You Need to Ask

This episode is part of the Kingdom Marketing Mindset Series. We originally recorded these teachings inside our Christian Book Academy Facebook group as live videos. However, we wanted to also encourage you in the writing, publishing, and marketing of your books.

Today’s topic is: You Need to Ask

It is important to serve our audience and give it to them but we also need to ask.

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Notes from this episode:

It is important to serve our audience and give it to them but we also need to ask.

Ask for reviews.
Invite them to buy your book during special promotion.
Ask for help.
Reach out to potential strategic partners.
Steve Jobs reached out to Bill Hewlett (Chasing Wisdom book).
In my Book Marketing Momentum program, there was someone who has a big backlist of books and a decent size email list but she wasn’t selling many books. When we really got down to the core issue it was because she was giving things away free all the time and not asking for them to buy.
It’s called a “call to action” in the marketing world. I have had to realize that selling is helping.

“Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.” -Matthew

Passive-Aggressive Attitude

Have you ever hinted at something hoping the other person would figure it out? That’s being passive-aggressive. I used to be like this when we were first married
Instead, we need to be assertive. We need to be direct.
When I started changing how I asked CJ to help me around the house, he started helping me and our marriage began to change for the better.
“Don’t bargain with God. Be direct. Ask for what you need. This isn’t a cat-and-mouse, hide-and-seek game we’re in. If your child asks for bread, do you trick him with sawdust? If he asks for fish, do you scare him with a live snake on his plate? As bad as you are, you wouldn’t think of such a thing. You’re at least decent to your own children. So don’t you think the God who conceived you in love will be even better?”
And sometimes you’ve got to keep on asking.

“Keep on asking, and you will receive what you ask for. Keep on seeking, and you will find. Keep on knocking, and the door will be opened to you.”

“Yet you don’t have what you want because you don’t ask God for it. And even when you ask, you don’t get it because your motives are all wrong—you want only what will give you pleasure.” James
What if Esther and Nehemiah would have never taken a risk and asked the king?

Reflection

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Instrumental music used with permission: “My Loving Kindness” by Tammy Sorenson. Find out more at http://tammysorenson.com

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