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How to write a series for your blog

Have you ever written a series of posts for your blog – a set of posts that are deliberately linked together?

If you haven’t, I hope I can convince you to give it a try.

Some bloggers feel writing a series of posts is more daunting than writing individual posts. But it’s often easier to come up with ideas for a ten-post series than for ten standalone posts.

Here at ProBlogger we’ve run a number of series over the years, including 31 Days to Build a Better Blog, which I’ll be coming back to later in this post.

So why should you write a series of posts instead of just individual posts?

How a Series of Posts Could Boost Your Blog

A Simple Way to Get More Traffic Without Creating New Content via #blogtyrant

May 2, 2018 5:00 am / 1 Comment on A Simple Way to Get More Traffic Without Creating New Content via #blogtyrant

Last week I published a few blogging statistics and one of the main takeaways was that most bloggers still struggle to find readers and traffic.

This is a real shame because all of that hard work writing articles and building beautiful blogs is wasted unless you get people reading them.

I decided to dedicate a bit of time to this issue and will be doing more posts over the next couple of months

Today I wanted to get us started by looking at one simple but very effective way to get more traffic to your blog regardless of your niche or blog’s authority.

Let’s take a look.

Don’t just think about traffic, think about individuals

Watch “CreateSpace Journals & Books – Customize Tangent Template interiors” on YouTube

May 2, 2018 2:47 am / 1 Comment on Watch “CreateSpace Journals & Books – Customize Tangent Template interiors” on YouTube

21 Ways Authors Recommend Books to Their Readers via #bookbub

May 1, 2018 4:59 am / 5 Comments on 21 Ways Authors Recommend Books to Their Readers via #bookbub

DIANA URBAN

Authors, have you recommended a book on BookBub.com? It’s a fun and easy way to connect with readers and help them discover more wonderful books to read… but it’s also a useful (and free!) promotional tool.

Making a recommendation on BookBub lets you engage with BookBub’s community of enthusiastic power readers and stay top-of-mind with your followers, who will see your recommendation in their feeds on BookBub.com or in their weekly digest email. Plus, it opens up fantastic opportunities to promote fellow authors and help them get discovered.

Many authors are recommending books on BookBub and using unique strategies to connect with readers! Here are 21 ways authors have used BookBub Recommendations so far. We hope this gives you some inspiration when deciding which book to recommend next.

How to Promote Your Blog Offline via @problogger

April 30, 2018 4:58 am / 2 Comments on How to Promote Your Blog Offline via @problogger

How to Promote Your Blog Offline

Today I’m tackling questions from listener, Julianna Barnaby about whether it’s important to spend time offline building your blog’s personal brand and reputation.

The answer is simple. “Yes.” Offline promotion is worth it. Get creative, and get out and meet people.

You may need to step out of your comfort zone, but that can be rewarding. You never know when someone you meet will become a reader, collaborator, team member, or even sponsor.

The sky’s the limit when it comes to offline promotion, and engagement is sometimes much stronger. People are more likely to comment on, share, and buy your products and services.

Offline methods to promote and grow your readership:

Platform: What IS It? Why Do Writers Need One?

April 29, 2018 7:38 am / 1 Comment on Platform: What IS It? Why Do Writers Need One?

BY KRISTEN LAMB

A platform offers major advantage when it comes to selling books. Before social media, non-fiction authors had an edge. These authors already had an existing audience by the time their books were ready for sale.

Novelists, conversely, found themselves relying on a lot of pure luck, prayer, and alignment of the stars. The fiction author had little to no control regarding the business side of their business. The only way to build a platform was to not completely FAIL with book one.

Great.

Non-fiction authors, however, were not nearly as vulnerable because they had ways to cultivate a following ahead of time. Those ways also permitted them to KEEP growing the platform even bigger as they continued to publish more works.

For instance, if one happened to be an expert of some sort, it was far easier to build an audience interested in your topic. Therapists, psychiatrists, physicians, personal trainers, business owners, etc. obviously could begin with their ‘job’ (I.e. a private practice). Then these experts progressively expanded their platforms in a logical fashion.

They might broaden to speaking engagements, guest appearances on television and/or radio, serve as ‘experts’, and maybe even fold in lectures and seminars. With every expansion, the NF author added more numbers to their ‘platform.’

What IS a Platform?

User or Lose It: A Beginner’s Guide to User Generated Content by Brenna Vallar @ABCCreative

April 28, 2018 1:21 pm / 1 Comment on User or Lose It: A Beginner’s Guide to User Generated Content by Brenna Vallar @ABCCreative

User or Lose It: A Beginner’s Guide to UGC

One of destination marketing’s most valuable assets often goes underutilized by brands that fail to stay up to date on the latest trends. The best part of this one, it’s easy on the budget. For decades, destinations have invested plenty to lure in journalists and other influencers with promises of accommodations and five-star experiences, all…
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Stacking free promotions to replicate BookBub results

April 27, 2018 10:00 pm / 4 Comments on Stacking free promotions to replicate BookBub results

This week’s guest post is from Kayla Tirrell, contemporary YA romance author (and the very first guest on the podcast!). She recently attempted to replicate the results of the nearly impossible to book BookBub promotions and was generous enough to share her very impressive results. Thanks Kayla!

BookBub

A silly name for an amazing service. As a reader, if the best place to find deals on books. As a writer, it is the holy grail of paid newsletters. Everyone wants a place in their newsletter. Some spots cost over $200 and authors are lining up around the block, so to speak, to pay this insane amount of money.

That said, for most of us, BookBub is a dream that may never come true. I’ve applied SIX times, and have yet to be accepted. What’s a girl to do? Give up? Grab the biggest container of Ben & Jerry’s and cry? Listen to depressing music on repeat?

NO!

I decided to try what I affectionately call a FauxBub. It was an experiment that consisted of stacking as many high performing promos as possible during a free 5-day run and see what my results would be.

This wasn’t my first free run, and it wasn’t my first promoted free-run. But, I was pleasantly surprised by the results I got the second time around.

Writers: Grow Your Instagram Account Organically via @jfbookman

April 26, 2018 9:59 pm / 1 Comment on Writers: Grow Your Instagram Account Organically via @jfbookman

BY FRANCES CABALLO

On March 1st, Pew Research Center released its newest report on social media use.

As everyone would expect, YouTube and Facebook lead the pack, capturing a good portion of Internet users.

But not far behind, with an estimated 800 million users as of September 2017 (Statista), Instagram proves that it’s continuing to flourish.

If you’ve never used Instagram, I recommend that you read an earlier post I wrote for Joel Friedlander titled Instagram Primer for Indie Authors. Since that time there have been a few changes: Instagram is more nimble on desktop computers, and you can now schedule posts without reminder notifications with most scheduling applications if you have a business account.

But today we’re going to be more concerned with growing your Instagram account.

HOW TO ANALYZE YOUR COMPETITION AND CREATE YOUR OWN AUTHOR SUCCESS

April 25, 2018 9:57 pm / 2 Comments on HOW TO ANALYZE YOUR COMPETITION AND CREATE YOUR OWN AUTHOR SUCCESS

Why does everything seem to just work for some authors?

HOW TO ANALYZE YOUR COMPETITION AND CREATE YOUR OWN AUTHOR SUCCESS

There you are slaving away, hustling to get each and every Twitter follower, Facebook like and, well, let’s not even talk about book sales.

You know your books are good, just as good as those successful authors’ books.

But while their fans are falling over themselves to pre-order every title they release, you don’t have any fans to even speak of.

What gives?

The difference between you and your competition is they already know who their readers are, where they hang out, what they like, and how to talk to them.

These are all things you have been trying to figure out, but why not learn who your most successful competitors are and leverage what they’re doing instead?

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How to Write a Series for Your Blog (and Why You’ll Want To) via @problogger

How a Series of Posts Could Boost Your Blog

A Simple Way to Get More Traffic Without Creating New Content via #blogtyrant

Don’t just think about traffic, think about individuals

Watch “CreateSpace Journals & Books – Customize Tangent Template interiors” on YouTube

21 Ways Authors Recommend Books to Their Readers via #bookbub

How to Promote Your Blog Offline via @problogger

How to Promote Your Blog Offline

Offline methods to promote and grow your readership:

Platform: What IS It? Why Do Writers Need One?

What IS a Platform?

User or Lose It: A Beginner’s Guide to User Generated Content by Brenna Vallar @ABCCreative

User or Lose It: A Beginner’s Guide to UGC

Stacking free promotions to replicate BookBub results

Writers: Grow Your Instagram Account Organically via @jfbookman

HOW TO ANALYZE YOUR COMPETITION AND CREATE YOUR OWN AUTHOR SUCCESS

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