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I’m Matt Karamazov, and I connect authors and experts who have important messages to share with readers all over the world who are hungry to hear them.
If that’s you, then I want to read your book.
Whatever your goals for your book - improving readers’ lives, getting clients, securing speaking engagements, starting a conversation about an important issue, and of course, making more sales - I can help.
Book recommendations are taken most seriously when they come from a trusted friend, and that’s why influencer marketing is powerful. I facilitate trust at scale.
I’ve been improving the lives of my followers through my book recommendations for years and years, and I’ve now accumulated a massive audience of readers and book lovers who are just waiting for my next recommendation.
Naturally, because trust is such an important part of my business philosophy, I only market and share books that I believe in.
But if you think I’d like yours, and that there’s a natural fit with my audience, then send me an email and we’ll talk about your goals for your book and what, specifically, I can do to help you achieve them.
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Contact Me to Discuss Your Book: [email protected]
Get the Sales and Recognition Worthy of an Expert Like You
You’ve already put in the hardest, most important work: writing a fantastically helpful, entertaining book. Now, you just need to let people know about it!
You’re already an expert, but not enough people know who you are, so you’re not getting the recognition - financial and otherwise - that you know you deserve.
Reviews and endorsements from me will instantly build your credibility, boost your visibility, and help your message connect with your ideal audience: the people who need to hear it the most.
Just like on YouTube, where you could publish the greatest video on the internet, but without an intriguing title and thumbnail that forces people to click, nobody will ever see it, you could have written the greatest, most groundbreaking, most transformational book since The Republic, but without the proper packaging and endorsements, it’s not going to reach the widest possible audience.
A strong recommendation from me acts like rocket fuel for your book: it’ll make it fly off the shelves.
The reason for that is because the strongest, most persuasive book recommendations are those that come from a trusted friend, and as a result of nurturing my relationship with my audience over a period of years and years, I’ve become that trusted friend.
Thus, when I strongly recommend a particular book to my audience, that book tends to leave the shelves and find its way into people’s shopping carts fairly quickly. And in massive numbers.
I work with both new and experienced authors, but I’ve noticed that they each face similar problems.
It’s not that they don’t have an important or attractive message to share, or that they’re not talented writers, or anything like that.
It’s that not enough people know who they are!
You probably don’t have a “talent” or a “skills” problem. You just have an obscurity problem! And that can be fixed a lot more easily than having to build your unique skillset and expertise from the ground up.
Massive social media exposure solves obscurity problems, and that’s what I do best. I want to solve your obscurity problem and bring your book to the masses.
If you are a new author, I can certainly guide you through the world of social media marketing and its associated pitfalls, but even experienced authors sometimes have difficulty finding an audience for their messages and ideas.
As I mention in the video above, my audience comes to me mostly for business book recommendations and those related to personal growth and self-improvement.
Personally, I read quite widely, from a variety of genres (philosophy, psychology, business, science fiction, classics, poetry - you name it), and so I can certainly review your book even if it doesn’t fall under the category of Business/Personal Development, but those genres tend to go over best with my audience.
It all depends on your goals for the book, and your expectations for the promotional campaign, all of which we’ll discuss before we get started.
But I can tell you this:
My massive social media audience craves great new nonfiction book recommendations every single day.
They look to me as a trusted source for these recommendations, and I show up daily, all the time, to help match them with the perfect book at the perfect time.
They know that I’d never recommend a book I didn’t truly believe in; they trust my expertise, taste, and knowledge of the best books; and if your book can change their lives, I want to help you get it into their hands as fast as possible.
Contact Me to Discuss Your Book: [email protected]
Traditional Publishers Can’t (and Won’t) Help You
The publishing industry is fast becoming irrelevant. At least relative to the power of social media to move books from store bookshelves to home bookshelves. The big publishers have been shockingly slow to adapt, to the detriment of authors everywhere.
The takeaway is that authors are more likely to starve while waiting to recoup their advance than to have their publishers assist them with their marketing in any meaningful way.
The responsibility - and the opportunity - lies with you and I.
Virtually everyone is on social media; that’s where your readers are congregating, hanging out, and sharing book recommendations daily.
So if you want to be seen (and make sales), you have to go where your future readers already are, and then enter the conversations they’re already having.
That’s where I’m uniquely suited to assist you.
Full Disclosure: Social Media/Influencer Marketing isn’t the only way to sell books. I want you to be successful, so I don’t mind telling you this, even if it potentially cuts into the amount of money you end up spending with me.
In fact, recently I’ve seen authors get great results with Twitter/Amazon ad placements, to name just one marketing opportunity.
Working with me and running social media ads aren’t mutually exclusive, though, and in fact, I can also help you set up an ad campaign that runs concurrently with ours, if that’s something you’re interested in. At no additional cost.
Speaking from experience and after lengthy study, nonfiction books in the personal development, growth, and success genres are some of the most popular titles out there, and they get shared widely all over social media.
In my personal reading I’m all over the place, but I’ve read (and taken detailed notes on) hundreds and hundreds of personal development books, as a consequence of which I’m seen as a world expert in the space.
But a word of warning: even some of the most popular influencers out there, with the biggest audiences, often don’t know how they built them, what’s happening in the industry, or even what strategies are working right now.
Personally, though, that’s my obsession. I have my finger on the pulse of the book marketing game, I know exactly how to replicate my own success, and I can help you navigate this intimidating but wide open world as well.
We’re living through the Internet Gold Rush right now. Today is when fortunes are being made, social media real estate is being grabbed up, and thought leaders like you are staking their claim to lasting relevance and impact.
It’s happening now, and we’re even still somewhat early. That, however, doesn’t mean that we have any time to wait.
Now is the time to capitalize on this generational opportunity to construct a trusted, wildly profitable personal brand, and build worldwide authority backed by your recognized expertise.
I want to help you do this, like I’ve done for dozens of authors in the past, and once you send me an email we can get started right away.
Contact Me to Discuss Your Book: [email protected]
27.8% of my followers live in India, and 27.5% of my followers live in the United States, with the United Kingdom and Canada coming after that, at 3.6% and 3.4% of my audience respectively.
The buying power of American consumers is well-known and respected, and India has seen tremendous increases in literacy and consumer spending, making it a prime market for authors looking to expand their global reach as well.
16% of my followers are between the ages of 18-24, 35% between 25-34, and 24.1% between the ages of 35-44, with only 1.2% of them being younger than that, and the rest being older.
The age ranges that I’m hitting right now are full of readers who are either students or recent graduates gearing up to compete in the global marketplace, or established professionals always looking for that next competitive advantage that comes from finding and implementing that next perfect book.
62.4% of my followers are men, and 37.5% of my followers are women.
Contact Me to Discuss Your Book: [email protected]
The library and the gym feel like home, but in the past I've also organized massive outdoor rock concerts in India, fought as a heavyweight boxer in Russia, spent time with Native American shamans in the jungles of Costa Rica, and worked as a nightclub bouncer and heavy metal record label executive.
Yeah, I know. I should write a book :)
What’s more, reading 1,250+ books over the last 10 years has launched me on a path of personal, financial, and intellectual growth that has been nothing short of incredible so far. And the future should be even more incredible.
Reading has changed my life in such surprising, spectacularly profound ways that I literally couldn’t even imagine what my life would look like without books.
All of that is to say that I’m not just some guy with lots of followers who’s read a few books. Reading is my life, personal development is my calling, and I’m playing an “infinite game” here.
I’m going to be around for a long time, and I have no plans to slow down.
Thanks for reading, and I look forward to being changed by your book.