Ep 105: “Telling Stories & Reaching Readers”


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Welcome to the 105th 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!

Telling Stories & Reaching Readers

In this episode, we were joined once again by bestselling author and book marketer, Rob Kosberg. He shared some great insights into some of the best ways to reach people, by telling a story, in the digital age. He also talked about a great way to reach a targeted group of readers to promote your book.

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“What we do with video is we try to tell a story because story captivates. Story captures the interest of the audience. So we try to use case studies and client examples to help people to put themselves in that client’s shoes so they can see, “Wow, this is something I can do.” Obviously we’re hoping they’ll want to do it with our help, but at the very least they might gain inspiration to figure out and do it on their own as well. As far as video goes, it’s always story that captures people’s interest.”

“Understand that if you do nothing – and you know these statistics, but the average book sells 200 copies in its lifetime. So if you just publish your book and cross your fingers, then just expect it to be average, unless you have a massive following and audience. If you don’t want that to happen, then all you need to do is a little bit of paid advertising to put your book in front of an audience that has already been cultivated that is interested in your topic. That’s not rocket science, but it does take a little bit of work to find those places and those audiences that have already been built.”

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