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Marketing Strategy for Authors
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Marketing Strategy for Authors is designed to illuminate the process of developing a marketing strategy as an author in the 21st century. It provides a high level, strategic overview of the components of a comprehensive marketing plan that is flexible, focused and uniquely tailored to an author’s writing career.
Organized into a simple and easy-to-understand format, it covers the 4 Ps of Marketing while providing helpful examples and relevant practical applications of marketing theorems. Whether you’re a new author or an established indie author, the book offers insight into the theoretical underpinnings of a winning marketing strategy.
Tao Wong is a bestselling independent author of the science fiction and fantasy series the System Apocalypse and A Thousand Li. He has a MSc in Marketing from the University of Manchester and over two decades of marketing experience as a marketing manager and an independent business owner.
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Tao Wong
Tao Wong is a Canadian author based in Toronto who is best known for his System Apocalypse post-apocalyptic LitRPG series and A Thousand Li, a Chinese xianxia fantasy series. He was shortlisted for the UK Kindle Storyteller award in 2021 for A Thousand Li: The Second Sect. When he's not writing and working, he's practicing martial arts, reading, and dreaming up new worlds.
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