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Discussion on: Talk Me Off the Ledge - I Want to Write Another Book

 
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Stephanie Morillo • Edited

Gotcha! The reason I asked about the market research is cos I came across a similar title earlier this year: De-Coding the Technical Interview. I've seen at least one more on Twitter re: resumes for devs; don't recall the author. I did research prior to announcing both my eBooks just to get a sense of what was out there.

I just checked out your blog and you publish regularly (which is awesome!). Re: newsletter signups, a few comments: I hypothesize that the CTA you're using for the newsletter sign up on your site ("Join Now!") may not be clear enough to visitors; what are they "joining"? Common CTAs for newsletters are "Sign up" and "Subscribe", with the latter being the most correlated to newsletter signup activity (it may be worth running an A/B test on this). The good news is you have an engaged list, so there's probably ways you can ask your list for feedback on some of your ideas or just to understand their pain points. That way you'll be able to deliver something you know your target audience really wants or really needs.

I'll stop there, but I hope you keep going! It's a lot of trial and error but if you can find a way to make experimenting with different approaches fun it makes it easier to stick through it.