{"id":17306,"date":"2025-04-16T10:54:48","date_gmt":"2025-04-16T16:54:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cravebooks.com\/blog\/?p=17306"},"modified":"2025-04-16T10:54:48","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T16:54:48","slug":"how-authors-must-measure-social-media-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cravebooks.com\/blog\/how-authors-must-measure-social-media-success\/","title":{"rendered":"How Authors Must Measure Social Media Success"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>April 15th Edition of the CraveBooks Author Newsletter<\/em><\/p>\n<p>By Brett Stephan<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Just my opinion, but&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>You should not measure your social media marketing success based on your follower count.<\/p>\n<p>As an author, your followers aren\u2019t your true fans&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Your true fans are the readers who sign up to your email list.<\/p>\n<p>They want to be a part of your community because they identify with what you write.<\/p>\n<p>The rest are just following you because your last post was interesting enough for them to hit the follow button. They might come around with time and subscribe to your email list \u2014but for now, they are not your measure of success.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Author Resources<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>More readers &#8211;&gt; <a href=\"https:\/\/cravebooks.com\/author-services\/list-builder\">Email List Building Giveaway<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Learn social media &#8211;&gt; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=UisBDtvHtfY&amp;t=1366s\">Marketing Your Books on Social Media<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Book tariffs &#8211;&gt; <a href=\"https:\/\/selfpublishingadvice.org\/books-exempt-from-latest-us-tariffs\/\">Printing Materials May Be Hit<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>April 15th Edition of the CraveBooks Author Newsletter By Brett Stephan &nbsp; Just my opinion, but&#8230; You should not measure your social media marketing success based on your follower count. As an author, your followers aren\u2019t your true fans&#8230; Your true fans are the readers who sign up to your email list. They want to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":17311,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[189,287,1],"tags":[253,202,317],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cravebooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17306"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cravebooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cravebooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cravebooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cravebooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17306"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cravebooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17310,"href":"https:\/\/cravebooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17306\/revisions\/17310"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cravebooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cravebooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cravebooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cravebooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}