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Marketing masterclass with Sarah Mayberry and Sara Hood · Facebook: taking control Scheduler: get the time monkey off your back! Insights: reach, engagement, best time to post, review

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Page 1: Marketing masterclass with Sarah Mayberry and Sara Hood · Facebook: taking control Scheduler: get the time monkey off your back! Insights: reach, engagement, best time to post, review

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Marketing masterclass

with

Sarah Mayberry 

and 

Sara Hood

Who are we?

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Day one

What was Sarah doing?

How did she feel about it?

Taking control

Sarah meets Sara

Sara introduces Sarah to the sales funnel

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What’s a sales funnel?

Strangers

Acquaintances

Friends

Fans

Super fans

Recruit

Engage

Convert

What did we do first?

Lists!

• Assets

• Activities

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What did that look like?

Facebook page (author page)Facebook profile (personal)TwitterWebsite  + new website + blogEmail list (no of subscribers)37 books published (38th about to land)Dear Author, Smart Bitches, Book BubKindle, Kobo, Nook, iBookBlog tour

What’s a sales funnel

Whiteboard!

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Hone

• Looked at honing what Sarah already does

• Make it deliver for maximum impact for minimum effort

• Then put together into a sales funnel

Engagement: Facebook

• Great engagement

• Good number of fans

• Personal profile full of readers

• Confusion between profile and page

• Not sure about what to post (inc. to where)

• Finding it a grind 

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Facebook: taking control

Separate personal and page 

OR

Suck it up and keep them intertwined

(set up another profile?)

Facebook: taking control

Four types of content:

• Inspire (40% + …highest reach)

• Entertain (40% + …highest reach)

• Inform

• Call to act  (5% … lowest reach)

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Facebook: taking control

Scheduler: get the time monkey off your back!

Insights: reach, engagement, best time to post, review performance

Advertising

Facebook: taking control

Spend an hour or less a week scheduling

Spend 5 mins a day interacting – more time if you’ve got it

Plan plan and plan some more

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Facebook: taking control

Engagement: Twitter

• Combined personal and private Twitter 

• Favourite social media platform

• Good following

• Analytics

• Good engagement

• All happening in real time

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Twitter: taking control

• Keep combined personal and private Twitter

• Twitter Analytics

• Use analytics to pick good times of day

• Use (free) hootsuite to schedule and repeat

Social media: taking control

Goal:  think big BUT grow bit by bit

Reach is good, but engagement is better

Every week aim to be better

Don’t compare

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Social media: taking control

You don’t have to do them all

Better two done well than several poorly

Use social media that:

• You enjoy

• Your readers use

Engagement: website

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Website

Design:

• Clarity 

• Simplicity

• Punch

Structure  ‐ blog on the front page!

“Frictionless”

Metrics ‐ Google Analytics

Website

Integrate the blog

FRONT PAGE

Why:

• Brings traffic

• Increases engagement – know, like and trust

• Helps SEO => improves Google ranking and discoverability

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Website

Engagement: Newsletter

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Newsletter: taking control

Newsletter: taking control

Auto responders: 

• Double opt in

• Welcome

List growth

Frequency

Lead magnet

Recruitment campaign

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Making it easy to sell

Buy buttons on the website

Buy links in the newsletter

Maximise keywords on all platforms

Choose categories in Amazon

Invest in quality covers

Fine tune blurbs

Generate reviews in the blogger community

Advertise on Book Bub, etc

Recruit

Lead magnet: free book offer. First book in Brothers Ink series (indie)

First chapter of next book in back of free book

Social media links in free book

Newsletter sign up invitation in new book

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Launch of Anticipation

What did Sarah do??

What worked?What didn’t?

What was surprising?

Outcomes?

Next steps

Add Google Analytics

Learn how to use it!

Facebook advertising – recruit using different free book, value add, get onto newsletter list

Keep going

Write more books

Rinse, repeat!

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Questions

How to connect

Sarah Mayberry:  FREE BOOK!

www.sarahmayberry.com/subscribe

Facebook: SarahMayberryAuthor

Twitter: @MayberrySarah

Sara Hood:  WEBINAR OFFER!

http://www.marketing4writers.net/

Facebook: MarketingforWriters

Twitter: @mktg4writers

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