Category Archives: Social Media

Use FriendFeed to Find a Ton of Customers

FriendFeed.com is a website that in one place aggregates your friend’s (or potential customer’s) streams from across different social sites. In other words, from one user, you can view real-time updates from Twitter posts, Facebook updates and tons of other websites. FriendFeed can be an extremely useful website for finding your target audience and selling…

8 Ways to Use Blogging as an Interactive Marketing Tool

Use My 4/12/3 Technique for More Book Sales

A large part of social networking is the grouping of individuals into a particular group of interest. People join websites like Facebook and MySpace to find people of similar interests. All social networking websites allow users to connect to each other via buttons and groups. The more friends you have on these websites, the bigger…

Build Your Author Platform with Online Forums

Customers Falling from the Sky

To be a successful author, you have to know what resources you have available to you and be able to capitalize on those resources. One of the great marketing possibilities for authors is social networking, but many authors don’t touch this avenue of marketing. If you think Facebook, Twitter, MySpace and the dozens of other…

Ten Steps for Developing a Social Media Marketing Plan

How to Promote Your Book with Online Photo Sharing Websites

There are lots of possibilities for using photos and other images to promote yourself and your book: Upload several versions of your proposed book cover, logo design, or blog header, then ask your friends, followers, ezine subscribers, and blog readers for feedback. Upload your book cover when you’re promoting your book launch, and include a…

Book Marketing on Twitter – Misconceptions and the Truth

Here’s an email I got from a book author: I’m going to look into Twitter but I don’t have a Blackberry or anything mobile I can portably communicate with, other than my laptop — it seems like a good way to broadcast events, readings or online chats or something, but right now I have nothing…