Matt & Lauren Agree to Disagree

In this episode, Matt & Lauren debate and discuss a variety of writing, publishing, editing, and marketing prompts. Hear their insights, opinions, and ideas on topics like: 

• Exclusively Selling Direct vs. Going Wide with Your Book Sales
• Which Social Media Platform Would You Use to Promote a Book? 
• What Would You Use to Entice New Email Subscribers? 

And, of course, a few tangents too. Listen now, or watch the full episode on our YouTube channel! 

Dive Deeper

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• Ep #56 | The Indie Author's Guide to Going Wide With Your Book Distribution
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• Ep #82 | The Email Marketing Podcast with Laurie & Lauren

💡 Read These Blog Posts

• Editing Best Practices
• Social Media Marketing 101
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Sound Bites From This Episode

🎙️ [9:16] “You cannot control that part of the customer experience if you're selling on a third party website, but you can if you're selling direct. And I think that's really neat.”

🎙️ [19:30] “It's such an important part of launching a book. I think, and the people that we've talked to that have made that part of their launch process, you know, their marketing plan, they tend to have really good success with it.”

🎙️ [36:59] “I think no matter what you write, whether it's fiction or nonfiction or how to manuals for lawnmowers, your goal shouldn't be transactions. It should be relationships.” 

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