Category: Marketing

Knowing your target audience is one of the most important things you can do for the success of your book. Ideally, this should happen even before you start writing, or at least in the early drafts. Yet, when I ask authors who their target audience is, 90% of the time they say, “My book is for everyone!”

The problem is, if you try to write a book for everyone, you end up writing a book for no one—or worse, a book only for yourself.

Author newsletters are vital.

They have an exceptionally high conversion rate, which means they turn fans into buyers. Plus, they give you direct access to your readers. In a world where social media can go through a drastic re-branding (think Twitter) and their algorithms change all the time, you don’t want to rely completely on third parties to communicate with your readers. That is why it is so important to strategize the best way you can create a successful author newsletter.