Friday, July 26, 2024

Tim Grahl online character study


Now, nothing like studying the industry standard of publishing by studying a jaded book marketer. So they hate our current economic system more than ever.

Short version: lot to learn with publishing and with Seth Godin, okay reverse engineering of storytelling. He's public relations, for better or worse. At least that's a friendly profession.

https://timgrahl.com/ < Yep, that's his site with his cussy novel name. Take an entrepreneurial role it seems.

This will cover is marketing career rather than his fictional writing career. Already relinked his podcast. Yet these are my thoughts of his article of getting onto the bestseller list. What a way to build his own publishing house and instruction within Shawn Coyne, it must be a stronghold at least with him advertising it on his blog.

Also, I've read his 1000 copies book, establishing his connection system with two fictional proxies that he's laid out.  I'd recommend Seth Godin's blog and his this is marketing book for any prospective freelancers looking for a way to play the long-term. As recommendations go with doing art making strategy, though, It is not bad. Especially of tailor-fitting the schedules. A positive self-affirmation at the end is a bit oopity.

What's a salesperson like him going to do when he has to interact with the public and sell his entertainment? Well, it's his mode of operandi, and he details how hard it is to publish rather than to make the thing. As a platform goes, which is simply a means to sell ones books/illustrations, he lays out his experience well.

Along with how to edit, congrats! He's using it a means to advertise the story grid publishing house along with courses to writers. Selling with testimony.

As with all reverse engineers, one still has to go make the thing then decide to market it though. Such troubles of luck is still a problem.

Yeah, once could say he's following a content formula in regard to the way of marketing, yet should be kept simple and nothing reiterated. It's like general physical preparedness, nothing elaborate, yet the rudimentary structure with changes that are continued. How he cautions new writers not to court commercial publishers is probably the best advice. Or pay the Faustian bargain.

To quote a screenwriter in making art for the public -

William Goldman

“Nobody knows anything... Not one person in the entire motion picture field knows for a certainty what's going to work. Every time out it's a guess and, if you're lucky, an educated one.”

Are people merely lonely now when they market today, in the world where it could be construed within the taxonomy of markingtese of branding. How to such individual identity won't be removed from our cultural consciousnesses anytime soon.

C'est la vie, we deal with ad-creep within our own special ways. Be a hobbyist, a freelancer, or a entrepreneur, all attempts could be made with the public image of the chief marketing officer with the interactions.

Haven't tried the rest of the courses, all this info I'm reading up right now is good enough.🛋️📓