SPA Girls – EP428 – 8 Awesome Tips to Kickstart your New Year
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Want to set yourself up for an awesome 2024? Then this is the SPA Girls podcast episode for you. We go through our top eight tips to help amp up your career and kickstart your year!
From looking at the data and knowing what you want, to getting your newsletter humming and revamping blurbs, we give you all our best advice for 2024.
SHOWNOTES:
Our Top Eight Tips:
1. Know what you want
2. Reverse Engineer
3. Fine Tune Your Processes
4. Check Look Insides
5. Get Your Newsletter Humming
6. Revamp Blurbs
7. Reassess Your Keywords & Categories
8 Keep Moving Forward!
Resources mentioned:
SPA Girls Podcast with Laurelin Paige (#221)
Amazon Categories with Alex Newton from K-Lytics
Dave Chesson with the SPA Girls
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SPA Girls Podcast – EP427 – Our 12 Christmas Wishes for you!
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We’re celebrating you, our wonderful listeners, in the SPA today by sharing our 12 Christmas Wishes for you and your self-publishing journey.
We want you to know how special to us. We’re so proud of this journey we’ve all embarked on and with what everyone has achieved. No matter where you are in the publishing process, it really is time to celebrate!
May your holiday be filled with love, joy, good food, fun, books and time to relax and recharge yourself. 🥰
SPA Girls Podcast – EP424 – BookFunnel Tips for Authors
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Most authors know what BookFunnel is these days (just in case: it’s a platform that helps you deliver reader magnets, ARC copies, audio files, and so much more to your readers) but do we all know how to use it the best we can?
I’m pretty sure the answer is no!
That’s why we spent this episode with Damon Courtney, creator and CEO of BookFunnel, going over all the functions, from the innovative ways that successful authors are using this platform to deliver ebook files, to using features like the one-on-one author swap tool, the group promo tool, certified mail, and the direct email integrations, to name a few. Because Damon is the creator of the platform, he knows every single thing about it, which means this episode is packed full of all the information you’ll ever need to make BookFunnel work for you!
Grab your pen and paper, and take notes, because this episode is all gold!
Don’t forget our special SPA Girls Listeners link for $50 off an annual plan for your first year! : https://bookfunnel.com/spa-girls-podcast-2023/ but hurry – offer expires Jan 31, 2024
SHOW NOTES:
About Damon Courtney:
Damon Courtney is the creator and CEO of BookFunnel, an ebook and audiobook delivery service for authors and publishers. As a lifelong software engineer, Damon is an expert in just about everything technical and can offer unique insight on publishing as it relates to software and technology. He is also the self-published author of his very own Fantasy trilogy and continues to spin stories in his head that he hopes to some day get around to writing.
Click this link to go to BookFunnel.
💗 The SPA Girls podcast is sponsored by everyone who supports us on Patreon. Thank you so much, we love our listeners and our patrons!
⭐ Join us at the $10 tier, and you’ll be invited to our private Self-Publishing Mastermind group for authors, where we discuss all things self-publishing, marketing and writing PLUS answer all your burning questions.
⭐ Get personal online coaching with the SPA Girls each month through our $100 tier. Spots for this are strictly limited and on a first-come-first-served basis.
All the info is at http://www.patreon.com/spagirlspodcast
✍️ Visit http://www.SelfPublishingAuthorsPodcast.com for our FREE self-publishing resources, podcast episodes and info
😊Watch our weekly show on http://www.youtube.com/c/SPAGirlsPodcast @spagirlspodcast
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SPA Girls Podcast – EP423 – Turn Setbacks Into Success
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Bumps on the publishing path are unwelcome yet inevitable and they can affect us in a variety of ways. So how can we reset ourselves when the wobbles and disappointment set in?
Today we’ve got a SPA Girls 6 – Step Guide to turning those setbacks into success:
- Embrace The Rain
- Reheat The Pasta
- Rapunzel It
- Be Like A Dog
- Jump Off The Cliff
- Be An Antelope, Not A Hyena
(For an explanation of these and how to use them, you need to listen or watch the episode!)
SPA Girls Podcast – EP421 – Book Marketing With Carrie Elks
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This week we talk to Carrie Elks about amping up your book marketing. It’s a fantastic and informative interview packed with great tips and advice that you won’t want to miss!
Carrie writes contemporary romance with a sizzling edge. Her first book, Fix You, has been translated into eight languages and made a surprise appearance on Big Brother in Brazil. Luckily for her, it wasn’t voted out. Carrie lives with her husband, two lovely children and a larger-than-life black pug called Plato. When she isn’t writing or reading, she can be found baking, drinking an occasional (!) glass of wine, or chatting on social media.
Find her at: carrieelks.com
Resources mentioned in podcast:
Skye Warren’s Ad course: https://www.authoradsintensive.com/
TikTok Sells Books Course: https://tiktoksellsbooks.com/
Theodora Taylor’s Universal Fantasies https://www.selfpublishingauthorspodcast.com/spa-girls-podcast-ep315-interview-with-theodora-taylor/
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Becca Syme https://betterfasteracademy.com/
NINC https://ninc.com/
RAM (Romance Author Mastermind) https://romanceauthormastermind.com/
Brighton Walsh https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2lueij-iRU
Plottr https://plottr.com/?ref=367
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SPA Girls Podcast – EP419 – The Best Mindset for Organisation and Productivity with Sarra Cannon
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Self-publishing since 2010, Amazon top 100 best-selling Amazon author with 1 million books sold, Sarra writes magical contemporary fantasy novels with both teen and college aged characters (and lots of twists you’ll never see coming).
Do you feel like a hamster on a wheel?
Sarra talks to us about her solution to planning without all the heartache and leading us to be more joyful. “When we sit down to plan we see the perfect scenario. Then Life gets in the way.”
About Sarra Cannon:
Sarra Cannon writes magical contemporary fantasy novels with both teen and college aged characters (and lots of twists you’ll never see coming). Her novels often stem from her own experiences growing up in the small town of Hawkinsville, Georgia, where she learned that being popular always comes at a price and relationships are rarely as simple as they seem.
With over a million books sold, Sarra loves writing witchy books and connecting with fans.
You can connect with her on her author website here at SarraCannon.com
Click to visit Sarra’s Heartbreathings YouTube channel for authors, and Heartbreathings website with her courses for writers here
