February, 11 2020 , 6:30 p.m.

At the Fountain Green General Store, 84 S. State Street

1. Welcome

2. Orders of business:

January meeting minutes.
Finances
Mt. Pleasant library

3. Our next compilation.

What will we call the book?
Next deadline.

Complete rough draft due: March meeting

Cover ideas:

Everyone take 5 minutes to look up "Literary fiction books 2020" and scroll through the book covers. What sort of fonts do they use? What is in the cover art? Are the covers made from photographs? What colors are most common? Least common? Etc...

Marketing:

Jenna and Cortney

Presented marketing plan. Each person must have social media. Each person must participate in the blog.
We will all market our own stories in the book.
Name changed to "Word Addicts" on unanimous vote.

Roundtable

Comments

Marketing Plan Summary

First and foremost, if we as a group are serious about being writers—taking the time to meet regularly, and create a book of short stories to sell—then it is time to take our marketing strategy seriously as well. Having been asked to collaborate and lead the Word Addicts marketing strategy, Jenna and Cortney are ready to get going. Having an online presence, or more specifically, a powerful online presence, will dictate your success as a self-publishing author. With that being said, Cortney and Jenna have forged an action plan for the group starting with: ● A professional, catchy name for our writer’s group. (Word Addicts) ● Creating (and managing) social media pages for our group ● Establishing an inviting and helpful blog (with scheduled posts) ● Individual accounts for us as writers—to drive traffic and sales to our blog When discussing the target audience for our 2020 book of short stories, it was decided that instead of advertising the book as a whole, it would be in the g

Marketing Presentation From June 30 Meeting

We will be applying all of these things as a group, but each of us should consider applying them in our personal marketing plans as well. Much more was discussed with regard to these slides, and I'll try to get some of that on this post within a few weeks.

First Week Wrap-up - Miscellany

In our first week we sold 52 copies of the eBook and 8 copies of the paperback. I am only including eBook sales in this report, as this is the version we're marketing at the moment. During this week, we reached as high as #52 on the American Anthologies Bestseller chart, which is pretty darn good. There are a surprising number of these books, in the thousands. So #52? I'll take it. Of the copies sold: 12 were copies redeemed by pre-readers, and were given for free. 5 were copies that I gave away for free to 3 family members and 2 other friends. I assume the remaining 35 copies were legitimate sales. Consider The Following I don't know what personal efforts were made, but I looked at everyone's social media accounts and made an effort to figure out what goes into selling 35 copies of our book. Here's what I found: 8 posts on personal Facebook pages. 2 active on Twitter with 4 different accounts, including the Word Addicts Twitter account. Several retweets and a fe

Word Addicts Bulletins

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