I’m just dipping my toes into learning the BookFunnel stuff, previously I only used it to send out my ARCs. I’m struggling to figure out what the author swaps and promos are. Could someone please explain it to me like I’m 5. 🤣😅
An author swap would be a 1 to 1 swap to mention each other's book in your newsletters. You can post that you want to do a swap (that's the long list of author swaps) or you can just apply for swaps that are posted. You'll use your book funnel landing page as the link for the swap and book funnel will track how many times the other person sent clicks to your link. That gets you a share average and you'll see those averages posted. For a promo, one person hosts and multiple authors can participate. BF creates a landing page with all the covers and links to all the books. Everybody in the promo gets a special link but it all goes to the same landing page. Everyone shares their link in their newsletter and socials to drive traffic to the landing page. You earn a reputation score based on how many clicks your link gets. Each host gets to set the rules of their swap or promo, so you can read through those to find one that fits best. Some may be for reader magnets (newsletter builders) and others are for sales only, some could be a mix. For sales, some will specify wide or KU only and again some are both. Hopefully that helps but let me know if you have more questions.
An author who I consider rather successful told me this morning that when she (her assistant, actually) sends out her newsletter, a few days later they'll send the exact newsletter out again to everyone who didn't open it the first time. They just change the subject line. She said that 30-65% of the people who didn't open the newsletter the first time will open it the second time. I thought that was wild! Has anyone here done this? Did/do you see similar results? I was thinking about trying it.
I haven't done this, but found this help page for how to do it in mailerlite How to resend a campaign to those who did not open the original - MailerLite I've got a newsletter scheduled to go out this week so I'll give it a try.
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