Episode 450 – Tech Solutions, Big Tech Woes, and the Christmas Crunch

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What are you plans for selling direct? What does that look like specifically?

This week we have a great show in store for you. Leave us a review on Apple Podcast and answer the Question of the Week in the comment section. Claire’s book, Reclaim Your Author Career, is available: www.books2read.com/RYAC. Guest, Chelle Honiker of indieauthormagazine.com and Authortechsummit.com. Top Tips of the week include new features in Vellum that make your book’s messaging clear, how our own Bryan Cohen has Amazon’s official stamp of approval, if you need author copies of your print books, you need to order today, what Amazon’s layoffs mean to the publishing business, and TikTok took our advice and started selling direct! The 5 News stories that matter most to indies this week include news about Ingram’s new ad platform, how Google is giving Spotify what Apple won’t, why authors are abandoning Twitter and starting from scratch, the latest scams hitting Amazon authors, and to sell your books and serials by chapter, books, or subscription. Question of the week: What are you plans for selling direct? What does that look like specifically?

What You’ll Learn:
  • How your values help keep you on track with your author career
  • That comparing yourself to others is normal, but stop it. And here’s how
  • To ask yourself if new covers are right for you
  • New features in Vellum make your book’s messaging clear
  • How our own Bryan Cohen has Amazon’s official stamp of approval
  • If you need author copies of your print books, you need to order today
  • What Amazon’s layoffs mean to the publishing business
  • TikTok took our advice and started selling direct
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What are you plans for selling direct? What does that look like specifically?

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