What every self-published author needs to know in 2011
- I love this post (shown above) from Seth Godin at his new Domino Project.
- I love this advice he offers in another post: “Traditional media is all about interrupting strangers. Modern media (including modern bookselling) is focused on building a tribe, earning permission and then creating products and services for that audience.”
- I’ve been doing self-publishing in one form or another since 2004 or so, and I’m re-engergized, because the game has changed – again. In the mid-2000s it was the advent of self-publishing Web sites like CreateSpace and Lulu. In 2011, it’s the fact that we can create and upload an entire book – at no cost – and then sell it for pure profit via e-readers like Amazon’s Kindle, Apple’s iPad, and other devices. (John Locke has mastered this formula!)
- I keep hearing smart guys like Gary Vaynerchuk, Seth Godin and Kindle sales superstar Locke saying the same thing over and over again – Find your audience, cultivate a meaningful, trusting relationship with it online and then, when you’re ready to sell your idea/book/product, they’ll respond. And not only will they respond, but if your idea/book/product is really good, they’ll tell all their friends! Your friends will be your sales force.
- These are amazing times for authors. And I wouldn’t want to be a big publishing house right now. Because their dominance in the book marketplace is waning by the day. I don’t think they’ll ever disappear entirely, but their days as power players are seriously numbered.
Posted on July 26, 2011, in Social Media, Storytelling and tagged Book Publishing, Gary Vaynerchuk, iPad, Kindle, Self-Publishing. Bookmark the permalink. Leave a Comment.
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