Hello all my reader friends! Things have been so so busy with me lately in my personal life that it's been a little hard to find time for my book work. At the end of July I decided to put my notice in at the Jeep dealership I had my day job at because I… Continue reading August 2024 Newsletter
Currently Working On That's right! I am STILL working on my first Historical Fiction, "When Dealing with Horses". I've decided to slow things down from how I was producing books before. I tried to crank out three in a year and the quality was just lacking from what I would like it to be. So… Continue reading May 2024 Newsletter
For those of you who have been following me and know me, you know I like to hook readers up with free and on sale books at least every Friday! I, like many indie authors, participate in the service called Bookfunnel. It's a great way for indie authors to rum promotions with other authors to… Continue reading There Are So Many Free and On Sale eBooks This May!
I've been an independent author since 2012. I have a Bachelor's in English and a Master's in Marketing. Somehow in all my research on how to market my books as an indie author I never came across any mention of Bookfunnel until last year! I signed up for a webinar series and offhandedly one of the videos said "And there's Bookfunnel but you probably already know all about that so I wont' even get into it." I knew nothing about it! So of course I checked it out and it has been a marketing breakthrough for me every since.
This has been trial and error for me over the years but now I feel like I finally have a handle on it and my mailing list is growing nice and steadily. Before I was unconvinced that an author's mailing list could be as important as everyone was claiming it was. Now that I see my list growing in numbers daily and I'm actually getting interaction and sales from my loyal readers I see just how important an author's mailing list is. There are many methods for growing your mailing list. I've tried many, some work better than others but I've found if you test out to find what combination is right for you then you can't go wrong. A lot of times authors can't afford to invest in signing up with an email marketing service so I've put together some free and effective methods for you to implement and monitor on your own.
Alex Apostol 