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6 Ways Twitter Lists Can Help Build Your Author Platform
by Marcy Kennedy (@MarcyKennedy) As longtime readers know, I’m a big fan of using Twitter for lots of reasons. What you might not know is that one of the things I always tell authors who are just...
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Six Things You Should Be Including in Your EBook (and Probably Aren’t)
by David Kudler (@StillpointDigPr) David, who is currently serving as vice president of the Bay Area Independent Publishers Association (BAIPA) is also the proprietor of a digital publishing company....
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If you’re like lots of other authors, you might feel a bit conflicted about Twitter. On one hand, you know that Twitter has become something more than just another social media network. It has started...
View ArticleMy Top 5 Metrics Tools for Evaluating Blogs
You’ve decided to start blogging to get some marketing traction before your next book comes out. If you’re a nonfiction author, or a fiction author who already has a readership, that’s an excellent...
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15 Must-Follow Twitter Accounts for Self-Published Writers
Content marketing is the best way for writers to grow a following of dedicated readers and colleagues on the social web. The steps to achieving this goal are: Write the best book you can for a defined...
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The Ultimate Guide to Twitter for Writers
Have you been ignoring Twitter? Do you think you don’t have time for it? Well, I’m here to try to convince you that Twitter is worth your energy. We already know that social media in general helps us...
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4 Ways Authors Can Rock on Twitter
It took a while for me to understand Twitter. When I signed up, I made my first mistake in deciding my handle, @CaballoFrances. A Spanish soccer player had already taken @FrancesCaballo so I reversed...
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How I Used Twitter to Find a Literary Agent, Grow My Business and Fall In Love
By Alexis Grant (@AlexisGrant) [Ed:] If you have the feeling you’re not getting everything you can out of Twitter, don’t miss the special offer at the end of this article. You’ve probably heard the...
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9 Twitter Tools and Apps to Ease Your Tweeting
If you’ve read my previous posts on this blog, you know by now that I’m a huge fan of Twitter. And Twitter has been good to me; it’s my number one source for traffic to my website. But that’s not the...
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Get Started on Twitter in 7 Simple Steps
By Judith Briles Of all the social media platforms, Twitter was designed for me. Why? … It’s fast and punchy, which I like—it’s my style. And it’s the platform that I used to grow my radio listening...
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11 Reasons Indie Authors Need Social Media (And How to Get It Right!)
You’ve heard it a million times (or at least several hundred times): Indie authors need to use social media as part of their online marketing strategy. I’m sure you’ve seen lists of reasons why, but...
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Reader Audiences and Analytics: What Do They Really Reveal?
Audience – the people who watch, read, or listen to something — Source: Merriam-Webster The dictionary’s first definition for an audience is: “a group of people who gather together to listen to...
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Communicate – Never Preach – on Twitter
By Frances Caballo As I prepared for a presentation for the San Francisco Writers Conference a few years ago, I thought, “Wouldn’t it be cool if I could come up with an acronym about the way writers...
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Most Retweetable Words for Engagement on Twitter
By Frances Caballo Wouldn’t you love to know which words are the most retweetable? Can’t you see yourself? There you are, soaring above the competition, racking up shares (does anyone really use the...
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Bring Social Media to Your Blog with Embedded Posts
By Frances Caballo Embedding your social media posts on your blog or elsewhere on your website can benefit your website in several ways. You can demonstrate your social proof to your blog visitors. In...
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How to Manage a Twitter Account as an Indie Author
By Frances Caballo Twitter tends to confound a lot of writers. I get it. When I first jumped on social media about nine years ago, I asked a friend, “Did you really join Twitter?” She responded that of...
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How to Build a Community on Twitter
By Frances Caballo What can you do with social media? Clint Watts, a cyber-security expert and author of Messing with the Enemy, used Twitter for his counter terrorism work with the Federal Bureau of...
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