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I like minimalism in design. Thus, my signup form has its dedicated site (free book).

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Skip the pop-ups! Readers hate it and it makes your site look scammy.

In general, getting more list subscribers isn’t the goal anyway. Getting list subscribers who open your emails because they are actually interested in you and your work is. Pop-ups might get you more subscribers, but does it get you the right ones? I doubt it.

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Directly writing a book and giving that away seemed logical from the start. So I did that. But if I were only working on a book series like James Bond, I would have made my lead magnet a short story of a side character that is connected to the book series.

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