Leonhard Wagner – Marketer

I have been a self-publishing and marketing consultant for 6 years now and helped authors to publish more than 60 books of which more than 50% reached bestseller status on Amazon.My journey began with writing my own book and trying to figure out how to market it. While the book itself wasn't any good and I eventually stopped writing altogether, I discovered the fascinating world of self-publishing.After having some first successes with my own book I started to promote books of friends and eventually went on to train and consult authors. This experience allowed me to join Inkitt, one of the fastest growing online publishing house in the world years later to lead their publishing team. During the last 6 years, I worked on almost all aspects of publishing, including marketing, pr and content polishing. Most of the techniques I either developed myself or picked them up from some of the most renowned marketing gurus inside and outside the publishing world. I think I can say with confidence that there is hardly a marketing technique for selling books online that I'm not familiar with.I can advise you on and help you with:- distributing and selling books across all online channels- running Facebook ads (spent around $200k there)- running Amazon ads- getting bloggers/booktubers to talk about you- creating and publishing various formats (ebook, print, audio)- creating your author website/blog- researching keywords and categories for e-tailers- getting reviews- getting into bookbub- getting cross promotion- building your brand- building and maintaining your email list and social media- getting your book ready for publication- building your author career- not wasting moneyPhilosophy:1. During years of working with authors and publishing their books I discovered, that while there are some basic things that need to be done for almost any book, every book needs to go its own unique path. In publishing there is no one size fits all solution for creating bestsellers.2. Being a successful author is (in 99% of the cases) not about achieving an overnight success. It is about building a longterm career, that as any other career takes time to develop and is sometimes hard work but at the same time much more enjoyable than any other career.My job is to train you and help you to achieve not only a lucky shot but steadily build your unique career as an author.