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Dec 02, 2014

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Derek Murphy

I help authors and artists build profitable online businesses, and manage a bunch of sites on writing and publishing. I'm also finishing my PhD in Literature and writing my first novel.

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Hey there! This is the space where you add a super quick description of your awesome self, the books you've written, and maybe a link or two. Remember, you need to choose what you want people to do and make that the easy, obvious option. (Like sign up to your list ).

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Here you need to give them a powerful reason to join, like a free gift, and back it up with social proof (how many other people are on the list? Have any said nice things about you?)



Or use a big button like this to get them to take action first; it can go to another page where you have the actual form, or a popup.
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"A review or testimonial right here will really help with conversions - if you're giving away a free book, pull a review of Amazon. If you don't have any, try using a really powerful and interesting passage from the book itself to hook interest."

For more about optin forms and listbuilding, click here.

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This is a sample author website I made to teach indie authors the basics of setting up a strong and professional author website using Wordpress.

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