Episode 21 with Frederick Dudek (Freddy D)
How Can Authors Create Superfans and Transform Book Sales? With Melanie Herschorn
In this episode of the Business Superfans Podcast, host Freddie Mixell talks with Melanie Herschorn about her transition from a celebrity publicist and journalist to a marketing expert for authors. They discuss the importance of engaging with readers to create superfans and the effectiveness of giveaways and incentives. Melanie shares success stories, including improving a financial advisor’s book sales through LinkedIn and a children’s book author’s pre-sales strategies. They also touch on the challenges of predatory practices in the publishing industry and the need for authors to actively market their books. Melanie offers resources and advice for authors looking to enhance their book marketing efforts.
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Melanie Hirschman wants to make your book and brand shine.
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:As a nonfiction and children's
book marketing strategists for
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:authors, coaches, consultants,
and speakers worldwide.
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:She's on a mission to support and empower
her clients to build a business with
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:their book as the foundation, and to help
them share their message with the world.
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:Using her unique combination of
entrepreneurship, award-winning
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:journalism and PR experience.
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:Melanie gets her clients to create
brand awareness, sell books and position
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:themselves as subject matter experts.
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:So they can make a big
impact with their book.
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:Her new book Make A Big Impact
With Your Book is out now.
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:Hello, Melanie Hirschen.
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:How are you today?
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:Welcome to Superfans podcast.
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:We're excited to have you here.
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:Melanie Herschorn: Thank you.
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:I'm so happy to be here.
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:Freddy D: So tell me a little bit
about your background, how you got
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:yourself started into authoring and
then moving on to basically helping
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:authors publish their books, market their
books and become successful authors,
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:because it's one thing to write a book.
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:It's another thing to actually have it.
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:Be marketing, selling
and generating revenue.
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:Melanie Herschorn: And if I can
do a plug for your book called
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:super fans, that is really great.
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:And everybody should read that.
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:I'll just say that.
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:Freddy D: Thank you.
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:Melanie Herschorn: You're welcome.
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:Freddy D: Thank you.
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:Melanie Herschorn: So, how I got into
it was totally not linear at all.
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:I graduated from college and I had no
idea what I wanted to do and a friend
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:of mine in Toronto said, you'd be really
good at PR, why don't you try that?
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:And I said, okay, that sounds good.
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:I'll try that.
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:And so I worked as a celebrity publicist
for a couple of years, and then I
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:decided to get a master's in journalism.
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:And I worked as a radio
journalist for a few years.
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:Then I had to move across the country
with my husband and we had a new baby.
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:And I thought, well, I can get a job
as a journalist and pay a babysitter
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:more than I'm going to make, or I can
do something else that's kind of been
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:tapping on my heart, which was to design
and manufacture breastfeeding clothing.
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:Freddy D: Oh, wow.
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:Melanie Herschorn: It's not linear, right?
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:Freddy D: No, that's a
complete left hand turn.
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:Melanie Herschorn: It was, and yet it
wasn't at the same time because I've
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:always been so interested in fashion
and I didn't feel confident like I
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:could ever do haute couture, but I could
help new moms with finding something
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:functional and fashionable to wear.
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:So I designed and manufactured
clothes for about seven years.
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:And my last year of business, I hired
somebody to help me with my marketing.
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:And it was a very toxic relationship.
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:She was very condescending and just mean
and really belittled me to the point
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:where I couldn't even open my office
door anymore and it was my home office.
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:So I shortly thereafter closed
the business, sold off what I
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:had and said, okay, what now?
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:And I realized that.
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:Marketing was something that I'd been
doing consistently throughout my career.
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:As a publicist, as a journalist,
as a designer of clothes, I
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:was always marketing stuff.
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:And I realized that I
could help other people.
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:Do their marketing in a supportive
way, in a way that would not make
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:them feel like they were an inch tall.
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:And so I said, all right,
that's what I'm going to do.
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:I'm going to try it.
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:And when authors started calling
me, I went, oh, okay, I'm onto
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:something here because there are,
well, first of all, the boundaries
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:that there are none to publish now.
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:You can have an idea, write
a book, publish it to Amazon
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:KDP tomorrow, and guess what?
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:You're a published author.
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:It's not like in the, in, the yesteryear
when you had to find somebody, an
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:agent, you had to get a publishing
company to, to back you and no, there,
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:there are no barriers to entry anymore.
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:And what happens is people have
these incredible ideas and they
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:put them in books and then They
don't do anything with them.
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:They think, okay, well, it's all about the
launch and then the launch comes and it
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:goes and then no more books are selling
and they don't know why and instead of
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:doing something about it, they just throw
their hands up and say, well, I tried.
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:And they move on.
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:And so it was sort of a natural
thing for me to say no, you can
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:make an impact with your book.
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:And I'm going to show you how
you can write it effectively and
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:publish it and then market it
so that you can have all these.
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:all this beautiful success, like
speaking on stages where they require
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:a book oftentimes, and, improving
or increasing your consulting fees.
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:And, all the great things, the credibility
the awareness that come along with.
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:Freddy D: Yeah, when I wrote my
book, it was a combination of
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:many years of sales and marketing
experience on a global scale.
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:And I did do the book
launch and everything else.
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:And it did, you got that
spike and then I did some.
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:Amazon, marketing, but when you
and I got together, it really took
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:it for a whole different turn.
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:I've, redid some things to
improve the messaging of the book.
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:And I'm putting, I'm still working on
the things that we've talked about, but
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:now the podcast is actually, a reality.
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:My community is a reality.
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:I've been posting things on social
media and got some tools that help me do
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:that, and I'm getting sales every month.
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:Am I making, tons of sales?
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:No, but every month I see
a steady amount of sales.
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:Where before it was very sporadic.
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:Now I \\\\\\ count on X amount of
books being sold on a monthly basis.
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:So, you're exactly correct.
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:And what, helping you've helped me
get a better direction on promoting,
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:my book, creating business superfans.
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:Melanie Herschorn: Well,
that is such an honor.
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:And I appreciate you telling me
that, it's amazing what can happen
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:when you're really saying the
right things to the right people.
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:And, so much of this is in your book,
it's almost, it's a little meta to
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:talk about it, but it's also something
I think important to mention that
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:we don't get rich on book sales.
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:It's really.
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:Freddy D: It's a vehicle.
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:Melanie Herschorn: It's a vehicle.
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:It's how we leverage it.
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:So for you, people picking up your book
and saying, wow, these are really great
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:strategies and tools to, to, for client
retention for new clients or customers.
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:And then they might call
you up and say, Hey Freddie.
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:Can you be a consultant for our company?
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:We really need help.
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:And then you're not talking
about, a few dollars.
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:You're talking several thousand
dollars as a return on your
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:investment from this book.
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:And that's the magic of it really.
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:Freddy D: Well, funny you bring
that up, because that actually
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:took place this morning.
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:So, I had a 8.
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:30 meeting with somebody that I've been
doing some marketing consulting with
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:aside of my other opportunity that I
handle, and they're now looking to go
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:on a bigger scale, and they're looking
to, we talked about partnership, and
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:because of the fact that, The things I
wrote in the book that gave credibility
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:to my sales and marketing knowledge.
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:And that's the area that they need is they
need help and sales marketing and some
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:of the technologies to put it together,
to get things to flow for them because
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:they're doing things too much manually.
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:So they can't grow their stock.
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:And so that's, so yes,
exactly what you said.
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:It does manifest itself.
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:Melanie Herschorn: And it happened today.
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:And that's the best thing ever.
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:Yep.
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:And that's, oh my gosh,
let's take a moment.
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:I love that.
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:I and I wish I could say
that never happens, but it
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:really happens all the time.
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:Freddy D: Yeah, it really happened.
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:Melanie Herschorn: Yeah.
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:Freddy D: This is, I've been working
with this individual for two years
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:and handling some of their digital
marketing stuff on the side.
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:And it's not been a big thing, it's
a side gig for me because I still
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:have customers that I've been dealing
with for over 10 years on doing some
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:of their online marketing things.
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:And how many people can say that
they've got customers for over a decade
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:still working with them because I
practiced the things are in the book.
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:And like I say, they reached out all
last week while I was on vacation,
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:and we set it up for early this
morning to talk about possibilities.
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:So yeah, absolutely.
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:So let me ask a question here
is, how do you encourage authors
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:to engage with their readers?
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:Melanie Herschorn: So there
are so many ways to do that.
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:One of the biggest mistakes is to just
post on social media and walk away.
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:Right?
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:You have to reach out to your
readers using social media, and
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:you can do that if they leave a
comment, reply to their comment.
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:If they like a post, Send them a direct
message and say, thanks for liking
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:my post and always ask a question
because then they feel compelled
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:to keep this conversation going.
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:You can do all sorts of things.
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:You can reach out through
summits like online summits.
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:You can invite your audience over
your email if you have an email
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:marketing platform that you use.
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:And anytime you're out
anywhere in the world.
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:Remember that as an author,
you are your best marketer.
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:So it's silly, but I carry a copy of
my new book with me everywhere I go.
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:And it's a conversation starter.
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:And then people say, Oh, what do you do?
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:What?
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:Well, here's a copy of my book.
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:And, then it's an instant
credibility boost.
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:But in terms of getting more
audience members to engage, more
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:ideal readers to engage, I really
think it comes down to other than
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:all the, strategies we talked about.
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:I really think it comes
down to what you say.
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:What you're saying, is
it resonating with them?
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:Are you speaking about, using like
jargon that isn't really gonna land
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:with the people you wanna reach?
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:Are you saying let's lose five pounds
when the people that you wanna reach
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:are saying, I just wanna tone my arms?
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:Those sound like they're the same thing.
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:But they're actually very different.
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:So I think market research can really
help with that, figuring out, creating
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:an avatar, creating a customer
avatar to where you can identify
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:the specific person or entity that.
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:It would resonate with what
you wrote about exactly.
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:And then, you can use chat GPT
to figure out what would be
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:the right thing to say, right?
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:Or you can also go to
the business superfans.
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:com website and pick up the
avatar workbook that we created
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:which is second to none.
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:And it not only helps you create the
avatar, but also your elevator pitch.
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:Freddy D: And a multitude of other things.
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:Melanie Herschorn:
That's a great resource.
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:Yes.
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:Freddy D: The other thing that I've done
in my case, you say carrying the book,
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:I've got mine someplace here, I've
carried it to networking events, and I've
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:sold it on the spot, and I've had to go
back out to the car and grab another one.
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:What I've done, though, is I've
followed up to those people that
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:bought it at those events to see what
their thoughts were, and et cetera.
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:And that's the way that I've
stayed in contact with the
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:people that picked up my book.
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:If they sell it online, and they bought
it online, if they bought it from
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:Amazon, you don't know who bought it.
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:Except if they do comment or give
you a review, that's about the
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:extent of it as far as I know.
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:Melanie Herschorn: Yeah, there's
no way Amazon's going to give
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:up their customer information.
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:So I love that you're doing that because
when you are continuing that conversation,
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:that's where, the magic happens.
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:That's where the consulting
opportunities come in.
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:It's.
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:It's again, it's about creating that
engagement and sticking with it.
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:And I know you mentioned
that in your book.
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:I mentioned that in my book.
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:It's really about
developing relationships.
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:Marketing is about creating relationships.
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:It's not about, putting up a billboard
and just hoping that it works for you
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:because not everybody's going to be
interested in what's on your billboard.
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:Freddy D: Right, so how can authors,
to want to create superfans of
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:their book and get those superfans
to promote the book for the author?
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:Melanie Herschorn: I like giveaways
and incentives to get that to happen.
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:So for example, I would say, think of
it like a Starbucks gift card and do
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:a giveaway and say, Hey, anybody who
wants to get a book for themselves and
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:get a book for their friend will be
entered to win the Starbucks gift card.
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:So any kind of incentivized.
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:Giveaway or contest is really going
to allow people to say, Oh, I want
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:to be part of this because people
want to belong to things, right?
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:They want to be part of something.
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:So they want to be a
super fan, for example.
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:So they're going to join because it
makes them feel like they're part
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:of something bigger than themselves.
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:Freddy D: Right.
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:Okay.
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:So, a little bit about how you work with
an author that's either in a process of
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:writing the book or they've written their
book, like in my case, how you and I
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:connected up and then kind of, marketing
it, but sort of hop along until they
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:get some direction and it transforms
their outlook and outcome of book sales.
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:Melanie Herschorn: Sometimes authors
come to me and they are just about to
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:publish or they have already published
and they haven't gotten traction.
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:And so what we do is we
start from the beginning.
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:You have to build your marketing
foundation and that includes everything
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:that you put out on the internet.
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:It needs to be cohesive and coherent,
and then you can move into the more
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:glamorous pieces of, pitching yourself
to podcasts, pitching yourself
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:to the media, being on stages.
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:So we go through all those
in a very cohesive way.
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:It's sort of, well, it's linear and
it's also never overwhelming because
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:marketing as a whole can just, people
can be like a deer in headlights.
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:They just, it's so overwhelming.
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:So what I do is I break it down
step by step so that authors
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:always know what's next.
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:And then when you take a look back
and you go, wow, I've come so far
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:in six months and now I'm getting.
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:PR opportunities, and I'm speaking
on a stage next month that I
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:wouldn't have been able to if I
hadn't started marketing myself.
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:And also, we are now helping
people who are not yet authors.
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:So, professionals, business owners
who say, I want to write a book.
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:I should write a book.
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:I've been telling myself that I should
write a book, and everybody I know
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:tells me I should write a book, but
I just don't know where to start.
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:We have a 12 month program that takes you
from writing the book, editing the book,
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:self publishing under your own imprint,
and then marketing the book as well so
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:that you get all the benefits of the
increased consultant fees and the speaking
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:fees and the visibility and awareness.
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:One thing that is That I find, and
we can talk about this if you'd be
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:open to it, the difference between
traditional publishing and hybrid
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:publishing and self publishing.
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:I feel like that's something
that people get confused about.
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:What was the way that
you published your book?
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:Now I'm turning the tables on
you and asking you questions.
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:I apologize.
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:Freddy D: It's all good.
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:I self published.
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:Melanie Herschorn: Okay.
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:So did I, and I wouldn't
have done it any other way.
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:Freddy D: No, I agree.
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:It was a much better experience, I'm
in control, and I keep the majority
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:of the revenue, and I can make tweaks,
I can create a version two etc.
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the book is everything in my mind.
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:Melanie Herschorn: I feel the same way.
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:I had a client once who, she was
adamant that she traditionally
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:publish and she wrote, it's like a
35 page proposal that you have to
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:shop around to agents and publishers
that are the traditional publishers.
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:It was not a very significant advance.
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:And then she had to wait 14 months
until they published her book.
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:And I know for me, if I'd had to
wait another 14 months, I don't
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:I mean, it's like you have this
drive, you want it out there.
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:And so as a self publisher, you
just have so much more control.
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:Yes, it can cost money as opposed to not
costing money, but the marketing is never
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:covered anyway, no matter how you publish.
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:So you're paying to get
marketing advice or to.
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:Have it done for you,
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:Freddy D: Right.
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:And yeah the, that window
is a lot of wasted time.
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:I mean, to lack of a better way of wording
it, it's a lot of waste of time because
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:a lot can happen in 14 months you could
have been building up the book sales, you
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:could have been building up your brand,
you could have landed some consulting
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:opportunities, you could have landed a
multitude of different things, and in 14
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:months, you're sitting there twiddling
your thumbs, not knowing what direction to
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:Melanie Herschorn: Yes, and I would not
have wanted to wait that kind of time.
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:It's the book is doing well.
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:But, I was even thinking, what if
the information in your book has
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:changed so drastically in 14 months?
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:Maybe you talk about somebody
who was alive, they're not alive
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:anymore, or someone like Elon
Musk buys Twitter and changes the
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:I mean, those things happen.
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:Freddy D: Technology changes.
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:You recommend products and they change.
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:That's one of the things in my book
is that I had initially listed all
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:these tools that I recommended.
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:You know that wow, they're
gonna be locked in that book.
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:And so now I Modified it and if you
recall, I just have a page that tells you
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the latest and greatest Recommendations
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:because they change so absolutely so
share a story Melanie and on Somebody
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:that you help besides this guy.
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:Getting them direction and getting
them results where before they
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:were a boat in a boat with only one
oar and going around in a circle,
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:Melanie Herschorn: it's a great visual.
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:So what for those of you
just listening, I was.
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:Pretending to paddle.
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:I have a couple in mind, but I'm going
to start with my client Mike, who had
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:written a book for financial advisors.
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:He himself is a financial advisor, and
he wrote a book for financial advisors,
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:and he was not posting on LinkedIn.
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:He was on it every day, but he
was just lurking and so when we
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:developed a LinkedIn strategy.
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:His connections started reaching out
to him and saying, Hey, we'd like
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:for you to come speak at our event.
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:We're going to pay you and we'd like to
buy 200 of your books and that continued
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:because he was Leveraging the power
of that social media and then also the
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:power of relationship marketing which
is something that we teach because it's
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:not enough to just Post on LinkedIn.
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:You have to do other things.
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:And then, I have a client named
Lynn, who is a children's book
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:author and she just published another
book and she had 800 pre sales.
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:800 books in presale because she's
utilizing all the tools that she has as
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to get PR, she's getting PR coverage.
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:And so, I mean, all those
pieces are possible.
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:When you have a book.
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:I was talking to a woman yesterday.
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:And she said, Oh, I really
should write a book.
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:And I said, Oh, okay.
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:She said, Yeah, I've been
thinking about it for a long time.
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:She said, I've actually been
turned down from speaking events.
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:Because I didn't have a book
and they wanted me to be able to
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:sell it at the back of the room.
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:And that's just.
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:One humongous door that can fly right open
for you when you publish and you market.
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:Freddy D: Yeah.
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:It's one thing to have it, and
it's another thing to everybody
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:know about it and want it.
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:Melanie Herschorn: Yeah.
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:Freddy D: Because if nobody knows, and you
got the greatest gizmo in the world, and
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:nobody knows about it, it's irrelevant.
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:Melanie Herschorn: Absolutely.
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:And I think that's kind of, so the
publishing industry as a whole.
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:I love being part of it, but there
is a lot of predatory crap happening.
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:Can I say crap on your podcast?
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:Okay.
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:There's a lot of predatory stuff
happening and you will find, I'm sure
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:you experienced this just like I did.
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:As soon as I put the word author on my
social media profiles, I started getting
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:all these unsolicited emails from people
promising to make me a star with my book
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:through podcasts and this, all you need
to do is pay us thousands of dollars.
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:And I went.
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:Whoa, what is this?
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:This is not okay.
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:And so one of the things
that I like to do is just.
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:Explain that, this is
not how it has to be.
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:You do not have to pay somebody, or
like a bot basically, a whole lot
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:of money to get your book out there.
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:You have the power within you.
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:To learn how and then to
leverage what you already have.
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:Freddy D: Right, yep No, you're
absolutely right because I did
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author and speaker to my profile.
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I got solicitations of well we can
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we'll get you on podcast shows.
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that I pay 39 a month, and I've been
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LinkedIn and invite me on their shows.
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stuff out there, unfortunately.
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:Melanie Herschorn: It is unfortunate.
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woman, I'm on a one woman mission to try
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publishers sometimes are willing to offer.
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offer marketing and what they.
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is your book is going to do all these
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the fact that you have a book.
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well, that's not exactly how it works.
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in the forest and no one there to hear it.
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a book is not the end of it.
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of misinformation out there that
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and let people know that you've
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always call the consistency in
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marketing because it's not sexy.
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little earlier about, creating superfans.
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had people read my book, and in
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in some cases one of them bought
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has passed it out to clients.
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that you need to read the book.
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show and He called me last night and
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work together and everything else and
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be promoting my book at some of the
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other club and he's 85 and still going.
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on his radio show again.
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provided people know about it,
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like I said before, the gizmo, but
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and it could be the best book
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had initially envisioned for it.
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:Freddy D: So let's explore another
story that you perhaps can share
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and you turned that around.
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the fact that they were floundering
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different outlook on everything.
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:Melanie Herschorn: I mean, that's
a lot of people there, Freddie,
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think would be a really good story.
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it was basically a pandemic memoir.
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but I don't ever want to talk
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:Freddy D: No.
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:Melanie Herschorn: So, this was already
post pandemic, so, he said, what do I do?
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I want to make a big deal out of this
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because he realized that, people,
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:Melanie Herschorn: So, even in a book,
so when I read the book and I, we worked
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okay, this is not a pandemic memoir, but
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that he has a child who is neurodivergent.
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you learned from that and how you can
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here's what worked, here's what didn't.
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inspired and he actually got his
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bookstore in Colorado based on the
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step because he realized it could make a
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:Freddy D: Right.
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here, how can people find you?
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:Melanie Herschorn: Well, I'm everywhere on
the internet, but also I can be specific.
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new book, you can go to VIPBookMarketing.
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right through to Amazon.
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:A lot of freebies on my website,
including the ultimate book marketing
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and yeah, I'm generally here
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:Freddy D: Okay.
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:Excellent, thank you very
much for being a guest on a
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you shared and we look to have
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:Melanie Herschorn: Thanks
so much for the opportunity.
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:Freddy D: All right, Melanie.
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