New Post Draft
Is anyone interested in putting their books into a "Hidden Treasures" Marketing Poster like the ones I have below? I made mine with just books from the best sellers lists.
We can all post this on our social media with the list of links that go directly to the book for download or sale. By all posting to different audiences, maybe we can increase our marketing reach. I will need at least 6 to 8 participants to make it work. If there are more, we'll figure out how to make it work.
If you are interested, I will need a link to the book where I can save the cover image. If you are interested, please send me an email as follows:
To: rshannon@readfirstchapter.com
Subject Line: Interest in Participating in Hidden Treasure Posters
Book Title: Name of the Book
Attach a book cover if you have a small one, meaning 72dpi for the web, or a link so I go to the book and create a small photo of it. (Amazon or similar):
Purchase or Download Link: Link you want the potential readers to go to purchase or download the book:
I have a row of poster examples so you can see what I mean.
Is anyone interested in putting their books onto a page together on my website. It doesn't have to be my website, but I would volunteer to upload the book covers and links. We can coordinate one day every two weeks to post about the books and come up with another title similar to "Hidden Treasures" or "Christian Fiction" or "Catholic Fiction" -- I'm open to whatever will title fit for everyone's books.
I will post a row of examples below so you can see what I envision the shared webpage will look like. Each panel will open to a larger panel 1000px by 1000px (social media size) and that panel will contain a link to purchase or download the book.
If you are interested, I will need a book panel (see below for three examples) in the following size: The panel itself is 1000px by 1000px. The Book cover is on one side, preferably on the left, with the Headlines & Titles similar to what I have in the examples.
Now, if you are a member of CWG and you don't have the graphic skills to create this artwork, it's okay. Just send me an email with a link to a "flat" cover (No 3d covers), include the Titles, headlines to be in bold and a short synopsis of the book. I will do it for you.
To: rshannon@readfirstchapter.com
Subject Line: Interest in Shared Web Page - Art panel attached
Book Title: Name of the Book and author name
Headline for the Book: This is one sentence that will be bolded
Short Synopsis and Link: Include the synopsis so I can easily print out the emails and have all of the information on one page.
Book Link: Where you want the book link to go.
I have a row of images that will fill the web page below.
I have recently started to run YouTube ads on my YouTube Channel. The response has been the best ROI I ever had. Now, my goal on some ads was to get more views, and on some ads, I selected the goal of getting more subscriptions. When I started, I had a little over 400 subscribers. By the way, it took me 3 or 4 years to get those 400 subscribers organically.
In only three weeks, I went from 400 to 5,548 subscribers at the time of this writing. I've never seen any type of response or ROI like this. Maybe some of you have built up a YouTube channel faster without advertising, and maybe this doesn't seem like a big deal to you, but I was astounded.
Anyway, at the same time I used Powerpoint to create 'shorts' for my books and these were the videos I started ads on first. They are very simple to make. I can make a short video in Powerpoint in about an hour once I have written the short script. If anyone wants to learn how to do this, I can do a short course on how easy this is.
I will post examples of these videos below so you can see two of the shorts which are about my books, and one short video that I made of a recent Bookfunnel Promotion that I do every week.
Let me know if there is any interest in a course like this. I buy Microsoft 365 every year because I use a lot of their tools, but I'm sure you can use google slides to do the same thing for free. If you already know how to use Powerpoint and create AI images, you can figure out how to do them by looking at the videos. However, If you're interested in learning how to do this, let me know by sending an email as described below. Please use the proper subject lines on any responses you send to me today as I am very easily frazzled and can get mixed up and turned upside down if I have to keep track of more than two things.
To: rshannon@readfirstchapter.com
Subject Line: Interest in Short Video Course
Your Name:
Your Email:
Have you ever used Powerpoint or Google Slides before?
JOINT MARKETING IDEA #3
As I watch the diversity grow all around us in this country, I do notice that many subgroups join forces based on ethnicity, religion, country of origin, sexual orientation, political views, etc., and they help one another get ahead. I've also taken notice how much faster and easier they move forward when they organize their efforts together into a common goal.
I am hoping to link up with some other Catholic authors who want to combine some marketing efforts to tap into the power of organized goals and shared efforts. I'd be interested in anyone's thoughts on this concept.
