By:
Anne R. Allen
A lot of marketing gurus are advising authors to cut back on blogging and social media and go back to the email marketing of the last decade.
"The author with the biggest mailing list wins," has become a mantra with self-publishing gurus.
Go to most blogs and websites these days and you'll be assaulted by a pop-up window that demands you subscribe to a newsletter before you even get to see if the site has content you're interested in. (I'm glad to see that book marketing guru Frances Caballo agrees with me about how obnoxious those pop-ups are.)
Some vendors won't even let you get a glimpse of their merchandise unless you surrender your email address for spamming purposes. These companies are paying big money for advertising, just for the privilege of slamming their cyber-doors in the faces of potential customers. (Because who cares if you make any sales, right? What's important is helping the pop-up cartel take over the world!)
I assume they are following advice from the same marketers who tell authors to stockpile the addresses of everybody we've ever brushed electrons with in order to spam them with daily tips, interviews, recipes, and "
This is because, they keep insisting, "spam newsletters sell more books
These experts must have access to statistics I don't. But until I see proof, I'm not dropping my blog for a clunky old newsletter.
Why?
Because I hate getting newsletters. And I like to follow that Golden Rule thing.
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