#346: Marketing Minute: Choose Your Own Book Marketing Adventure

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Hey Kingdom writers. Welcome to this Marketing Minute episode. My name is Shelly Hitz and I am super excited about this episode. This is all about choosing your own book marketing adventure. And this is really just going to be a fun episode. But before we dive in, if you haven't yet, we have a free free download for you called 27 book marketing ideas. You can just get some ideas of new things to try or maybe it will jog your memory of some things that maybe have worked for you in the past. But you can download it for free at trainingauthors.com forward/ideas and when you do, let me know. Reply back to the email and let me know which idea you are going to try first. I would love to know. So today we're going to talk about choosing your own bookmarking adventure. And one of the things I love about Kingdom Marketing and having, you know, a Kingdom mindset when it comes to marketing is that sometimes it may look different than what everyone else is doing. So I know that you're probably like me. You're on, on social media, you're following authors, you're seeing what they're doing and it's easy to think, oh, I need to do that or compare or, you know, some people may be saying, you know, this is the exact thing that worked for me, the blueprint. And you may think, oh, I'm going to try that exact same thing as well. And maybe it doesn't work as well for you. And that's why we recommend having business meetings with God on a regular basis, asking him for his wisdom, for his direction, and yes, getting the skill sets that you need for marketing. And we teach a lot of those. And you know, you can even use templates, but then ask God for wisdom on how to edit them, how to incorporate your personality, your voice and do it your way. So choose your own book marketing adventure. So, so in Christian Book Academy, we have a ton of marketing content. This has been growing over the last seven and a half years since we launched the Academy. And we just have created a lot of resources for you. And I just don't even think most people realize the value that you get when you join Christian Book Academy. And even our own members, you know, they'll ask questions in the group. I'll be like, oh yeah, we have a training on that, or we have a template on that, or we, we have this. And they're like, oh my goodness, I had no idea that that was even in the membership. But one, one thing that I realized is that, you know, everyone's going to do things a little bit differently. And you know, some of you don't necessarily want to sign up for a membership. I get it. I am also like that. There are a few memberships that I have signed up for and I've stayed a member. But. But typically, you know, it's easy to want to not have those recurring fees because of costs. And so I get that. And what I feel like God is leading us to do, you know, in my business meetings with God is to allow you to choose your own book marketing adventure. And so I am super pumped and excited to share with you. I've been holding this in for a while and it's no longer a secret. We are launching a book marketing shop where you can buy our different trainings, templates, toolkits, all the things that I've created all through all the years, and you can buy those piecemeal. So one at a time, you can choose. Okay. I really want to focus on getting reviews right now. And then you can go and purchase our get more Reviews toolkit. Or if you're wanting to get booked on podcast, you can get our media kit toolkit where you know, you get the template and you can get start getting prepared. You know, there's so many different things in the shop and we are going to continue to add new products all the time. You guys know I'm prolific. We have written and published over 70 books, but we've actually sold books. So we've sold over half a million and we've given away over like three quarters of a million on Kindle alone. But we've actually sold books. And so I really believe God has given me some giftings in this area of marketing. And now I get to share with you. Not only for those of you that are inside Christian Book Academy, which you guys are amazing, we get to spend time with you every month. I get to answer your personalized questions in our Facebook group. You get access to all the things and the goodies and you get to attend our workshops live. And there's so many benefits. You get our two day virtual writing retreat every month, our 15 minute writing challenge every month. You know, it's like you get so much in the membership and honestly, most of the stuff in the shop you have if you're a Christian Book Academy member. But if you're not a member yet, I want you to check out the shop because there is so much goodness in there for you and you have the ability to choose your own book marketing adventure and you can ask the Lord, you know, what's next for me and you can get the training, you can get the templates, you can, you can get the tools that you need right now. And so go to bookmarketingshop.com and I was so glad that that domain name was still available. But go there and check it out and find the things that are going to serve you the best, that are going to help you the most right now and make sure you're on our email list. We're going to be giving special flash sales almost every Friday so be on looking for those on our, if you're on our email list, you will be getting those, it'll be deeply discounted products and you know, sales and things like that. If you're not on our email list yet, go and sign up@trainingauthors.com ideas not only will you get our 27 book marketing ideas down download, but then you'll be on our email list so you'll get all of the best discounts and our Friday flash sale emails and all of the fun things. There is honestly so much that I have planned for the shop and it's actually just really exciting. This is like the most excited I've been for a while and it just feels fun. It just feels fun because I have created so much to help you and I know so many of you are not taking advantage of it. And, and so I want you to have an opportunity to really be able to sell more books, impact more lives and really move forward in God's call on your life to write, publish and market your books. Now this is a shop more specifically for the marketing side. If you are writing and publishing, if you're in that phase, then I still highly recommend that you join Christian Book Academy. That's really where the, the, you know, most of our content is. Or you can take one of our workshops like Procrastination to publication or Book Writing Lab. I mean we have some one time fee workshops for you there. But if you've already published your book, you know, you know how it is. Marketing is a marathon and not a sprint. It's not over when you've pressed the publish button and you've, you've completed your book launch. I really believe marketing is a is stewardship. And God has given us these books and these messages to steward and now what are we going to do with them? And so I feel the same way with these different templates and trainings and tools that I've created. God has given me the ability to create these and to be, to be actually a, you know, pretty, pretty good teacher. I mean, that's really one of my strengths and people really enjoy the different trainings that I've created. But now I want to steward these well and I want to really help even more of you to be able to see your books in the hands of those that need them the most. So come join us. Come over to bookmarketingshop.com check it out. And we do have a special coupon for our grand opening. It's grand opening 20. You'll get 20% off everything in the shop. So come over, check it out and be looking, if you're on our email list, be looking for those Friday flash sales because we're going to have a lot of fun with those. And I cannot wait to see what God does as you continue to take those courageous steps to market your book and to impact more lives with the message in your book. So let me pray for you. Lord, thank you so much for every person listening right now, no matter where they're at in the Kingdom writer's path, whether or not they're in their first draft, they're completing their final draft, they're publishing their book, they're in their book launch or the impact lives phase, which is the ongoing marketing. Lord, I just pray you bless them. I pray you would give them the resources, the training, the tools they need to keep moving forward and most importantly, that they would continue to meet with you to hear from you what you have for them. And I just pray that these resources that I provide, that I've created over the years, that you would really get them in the hands of those that need them the most, that whoever needs the trainings, that they would find them, that they would use them and they would put them to use. Lord, we would just pray that many books would be sold as a result of these resources. And we just pray this. In Jesus name, Amen. Amen. Friends, thank you for being here. Again. Go check out the shop bookmarketing shop.com and use the coupon code grandopening20 for 20% off. And we will be sharing more about the shop in emails coming soon. So I will talk to you in the next episode. Bye bye.

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