Self-Publishing 101 is a detailed, comprehensive masterclass written and presented by a bestselling author for other authors.
It’s a simple system that is easy to follow and guaranteed to get results.
Independent publishing was already well established by the time I realised I ought to look into it as a way of getting my books into the hands of readers.
I had no idea what to do and so I did nothing at all. It was the fear of failure. If I didn’t try, I couldn’t fail.
It took me several months for me to overcome that fear. Getting over it was the best thing that ever happened
to me.
And now I help others to take a step forward.
“You think IT'S TOO COMPLICATED.”
I’m not a technical kind of guy. I’m not great with websites. I didn’t think I’d be able to learn how to use the software that makes self-publishing work. Turns out I was wrong. There are some concepts to master, for sure, but I will guide you through the process, explaining the jargon and then presenting you with detailed screenflows. Basically, you’ll be looking over my shoulder as I set up and monitor my books and my business.
“You’re a writer, not a marketer.”
Successful writers know that you need to wear lots of different hats: the days when writers could just write are long gone. There are over 11,000,000 titles on the Kindle platform alone, and you’re going to need to find out how to make your work stand out so that readers can find it.
“You’re not ready...”
Sure you are: all you need is a finished book that’s ready to be delivered to readers. THAT’S ALL. I’ll show you how to leverage that book to drive sign-ups to your mailing list (the #1 most powerful marketing strategy that a writer can have). And then I’ll show you how to sell your story.
“Publishing is too expensive.”
There are companies out there who will prey on new authors, charging thousands of dollars to do the things that you can do yourself, for free. Even if you have no interest in taking my course, remember this: You can do it all yourself, and you’ll do a better job than the predators can.
is a detailed, comprehensive masterclass written and presented by a bestselling author for other authors. It distils years of trial and error into a system that is easy to follow and guaranteed to get results.
It covers every single thing from the smallest details that you thought you knew, and you realise you didn't, to the wider picture, the long-term goal. What it's done for me more than anything else, apart from all the amazing information, is the confidence that it's given me. The information I've gleaned from the Facebook groups alone has been priceless. Never has there been a better value for money.
If you’re anything like me, you’re here because you’re just finishing your first novel and you want to know how to sell it.
Or you’ve got one or two books published but your sales are too low.
Not long ago, I was in exactly the same situation.
I spent months writing my first independently published novel, The Black Mile. It was a labour of love, and I was convinced that it was good. I published it hoping that readers would find it and love it - and the rest would be history.
Nope.
I couldn’t find readers. I couldn’t get reviews. I ran free promotions, but I had no way of contacting the readers who’d downloaded the book.
In the end, I realised that marketing was key: I would have to get involved in the marketing of the book myself.
My first efforts were hit and miss: at first, I spent hundreds of dollars on marketing that didn’t work. So, I read books and blog posts and listened to podcasts. I tried and failed and tried again, and bit by bit I began to see results. I did more of the stuff that worked - and junked the stuff that didn’t.
In short, I've been fortunate enough to make my full-time living as an indie author since November 2014. One of the questions I've been asked most frequently (aside from "Where do you get your ideas?) is how I manage to do this in the dog-eat-dog world of publishing.
The short answer at the time was social media. So in 2015, I branched out into teaching and released my acclaimed Facebook Ads for Authors course.
Since then, I've taught more than 10,000 authors how to use social media advertising to advance their careers. There have been some amazing success stories.
But social media fluency is only part of the bigger picture for indie authors. We need more. So I'm pleased to announce that I've put together a comprehensive new course called Self-Publishing 101.
Self-Publishing 101 is a masterclass for indie authors. It's a straightforward and easy-to-follow guide
that will take all the guesswork out of getting started with your career as an indie author.
Self-Publishing 101 will also provide you with an easy-to-set-up automated system that runs in the
background, getting your books into the hands of readers and pushing you up the sales charts.
It will allow you to sit back and watch as new readers find out about your work.
It will build your sales rank and add to your bottom line.
And most of all, it will give you the time to focus on your writing, secure in the knowledge that your career is being developed: when your next book is ready to publish, the market will be ready and waiting.
Ready? Want to find out more?
Best wishes,
Mark
Mark's course literally changed my life. I can't put a price tag on that.
My name is Ernest Dempsey and since June 2nd, 2015 I've been a full time author.
I wrote my first novel in 2009 and published it in 2010. I shopped it around to agents first
but no one wanted it. I ended up with something like 21 rejection letters.In 2012, I wrote the sequel and published it, along with a revised version of the first one. But I had a problem: Traffic. I had great lead magnets, good books, but my blog was getting less than five visits a day. I was lucky because even without traffic, I was still selling 5-10 books a day and on really good days, 20-30.
I always dreamed of writing novels full time but sales like that couldn’t support my standard of living or my family. I wrote and released new books, as is common advice, and sales increased slightly but not enough to quit my job.
I just knew I wasn’t doing what I was meant to do. But I was lost. I had less than 100 fiction subscribers and no idea how to get more.
The day I discovered Mark was the day my life changed. I started employing the strategies he was using. Suddenly, I started getting subscribers. At first it was only three or four a day, which sent me through the roof. I couldn’t believe I was getting four subscribers every day on autopilot! That’s 120 new readers every month when I’d been getting zero! Then I ramped up what Mark teaches and took that 3-4 subscribers to 30-40 a day. I launched a new book in March 2015 and had my biggest release yet. Then I did another one the following month with a result that was three times the March launch.
The sales and subscriber growth I experienced in just 90 days of using Mark’s techniques allowed me to walk into my boss’s office on May 28, 2015 and tell her I was quitting my job. Mark’s course literally changed my life. I can’t put a price tag on that. I’ve struggled as a part time author for five years. And now, this man’s information changed all of that in just three short months. I will forever be in Mark’s debt and will never be able to thank him enough.
My books have been downloaded more than a million times. I've had thousands of five-star reviews. I have 100,000 readers on my mailing list and 28,000 Facebook fans.
But it wasn't always like that.
I published my first Kindle book and sold ... nothing. I almost gave up. I knew that I could write, and I knew that readers who would love my books were out there. But how
could I find them?
I published The Cleaner, the first John Milton book. Readers were not exactly beating down my door. I nearly quit again. But I pressed on, learned everything I could, and wrote some more.
The tipping point. My wife was on maternity leave with our second child, and I had to make it work. I built systems that would take care of the marketing for me, leaving me time to write. Using the simple methods I'll teach you, I took a mailing list of 1,000 readers and grew it to 15,000. I went from making a few hundred dollars a month to five figures. I quit my job on 28 November. I liked my job, but I LOVE writing. And I LOVE being my own boss.
I added social media ads to the mix and my business went stratospheric. I made more than $50,000 in April and sales continued to grow.
My list is now more than 65,000 strong. A launch hit the top #100 on Amazon and was #2 worldwide on Apple.
I have 80,000 on my list. My last launch hit #23 on Amazon. I secured a high six-figure income this year.
My list has expanded to 100,000 and I saw the annual income from my books exceed $1 million by the end of the year. And it feels great!
Self Publishing 101 is the course I needed when I started publishing. It will teach you everything you need to know to build a sustainable career as a writer, using cutting edge digital marketing techniques to find readers, get reviews, and make sales.
Self Publishing 101 is the exact system I use to write and publish my books.
You can purchase it today and start learning in five minutes. Start to develop your platform. Start finding new readers.
Self-Publishing 101 can be used on your desktop, laptop, tablet or smartphone. Learn while you wait for the bus!
Each one of the nine modules is based around high-quality video tutorials. I’ve worked with a professional video production company to make these as outstanding as I can.
Learn over my shoulder with detailed screenflows showing you EXACTLY how to set up your author platform.
The full course will show you EVERYTHING you need to know to build the foundation for your successful career as an independently published author.
I will show you the precise strategy that I have deployed to sell hundreds of thousands of books and to add thousands of readers to my mailing list.
You don’t need a degree in computer science to pull this off.
You can get this.
And if it doesn’t, I’ll give you your money back.We'll look at the essentials: website, mailing list, social media and how to communicate with readers.
We get into the weeds. I’ll show you what you need - and don’t need - in the front and back of your book.
I’ll show you how to format your book for all of the relevant platforms.
My own genius cover designer, Stuart Bache, (he’s worked for John Le Carré and Stephen King), will explain what you should be looking for when it comes to your cover.
Bryan Cohen, the man I go to for my blurbs, will teach you everything you need to craft killer hooks that will have readers dying to read more.
We’ll look at metadata to help make your book more visible in searches, and examine pricing strategies.
I’ll show you how to build your Amazon Author Page, and how to make your book’s Product Page sing.
I’ll teach you about the incentives you’ll need to offer to get readers onto your mailing list, and then I’ll show you the landing page that you’ll need to make sure they sign up.
I’ll show you how to automate a series of emails that will greet your new subscribers as they join your mailing list, and I’ll throw in my own copy that you can use as a jumping-off point.
Amazon is the biggest single platform, but by going exclusive you’ll be leaving readers behind.
I’ll lay out the pros and cons of exclusivity and tell you what I would do if I was starting again.
I’ll show you how to use the tools that Amazon makes available in exchange for exclusivity and I’ll share some thoughts that will help you to optimize your book for the retailer’s powerful algorithm.
We’ll look at a powerful model that you can deploy if you have (or will shortly have) more than one book ready to sell.
And we’ll look at the merchandising opportunities available at the other retailers – and how you can get them to sit up and take notice.
I’ll teach you the equation that underpins my business – how to take a browser and turn them into a reader, then a fan, then finally a friend. I’ll show you tried and tested methods of driving traffic to your page and the best tools you can deploy to turn readers into buyers and subscribers to your mailing list. This module also includes a session from BookBub on how to use their Deals and Ads platforms to add rocket fuel to your career.
The question I’m asked most often by other authors is this: "How do you launch your books so successfully?". I’ll break it down for you, with timings and email copy for you to run with. I’ll also show you how to establish an advance team – the powerful group of superfans who will provide you with advice, reviews and motivation.
"How can I get reviews if I can’t get sales? How can I get sales if I don’t have reviews?”
It’s the ultimate chicken and egg question, and I’ll show you how I answer it.
Every single technical process that you'll need to master is broken down for you. Want to know how to build a WordPress site yourself? We have a fifty-minute video that will take you from A to Z, with a clear focus on the content a writer should consider. Want to set up a Prolific Works promotion to blow up your mailing list? We worked with Prolific Works to produce a detailed video. Want to deliver your books to your advance readers so that they can provide reviews, but avoid the headaches of teaching them how to sideload the files to their Kindles? A session from market-leading specialists BookFunnel will help. Want to format books for yourself? I'll show you how.
And on and on and on. We've got you covered.
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If you think that authors don’t need to get their hands dirty with marketing, then you might be better off trying to get a traditional deal. If you want success handed to you on a plate, this course isn’t for you. You need to be hungry and ready to learn. If you want an ethically questionable get-rich quick scheme, this isn’t for you. This masterclass is honest, compliant and transparent.
If you are an author with books on the market or about to go onto the market, and you are looking to grow your sales, reviews and mailing list subscribers, this course is for you.
* Sales tax may be applicable in some EU countries
If the course isn’t for you, that’s not a problem.
All you need to do is email me within 30 days of purchase to receive a full refund.
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