Plot or Plod: either way you market, it’s work

Fee or Free – do some of each to market

Fee or free depends as much on your time, your tolerance for uncertain outcomes, etc. as it does your budget. While some authors swear by giveaway, other disdain the ploy. Sure, it’ll bump your Amazon ranking initially but over the long haul does it work? Does...
Plot or Plod: either way you market, it’s work

Crazy #8 Marketing Tip for Authors

Three’s a crowd, yet I’ve posted a picture of three for marketing tip #8 because we are going to enter crowds. These are three ideas in my continuing format of Dos and Don’ts of Marketing. I’ve posted twice/week this month, so you may review...
Plot or Plod: either way you market, it’s work

Lucky #7 Marketing Tip

‘Lucky’ is an anti-compliment I’ve come to despise: people constantly avenge their perceived lack of good fortune by deriding mine with the banal, “You just lucky.” While my pastor coached me to smile and respond, “Yes, I am...
Plot or Plod: either way you market, it’s work

Fix Your Sales with Marketing Tip #6

OK, you caught me. I like alliteration and rhymes, so I had to use the word ‘fix’ to go with ‘six.’ But I’m not being genuine in the title because I. Can’t. Fix. Your. Marketing and Sales. That’s your task. I’ve been...