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Synopsis
Your needs and wants, as an author, can be surprisingly and distinctly different than those of your reader. But, once you realize these differences between you and the reader, you can then focus your attention on truly understanding who your reading audience really is, and what their needs and wants are about. So, here is a short discussion to help you start to define and understand what your reading audience needs and wants in their own life, which is what has led them to you and your non-fiction book.
What You Will Learn In This Post
1. You will learn that your needs and wants don’t necessarily match with those of your readers.
2. You will learn how to begin asking yourself the right questions in order to start better understanding your readers.
3. You will learn how and why understanding the needs and wants of your audience will make you stand out from the crowd. Continue reading
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Even though empathy and sympathy both involve your “feelings” about your readers, they refer to two distinctly different emotions. As an author, and book marketer, (and as an emotionally mature adult that is trying to help people) you must genuinely understand the difference. Here is a short discussion about the importance of empathy, and how it relates to your book sales.
What You Will Learn In This Post
1. You will learn the difference between empathy and sympathy.
2. You will learn why understanding the difference will help you sell more books.
3. You will learn how and why empathy for your readers will improve your book sales. Continue reading
Thank you very much to Sarah Wylie for sharing my quotes on YouTube.
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In order to become, or remain, financially successful as a self-publisher, you must be able to quickly and effectively get your marketing message to your book-buying audience. Your book’s sell sheet is an excellent tool to do this. The sell sheet is a perfect marketing tool for offline AND online marketing – because it’s simple to understand, and gets directly to the point. So, here is a short discussion of five certain ways to make your sell sheet a very powerful marketing tool.
What You Will Learn In This Post
1. You will learn about the 5 most important elements that you must incorporate into your book’s sell sheet.
2. You will learn how and why these elements are important for your book’s success.
3. You will learn the 5 most important ways to optimize your sell sheet so that people want to read it. Continue reading
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Creating a huge platform with many thousands of followers might seem like the most obvious way to achieve success. But, there’s more to it than that. A huge email list, and huge Twitter and Facebook following, are all great, and are always an accomplishment to strive for. But, the quality of those followers is what’s really important.
What You Will Learn In This Post
1. You will learn why a large author platform isn’t always the best or most practical for most self-published authors.
2. You will learn why high-quality email addresses are more important than a high-quantity of email addresses.
3. You will learn what you need to do to start building your author platform. Continue reading
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“Successful entrepreneurship begins and ends with customer wants and needs, not what you want and need.”
Thank you very much to the University of Maryland’s Master of Technology Entrepreneurship Program (MTech) for using my quote about successful entrepreneurship.
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