Six-Figure Sales Map
a BS-free course to help fiction authors level up
Last Updated
May 2025
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Who is this course for?
Indie authors who want to level up their income with paid advertising
Overview
You MAY find some level of success organically and make sales as an indie author without ads.
But you’re going to have a much harder time gaining traction and seeing the kind of sales you want without paid advertising.
The problem is … ads are expensive.
ESPECIALLY if you don’t know how to run successful ads.
OR if your book isn’t ready for ads.
This course will help you learn to make MORE money and lose LESS money with paid advertising!
I want you to MAKE more money and find fulfillment doing what you love–WRITING–while earning a better income!
What You'll Learn
How to best utilize paid email promotions, Amazon ads, and Facebook ads
How to properly ensure your book is written & packaged to maximize ad income
How to test audiences, images, and ad copy for Facebook images
How to set up and analyze your Amazon ads to get you impressions and clicks
How to analyze the data, adjust, and scale up your ads for maximum profit
Course Content
Don't skip this one! Before you advertise, you need to be sure that your BOOK IS MARKETABLE.
This workshop (recorded in 2020) will take you on a deep dive of learning how to write to market.
This video is a walkthrough of how I would go about actually researching category and genre in thinking about writing and positioning to market.
This workshop will walk you through writing blurbs and ad copy for Facebook and Amazon to help you sell more books.
This video gives an overview of paid email promotions, Amazon advertising, and Facebook advertising, with general tips on how to start learning and testing the various platforms.
In this video, I'll walk you through my latest launch, which grossed $12k in 6 weeks and has kept my book in the top 500 on Amazon for months. I'm sharing the inside and out, including the fact that this is what I think is a HOT genre in an UNDERSERVED market.
One of my favorite places to START investing in your advertising is paid email promotional sites. Learn to use them well and get my curated list of favorites!
This workshop gives an overview on the Amazon Advertising platform, and was recorded in 2020.
This is a look around the dashboard to get you familiar and consider how you can best organize columns, see what you want to see, and put ads in portfolios that makes it easier to see the data.
Auto ads are great for getting started. They aren't usually my best-performing ads, but will often start spending first and can help me get a good idea of what targets might or might not work.
About the instructor
Kirsten Oliphant
Kirsten Oliphant is a two-time USA Today bestseller with an MFA in fiction. She is the author of over twenty books and hosts the Create If Writing podcast.
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About the instructor
Kirsten Oliphant
Kirsten Oliphant is a two-time USA Today bestseller with an MFA in fiction. She is the author of over twenty books and hosts the Create If Writing podcast.
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