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Sean Platt
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February 4 - July 24, 2019
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The theory of 1,000 true fans states that an artist (not just writers, but musicians, filmmakers, carpenters, whatever) need only acquire 1,000 true fans to make a living at their art.
Eighty-percent activities are writing more and better books, building a moderate amount of reader engagement (efficiently, not via long e-mails), creating solid calls to action that lead people to your next books from the backs of those they’ve just finished, completing bundles and product funnels (see below), and so on.
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The Elements of Style by William Strunk, Jr., and E.B. White; Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You by Ray Bradbury; Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation by Lynne Truss; The Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell.
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Marketing is about offering things a certain section of people want, then finding the best ways to let those people know those things are available, priced at a fair exchange for them
“That’s right; this stuff is too awesome for you. Don’t let the door hit you on the way out.”
Most people don’t respond to the fans who take the time to contact them, so simply answering your fans will make you stand out. I wouldn’t have drawn this one from
We use four primary networks: Facebook, Twitter, Google+, and YouTube.
Instead, I just watch the “mentions” screen. You might ask, “If you don’t care about what people Tweet about, why should they care what you Tweet about?” It’s a good question, and I have two answers. The first is that some people are going to care anyway, so when
I have something to say, I say it and am not offended if nobody cares, though some usually do. The second is that I don’t broadcast much. Usually, when I Tweet, it’s to reply to someone. That keeps our exchange closer, one-on-one, and more meaningful anyway.
putting your work into product funnels is the very best and most important thing you can do to increase your sales, assuming you’ve created an excellent and professional-looking family of products.
product funnel is a way of organizing your works so that one product leads logically into another.
Product A, which casts your widest net and scoops in as many prospective readers as possible, should ideally be free so that there’s no barrier to entry for anyone even remotely interested in what you eventually want to sell. Product B can be a bit more expensive, and you work your way down further and further until, for a certain focused segment of customers, they’re invested and confident enough to pick up your Product C …
