Audiobook Connection - Behind the Scenes with the Creative Teams

AC-I-57 Interview with Johnny Robinson, Audio Club host

Join host Becky Parker Geist and get to know our Audiobook Marketing Program Concierge, Johnny Robinson. Hear about the ways authors and the marketing team come together to learn and move past challenges as well as sharing victories in marketing. Learn more about the community aspect of marketing and audiobooks. Johnny also hosts the The Audio Book Club—an online, interactive club for audiobook enthusiasts—that was launched in January 2021. Discover what's available for you whether as an audiobook author and/or listening enthusiast! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

AC-T-56 Marketing Series #5 Building your Marketing TEAM!

In this fifth episode in this series on the Audiobook Marketing Program (AMP), host Becky Parker Geist helps you think through the gathering of your marketing team. If you’ve created your Marketing Blueprint as we discussed in the first in this series (Episode AC-T-52), you know what tasks need to be done. Figuring out which you should take on yourself and which you should delegate out stumps many an author, and the insights in this episode will help you gain clarity. Every successful author has a team! Publishing and marketing a book or audiobook should not be a solo venture, not if you intend to really reach your audience with your message and to have the impact most authors dream of. Pulling together your team is critical to your success! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

AC-I-55 Marketing Series #4 YouTube guest Ryan Perry, Simple Biz Solutions, Inc.

In this fourth episode in a series on the Audiobook Marketing Program (AMP) created by Pro Audio Voices, host Becky Parker Geist interviews Ryan Perry, business consultant and CEO of Simple Biz Support and a 20-year veteran of helping companies grow sustainably. From his vast experience with YouTube he shared powerful and practical tips on how to use YouTube to market your audiobooks and yourselves as authors. With these suggestions and recommendations for tools and resources, you can dynamically tailor your videos to fit and expand your target audience and keep yourself and your audiobooks compelling and viable in this digital world.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

AC-T-54 Marketing Series #3 Manageable Weekly Tasks

Today’s episode is the third of a series on the Audiobook Marketing Program (AMP) created by Pro Audio Voices.  Host Becky Parker Geist will introduce you to what she and her team use to stay organized and to keep forward momentum: maintaining a short and manageable list of the Weekly Tasks to be accomplished. With these tips and suggestions as a jumping off point, you can tailor your Weekly Task List to fit your needs and keep you and your marketing plan moving forward. Keeping a Weekly Task List can help you maintain a handle on a successful, active marketing campaign and help you reach out to an ever increasing audience more efficiently.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

AC-T-53 Audiobook Marketing Program - Part 2: Media Assets Library

Managing your marketing assets can help you gain an advantage for a successful marketing campaign and help you reach your wider audience and even expand your fan base.  Today’s episode is the second of a series on the Audiobook Marketing Program (AMP) created by Pro Audio Voices. Host Becky Parker Geist will walk you through what she and her team call your Marketing Assets Library and help you identify the resources available to you and where to focus your efforts for maximum benefit.  With this information you can create your own DIY program or just gather professional tips. Learn what your “Media Assets Library” should include, how to store your assets, how to recognize what is useful to you, and guidelines and recommendations on how to use the tools, materials, and techniques in innovative ways.  This series outlines the elements that make the full Audiobook Marketing Program successful. -   Discover what it takes to initialize a solid yet flexible marketing plan. -   Learn how to meet your goals for your audiobook. -  Pick up tips to help you create and maintain successful marketing campaign strategies. -   Pull back the curtain to reveal the best techniques and tricks of the trade to take advantage of current trends. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

AC-T-52 Audiobook Marketing Program - Part 1: Marketing Workshop, Blueprint, Lists

Effective Marketing can make the difference in sales success for your audiobook and help you reach your wider audience. Authors often feel challenged dealing with marketing, figuring out where to begin and where to focus. Today’s episode is the first of a series on the Audiobook Marketing Program (AMP) created by Pro Audio Voices. Host Becky Parker Geist will walk you through what she and her team have developed and why. You can use this as a model to create your own DIY program or just glean tips from the professionals. This series outlines the elements that make the full Audiobook Marketing Program successful. ·   Discover what it takes to initialize a solid yet flexible marketing plan. ·   Learn how to meet your goals for your audiobook. ·   Pick up tips to help you create and maintain successful marketing campaign strategies. ·   Pull back the curtain to reveal the best techniques and tricks of the trade to take advantage of current trends. In this first episode, we’ll be emphasizing the importance of organization, self-assessment, setting clear goals and taking action steps to grow into the future. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

AC-T-51 Script Notes

If you’ve decided to be the voice for your own book, this episode will help you with some options and recommendations. Whether you choose to record in a pro studio, a semi-pro studio, or set yourself up with a home recording set up, there are questions to ask and decisions to make that will make the experience smoother and more manageable. Also be sure to check out Episode #34: “Should You Record Your Own Audiobook?” in this podcast series, which provides some useful information to help you make that decision about whether to be your own narrator or hire a professional. We’ll cover suggestions about the basics of audiobook recording, the equipment you’ll need, some software options, technical requirements to meet the industry standards. We’ll also touch on some tips for good recording techniques. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

AC-T-50 Unpublished Children’s Books - Joy

A child’s curiosity knows no bounds. Even those who seem bored and distracted have the energy within them to participate in the world if only we arouse their interest.  Today we look at the opportunities presented by Unpublished Children’s Books - children’s stories not yet published in an eBook or a print format, and ways to enrich the stories with a soundscape.  We explore the benefits of producing your children’s stories in audio format vs. print format, the perks of getting published or producing your book with Independent Publishing, the fun, inspiring and educational aspects that unfold with audio stories, and an appeal to your ingenuity to embark on this fascinating journey of discovery by allowing your imagination to run free and practice your original storylines and characters on the kids in your life with tales specifically designed for telling rather than reading - a fun, rewarding experience that can open you up to new possibilities and opportunities as an author of children’s stories.  Sound effects and verbal descriptions of the environment and of action encourage children to use their resourcefulnessand versatility to conceptualize, stimulating them to continue learning for life. We are introduced to the fascinating world of foley sound – creating a sound for an action when the actual sound does not translate accurately on its own.  And much more!  PROMO:  ProAudio Voices has come up with a system to help our clients gain control over the Launch of their audiobook. Starting with a beautiful custom sales landing page, you set the retail price and can run promotional pricing and get discount codes for a special event at any time, earn 65% of your royalties based on the charge you set for each audiobook, and get paid just 3 days after each sale is made. We include a bonus: a series of emails with step-by-step tutorials on how to use that landing page.   Please schedule a call with me at ProAudioVoices.com. Please note that Amplify is available exclusively to the production clients of ProAudio Voices and those who join our audiobook marketing program. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

AC-T-49 Short Story Collections

Discover the variety of useful ways your short stories (singly and as collections) can benefit children, parents who wish to encourage their young to appreciate the fascinating world of literature through audiobooks, the literary-hungry public, educators, and you!  Becky Parker Geist has some innovative suggestions for enhancing your short stories to maximize their visual and auditory appeal, to illustrate the storyline and action in your short story (without the expense of illustrations necessarily), and to enrich your stories by minimizing verbiage using other techniques to supplement words to entertain and to educate. Learn new approaches to getting your stories out there in the world by making the most of the internet and finding new possibilities for expanding your reach and influence. These Production and Marketing Tips can foster your contributions to any genre, inspire your creativity flow, and increase your business and sales. All of this and having fun too!  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

AC-T-48 Children’s Audiobooks for the Visually Impaired

Children are thirsty for adventure, knowledge, entertainment; constantly looking for great stories to drink in and enhance their life experience. An often-neglected segment of that population – visually impaired and blind children – are just as much so - craving the same stimuli. This creates a wide-open market for the author’s creative use of the elements of storytelling and learning possibilities, particularly in the audiobook format. Challenge your own creativity by listening to BPG’s Tips for enhancing your audiobook to make it more accessible to the visually impaired and blind children and discover the variety of situations in which Audiobooks are useful, then rise to the challenge BPG presents to further explore and make a contribution to the visually impaired and blind children’s audiobook world! Hear about the advantages for a children’s book author who has the foresight to bring their children’s book into the audiobook world and get their book translated and recorded as an audiobook in multiple languages, as advised by an expert in the book and audiobook marketing fields, Darren Speers of Author’s Republic.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices