• Children's Book Author's Dilemma: To Vend or Attend - Deciding with Intention
    Mar 19 2024

    In this episode, learn how to define with intention your preference to vend at events or attend events as a participant. Plus, stick around till the end for a super helpful segment called the "Tip of the Week" where you’ll receive one simple piece of advice that you can use immediately for making the most of your event plans.

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    23 mins
  • Ep 23: Tax & Bookkeeping Tips To Keep Your Children’s Book Business Out of Trouble
    Jan 10 2024

    Welcome to the Children's Book Marketing Podcast! In this episode, I sit down for a Conversation with The Savvy Accountant, Atiya Brown. She is a licensed CPA, author of the book "Savvy Tax Strategies for Small Business Owners," and what she has to share is essential are insights into tax strategies that every children’s book author should know about.

    Some of the resources that mentioned in the episode are below:

    Follow Atiya Brown, CPA on Instagram

    Buy Atiya Brown’s book, “Savvy Tax Strategies For Small Business Owners”

    Schedule a Strategy Session to learn more about Children’s Book Marketing Academy

    Tax Jar – Report and track your state sales taxes for remittal

    Avalara – Cloud-based tax software to keep you in compliance (for non-accounting professionals)

    QuickBooks - Cloud-based tax software to keep you in compliance (for accounting professionals and those brave enough to give it a try)

    Xero – Cloud-based accounting and bookkeeping software

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    34 mins
  • Ep 22: Navigating the Grant World: How to Secure Funding for Your Children's Book Business
    Aug 3 2023

    Welcome back to the Children's Book Marketing Podcast, where we delve into the world of children's book writing, publishing, and marketing. In today's episode, we have a very special guest, Linda Peavey, who is an expert in grant writing and securing funding for small businesses, including children's book authors. Linda will be sharing valuable insights on how to find the right grant funding to support your children's book business and extend your impact in the market.

    Not sure how much to request in grants for your marketing budget? Grab the free marketing budget workbook here.

    Here's how the episode breaks down:

    • [00:00:53] Grant writing for children's book authors discussed.
    • [00:05:30] 15-year grant writer secures $17M+ funding.
    • [00:07:00] Find aligned foundation for grant funding.
    • [00:11:29] Grants are now available for for-profits too.
    • [00:15:59] Children's book authors can receive grant funding.
    • [00:17:17] Multiple grant research websites provide information on grants
    • [00:23:32] Unlocking publishing resources, giving hope for success.
    • [00:25:46] Children's book writing: hobby or business?
    • [00:28:59] Prepare, document, research, categorize for grant success.
    • [00:33:57] Free grant writing webinars, multiple times monthly


    To find out what your marketing budget should be and download all the free resources mentioned during this episode may be found in the show notes at

    https://childrensbookmarketing.co/podcast/ep22/

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    39 mins
  • Episode 021: How To Craft Your Amazon Strategy for Consistent Children’s Book Sales
    Jun 7 2023

    Have you been unclear on how to make Amazon’s marketplace work for you? It took two years, but I have discovered a strategy for selling children’s books on Amazon that you can adapt to achieve your own goals. To find out what it is, so you can use it as well, listen to this episode.

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    26 mins
  • Ep 020: The Most Important Relationship That Will Get Your Children’s Books Into Local Libraries
    Dec 28 2022

    Ever wonder how to get your children’s books into your local library? Well, find out how by learning the process from a community librarian that shares what you need to know about building relationships and using reviews to get your children’s books listed.

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    42 mins
  • What You Need To Know About Listing Your Children’s Books With A Book Aggregator
    Nov 4 2022

    Are thinking about selling your children’s books through a book aggregator? Whether you’re on the fence about who to partner with, or whether to work with one at all, you’ll want to tune in for this episode. Not only do I take you behind the scenes to explore my experiment, listing with one of the largest book aggregator services in the world, but I also reveal a huge mistake that I made in doing so.

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    26 mins
  • 3 Reasons You Should Begin Building Your Email List, Like Yesterday
    Aug 17 2022

    You have probably heard that you need to start building an email subscribers list, but why it’s necessary may not be obvious. Listen to this episode to find out what you’re able to do more of when you can connect to your children’s book community using email marketing.

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    19 mins
  • Ep 17: How Not To Waste Money When You Use Ads To Promote Your Children’s Book
    Jul 7 2022
    Join me for a conversation with Facebook & Instagram Ads Strategist, Stacy Zeal. Her runs an agency that helps product-based small businesses avoid wasting money running ads to reach your children’s book readers.

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    29 mins