The Hive Mind: Book Marketing for Experts

Cristian Ungureanu
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Hive Mind is the podcast for established experts and founders who want their book to grow their business — not just sit on Amazon. Hosted by Cristian Ungureanu, founder of Beehive Book Marketing, each episode features candid conversations with publishers, ghostwriters, marketers, and authors about what actually makes a book work as an authority asset — the kind that fills your pipeline with premium clients, raises your speaking fees, and opens doors a LinkedIn profile can't. No bestseller-list vanity metrics. No "secrets of viral book launches." Just honest tradeoffs, real outcomes, and conversations that respect the listener's time. Built for: consultants, agency owners, fractional executives, advisors, and senior operators who are writing — or have written — a business book. New episodes every two weeks. Subscribe to follow Cristian's own book and agency journey, documented in public alongside the show.

Episodes

  1. May 18

    How to Run Amazon Ads for a Business Book (Without Wasting Your Budget) — Michal Stawicki

    Most authors waste money on Amazon ads. Here's how to run them properly for a business book. In this episode, Cristian Ungureanu sits down with Michal Stawicki, an Amazon ads specialist who has managed campaigns for hundreds of authors since 2017, to break down exactly how consultants, coaches, and agency owners should approach Amazon advertising when the goal isn't book sales — it's clients, speaking gigs, and enterprise conversations. The shift in mindset is the whole game: your book isn't the product, it's the top of a lead generation funnel. Once you internalize that, the math, the tracking, and the spending decisions all change. In this episode: The biggest budget-killer in Amazon ads: when the algorithm decides not to spend your money no matter how high you bid — and how to spot it earlyThe real cost of acquiring a reader (~$10) and how that pencils out when your back-end offer is $5K–$50KWhy one of Michal's biggest clients 10x'd book sales but only 2–3x'd leads — and what was broken in the funnelHow to track leads from your book properly using dedicated landing pages, QR codes, and channel-specific sub-funnelsWhat to fix on your Amazon book page before spending a dollar on ads — description, endorsements, A+ content, and the mistakes most business authors makeThe two highest-ROI book marketing channels that cost nothing but social capitalMichal's $700 Amazon ads test run — the cheapest way to find out if your book and the algorithm will actually get along before scaling spend If you're a consultant, agency owner, advisor, or fractional executive using a book to open doors in your business, this episode will save you a lot of wasted ad spend — and help you decide whether Amazon ads belong in your launch strategy at all. Connect with Michal Stawicki: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stawicki-michal/ More from Beehive Book Marketing: beehivebookmarketing.com — growth marketing for established experts using a book as an authority asset. Topics: amazon ads for authors, amazon ads for business books, book marketing, KDP advertising, book funnel, lead generation for consultants, book launch strategy, non-fiction book promotion

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Hive Mind is the podcast for established experts and founders who want their book to grow their business — not just sit on Amazon. Hosted by Cristian Ungureanu, founder of Beehive Book Marketing, each episode features candid conversations with publishers, ghostwriters, marketers, and authors about what actually makes a book work as an authority asset — the kind that fills your pipeline with premium clients, raises your speaking fees, and opens doors a LinkedIn profile can't. No bestseller-list vanity metrics. No "secrets of viral book launches." Just honest tradeoffs, real outcomes, and conversations that respect the listener's time. Built for: consultants, agency owners, fractional executives, advisors, and senior operators who are writing — or have written — a business book. New episodes every two weeks. Subscribe to follow Cristian's own book and agency journey, documented in public alongside the show.

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    Cristian Ungureanu
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