SFA – 006 Author Marketing, Writing Craft, and Productivity Tips from NINC 2019

On today’s show, we got an update on the hosts’ projects and got a whole bunch of tips from Jo and Lindsay’s time at the NINC Conference 2019 in Florida.

Here are some of the lectures they attended and notes that stuck out to them:

Planning for Success, the Writers Guide to Getting It All Done

80/20 rule (80% success from 20% effort)
Short term and long term goals
Kanban board

NINC-ovators

Short story to audio by Matt Buchman
Sara Cannon’s Youtube channel

Writing the Breakout Novel

Passionate about the idea
Flexible on the execution
Writing to Market concerns
Knowing your audience
Value of Backlists

Is your website pulling its own weight?

Web Design
Direct Sales
Group Promos

Mastering Amazon’s A9 Algorithm (by Dave Chesson)

Best location for Ads
What’s indexed
Fine tuning keywords/title/blurbs/etc to get maximum exposure

How to Get out of a Marketing Rut

What causes a rut
What solutions fit the reason behind the rut
“Hedging”

Making Protagonists Shine (by Damon Suede)

Have them move with intent
Have them work toward a goal
Have them be someone you can root for (good guy)

The Art to Fiction Keywords (by Dave Chesson)

Best keywords to use
Why they work and how Amazon search can help you sell more books

They will talk about more classes next time, but if you can’t wait, then you can check out Nathan Van Coop’s roundup on facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/148998479097782/

(You can also search for Nathan on iTunes)

Thank you for listening, and we hope you enjoyed the show. We’d like to thank Joshua Pearson for helping us produce the show and Stephanie Neilan for putting the show notes together. We’d also like to thank the organizers and presenters at NINC for producing such an informative conference!

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