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Saturday, April 18, 2009

More about marketing

I asked this question a while ago, but I would like to re-introduce it because it has become more immediate. My manuscript is finished and now in the proof-reading phase, so marketing is front and center. I'm sending out copies to some potential endorsers, and we're formulating strategies for how to promote it.

A unique thing about my book is that its target audience is HUGE, and yet we can't really pinpoint where to find potential readers, because so many introverted Christians are hovering around churches but not necessarily fully involved in them. So a big marketing push for my book to be small group curricula might not be all that effective, because the people that would most benefit might not be in small groups!

I'm guessing that many of my potential readers have more of an internet presence than they do a church presence. Do you agree? I'm going to be sending out copies of my book to well known bloggers and also be doing some work on Facebook, and my book should have a page on Amazon in the next month. Do you have other ideas? I would love to hear them. Comment or send me an email! Help the introverted cause!

3 comments:

  1. I found your website by searching Yahoo for "church for introverts," having no idea there was a book in the offing. I'll be looking for it, and I definitely think you'll find most of us on the net, rather than in small groups.
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  2. I'll make a blog post promoting the book once the book is out!
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  3. I'll make a blog post promoting the book once the book is out!
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Adam S. McHugh is the author of Introverts in the Church: Finding Our Place in an Extroverted Culture. He is an ordained Presbyterian minister, spiritual director, chaplain, speaker, and retreat leader. He has been published in The Washington Post, The Christian Century, RELEVANT Magazine, Psychology Today, and Leadership Journal, among other publications. He is a graduate of Claremont McKenna College and Princeton Theological Seminary. On February 28, 2012 he will serve as guest chaplain in the U.S. House of Representatives. He lives in Claremont, CA.

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