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How to Use Zero Book Marketing Budget and Make Loyal Fans

Three categories of best-selling authors who have done it (interview)

Shajedul Karim
4 min readNov 10, 2020
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“Minimum 40% of your book-related effort should be marketing!”

Writing a book is easy. Marketin' your book is the real boss shit. This is what I understood after learning nine amazing hacks from a best-selling author of five books.

When I started writing my book, I got more curious about book marketing.

I reached out to a few best-selling authors of more than one book and asked them a few questions.

Here’s what I have learned and analyzed.

1. Critical Thinker (Mahfuz Siddique Himalay)

Q: Can you please share a few (unique) book marketing tips that you know or have applied in your book/book launch?

“I apply zero marketing. The only stuff I do is content marketing.

Back in 2013, I organized an unlimited tea drinking party at BUET cafeteria on the eve of my 3rd book 'Bikkhon Pranto' launching, where anyone can have tea, whatever cup he wishes to, no matter he/she is my known or unknown.

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Shajedul Karim
Shajedul Karim

Written by Shajedul Karim

My story might not matter but it'll gently touch your interior and remind you how smarter you are. Google forced to include numbers: shajedul.karim.01@gmail.com

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