How to build your Author email list with Giveaways and Content Marketing: Derek Murphy

June 4, 2017

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Derek Murphy built his email list of 8500+ young adult readers before he published his first novel; since then he's continued using book giveaways and targeted Facebook ads to reach new readers and grow his list to over 35K.

Along with content marketing strategies that let him reach readers with organic traffic, he's been able to go from zero to over $8000 a month in book sales (with very little marketing or adspend). These are techniques that work – but few authors are using them well.

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GIVEAWAY

Derek has been working on a *new* giveaway app for authors and am including it with a listbuilding course that will help you engage your readers, and he's give away 5 free copies.

Derek Murphy

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