Love this. As someone who does teach those types of classes: it is easier to sell classes than books. Sounds like you'd attracted the wrong crowd to your blog with all of those articles. Hopefully the stories that you are posting now will attract people who want to buy books! I suspect many of the clients that your marketing friend worke…
Love this. As someone who does teach those types of classes: it is easier to sell classes than books. Sounds like you'd attracted the wrong crowd to your blog with all of those articles. Hopefully the stories that you are posting now will attract people who want to buy books! I suspect many of the clients that your marketing friend worked with had other ways of monetizing things than selling books. Books are hard. I once cornered a marketing guru and asked about selling books and it was amusing to see him honestly pause. He was very straight forward and said that it is HARD. It sounds like you gave it a great try. I'm curious - you know I love statistics - what were you writing about? Were you sharing stories? I'm so curious. And then there's another question that I ask writers: were you having fun? Because I think that is more important than how often you post.
I was encouraged to be "me" during that bout. Which is funny, because I was thinking much the same as the question you're asking...but I've done that also.
That seven months was a combination of what I'm doing now - writing stories and talking about family life.
What I'm looking to do is simplify my life, Deleyna.
I want to share what I'm writing, create some fun merchandise, create a game or ten out of this, and keep building relationships with you and those who hang around. That's my plan.
Love this. As someone who does teach those types of classes: it is easier to sell classes than books. Sounds like you'd attracted the wrong crowd to your blog with all of those articles. Hopefully the stories that you are posting now will attract people who want to buy books! I suspect many of the clients that your marketing friend worked with had other ways of monetizing things than selling books. Books are hard. I once cornered a marketing guru and asked about selling books and it was amusing to see him honestly pause. He was very straight forward and said that it is HARD. It sounds like you gave it a great try. I'm curious - you know I love statistics - what were you writing about? Were you sharing stories? I'm so curious. And then there's another question that I ask writers: were you having fun? Because I think that is more important than how often you post.
I was encouraged to be "me" during that bout. Which is funny, because I was thinking much the same as the question you're asking...but I've done that also.
That seven months was a combination of what I'm doing now - writing stories and talking about family life.
What I'm looking to do is simplify my life, Deleyna.
I want to share what I'm writing, create some fun merchandise, create a game or ten out of this, and keep building relationships with you and those who hang around. That's my plan.
That sounds like a recipe for success to me.