This is probably one of the reasons why you wrote your book in the first place, but try and think of a mistake people typically make. (bonus if you can name a few!) Side note - this is an excellent thing to think of when creating social media content!

Happy Friday friends ... I hear this so often I made a video to address it: "I just need to grow my social media and the book sales will follow." I get it. It sounds logical. But I want to push back on that because I think it's sending a lot of great authors down a very slow, very frustrating road. I was listening to Don't Write THAT Book with Mike Michalowicz recently, and his co-host asked him how he managed to sell thousands of copies at launch. His answer? 18 years of networking. Not a viral TikTok. Not a perfectly optimized Instagram grid. Eighteen years of showing up, building relationships, and earning trust. That is the part few authors who have big launches say out loud. There is no strategy that works instantly. But social media is genuinely one of the slower ones, especially if you're starting from scratch. You're competing with full-time creators, AI-generated content, and algorithms that don't care about your goals. That doesn't mean skip it. There's real value in social media — I use it myself and I believe in it as part of a bigger picture. But it's an amplifier, not a foundation. And if it's your entire plan, you're essentially outsourcing your book's future to an algorithm. I made a video breaking all of this down, including the numbers behind where book revenue is actually growing right now. Dropping it here because I think it'll reframe some things for you.

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Hello Friends, My release date is April 25, but with so many unexpected things that have come up, I lost sight of my exact strategy. Please give me some feedback on the points below. Here is my plan for now. 1. I will set a release date on Ingram, Amazon for end of April. It will be available on my website too through Lulu. 2. I plan to make it available for a 50% discount for the first month to motivate people to buy it and to ask for reviews. I have already updated my website, gotten a few proofs of the book in print and ebook to see if I have to make corrections, reinvigorated my social media, and have done some speaking engagements to tease the book release. I’m finding the pre-sale strategy confusing at the moment because I don’t like that you can’t do one through Amazon for print. Thanks so much in advance for any thoughts that you can share 🙏🏽