Friends & Authors Live: Blake Hudson's 13 Steps for Facebook Ads

Hello friends! Welcome to our weekly show, “Friends & Authors Live.” We are two multi-published authors, Rosa Linda Román and A. K. Vyas (Aash) chatting about our indie author journeys. Together, we host the show live on YouTube, Facebook and Substack every Tuesday at 1:00pm Mountain Time (MDT)/9:00pm CET (Berlin). As an indie author, you aren't just the writer, you're also the marketing department, publishing department and financial manager all rolled into one. This week, we are putting on our marketing hats and talking Facebook ads with the highly successful, fellow indie author Blake Hudson. As Director of Hudson Indie Ink, Blake has spent years managing Facebook ads for his wife, Stephanie Hudson's popular supernatural and paranormal romance novels and his own thriller books. Many want to emulate their success and we are excited to dive in to see what's working for them lately. Blake is a wealth of information and we could talk with him for hours, but we stop at the hour and a half mark (I mean, phones run out of power and kids need to be picked up from school...) but be sure to check out the ten minute wrap-up at the end, where Aash and I do a summary of Blake Hudson's 13 steps to Facebook Ads success. Here are a few of the highlights: 0:00 Show open 01:35 Introducing Blake Hudson 7:40 Blake Hudson’s Facebook ads success started with looking at non-authors’ FB ads 9:20 Buyer’s Market Pyramid explained, Hot, warm, cold and sub-zero book buyers. 26:00 Targeting women and men separately for thriller Facebook ads 28:00 Biggest mistake Facebook ads make, trying to hack the algorithm. Patience pays. 41:30 When to turn off Facebook ads & when he lets them run. 49:35 Books over 75k words work best for KU 52:07 High dopamine ads; curiosity, surprise, desire, conflict, shock, humor, mystery, emotional intensity 1:06:15 Best Metrics to measure Facebook ads impressions, clicks, CPC 1:28:52 Rosa Linda Román & A.K. Vyas summarize Blake Hudson’s 13 step Facebook Ads strategy After you watch the show, you will definitely want more from Blake so we will be discussing his Facebook Ads system some more in next week's episode. But in the meantime, go check out another fabulous interview he did with ‪@PenandProsper‬ powerhouse indie authors, JT Lawrence and Melissa Delport. You can find the first installment of their amazing, three-hour interview here:    • Episode 62: Creating Successful Facebook A...   Watch all these interviews and then post your Facebook Ads questions in the comments section here. Blake has generously agreed to help us answer them. Okay, now let's all go make some big money on Facebook Ads for Indie Authors! To learn more about our books visit our author websites at: Stephanie Hudson - https://www.authorstephaniehudson.com Rosa Linda Román - https://rosalindaroman.com A.K. Vyas - https://akvyas.com #indieauthors #facebookads #blakehudson #stephaniehudson #akvyas #mysterythrillers #booklaunch #bookrelease #booktok #booknews #amazonbestseller #kindleunlimited #authorlife #rosalindaroman