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Як і коли почати говорити про книгу в блозі? Формування і підтримка інтересу до книги в соцмережах.
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Key takeaways
When to Start Talking About Your Book (and Why)
- Start immediately after you decide to write—ideally when the intention becomes public. Public commitment creates accountability and momentum.
- Maintain a steady cadence. A common mistake is saying “I’m starting a book” for years while publishing little to no book-related content.
- Use ongoing public proof (e.g., a weekly column) to document progress as “book news,” sustaining engagement.
Content Structure & Visibility Mechanics (Blog + Social)
Make the “book-writing” track easy to find
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Add a consistent hashtag to all posts about writing the book. Example formats mentioned:
LastName_ I’m writing a bookLastName_ bookbook title- People can subscribe to the hashtag, so they reliably see new updates about the process.
Use visual organization
- Create a recognizable visual theme (e.g., Canva templates / story templates) so book posts look consistent and instantly identifiable.
Use Stories + Highlights
- Post process updates in Stories throughout the journey (behind-the-scenes, daily progress, insights).
- Save Stories into a Highlight (one highlight can hold up to 100 stories).
Position the book as part of your personal brand
- Treat “writing the book” as one role among 3–4 brand roles (e.g., expert + creativity + motherhood + “writer/author in progress”).
- Alternate roles so your content stays organic and interesting.
Turn Book Work Into Ongoing Marketing Content (Without Hurting Sales)
Match the content to the book type
- Nonfiction: while writing, build an “expert blog” around the topic so later promotion doesn’t make you look like a beginner.
- Fiction: expertise framing is less critical—lean more into your story/creative process and personal inspiration.
Use excerpts legally (publisher constraints)
- If working with a publisher, you may often share excerpts in parts, but not enough to reconstruct the full book publicly.
- Rule of thumb: excerpts shouldn’t allow someone to assemble the entire book from sequential snippets (e.g., “chapter 1 excerpt + chapter 2 excerpt …” shouldn’t recreate the full text).
Self-publishing
- If self-publishing without a publisher contract, you can do more—but excessive secrecy kills demand:
- If audiences don’t know what you’re making, they stop caring or waiting.
- Recommended approach: share every step and keep people continuously engaged.
Operational Playbook: Repeatable “Book-Writing Content” Workflow
Build posts around both inside + outside process
- Inside (craft/process):
- inspiration source
- workflow and session structure
- where you write
- what you research
- what you revise
- what you wrote today (e.g., “I wrote 15 pages”)
- Outside (outputs/value):
- the takeaway idea from what you wrote
- a brief example/fact
- how the insight helps readers
Include stories to avoid “information overload”
- Even in nonfiction, insert personal/customer stories or short narratives.
- Rationale: pure facts can tire the brain; stories act like mental rest and improve readability.
Preserve and repurpose research
- Don’t delete research notes you don’t use in the book.
- Create a separate “unused” document for discarded material.
- Later convert into blog posts, stories, reels
- Keep a historical record to prevent losing ideas and regret deleting them
Cadence & Time Budgeting (Example Metrics)
- Example given: 3–4 hours/day for meaningful immersion and useful output (writing + building logic).
- Example ratio: ~20% of time spent on “printing/writing out,” with the rest on thinking/research/checking.
- Storytelling output metric: “I wrote 15 pages today” as a content unit for weekly/daily posting.
No revenue/cost KPIs were stated in the subtitles.
Audience Involvement Tactics (Engagement → Easier Selling Later)
Convert readers into collaborators
- Ask the audience for opinions via posts/surveys, such as:
- “What do you think about this idea?”
- “What’s missing?”
- Run interviews for future chapters.
Claimed outcomes:
- higher engagement
- increased interest in you and the book
- readers feel useful and are more likely to want the finished product
Title Strategy (Timing and Flexibility)
- Don’t over-invest in the title early—your direction may change during research and writing.
- Choose the title near the end (described as “the very last thing”).
- You can test candidate titles by posting options on the blog and collecting feedback.
Hashtag GTM Approach (Organic Discovery Playbook)
Collect two hashtag groups
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Hashtags for the book-writing niche Examples: “writing a book,” “writing a book in 90 days,” book blog/reviews tags.
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Hashtags for the book topic/expertise Examples: city-based variants and topic-specific tags.
Scale method
- Build a library of 30 hashtags per batch.
- For each post:
- publish “hidden” hashtags in comments (speaker described posting them under a temporarily deleted comment/emoticon).
- Track performance in post statistics:
- how many new people arrive from each hashtag
Content idea sourcing
- Subscribe to relevant hashtags on Instagram to:
- discover what other authors post
- generate content ideas for your own updates
- benchmark how others structure their book-writing journey
Concrete Examples / “How-To” Snippets Mentioned
- Weekly “book column”: report what you wrote/learned.
- Daily progress snapshots in Stories: what you did today, what pages you wrote.
- Excerpt posting with publisher constraints: avoid reconstructing the full book from snippets.
- Publishing writing-process artifacts:
- photos from bookstores/research
- include bibliographic details for later citations (author, publisher, year, page/source details)
- Repurposing “thesis/research” notes into blog posts, reels, and stories.
Key Frameworks / Playbooks Referenced
- Content funnel via community subscription: consistent hashtag + regular updates → returning audience.
- Brand “role” system: keep relevance with 3–4 content roles, one being “book in progress.”
- Inside-out content loop: show process (inside) + deliver value (outside) in every update.
- Research-to-content pipeline: research bank → “unused” archive → future blog repurposing.
- Engagement loop: polls/interviews → audience co-ownership → smoother later sales.
- Hashtag batching + performance monitoring for organic discovery.
Presenters / Sources
- Presenter: not explicitly named in the subtitles. The speaker references “Gorbunov” as an example of an author/hashtag format, but it appears to be a reference, not the presenter’s identity.