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A Novelist’s Anguished Cry—Can You Help?

by Joel Friedlander on December 3, 2018 29 Comments

As regular readers know, I often promote marketing and platform-building training tools and resources. I do this partly because I know from experience that understanding how online marketing works will make it possible for more authors to make a living from their writing. This is also part of my own business, since I earn commissions […]

Filed Under: Marketing Tagged With: Jeff Walker, Mark Dawson, Marketing, Nick Stephenson

Learn How To Find Your First 10,000 Readers

by Joel Friedlander on August 20, 2018 1 Comment

I read this in today’s New York Times Magazine: “I always think about people that write books. What a horrible feeling it must be to have poured your soul into a book over a number of years and somebody comes up to you and goes, ‘I loved your book,’ and they walk away, and you […]

Filed Under: Training Tagged With: Nick Stephenson, Your First 10k Readers

How to Find Your First 10,000 Readers

by Joel Friedlander on June 16, 2017 2 Comments

Editor’s note: This post first appeared in a slightly different form here in January, 2016. However, its lessons are still as valid as they were last year, and Nick has recently opened enrollment for his groundbreaking course, so I thought it was worth repeating for authors today. One of the reasons it’s so exciting to […]

Filed Under: Writing Tagged With: Nick Stephenson

When Failure Isn’t an Option — How to Find Your Readers

by Joel Friedlander on April 25, 2016 9 Comments

Scared of failure? Scared of success? Find out what you should do right now to find your readers and know what it feels like to have a successful book.

Filed Under: Guest Posts, Marketing, Self-Publishing Tagged With: book marketing, Nick Stephenson

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