Damon Courtney of BookFunnel - From Free Books to Lifetime Readers: Mastering the Author Book Funnel

The Publishing Performance Show

Damon Courtney is the creator of BookFunnel, a platform that helps authors deliver digital books to readers and build marketing funnels. A former self-published fantasy author who published a trilogy in 2011, Damon created BookFunnel to solve the problem of easily delivering free books to readers' devices. What started as a simple solution for getting ebooks onto Kindles has evolved into a comprehensive platform that now delivers approximately 150,000 books per day and offers tools for author collaboration, group promotions, and building reader relationships.

In this episode:

• What a book funnel is and how it differs from traditional marketing
• The reader journey from discovery to becoming a superfan
• How to create effective reader magnets and lead capture systems
• Using group promotions to collaborate with other authors
• Author swaps for cross-promotion opportunities
• Different strategies for fiction vs. nonfiction funnels
• The lifetime value of readers and how to calculate it
• Creating bonus content to capture readers at the end of books
• Why giving away multiple books can be more effective than one
• Building organic vs. inorganic traffic through book funnels

Resources mentioned:

• BookFunnel.com - https://bookfunnel.com/
• Scrivener - https://scrivener.app/
• Vellum - https://vellum.pub/
• Atticus - https://www.atticus.io/
• Group promotions
• Author swaps

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• Website: https://bookfunnel.com/

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