Off The Shelf

Off The Shelf

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Off The Shelf episodes

  • 3 Ways To Create A Successful Marketing Strategy

    Every author needs to have a marketing strategy. This can not be left up to your publishing company. Matter of fact, they're going to look to you to help market. Today we're going to look at 3 ways to create a successful marketing strategy. Grab some paper and take some notes. You'll want to review this podcast. 

    9 min
  • Writing Quality

    In today's episode, I want to discuss writing quality and what the reader expects, which ultimately affects your brand. I'm going to give you three points to work on for the best quality work. Let's get started. As always, share your thoughts with me at [email protected]. 

    9 min
  • The Importance of Learning From Other Writers

    In today's podcast, I share three essential writing lessons non-fiction authors can learn from their fiction counterparts. Together we'll discover three things:

    • How you can fully engage your reader
    • Why you should never lose your reader
    • How you can help your reader's expectations and keep them focused on your writing.

    Let's get started. 

    8 min
  • Developing Reader Relationships

    In this episode of Off the Shelf, we're going to discuss how you can develop a long term reader relationship. To do this we're going to look at the purchase cycle. I believe book purchasing is a long purchase cycle. Not sure what I mean? Great. Listen to this podcast, and I'll explain. Let's get started. 

    8 min
  • 6 Tips On How To Make Excellent Promotional Materials

    Welcome back from a short vacation. We're excited to be back in the saddle. 

    Today, I want to discuss how to make excellent promotional materials. These are materials you're going to send to perspective publishers or for speaking engagements. Take these 6 ideas into consideration as you develop them. Let's get started. 

    As always, email any thoughts or podcast ideas to [email protected]. 

    9 min
  • Reader Engagement - Part 3: How Readers Engage With You

    In last weeks episode, we talked about how readers engage with our content, and we continue our series this week with talking about how readers respond to you. I discuss three points for how readers engage with you and how you build your tribe. Let's get started. 

    12 min

About Off The Shelf

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Off The Shelf is an educational journey for writers (both self- and traditionally published) and publishers sponsored by The Wayne Hastings Company. With practical tips from over thirty years…