The Importance Of Events

Experts often post
about how everything is always available
and how this lack of scarcity
makes it more difficult
to stand out.

In the Romance Novel Industry,
one of the solutions
to this challenge
is
to hold events.

10 writers promote
a themed Facebook party, for example.

Before and during that party,
their books are in the spotlight.

There is curation
for that event.

Readers who are interested
in the theme gather.
They share an experience.
They then buy the same books
and share that experience also.

TV shows have watch parties.
Viewers post while watching
the episode
at the same time.

Video games have release parties.
Everyone goes online
and plays the game
at the same time.

Events are one solution
to cut through the noise.

And the good news is…
anyone can organize
and host one.

Simple Is Hard

One of the services I rely upon
for my Romance Novel Business
is extremely fast and super simple
to use.

Simple and fast
is a HARD niche to own.

It is easy to add more and more
bells and whistles,
more features,
more options.

It is difficult
to prune those features
and keep a product
simple to use.

Most large companies
fail spectacularly at this.
Bigger is better
and more is better
in their view.

Except it isn’t.

There’s a market for simple and fast.
That market is often friendly
to smaller businesses
and
it usually isn’t crowded.

Consider that niche
but know that simple
isn’t easy to accomplish.