Hello Rebels, welcome back to The Rebel Author Podcast episode 31. Today’s podcast is with Derek Murphy. We’re talking about how to create a reader funnel, what one is, how to create it and why it’s key to developing a fan base.
This week’s questions is:
What kind of content do you put in your reader funnel?
Book recommendation this week is my book 10 Steps to Hero: How to Craft a Kickass Protagonist.
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LAUNCH PARTY
I’ll be hosting a LIVE Q&A to celebrate the launch of The Anatomy of Prose: 12 Steps to Sensational Sentences. The Live will be on the 29th May at 9pm BST, 1pm PST, 4pm EST, 6am AEST. If you’d like to ask me anything about writing, marketing, publishing or… unicorns then drop your questions in the blog, the Rebel Author Facebook group, or tweet me @rebelauthorpod
This week’s rebel is Adrian Farr.
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Wow! Wow! Wow! This episode was mind blowing! Just like Sacha, I had a brain melt in a good way and feel super motivated. Thank you Derek for sharing your passion for quality and your real advice on how to achieve this!!! I appreciate how you laid out the main components of a reader funnel and the details of each. The advice on creating relevant blog topics for your readers have me real validation of the path I’ve been trying to take on my blog! As did your suggestion to give subscribers a short piece to get them hooked. I’m walking away from this with some real validation of parts of what I’ve been doing and strong advice for other parts I’m struggling with. Thank you!!!!
I’m so happy you enjoyed the episode <3 This one blew my mind so much! I still have a huge list of to dos ready to get done!
I took a million notes 🙂 He had so much great advice to share – really genuine 🙂