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Tom Antion

With Kris Safarova, Host & Founder of the Author To Profit School

Tom has done 800 episodes of his own podcast, Screw the Commute. Kris was actually recently a guest on Tom's podcast (ep. 784). Tom has been a guest on over 1,000 shows and has been invited back as many as 13 times. We will cover how Tom was invited to the White House because of the podcast, the Facebook hack that can put you in front of hundreds of thousands of people, and how to get extremely expensive podcast agencies to work for you for free.

Tom Antion is a legend in the internet marketing and book publishing space. He has done just about everything out there when it comes to being a very successful online entrepreneur, and he is an internet multimillionaire and a founder of the Screw the Commute podcast. Tom has done 3,000 paid presentations in 12 countries, and he's in the top 1% of speaker income.

You can connect with Tom at https://screwthecommute.com/automatefree/

How the Right Book Cover Design Can Be the Key To Unlocking a Successful Marketing Campaign

Matt Stone

With Kris Safarova, Host & Founder of the Author To Profit School

How to create book covers that make your book stand out. We cover the research you need to conduct, what kind of covers you should consider depending on your niche, and mistake some authors make when creating their book covers. We also discuss key mistakes authors make when building their email list and the mindset that helped Matt build a loyal audience.

Matt Stone is an author and pioneer in the self-publishing community, best known for being the CEO of 100 Covers - The U.S.'s largest book cover design company.

You can get in touch with Matt at www.100covers.com

Social Media Insights to Get Better Results

Shelby Leigh

With Kris Safarova, Host & Founder of the Author To Profit School

Shelby covers how you can get better results when creating content for social media. We discuss how to promote your newsletter YouTube versus TikTok versus LinkedIn. Shelby shares a powerful tool to use with Instagram. What can you do for algorithms to like your channel (versus not like your channel), and much more.

Shelby Leigh is a bestselling author and founder of Marketing by Shelby. With a following of more than 500k worldwide, and 8+ years’ experience in the social media industry, Shelby knows social media and has taught more than 4000 authors how to sell more books online. Through her step-by-step courses and marketing membership (The Creative’s Content Club), she is passionate about helping authors make an impact and income.

You can get in touch with marketingbyshelby.com/freebie

Grow Your List with Viral Giveaways

Derek Doepker

With Kris Safarova, Host & Founder of the Author To Profit School

Derek covers a very effective and fast way to grow an email list: viral giveaways. We cover all key areas you need to know about how to run successful giveaways such as the tool to use and what to offer as part of giveaways to make it more attractive to cold audience. We also cover how to maximize engagement and how to promote your giveaway using paid and free approaches. Lastly, we go over common mistakes authors make when using giveaways to grow their email list.

Derek Doepker went from being a broke valet parker to a bestselling author. He's sold over 100,000 books using free and low-cost marketing strategies.

You can get in touch with Derek at https://bestsellersecrets.com/

Create High Converting Reader Magnets for Children’s Books

Karen Ferreira

With Kris Safarova, Host & Founder of the Author To Profit School

What you need to know about lead magnets when it comes to children’s books. What kind of lead magnets work best, how to increase number of opt-ins you get, how to figure out your target market, when the first book in a series makes sense and more.

Karen Ferreira is a professional book illustrator, bestselling author, award-winning creative director and founder and CEO of GetYourBookIllustrations and Children’s Book Mastery. She helps self-publishing authors get the know-how to succeed with courses and other training.

You can get in touch with Karen at childrensbookmastery.com

How to Build Genuine Relationships with Your Newsletter Readers

Marcy Pusey

With Kris Safarova, Host & Founder of the Author To Profit School

Building a genuine relationship with your newsletter readers, specifically via a welcome sequence. Marcy covers what she does to engage her new newsletter subscribers and how she starts building relationships. She focuses on how not to come across as selling too much and how she uses the community as a very affordable offering that allows her to deepen the relationship even further.

Marcy Pusey, CRC, CTRP, is an award-winning author of books for adults and children, a 2x TEDx speaker, and the Founder of Miramare Ponte Press. She enjoys helping fellow authors pursue their writing dreams by providing them with writing coaching and Done-For-You / Done-With-You publishing services.

You can get in touch with https://miramarepontepress.com/publishing-checklist

How Authors Can Use Facebook Groups to Grow Their

Email List for Free

Paula Judith Johnson

With Kris Safarova, Host & Founder of the Author To Profit School

Paula covers in detail how to use Facebook groups to grow your email list for free. We dive into how to select the right groups to use and how to build relationships with these people. Paula also shares how to figure out which authors you can do book swaps with. We also cover a thing you should be careful about when using this approach. Lastly, Paula speaks about how to build a relationship with your community.

Paula Judith Johnson is an online entrepreneur, Amazon Best Selling author, award-winning author of steamy romance novels, hostess of the Writing Romance Mastery Summits where you can learn about writing, publishing, and marketing your novels, and the creator of the 10-week immersive Seductive Storylines course and coaching program for romance authors.

You can connect with Paula at paulajudithjohnson.com