Self-publishing News: Audible Offers Unlimited Subscription
Audible Offers unlimited subscription in Spain, Mailchimp adds AI tools for mailing list, podcasting on Amazon.
Switching from MailChimp to MailerLite for Budget-Conscious Indie Authors
If you’re running a WordPress author website and you’ve connected it to MailChimp, recent changes at the mail-service-provider-turned-marketing-company likely mean you're facing a price increase. If that's the case, what should you do? After changes at Mailchimp, ALLi author member Rachel McCollin talks us through switching from MailChimp to MailerLite for budget-conscious indie authors.
Self-Publishing News: Changes at Mailchimp
Mailchimp has pivoted and made itself a lot less user friendly. Reedsy has added a new ebook conversion tool, and Amazon Publishing turns 10.
Book Marketing: How to Add Mailing List Signups to Your Author Website
Like to build your author mailing list but don't know how to add one to your website? Let Rachel McCollin show you how - and why - with this example of a Mailchimp and Wordpress combination.
Self-publishing News: You’ve Sent Mail
I go to a lot of events where writers talk about how to be an entrepreneur and how great it is to be indie...because "entrepreneurial spirit". For several years now there has even been a name for it, the authorpreneur.…
Opinion: Why Indie Authors Shouldn’t Give Away Free Books
Do you ever give your self-published books away free? Should you? Michael Jason Brandt plays devil's advocate on the issue.
Self-publishing News: A New Home
Excuse me while I just settle down and get comfortable in my new home here on a Tuesday. I look forward to welcoming you here. OK, now I've popped next door to Monday's opinion column and borrowed a pint of milk,…
Book Marketing: A Quick Start Guide to Using MailChimp for the Email Marketing of Self-published Books
Indie author and podcaster Paul Teague helps you tame that most helpful monkey: MailChimp, the free email marketing service. What Is Email Marketing? Email marketing allows you to capture the names and email addresses of your prospects and customers via…
Book Marketing: How to Use MailChimp and Bookfunnel to Grow Your Author Mailing List
It's received wisdom in the world of self-publishing that authors should strive to develop email lists of readers interested in their writing. Author design consultant and ALLi partner member Aimee Coveney describes the mechanics of a simple, affordable way to…
This Week’s Self-publishing News
I think people must have got jealous of the table I spent last week talking about and chopped it up for fire wood because my, is it just me or has it been getting a little hot in indie land…
Reaching Readers with Author Newsletters
What can an author newsletter do for you that you're not already getting from Facebook, Twitter, Goodreads, Google+, your author website and blog? This excellent question was raised recently within our private Facebook group, and many members shared their own…