Making Yourself the Brand

Making Yourself the Brand

With the epic growth of indie publishing, many authors find themselves struggling with how to differentiate their work and their brand in a sea of similar books. This presents a marketing challenge that can be difficult to overcome—impacting everything from the choice...
Strategic Branding

Strategic Branding

Hopefully, after last week’s post, you have a better grasp of the concept of intentional branding. Now we can transition to using Strategic Branding to your advantage. You now see how, with planning and purpose, a brand can work from basic concepts like a deceptively...
Strategic Branding

Intentional Branding

I’ve written before on the importance of a brand in the marketing scheme of a self-published author. That post is still a good primer for the bare basic concepts of branding. It’s full of good advice that boils down to “make conscious choices about your brand and then...
Strategic Branding

An Introduction to Branding

Recently, I visited an author’s conference that had a plethora of workshops and panels as part of its lineup. Always curious what others are saying about my area of expertise, I visited two different panels on the topic of branding yourself as a self-published author....