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Why Create Free Educational Guides for Every Book

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“Education is not the learning of facts, but the training of the mind to think.” — Albert Einstein Marketing Kids Books Tips That's what I looked up and found the number one tip was free printable colouring pages. Free Printables When I first started researching how to expand and market children’s books, the advice was nearly universal: create a free printable page and offer it in exchange for email sign-ups. It was presented as the standard path. I did create some free printable pages, and added those to the Resources Page and think these are fun and will continue doing that here and there. At the time, I only had Bye-Bye, Boobies in progress, and I was not even sure whether there would be more books after that. Building an email funnel around a single title felt premature. I did not want to create something transactional. I wanted to build something sustainable, even if it grew slowly so I started talking to librarians, homeschooling moms and teachers as to what would be helpfu...