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5 Tips for Collecting New Readers and Connections: @KatyKauffman28 @EdieMelson

5 TIPS FOR COLLECTING NEW READERS AND CONNECTIONS

by Katy Kauffman @KatyKauffman28

A tiny enchanted forest greets me each morning. My mini winter wonderland doesn’t exist in my backyard, but on my great-grandmother’s antique pine dresser. Three white trees sit, not on snow, but on a sage green doily, and send out silver glints of light that catch my eye. The cheval mirror reflects other treasures on my dresser—ivory dogwoods, red velvet flowers lined with glitter, and a “Cinderella sleigh” as I call it, pulled by two silver-tipped reindeer that anxiously wait to take a princess to a ball.
The charm didn’t happen overnight. It’s taken years to collect a few treasures at a time. I can remember the places where I’ve discovered my treasures, including the Christmas Shoppe in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee, and the Biltmore mansion in Asheville, North Carolina. Finding just the right Christmas treasures and bringing them home is an investment of time and money. What special decorations have you collected over the years? Our Christmas collections develop with time and care.

Just like our platforms. As authors, we collect readers, and we also collect friendships. It takes time to find readers and build friendships with people we encounter through social media and our blogs. A beautiful “wonderland” of published books, speaking engagements, guest blog posts, and magazine articles doesn’t happen overnight. It takes time and care. It takes hard work and God’s blessing. But it’s worth every hour we spend collecting our “treasures.”

So here’s a little advice from someone who enjoys collecting both Christmas treasures and new readers. See if these five tips will help you to invest in your own collection of readers and friendships as you build your platform.

read more: https://thewriteconversation.blogspot.com/2018/12/5-tips-for-collecting-new-readers-and.html

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7 Ways To Make Your Blog Shine: @evy_mann

The saying, “You only have one chance to make a good first impression” holds true in the blogging world. When someone visits your blog, you have between 0-30 seconds to grab your reader’s attention and keep them there.

What are some ways to make your blog shine and hold your audience’s interest?

These are the top seven elements I look for in a blog.

 

read more: http://www.almostanauthor.com/7-ways-to-make-your-blog-shine/

Your 2019 Book Marketing Plan, Month by Month

“Fail to plan? Then plan to fail.”  What a HORRIBLE quote, but SO apt for authors who are trying to figure out their marketing strategies.  Now is the perfect time to sit down and create a 2019 marketing plan. The problem for most of us is that marketing is such a big job. We get bogged…

2019 book marketing plan calendar by Amy Collins for BookWorks.com“Fail to plan? Then plan to fail.”  What a HORRIBLE quote, but SO apt for authors who are trying to figure out their marketing strategies.  Now is the perfect time to sit down and create a 2019 marketing plan. The problem for most of us is that marketing is such a big job. We get bogged down in the enormity of the task and quite often push it off. It is easier to do things that we know and like, so marketing often gets delayed or even skipped altogether. But we can overcome this.

A Bite-Sized Marketing Plan to Avoid Overwhelm

My FAVORITE way of starting getting a handle on book marketing is to break it up into small, bite-sized pieces. If we take ONE aspect of marketing and add it to our publishing/author to-do list, THAT is perfectly reasonable.  Just ONE thing…. Easy!

So I have created a list of ideas and activities that we can add, a little at a time. Just one small marketing focus each month.  So that by the end of the year, we will have a fully fleshed out marketing plan underway!

read more https://www.bookworks.com/2018/12/2019-book-marketing-plan-calendar/

Strategically Plan Your Novels for Next Year

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Is writing your career? Or is it a hobby you hope will someday turn into a financially rewarding line of work? Regardless of where you are on the spectrum of “becoming an author,” you need a plan for your business. And, believe me, treating your writing like a business will help you make more of it than just a time-sucking hobby.

Let’s turn 2019 into your year for publishing. First, you need a strategic plan.

Contents:

  1. What is a strategic plan?
  2. Start with your vision
  3. Determine your strategies
  4. Part of strategic planning is mindset
  5. Final thoughts

What is a strategic plan?

Think of your strategic plan like the GPS map on your smartphone. It shows you how to get from your current position to where you want to be in 2019.

read more: https://prowritingaid.com/art/813/strategically-plan-your-novels-for-next-year.aspx

The Importance of Having a (Well-Designed) Author Website

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Web design is about more than just looks; it’s also about function.

Your website’s design can potentially make or break you, so I’m here to help you succeed. I even have some tips for you at the end.

Before we get into the design side of things though, let’s start with the need for an author website at all.

 

read more : https://www.thecreativepenn.com/2019/01/16/the-importance-of-having-a-well-designed-author-website/

Book Tours Are More Than Just Showing Up

In the abstract, a book tour looks like it might be tremendous fun: packed houses of adoring fans, expense-account dinners in fancy far-flung restaurants. I’ve now promoted three books across a couple dozen states and 10 countries, and my experience has looked much more like bleary-eyed airport breakfasts at one end of the day and modest register tallies at the other, which begs the question, was this worth it?

How to Improve Your YouTube Video Exposure: 6 Useful Tools

Want more people to watch your YouTube videos? Wondering how to outrank your competitors in YouTube search? In this article, you’ll learn how to use six tools that can help you get the eyeballs you’ve always wanted. #1: Perform Initial YouTube Keyword Research With Keyword Tool Keyword Tool is one of my go-to resources for […]

read more https://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/how-to-improve-youtube-video-exposure-6-useful-tools/

How to Calendarize Your Book Marketing Approach

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Whether you’re traditionally or self-published marketing your book, is difficult. Here’s what I know for sure, as Oprah says. You have to start promoting your book as early as possible, and you can’t stop after it’s published. How do I know? I’ve published work in every genre except screenplays—and I’ve made all the mistakes!

Here are some ideas to get you started—but use your own imagination to reach your audience “where they live.” Think outside the box! One of the best marketing tools I’ve seen was for I Love Men In Tasseled Loafers. Author Debbie Karpowicz created chocolate tasseled loafers, as swag for the launch party. She sold more books that night than some people sell in their lifetime, and I’ve never forgotten the title of her book.

AS SOON AS YOU KNOW your book’s release date

read more https://www.writersdigest.com/writing-articles/by-writing-goal/marketing-your-work/calendarize-your-book-marketing-approach

12 SEO Tips to Drive Traffic and Sell Books

By Lee Foster

Sometimes truly happy events occur in the life of a writer/author/publisher who is posting articles on a blog/website. The writer usually hopes to gain audience share, possibly ultimately selling more books or other “products,” such as paid talks and consulting.

Such an event transpired for me in September-October of 2018, regarding a single article.

Each year I look at this particular perennial article, freshen it up, and emphasize it to my audience on my website and in social media about September 1. That article has a two-month shelf life of popularity, as you will see. It is one of the 500+ articles on my website at Foster Travel.

I had modest expectations for this article on September 1. I suspected that, based on past recent years, I would get perhaps 400 new reads of this article in the two-month period.

But I actually got 7,209 reads. So, what happened? Why did this article become suddenly relatively popular?

Some variables may be unknown. But one is known:

For the first time, I put careful attention into improving the Search Engine Optimization for this article. I now use a 12-point checklist to review SEO for all my articles, as you will see below.\

read more https://www.thebookdesigner.com/2019/01/12-seo-tips-to-drive-traffic-and-sell-books/