Children's Book Writer and Illustrator
A productive (and quiet) extra few days in Verona mostly spent eating Gelato and finishing a mockup for one book and developing a new one. After escaping the book world of Bologna I ended up running into the bookseller world from a big bookseller conference in Verona. Shout out to the lovely folks from @blue_bear_bookshop .
Now back to normal life…
Happy #kidlitartpostcard day!
And happy Artemis II launch day. Good luck on your mission around the moon!
#KidLitArtPostcardday #artemisII #artemis2
A quick look at email marketing.
In Louderlines, you can set up your public profile page. A central focus for all your audience interactions with all your web and social links collected.
Email is very central to Louderlines, as in my experience, it is the best way to build and connect with an audience over time without being at the mercy of an algorithm. Every answer and post you share automatically goes out to subscribers without any additional work by you. And subscribers can choose to hear from you daily, weekly or monthly.
You have numerous ways to capture subscribers.
Your Louderlines profile page (3).
Embed a form on your own website (6).
And newly launched this week are lead magnets (5). You can share and offer a free download to subscribers and automate a couple of follow-up emails.
Export your full subscriber list at any time, or you can keep them synced with your web app of choice through our webhook connection.
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Sharing your updates is easy with Louderlines.
When setting up your account, you select what social accounts you use.
Click share, the social app automatically opens up, and your post is automatically formatted for that network, combining links and the ideal number of hashtags.
Your text is automatically copied over, but you still need to copy your images. We have made that process straightforward.
Your updates automatically go to your email subscribers. Your audience can choose instant, daily, weekly, or monthly updates.
And for the more technically minded, you can use our webhook or RSS feed to automatically republish your post to your own existing blog or wherever and however you want.
Here is a quick look at the Louderlines dashboard.
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