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Readers
you deserve better than letting an
algorithm decide what you read…
…and authors?
The views might be climbing
but your readers aren’t,
and nobody can tell you why
Did you know that less than 5% of your followers see what you post, yet all the ‘gurus’ tell you to keep posting trial reels and your readers will come.
But that’s not strategy. That’s noise. And every hour spent making more of it is an hour you’re not writing.
And while we’re all stuck in the scroll, the right stories aren’t reaching the right people.
So how bout we fix that?
A decade of strategy.
A lifetime of stories.
Now, both are yours.
Because the story you’re telling wasn’t meant to disappear in a feed.
sam doyle writes
I’ve spent nearly a decade inside real marketing rooms — including three years at Flodesk — seeing firsthand what trips creators up and what actually moves them forward. In 2023, I used all of that to build my own brand from scratch, snowballing to 26,000 followers and an email list that consistently exceeded industry benchmarks.
Then I did the thing every marketing strategist tells you not to do.
I walked away to start over, and finally write my own books.
So when I say I know what it feels like to be where you are, trying to figure out the marketing when your brain just wants to get back to the story, I mean it I’m not here to tell you what should work.
I’m building the same thing as you and handing over every successful strategy I’ve got as I go.
Somewhere between testing trial reels and preordering special editions, we’ve lost the plot.
Let’s embrace a plot-first, platform second philosophy that actually…
Puts the right stories in front of the right people.
Five ⭐️ reads don’t find you. They get found when someone look beyond what’s trending. Consider this your shortcut to shelf trophies you’ll obsess over.
Turns follows into readers & readers into fans.
Your content is getting seen, but seen isn’t sold. The strategy between likes and buy is the part most authors miss. You’re about to nail it, no degree required.
Keeps you company from first draft to finished.
Every author you love started with a blank page and no idea if they had any business being there. They got there so you will too, and you won’t have to do it alone.
years in marketing
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