In this episode we’re celebrating 200 episodes of Novel Marketing. We’re going to talk about what has changed over the last 6 years, what we’ve learned, answer your questions LIVE! Give away prizes and so much more. One of our listeners suggested we do a 200 minute mega episode, this won’t be that long, but it is jam-packed with cool stuff. But first, some housekeeping about the live stream.
Show Notes
Welcome to the live stream!

* Live chat. Let’s test it! Post where you are from in the comments.
* How to ask questions.
* Some of the prizes we will be giving away will go to people who ask questions.
* You can also vote on the questions other people ask.

 
First Giveaway:

* Prize: Free half hour consultation with Jim
* How to enter: Ask a question.
* Audiofile 1 Chase Replogle from the PastorWriter podcast
* Mercy!
* Winner: https://www.crowdcast.io/chipsampson

 
Things that have changed in the last five years:

* We don’t sound as terrible as we used to.
* The rise of Amazon’s dominance. Six years ago Borders still existed!
* The fall of social media.
* The rise of advertising. Mark Dawson effect.
* The rise of podcasting.
* The rise of indies. When we started we were focused mostly on traditionally published authors.
* More acceptance that if you write, you have to market

 
Second Giveaway: 

* Prize: Free Consultation with Thomas Umstattd
* How to enter: Ask a question.
* Audiofile 2  Karen Ball & Erin Taylor Young from the Write from the Deep Podcast
* Winner: https://www.crowdcast.io/maddiemozley

 
Big Dramas Over the Last Five Years

* Thomas’ Courtship Blog Post

* Thomas set the internet on fire and almost changed is brand in the process.
* Triggered a 3 month long hiatus from the show.

* 2016 Election

* We learned you don’t want us to talk about politics even obliquely.

* GDPR

* We were one of the first to say Americans don’t need to stress about European laws.

* MailChimp

* We were one of the few to say not everyone needs to leave MailChimp, although, we left mailchimp ourselves

* Amazon Counterfeiting

* This is still a breaking story, but one we are covering.

 
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* For Everyone: 20% off all our courses! Just use coupon code “200” at checkout.
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Thomas’ Favorite Episodes

* Episode 199 How to Create a Design Brief for Your Book Cover

* Why? Best resource we’ve made yet. The 7 page template is amazing.

* Episodes 041-043 – How to Create A Breakthrough Author Brand Series

* Why? Creating these episodes came from a breakthrough in thinking I had about branding. It is a step by step system for creating a brand. I should expand it into a course.

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