As your modern-day business card, your author website should feature all the relevant information about you as a writer and your projects. But here's the website element that some authors overlook—it should also have a pleasing, easy-to-navigate design that attracts...
Social media can seem like a raucous cocktail party where everyone is talking and no one is listening. You're running around trying to tempt visitors with tasty treats: posting great content, running contests, and engaging in online conversations, hoping to get...
Welcome to May’s Links Roundup! Check out Facebook's latest free marketing tools; go beyond social media to boost book sales; and chew over some food for thought on the future of e-book indices. Whether you create your own author website or we create one for you, we...
Social media is at the forefront of a successful marketing strategy for promoting your book. But having thousands of fans on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, or Pinterest doesn’t always lead to thousands of book sales during that all-important first week of release....
Would your author website pass the blink test? According to marketing specialists, you have about three seconds—the approximate amount of time before one blink—for visitors to judge your website and decide whether to stay or move on. If the answer is "no," your...
Writers, let’s face it: Building your fan base requires a great deal of time and energy—resources you’d probably rather devote to your writing. But if you want to successfully promote yourself and your work, it’s essential that you increase your audience. Fortunately,...
Whether you want an interactive website with all the bells and whistles or a simple landing page, an author website is an essential part of your author platform. If you’re thinking about developing your online presence by launching an author website, start by...
The number of people riding the technological tide of social media is growing every day. Remember when push-button phones, electric typewriters, even floppy disks were the next big thing? Nowadays cell phones have practically replaced landlines, and more and more...
Have you ever posted an informative and well-written entry to your author blog only to have NO ONE comment on how amazing it is? It's enough to make you want to throw up your hands, punch your keyboard, and give up. Don't get discouraged—it’s not necessarily your...
You’re not on Facebook, and you have your reasons. Maybe you’ve heard rumors that authors don’t need Facebook accounts. But in today’s highly competitive publishing industry, your success as a writer depends on your ability to reach your audience effectively through...
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