Storiad

Storiad, according to the vendor, is a book marketing platform designed to assist authors in promoting and marketing their books. It offers a range of tools and features to help authors organize their books, plan marketing campaigns, connect with book influencers, manage email messaging, budget and finance, build author websites, and more. Storiad primarily targets individual authors, both self-published and traditionally published, who are looking to enhance their book marketing efforts. This platform is commonly used by authors, writers, publishers, literary agents, and bookstores.

Key Features

Visibility: Storiad allows authors to build customizable author websites with drag-and-drop design, customize the URL, and easily maintain the website. Authors can launch their websites with one click for instant accessibility.

Storiad Public Profile Author Page: Authors can create a streamlined and shareable version of their Storiad profile that appears in search engine results, providing visibility to people who are not signed in to Storiad.

Organization & Marketing: Storiad enables authors to organize their books into projects, arranging them by title, ISBN, or genre. It includes metadata, visuals, excerpts, and marketing information for easy access during the bookselling phase. Authors can also create book-specific marketing plans using the Marketing Plan Wizard, which generates customized plans based on target audience, market research, outreach messaging, timing, and budget parameters.

Publicity: Storiad provides access to a database of over 40,000 verified book publicity contacts, organized into category silos for easy searching. Authors can create and save unique lists of relevant publicity contacts, develop custom outreach templates for messaging, and streamline outreach efforts.

Messaging & Outreach: Authors can perform marketing and publicity outreach from one place using Storiad's email integration. They can integrate contact lists and templates into customized, professional messages, eliminating the need for jumping between tabs or exporting contact lists.

Financial Calculator & Tools: Storiad offers a Book Worth Calculator to determine the value of published books, estimate revenue from royalties, and generate a Title Profit & Loss Statement. Authors can plan their campaign's budget using these financial tools.

Guidance & Customer Support: Storiad provides live customer support from a dedicated team, available for calls, demos, and support, aiming to ensure book marketing success for all customers.

Market Research Support: Authors can access book market trends through Storiad representatives and gain information from data analytics processed from NPD Bookscan.

Skills & Networking: Storiad offers weekly education events where authors can participate, learn about various tools and tricks within the platform, and discuss discoveries with fellow Storiad users.