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Episode 104B – Trisha Campbell – Author Platform
Overview
Tricia has done very well with her first book, and she attributes that to building her author platform. She has great advice about getting reviews and getting the book out in front of people. She has reached out to other authors and helped them with selling by building their platform.
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Transcript
I appreciate you talking to me about all that. So let's go to some great authors stuff. And I love this because I always ask the authors, but when you're writing. Products and services that you use and you right away [00:01:00] have journaling as part of that, that you had years worth of material already written.
[00:01:06] Tricia: Right? Right. So it's like fodder for the grist, for the mill. You know what I mean? It was just there. So I think too, the habit was there. If that makes sense. The habit of writing, like one of the things people say, you really have to make it a habit every day, you sit down and you write I'm like, yeah. Yeah.
[00:01:30] Stephen: So were these journals like paper that you wrote in with a pen or did you do
[00:01:35] Tricia: those little journals that look like I'm the outside looks like a cow kind of black and white marble kind of thing. Yeah. That's all they were. They weren't anything special. They weren't any leather-bound whatever they were just journals.
And I actually, after I had a handful of them, I was like, I better start numbering these puppies. I'm going to get confused about everything. I'm going to have to go back and forth to figure out the chronology. So I started [00:02:00] numbering them and there were umpteen of them by the time I got to this. So
[00:02:04] Stephen: when you wrote the book, did you do it longhand or do you use a computer?
[00:02:10] Tricia: No, I typed, although I use Google docs. And that was fine. But now in hindsight, I should have used word because when it came right down to it, I ended up having to go. I changed toward for the editing arts and I think I would use Microsoft word if I went forward at this point,
[00:02:33] Stephen: I know some people do.
Google docs if especially if they work collaboratively because you can have people. So I've heard, I hear Scrivener a lot too, so I hear it all over. Is there any, you've you read that book and you found book launchers and they help with all that. Is there any other services you used for the writing or that you like for the
[00:02:58] Tricia: writing, [00:03:00] but I have my website.
Is done with word WordPress and flywheel. And then my email services through convert kit. I like convert kit a lot, trying to think of anything else that I have used just convert kit was really good about organizing email, come pick campaigns and stuff like that. They were. I like them. And
[00:03:27] Stephen: you're working with book launchers.
What are you doing to market the book? Are you doing the marketing or are they doing it? Is it a combination?
[00:03:34] Tricia: It's a combination. Marketing is hard. It's not something you should just dabble in. You really have to know what you're doing. And I struggled with it. At first. I was trying to make my own website.
It was shoveling sand against the tide. It was dickless. I was working so hard and so frustrated and [00:04:00] I just like oh my gosh. I've been so out of my depth all day.
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Overview
Tricia has done very well with her first book, and she attributes that to building her author platform. She has great advice about getting reviews and getting the book out in front of people. She has reached out to other authors and helped them with selling by building their platform.
YouTube
Transcript
I appreciate you talking to me about all that. So let's go to some great authors stuff. And I love this because I always ask the authors, but when you're writing. Products and services that you use and you right away [00:01:00] have journaling as part of that, that you had years worth of material already written.
[00:01:06] Tricia: Right? Right. So it's like fodder for the grist, for the mill. You know what I mean? It was just there. So I think too, the habit was there. If that makes sense. The habit of writing, like one of the things people say, you really have to make it a habit every day, you sit down and you write I'm like, yeah. Yeah.
[00:01:30] Stephen: So were these journals like paper that you wrote in with a pen or did you do
[00:01:35] Tricia: those little journals that look like I'm the outside looks like a cow kind of black and white marble kind of thing. Yeah. That's all they were. They weren't anything special. They weren't any leather-bound whatever they were just journals.
And I actually, after I had a handful of them, I was like, I better start numbering these puppies. I'm going to get confused about everything. I'm going to have to go back and forth to figure out the chronology. So I started [00:02:00] numbering them and there were umpteen of them by the time I got to this. So
[00:02:04] Stephen: when you wrote the book, did you do it longhand or do you use a computer?
[00:02:10] Tricia: No, I typed, although I use Google docs. And that was fine. But now in hindsight, I should have used word because when it came right down to it, I ended up having to go. I changed toward for the editing arts and I think I would use Microsoft word if I went forward at this point,
[00:02:33] Stephen: I know some people do.
Google docs if especially if they work collaboratively because you can have people. So I've heard, I hear Scrivener a lot too, so I hear it all over. Is there any, you've you read that book and you found book launchers and they help with all that. Is there any other services you used for the writing or that you like for the
[00:02:58] Tricia: writing, [00:03:00] but I have my website.
Is done with word WordPress and flywheel. And then my email services through convert kit. I like convert kit a lot, trying to think of anything else that I have used just convert kit was really good about organizing email, come pick campaigns and stuff like that. They were. I like them. And
[00:03:27] Stephen: you're working with book launchers.
What are you doing to market the book? Are you doing the marketing or are they doing it? Is it a combination?
[00:03:34] Tricia: It's a combination. Marketing is hard. It's not something you should just dabble in. You really have to know what you're doing. And I struggled with it. At first. I was trying to make my own website.
It was shoveling sand against the tide. It was dickless. I was working so hard and so frustrated and [00:04:00] I just like oh my gosh. I've been so out of my depth all day.