Social media is a vital marketing tool for authors, but it has one big drawback: Somebody else owns the platform! That means there’s no guarantee that your hard-won social media fans will always receive the messages you’re posting or that access will always be...
8 Signs Your Social Media Needs Professional Help | Web Design Relief
In this online-oriented, social media-savvy world, you can be sure literary editors and agents will check out your social media activity. And instead of wandering the library stacks, your next fan may be just a post, tweet, or click away! So how are you coping with...
Web Design Relief’s Links Roundup, October 2016
Welcome to October's Links Roundup! We've found great tips to help writers build their audiences with DIY marketing advice. Whether you create your own author website or we create one for you, we want to give you the best possible tools to build an effective online...
A Checklist To Evaluate Your Author Brand’s Effectiveness
The brand that you establish for yourself as a writer is composed of many "moving parts." Each of the individual elements of your author platform should directly contribute to the world’s overall view of you as a writer: who you are, what you write, what you want, and...
Essential Vacation Safety Tips For Your Social Media (And More!)
You’re so excited about your upcoming vacation that you can hardly contain yourself! Finally, you’ll be the writer posting photos of umbrella drinks and tweeting about glorious sunsets, or blogging on your website about amazing Mayan ruins. Authors are always in...
How To Identify (And Focus On) Your Promotional Strengths
Your dreams of being a successful, published writer probably didn’t include visions of pounding the pavement and sending out email blasts, trying to sell your book. But whether you're traditionally published or self-published, doing your own marketing is the new...
Inbound Marketing For Authors: Setting Up Your Mailing List
In our first article about Inbound Marketing For Authors, we learned how Inbound Marketing can benefit your author brand. Now we'll take a look at how to set up a mailing list, integrate it into your author website, and send out your first mailing. Let's get started!...
Take It From A Millennial: What Your Facebook Page Must Do To Succeed
Okay, so maybe today's Millennials (ages 18-33) weren't born pinning, posting, and texting—but there's no denying that social media is second nature to this age group. For those of us who grew up in the "olden days" of rotary phones, floppy disks, and even (gasp!)...
Facebook Fan Building: Boosted Posts That Get Results
Maybe you've set up your Facebook Author Page and are posting regularly, but you're not getting the results you hoped for. Or maybe you're a social media newbie and you don't know the first thing about building a fan base. Fortunately, Facebook offers some easy-to-use...
Inbound Marketing For Authors: What Is Inbound Marketing?
Welcome, authors, to the inaugural article of our recurring series Inbound Marketing For Authors! This series will explore Inbound Marketing: what it is, how it works, best practices, and more. In today’s installment, we’ll explain the concepts behind Inbound...
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