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Author • Poet • Advocate
Rachel Thompson released the BadRedhead Media 30-Day Book Marketing Challenge in December 2016 to rave reviews.
She is the author of the award-winning, best-selling Broken Places (one of IndieReader’s “Best of 2015” top books and 2015 Honorable Mention Winner in both the Los Angeles and the San Francisco Book Festivals), and the bestselling, multi award-winning Broken Pieces (as well as two additional humor books. Rachel’s work is also featured in several anthologies (see Books for details).
She owns BadRedhead Media, creating effective social media and book marketing campaigns for authors. Her articles appear regularly in The Huffington Post, Feminine Collective, Indie Reader, Medium, OnMogul, Transformation Is Real, Blue Ink Review, Book Machine, and several others.
Not just an advocate for sexual abuse survivors, Rachel is the creator and founder of the hashtag phenomenon #MondayBlogs and the live weekly Twitter chats, #SexAbuseChat, co-hosted with certified therapist/survivor, Bobbi Parish (Tuesdays, 6pm PST/9pm EST), and #BookMarketingChat, co-hosted with author assistant Emilie Rabitoy (Wednesdays, 6pm PST/9pm EST).
She hates walks in the rain, running out of coffee, and coconut. A single mom, she lives in California with her two kids and two cats, where she daydreams of Thor and vaguely remembers what sleep is.
For contact information, visit rachelintheoc.com or BadRedhead Media at badredheadmedia.com.
[…] Still nonfiction of course (this IS me after all) but if you’ve read my first book or blog awhile, you’ll know I’m not always the funny girl. I’m not even always snarky. But I am […]
Great poem Rachel, depicts far too many relationships between men and women. Men are often too scared to be truly intimate. They come close but then they fly away. Thanks for sharing!
The pleasure of pain; so often bittersweet is love
Beautiful
Amazing.
Okay, so where do I start. “BIRD” is a lyric, prose poem written in the same style as might be expected from the ancient Greeks. I don’t know if I agree with your placement of the line breaks but this isn’t a big deal. As an editor once told me, “trust your own opinion. Screw the critics, it’s your poem.” “BIRD” is edgy, personal, and deals with adult themes which marks it as confessional and places it squarely in the ranks of most modern poetry. My take is that of someone who dances on the periphery of a relationship but fearing the deep emotional entanglement of commitment, leaves. It’s a good poem. Definitely not the kitchen table poetry your Aunt Martha might write when she has downtime from her collection of 23 cats. Well, you did ask my opinion.
I did ask and I appreciate the feedback. Thank you, Wes.
Poor Aunt Martha. She’s long gone, actually. We’re pretty sure the cats mistook her for tuna.
BookBuzzr,
With regard to Adwords.
I wanted to go beyond focusing on conversion ratios. There are many reasons to run an AdWords campaign. A well-optimized and targeted AdWords campaign can offer many benefits and insights. For example,
• Does your landing page really sell? If you are getting a lot of qualified clicks and no sales. Then the question becomes why is my Amazon page or website not enticing visitors to take action?
It can help you to really tweak other aspects of your book promotion activities that affect book sales.
Also, you’re right about key words; they can make or break a campaign. If you want to find book buyer key words and phrases, start at Amazon. It is the SECOND largest search engine and everyone there is a buyer! Find key words and phrase using their search bar. It will tell you exactly what buyers are searching on for a particular type of book in the dropdown menu. Using this technique has helped us to get CPC as low as $0.12 in the Search Network and $0.05 in the Display Network. It can help get rid of a lot of “lookie loo” clicks and will improve ROI (conversions).
I will follow up with you via email.
J.P. Thompson
http://theadwordsguy.com
Yes, I am Rachel’s husband!