How to Avoid Book Marketing Overwhelm

Novel Marketing

Feeling overwhelmed by book marketing can lead authors to look for shortcuts. Shortcuts lead to expensive complications. Expensive complications lead to dead ends. Dead ends lead to suffering. Yoda would call this “The path to the dark side.”
Does this sound familiar? How do you escape this overwhelming cycle?
There are ten different stressors that can lead to book-marketing overwhelm. Most authors face at least one, and if you are completely overwhelmed, you may be facing all of them.
In this week’s episode, you’ll learn:

• Ten factors that may be causing your marketing stress
• How free courses may be contributing to your overwhelm
• How to improve your publishing vocabulary

Listen in or check out the blog version of this episode to discover which stressors are hounding you and how to implement simple solutions to mitigate your marketing stress.

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Chapters

1. How to Avoid Book Marketing Overwhelm (00:00:00)

2. Marketing Overwhelm (00:00:25)

3. Stakes Stress (00:01:35)

4. Money Stress (00:02:51)

5. Marketing Vocabulary (00:05:08)

6. Conflicting Advice (00:07:23)

7. The Work (00:10:08)

8. Deadlines (00:12:09)

9. Publishing Decisions (00:17:28)

10. Unrealistic Expectations (00:19:06)

11. Distractions (00:22:11)

12. Entitlement (00:25:10)