Lisa Pietsch

Marketing Consultant

Suspense, Espionage and Paranormal Author

Lisa Pietsch is a U.S.A.F. veteran, a multi-published novelist and freelance writer, a social media marketing consultant, managing editor for five content rich online communities and several online and print newsletters, the Co-Founder and Managing Editor of SAXtreme Magazine (www.saxtreme.com), an aspiring figure competitor (www.xtremetransformations.com) and the mother of two boys.  She has an A.S. in Business Management from the University of Maine and has been immersed in social media marketing for the past eight years.  She has a passion for foreign languages, travel and hot guys with guns.  Lisa currently lives in the Hill Country north of San Antonio, Texas.

When her first novel, The Path to Freedom, was published in electronic formats in 2008, Lisa realized her marketing efforts would need to take a left turn at traditional and become largely electronic as well.  Since then, she has developed tools and handbooks that teach authors and small press publishers how to market their books and their brands without breaking the bank.  She is available for both workshops and private consulting.

Private Consulting

Publishers

You have fantastic authors, talented editors, beautiful covers, and books galore, but low sales to show for it.  You are buying ads in all the right magazines and websites but nothing really seems to be paying off.  The expense of buying more advertising is killing your bottom line.  You expect your authors to bring in more readers but nobody seems to be doing much of anything except tapping your business investment.

Let me show you how to establish a dynamic marketing program that can be put on auto-pilot to increase sales, build a successful company brand and fan base, and inspire author loyalty that will pay off in spades.  Email me at LMPietsch@gmail.com for a free analysis of your current marketing program and information on how I can help you improve your return on investment.

Authors

Your writing time is being swallowed up by your networks.  You are blogging, keeping your website information up to date, updating your Facebook profile, building a Facebook Fan Page, Tweeting, trying to update your Goodreads and MySpace pages and wondering where any of it is really getting you besides sucking away quality writing time.  Then you have to answer emails, read books to stay on top of your craft, write books so that you can have something to sell to all the people you’re building relationships with on your networks and pitch those books to publishers.  You need a 50-hour day to get it all done.

You need to know where your social networking is taking you and you need to stop the constant time suck.  Email me at LMPietsch@gmail.com for a free analysis of your networks and information on how I can help you improve their return on your time investment.

Workshops and Online Courses

Creating Your Author Website with WordPress

So many of us fall into the new author trap.  A website, domain and hosting should not cost you hundreds of dollars a year.  Learn how you can buy your domain, host it and build your own professional website and blog in less than 30 minutes while paying less than $25 a year.

Social Media Rock Stardom

You got the call!  You have just been offered a publishing contract and soon you will be up to your eyeballs in edits.  Who has time to write and get their name out there?  If you have 30 minutes a day for 30 days, you can be a social media rock star before your book hits the stands.  Still trying to get that contract?  Publishers love rock stars.  This is for you too!  Are you a small publishing house hoping to expand your online presence?  This program will get you on everyone’s radar.

The Rock Star Marketing Plan for Writers and Small Press Publishers

You are savvy to social media and your books are reasonably successful.  This is the program that kicks it up a notch.  Learn how to create a long-term marketing plan that keeps your books selling and helps you grow your business as an author or a small press publisher.  This is the plan that will take you from club gigs to stadiums.  Have you got what it takes?

Blog Touring for Rock Stars

The book tour is dead.  Long live the blog tour!  Are you ready to take your act on the road?  Have you ever wondered how authors plan and execute blog tours?  It’s very simple and does not cost a dime.  I’ll show you how to use the Blog Exchange program, plan your tour for a week, a month or a year, and write all of those blogs.  It’s easier than you think.  This is the difference between Mr. 305 and Mr. Worldwide.  Are you ready for the big time?

Special Presentations & Workshops

If your group has particular questions or concerns about social media and/or author marketing, I will be happy to create a presentation or workshop tailored specifically to your needs.

*Handbooks are provided for all workshops and presentations.

For more information, contact Lisa at (210) 383-5237 or LMPietsch@gmail.com.

Join the Blog Exchange!

The Blog Exchange is a free, voluntary database of over 150 writers who are willing to host blog tour stops on a one-for-one exchange. You guest blog for them and they’ll guest blog for you.

Members are encouraged to post their guest blog appearances on the Blog Exchange Group Calendar so other members can stop by and support them with readership and engaging comments.

When it comes to guest blogging, everything you do comes back to you so do good things!

Click the purple button below to join!

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Recommended Reading

ProBlogger’s 31 Days to Building a Better Blog

Chris Guillebeau’s 279 Days to Overnight Success

Erica Douglass’ Blog Success Manifesto