Welcome to the 104th episode of The Author Hangout, a podcast designed to help authors, especially self-published and indie authors, with marketing their books and improving their author platform. Authors struggle with various aspects of marketing and we are here to help!
Connect With Other Authors
In this episode, we were joined by previous guest and bestselling author, Michael Bunker. He shared what’s been going on lately with his books, some of his top tips for authors, as well as his best tip: connect with other authors.
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- FREE: The Ultimate Author Checklist for Online Book Marketing
- MichaelBunker.com – Michael’s website
Featured Quotes
“I think it’s just Patreon gave me the opportunity to do something that was very, very interactive with the readers that I just really haven’t found anywhere else. Even Kickstarter and things like that. To me just to sell a book that way, I’m not really comfortable with that. Although I’m fine with anybody else that does it. That’s just my own opinion with my writing. I do enjoy anything that allows me to be closer to the reader, and have that communication, and interaction with them.”
“The first thing I would do earlier on in my startup is I would get a professional website that interacts very well with an email sign-up. I was probably about 2 to 3 years late really getting active with connecting the interactivity between my website, and my email list. Only after I got on Thirdscribe with Rob McClellan, and he helped me set up a lot of those things that
really helped me kickstart the ability to maintain a platform of readers that I could talk to outside of my blog. That would be number 1. Number 2, I think I would probably work a little bit harder at targeting my keywords, and those things on Amazon that really target those. Also bots, and things like that. I think I would work a little bit harder, because when you first start out that’s really one of the farthest things from your mind. You’re just trying to get that thing up there.”
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Other Episodes
Get caught up on the other episodes of The Author Hangout that you may have missed:
- Ep 145: “Million Dollar Book Business”
- Ep 144: “Network Net Worth”
- Ep 143: “Learning to Hack Learning”
- Ep 142: “Making Of The Perfect Optin”
- Ep 141: “Coaching Breeds Author Success”
- Ep 140: “Gumroad for Authors”
- Ep 139: “Above The Noise”
- Ep 138: “Goal Setting Check-in”
- Ep 137: “Relying On Others”
- Ep 136: “Honest Conversations on Book Marketing”
- Ep 135: “Recognition of Hard Work”
- Ep 134: “Improving Kindle Book Rankings”
- Ep 133: “Making Money Fast?”
- Ep 132: “Book Marketing & Book Launches”
- Ep 131: “Authors Answers: How To Get Book Reviews”
- Ep 130: “Author Answers: Author Street Teams”
- Ep 129: “Author Answers: Using KDP Select or Not”
- Ep 128: “Traffic, Subscribers, and Sales”
- Ep 127: “Book Marketing Tips from Experts (Part 7)”
- Ep 126: “Media Interviews & Book Marketing”
- Ep 125: “Book Marketing Tips from Experts (Part 6)”
- Ep 124: “Goal Setting for Authors”
- Ep 123: “Author Answers: Social Media Engagement”
- Ep 122: “Speaking, Podcasts & Mailing Lists”
- Ep 121: “Authors Answers: DIY Blog Tours”
- Ep 120: “Book Launches & Pay-Per-Click Advertising”
- Ep 119: “Author Answers: Choosing Comparison Titles”
- Ep 118: “Writing as a Career & Audiobooks”
- Ep 117: “Self-Publishing & Book Launches”
- Ep 116: “Podcasting for Book Marketing”
- Ep 115: “Author Answers: Best Marketing Activities”
- Ep 114: “Book Launches & Video Marketing”
- Ep 113: “Writing Faster, Marketing Smarter”
- Ep 112: “Book Marketing Momentum”
- Ep 111: “Building Book Launch Teams”
- Ep 110: “Book Launches and Distribution”
- Ep 109: “Email Lists & Facebook Live”
- Ep 108: “Facebook Ads for Book Marketing”
- Ep 107: “NaNoWriMo, Writing, and Marketing”
- Ep 106: “Book Marketing Success & Failure”
- Ep 105: “Telling Stories & Reaching Readers”
- Ep 104: “Connect With Other Authors”
- Ep 103: “Maximizing Your Book Marketing”
- Ep 102: “Audiobooks and Book Marketing”
- Ep 101: “Author Email Marketing Automation”
- Ep 100: “Looking Back, Looking Forward”
- Ep 099: “Maximizing Book Promotions”
- Ep 098: “Meta Data Is Your Brand”
- Ep 097: “Kindle in Motion & More”
- Ep 086 – How To Create an Irresistible Opt-In Incentive