Are you ready to take your author marketing strategy to the next level by building long-term connections with your readers?
If you're reading this, you've taken the assessment that determined your current Author Marketing Index. The index helps us gain insight into where you stand and what kind of progress you need to make.
It's a smart move to increase that score!
Authors with a higher AMA index exponentially broaden their audience reach, allowing them to open up an invaluable gateway to connecting with their readers on a deeper level. It's not just about selling more books — it's about creating a lasting bond with those who appreciate your stories.
The Twenty Marketing Elements.
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I understand how a popularity market works.
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I use the natural forces of a popularity market to propel my publishing business.
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I can quickly and clearly articulate your brand promise to my readers.
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I have a clear understanding of the experience my ideal reader seeks.
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My publishing business has a system for customers to discover my brand and self-nurture at their own pace.
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I have a marketing process that allows a reader to nurture beyond 90 days after finding me.
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My percentage of sales that goes to advertising is less than 10% of sales
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I have a process map and understand all the customer journeys through my marketing.
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The business pretax net profit exceeds 25%
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have a customer retention system.
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have clearly segmented customer lists.
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I have a pricing and value extraction strategy.
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I identified the end games for readers and how they align with my business strategy.
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I have a product release plan for the next 18 months and rarely deviate from it.
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I have a marketing system that scales with the audience as it comes to me.
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I use brand and sentiment to influence behavior.
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I find it easy to get reviews for my books.
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I have good email engagement.
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I get the appropriate price for my books and don't need to discount.
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Fans talk about my characters and story as if they are real.
The elements score the facets underlying the marketing process for your books and brand. Elements range from processes (e.g. "Customer Retention System") to performance indicators (e.g. "Easily get reviews").
How would your audience reach grow if you increased each element by one point? Pretty exciting to think about, isn't it?
The good thing is you're in the right place to learn how to do just that. If you follow my process, you'll create a system that has all of the elements and improves them over time, making your brand a reader magnet.
Advertising doesn’t scale, but audience reach does.
Advertising is a tool used as part of a marketing process.
A well-designed marketing process can use paid traffic to feed the system, but the issue is most authors never build a system to scale the audience. It takes retention and nurturing to build a lifetime fan.
You can observe this type of marketing right before your eyes.
Look at the journey you’re on right now.
You found your way here through a paid traffic source or through your own search.
I introduced you to the 20 marketing elements (more on the 20 elements in the emails I'll be sending you) and gave you a powerful tool to help you assess your baseline on those elements. Now by reading this page and the emails that come to your inbox, you will get ideas to improve your marketing.
I’ll show you ways to improve your AMA Index, and if you get meta for a moment, you’ll see how this website is designed on the identical system I promote and acts as an example of how to build trust with an audience.
I find it ironic when marketing gurus sell their new way using the same tired techniques. They don’t practice what they preach.
Not here.
Here you will see the game path model in action. You are given entry points and paths to follow. The process is controlled by your timeline, not mine. Your curiosity and intellect is the driver.
You can take five minutes or five years to evaluate what is offered here. It’s your choice. Take as long as you like to explore and build confidence about what is being offered.
For example, did you know you can set up a free call with me to discuss your publishing business?
Here’s a link to get on my calendar.
Seeing the Matrix
See how I just opened up two new paths for you to explore?
One is a direct call requiring active engagement, and the other is passive, providing you with over 120,000 words of original content.
Your choice to do either, both, or none shows intent to me and gives you the autonomy to do as you wish and get the right help when you’re ready.
Too soon and too weird to talk with me?
Then you can just lurk and learn by reading over 150 posts I’ve made on business of publishing.
I digress only to show you how I practice these principles. Let's get back to talking about your business.
The trick is, we never focus on selling books because you are in the experience and audience delight business.
BOOM! If you live those words, you’ll see your AMA Index increase.