Ep 91 - How Romance Authors Can Sell More Books Using Reader Data with Hanna Odendaal

If I had to choose just three data points to look at, it would really be your reader profile.

I think that comes back to the first rule of marketing, know thy audience.

And then the second one is trope velocity.

I think that really shows you where books are going, where is a good place to write.

And the last is really making the decision between Kindle Unlimited versus Y distribution.

I think you can, in that one, you get a lot of price points, that kind of decisions in there.

So if I had to start somewhere, those are the three points that I would start at.

I love that too, that it's kind of like this overarching idea of like know your audience.

That is something I've talked about on the podcast many a times.

I've mentioned that on the podcast quite a bit because I've also mentioned this in the article.

I've posted it as well.

It's called the thousand true fans theory.

To make a living, all you need is a thousand true fans.

That's it.

And so that is a fascinating, because that seems like an achievable number.

Most people think it's like this huge, like, yeah, like this huge dream.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Millions, right? Millions of people.

I got to have the, be the, you know, New York Times bestseller, sell millions and millions of copies all around the world and things like that.

But it's, it's only, it's really just a thousand true fans that you really need to be a writer, to like make a living as a writer.

Let me put it that way.

Yeah.

And I mean, like a thousand people don't even film most like stadiums or auditoriums or anything like that.

Not even most schools have a thousand people.