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12 Questions Romance Authors Are Asking About Reader Magnets and the Slow Burn Welcome Sequence

The reader magnet is the meet-cute of the marketing slow burn. Here are twelve questions about how to build it correctly, what goes in the welcome sequence, and why proposing on email two ruins the relationship before it starts.

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The Psychology of an Irresistible Reader Magnet: Why Readers Say “I Need That” — and How to Build the Magnet that Produces that Response

A reader magnet works when it speaks to a desire the reader was already carrying. It fails when it solves a problem she wasn’t aware she had, or offers value she doesn’t yet care about. Here’s how to understand the psychological trigger behind a download decision — and how to build the magnet that produces…

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The 5 Places Romance Readers Find Your Free Content — And How to Put It There

Your reader magnet has one problem if it only lives on your sign-up page: readers have to find that one page to find it. Here are the five entry points where your free content should be discoverable — each one reaching a different reader at a different stage of her relationship with your world.

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Your Romance Books Already Contain a Complete Reader Magnet Library — Here’s How to See It

A reader magnet isn’t something you invent from nothing. It’s something you find inside a book you already wrote. Your characters, your world, your story decisions, your series connections — every one of these contains multiple magnet ideas at multiple levels of depth. Here’s the complete inventory organized by the angles your storyworld already gives…

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