are Catholic and have been let go of some other type of work, I welcome you to also fill out the form as “helping to get employed” is the nature of the ministry.
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Print out on cardstock and cut out. Sweet bookmarks for you’re favorite Halloween reads or gothic stories. Or use them as gift tags or party favors.
John Walsh is a successful funeral director with a loving family but he has a weakness for other women. The modern world thinks cheating is a victimless crime, but is it?
Click here or above and you can download a PDF of the Autumn Reading Themed bookmarks. Passing a simple bookmark is a way to let someone special know you are thinking of them. Use them as giveaways at craft shows. Insert them into your giveaway books. Let one hang from the bow on a birthday gift. They are the perfect Tiny Gift for All Occasions.
Every author knows what a great feeling it is to publish your first book. Even when publishing additional books, it's still a great feeling of accomplishment. However, once any book is published, it's then time for an author to turn their attention to marketing the book. This is where it can get a little tricky.
Most authors I know are generally shy, camera shy, quiet, reserved, or not comfortable jumping around on social media to create buzz about their book. I know exactly how they feel.
Once you do focus on book marketing, every author is always looking for book events, holidays, new ideas, or reasons to create a marketing campaign around. By opting to list the book as a pre-order, this becomes an event in the life cycle of the book. It's an event that can cover one month of time and present several opportunities to talk about it as a marketing approach. It can also be included as a pre-order in an author's weekly or monthly newsletter.
Another advantage of a pre-order on Amazon, you can list the price higher than it will be once it is released. While at this price on pre-order, any Advanced Reader Campaign will be seen as a better deal to get for free in exchange for a review when the book is released. Lowering prices after a product loses it's shiny and new status is very common in the world of marketing.
By setting the Release date a month away -- or more, you can offer a free download on giveaway websites like Bookfunnel or StoryOrigin. Then after the release, you can email these readers and ask for a review.
Amazon will send an email around to people who are following you on your author page. I have included a picture of the upper email so you can see it.
Another marketing promotion can revolve around an invitation to follow you on Amazon or AuthorCentral. You can include this invitation when you announce your Pre-Order or you can even do this campaign before your book is up for pre-order. Those more-seasoned authors will know what I mean by creating opportunities to post about your book that is a slightly different angle than here's my book with a link to purchase it. That marketing approach gets old very fast.
The more followers you accumulate, the broader the pre-order and new release campaign will get. I actually found the Amazon count for my followers which I was shocked to see. If I had to guess how many I had before seeing this number, I would have guessed maybe 40 -- with my eyes closed and fingers crossed. I missed out on this hidden marketing opportunity for the first years of my self-publishing and marketing efforts, so learn from my mistake!
I use a Note to Reader page at the back of all of my books. On this page, I thank the reader for choosing my book to read and also a link to a questionnaire if they want to give me additional feedback. I also include my email in case anyone wants to contact me about the book or for any other reason.
I will be adding a request to follow me on Amazon with a link to my author page, so readers can follow me if they choose to.
TIP FOR THE NEWBIES: When you are scrounging around for another reason to build a marketing campaign around, take a screen shot of your author page and the follow button, with a post about following you to hear about your upcoming book releases. This can be used over and over again right before you get ready to release a new book.
The target of Amazon's email is the author's followers. Everything else involved in who Amazon chooses to notify about the release of your book is proprietary, so no one can say. There is more marketing tip for you as the author that I go into below.
Above is another screen shot from the email about my new release. This shows three other authors that Amazon includes in an Customers also bought items by with similar authors' names. This information is a HUGE giveaway to you as an author. This information comes from the Amazon algorithms and you can be sure these are the best authors that match your new release.
I would suggest that you follow these authors to see if you can learn anything from how they market to their readers using Amazon. I have followed my three authors and I'll make another blog post if I find any other ways to use this feature at Amazon.
ONE MORE SLIGHTLY-OFF-TOPIC TIP: The names of these similar authors can be valuable when running Amazon ads. I use a tool called Publisher Rocket, which is a paid tool, and they offer this kind of information. With a new release, Amazon is giving you this information for free!
I hope this helps new and seasoned authors alike. Check back to my website often as I do post weekly.
