FREE LIVE ALGORITHM TRAINING for authors!

Dear Authors and Publishers,

I’d like to invite you to a free training offer put together by The Author Success Summit.

It’s called: Learn the Amazon Algorithm: The 4 Step Formula that will skyrocket the book sales of your next launch.

This is a LIVE training event which will take place tomorrow August 21st at 12pm EST.

In this training you will learn:

  • How the amazon algorithm works for both the free and paid store
  • The 8 irrefutable laws of ranking higher and sticking longer on Amazon’s algorithm (break these at your own risk)
  • How to convert more random browsing customers into committed loyal readers
  • A simple 4 step formula that will explode the sales of your next book launch

You can register for the live training by grabbing your free ticket ($997 value) to the Author Success Summit here:

https://adamhouge.clickfunnels.com/authorsuccesssummit?affiliate_id=744796

Adam Houge is an author to learn from. He has distributed over 2,500,000 books between his paid and free launch strategies, and having made a regular six figure income yearly from his books, he has finally agreed to share his secrets about amazon’s algorithm.

This training has received rave reviews from New York Times Bestselling Authors, publishers, and brand new authors alike.

So no matter where you’re at in your self-publishing journey, this is one training you don’t want to miss!

Although there will be a replay available at the summit, please remember to come to the LIVE event, so you can get all your questions answered directly with Adam.

We’ll send an email to you as a reminder before the training begins.

I look forward to seeing you there: https://adamhouge.clickfunnels.com/authorsuccesssummit?affiliate_id=744796

What’s the #1 biggest mistake authors make?

What’s the #1 biggest mistake authors make?

Search that question and you’ll find hundreds of answers.

Things like:

  1. Write shorter sentences!
  2. Publish on platform X (whatever is hot right now)!!
  3. Hire great editors, and fabulous designers, and social media marketers!!!!

It’s not bad advice.

You probably should improve your writing, take advantage of new platforms to sell your book, and work with professionals…

But none of these issues are holding you back from fame and fortune (or simply making a full-time income from your writing).

No, the pitfall you and I need to avoid is obscurity.

There are thousands of books published every day (literally). Why would anyone pick up your book when they have so many others to choose from?

Obscurity will inevitably break even the most committed author over time.

Which means the #1 biggest mistake authors make is not breaking out of obscurity.

It doesn’t matter how clever your prose if no one knows you or your book exist.

Conversely, a book with terrible grammar, spelling mistakes, and a boring cover can generate thousands of sales every month – simply because readers know it exists and they talk about it (share, review, critique, etc.).

If you want to make a full-time living from your writing, you need to become the type of author that readers talk about, and whose books they want to review and share.

The simplest, most effective way to do this is by creating a place for you and your books to live online (outside of the Amazon abyss).

How?

Create a unique sales page for your book.

A book sales page will:

  1. Allow readers to find you online when they search your name (or book’s title) on Google (or whatever search engine they use)
  2. Give your biggest fans a place where they can point new potential readers.
  3. Let you put your “best foot forward” by curating the experience for the reader when they land on the page (e.g. highlighting the best reviews, sharing stellar testimonials, etc.)
  4. Help you build your email list by incentivizing readers to sign up (by offering bonuses, free gifts, etc.)

Bottom line: a book sales page, done right, will lead to more sales.

But what if you’re like me and you’re not a designer by trade?

Good news:

Here’s a book sales page template you can use and edit right out of the box (and it’s FREE).

This is a free gift from my friend Jesse Krieger, who is the founder of Lifestyle Entrepreneurs Press, an international best-selling author, and the publisher of dozens of best-selling books in a variety of genres.

From his many years of experience, Jesse has seen exactly what works – and what doesn’t – when it comes to generating book sales.

His #1 rule for author success?

Create a captivating book sales page.

Jesse has boiled this down to a science, and follows the same, proven-to-sell template for all the books he publishes.

And thanks to him, now you can have a book sales page that turns random visitors into customers, readers, and new fans.

Click here to get your easy to edit book sales page template, free.

No more struggling to create a book sales page (or avoiding it all together).

Now’s the time to break out of obscurity:

Click here to get your book sales page up and running in minutes, so you can focus on writing your next bestseller.

That’s it for today.

Make sure to watch your inbox – in a few days I’m going to share another free resource that will show you how to leverage your book sales page to launch a bestseller (and generate sales in perpetuity).

Stay tuned!

Diane Mae Robinson

p.s. Grab this free book sales page template (before it goes away). 

 

Lessons From Picasso

There are lessons to be learned from the art and the mind of Pablo Picasso. His techniques, creative insights, and empathy of his art has distinguished him as the revolutionary artist of the twentieth century.

Pablo Picasso
Oct. 25, 1881 – Apr. 8, 1973

“When I was a child, my mother told me, ‘If you become a soldier, you will be a general. If you become a monk, you will end up as the pope.’ Instead I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.”

Ah, the confidence to do what you were destined to do in life, and to do it well. This is a lesson all creators of the arts can take to heart.

Pablo Picasso was an innovative thinkers of his time. He reinvented himself many times over during his career. Depending on his mental state and what was going on in the world at the time, his paintings took on the persona of: depression during his ‘Blue Period’; love during his ‘Rose Period’; shocking abstracts from his ‘Cubist Period’; and the ‘Classic Period’ as World War 1 broke out. But at each stage, the art was profound and empathetic.

Does this mean that, as a writer, if we can feel the deepest emotions of what we are writing at a certain time, the work will be more poignant? I think that is exactly what Pablo Picasso was telling the world.

If a writer or an artist does not have their emotions wholeheartedly invested in their art, then neither will the reader or the viewer.

Pablo Picasso knew of the complexity of creating a piece of art, but he also understood the simplicity of art. Upon passing a group of school kids in his old age Picasso remarked, “When I was as old as these children, I could draw like Rapheal,  but it took me a lifetime to learn to draw like them.” 

 

Pablo Picasso, Self Portrait, 1907, oil on 

As a children’s book author, this statement is a profound lesson to me. It’s as if the artist is telling me to leave behind my adult ego and think as a child, to play as a child, to create as a child. And then, and only then, when I have re-mastered the skills of being a child, to write the books for the child.Being an artist has also taught me lessons in writing for children, and teaching art to children, more so. Teaching children helps me to understand their creative insights, their lack of ego or competition, and their pure imagination that is so very intense.

The Princess Knight by Diane M. Robinson
2009, acrylic on canvas

 

Children create from their heart. So as a children’s book author, the lessons I’ve learned  from being around the creative minds of children is what grounds me in my writing, and teaches me how to create stories for children, through the eyes of a child, and with the heart of a child. Children have also taught me how to capture childlike innocence in my own art.

Picasso has made a profound impact on the world of art, and his creative genius is a lesson to all who create, in all aspects of the arts.

.”If only we could pull out our brain and use only our eyes.” Pablo Picasso

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                                    May the wheels of creativity never stop turning.