If you are an author and you are toying with the idea of starting a blog so you can either promote your existing books or highlight or showcase your writing skills or maybe jog your creative juices, you should use Wordpress as your blogging platform. While you can go with other blogging software, when it comes to scalability, ease of use, versatility, and security, you simply … [Read more...]
How Often Do You Need to Blog?
Figuring out how often you should blog is a big deal. If you don't update your blog enough, you might lose your hard-earned viewers. If you update your blog too much, you might overwhelm your loyal blog readers and many of them might never come back to your site. To avoid these problems, you have to figure out the right frequency of updates for your blog. The problem with this … [Read more...]
How to Compile Newsletter or Blog Articles into a Book People Will Pay For
Got content? If you regularly provide tips, advice, case studies or the like in a free newsletter or ezine or on your blog, you may be able to repackage these articles into a free-standing product that readers would happily pay for. Whether your audience is parakeet owners, paralegals or paranoid landlords, if your information can hang together usefully for that group, and … [Read more...]
The Right Way for Authors to Blog
Blogging is a great way for authors to stay in touch with their fans and attract new fans, too. For many authors, though, blogging seems a little scary. How do you set up a blog? What do you write about? How do you get people to read your blog? Here are some tips to help you be a better author blogger. Be the master of your own domain. A free blog on Blogger.com or … [Read more...]
How to Blog a Book: Write, Publish, and Promote Your Work One Post at a Time
If you can write a blog, you can write a book! Discover how you can write a book one blog post at a time. "Blogging is a great way to create content for a book. Now Nina has put together a road map for getting a book out of your blog posts. Check out How to Blog a Book. It covers all the stops along the way to your destination as a published … [Read more...]
Are You There Blog? It’s Me, Writer
Social media has changed everything about the way we communicate, yet sometimes it can all feel so overwhelming. Where do you start? Maybe you want to blog, but where do you begin? What do you say? How do you get anyone to care about what you have to say? "Are You There, Blog? It's Me, Writer" is a compilation of social media expert Kristen Lamb's best social media blogs and … [Read more...]
How to Overcome Writer’s Block Using the Secrets Revealed By One of Today’s Most Influential Business Thinkers
Are you coming to the point, where you say to yourself - "Oh sh%t, I have to write my article or blog post?" Does the thought of writing drain you? And, even though you know you need to write articles to get more website traffic, build your list, nourish relationships and increase your profits – are you procrastinating writing your articles? Then this new article is for … [Read more...]
LinkedIn Secrets – 3 Reasons You Are Not Making Money on LinkedIn
There are over 80 million influential professionals from over 200 countries on LinkedIn that can become your potential customers. In fact, LinkedIn's membership is what Neilson Online is calling "The world's largest audience of affluent, influential professionals" as you will find executives from all Fortune 500 companies there. Plus, you will find experienced professionals … [Read more...]
How to Plan a Virtual Party
Planning a Virtual Book Launch, a Virtual Book Birthday or a Virtual Book Tour are great compliments to a book marketing campaign. They are free, effective, and can stick around in the blogsphere forever to immortalize your book and marketing efforts. Anyone can throw a Virtual Party for any reason and the set up is fun and free. CREATE A PARTY WEBSITE Do this at least … [Read more...]
Authors Blog For Free on Amazon
If you are the author of a book, ebook or audio product available on Amazon.com, you can have a blog on the Amazon site through Amazon Author Central. Amazon Author Central can bring more people to your product page where they can learn about and buy your book, it can inform customers about your upcoming events and new products, and it can lead Amazon customers to your web … [Read more...]