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7 Popular Blogs About Writing That Want Your Guest Posts
7 Popular Blogs About Writing That Want Your Guest Posts
by DANNY INY
It can be hard to be a writer these days.
Sure, the web has democratized attention — but when everyone has a chance to make their voice heard — everybody tries and it can be tough to get anyone to notice.
But what if I told you that there were dozens and dozens of websites that are read by thousands and thousands of people looking for authors like you to write for them?
Would writing for an audience of tens of thousands make a difference to the sales of your book, perhaps?
Maybe it would help you get enough attention on your blog that you catch the eye of an agent or publisher?
Or maybe it will just help you share your story with more people?
Whatever your reasons are, the fact is you probably want and need to get your words and ideas in front of people who are really interested in what you’re doing.
Well, there’s a way to do all of that and more, without taking all of your time or any of your money.
It’s called guest posting, and it’s something that serious bloggers have been doing for years…
How Authors Generate Article Ideas That Promote Their Books & Brands
How do authors come up with ideas for articles they can write for magazines, newspapers, blogs, trade publications, or leading websites?
Obviously, authors write articles with a purpose or goal in mind, namely, to:
• Help brand themselves.
• Build up their media portfolio.
• Get a certain message out there that helps others.
• Sell products, books, services.
• Increase web traffic.
Influence public opinion.
• Stroke their ego.
Based on any or all of the above reasons authors are highly motivated to get articles placed with publications, social media outlets, and digital sources. They will suggest topic ideas that they believe they can write about and that will appear to be interesting enough for some media outlet to accept it and useful enough so that when it’s published it’ll help serve the goals of the writer.
Article ideas can reflect a writer’s knowledge, experiences, research or fantasies, including something:
How Contributing Content Can Boost Your Book Marketing
Solidifying your position as a thought leader should be a top goal for your book marketing plan. This is especially if you’re an indie author writing about business, success, health and wellness, or self-help.
Contributing content via guest blogging or guest posts is about building your business, expanding your audience, and ultimately, driving more traffic to your products, services, events, of course your book. Identify what your short and long term goals are for your business or brand.
But where do you start?
Amazon Customer Discussion Forums are shutting down
Amazon is closing down their Customer Discussion Forum this Friday. The forums have been going strong for almost a decade and have been a gathering place for people to talk about their Kindle e-readers, seek ebook recommendations and get tech support from within the community. It also served as a platform for Amazon engineers to post notifications on critical firmware updates.
Amazon is not the first company to shut down their user generated forums, last week Barnes and Noble shut down their own Nook forums. Amazon claims they want their users to gravitate towards GoodReads to talk about books.
5 book marketing tasks in 5 minutes
I don’t have enough time.
Do you feel the same way?
Do you struggle to keep up with all of your work, family, and home responsibilities and find time to write and market your books?
I’ve been thinking about this a lot lately (while showering, walking, or driving — it’s always a two-fer). I’m wondering if there might be some system I could create for myself that might help me better manage the short periods of time — 10 minutes here, 5 minutes there — before I have to jump on the phone, leave for a meeting, and so on.
Quick and easy book marketing tasks
read more: https://buildbookbuzz.com/5-book-marketing-tasks-in-5-minutes/
6 Ways To Use Google Analytics To Better Understand Your Site’s Traffic
I’m sure you’ve heard of Google Analytics.
It’s a free web analytics tool that website owners can use to track and analyze their site’s traffic. It was released in November 2005 by Google, and is currently the most popular and widely used web analytics tool available on the internet.
It’s a smart move to use it to shape and strengthen your marketing strategy – in fact, some would say it’s essential.
Here’s how you can use Google Analytics to better understand and engage with your website’s visitors.
A Beginner’s Guide To Local Marketing: How To Use Location To Your Advantage
It’s a modern-day truth that getting to grips with local marketing is essential, particularly for new businesses.
While the internet has successfully made the world a lot smaller, it’s also brought along its own set of problems like language barriers and prohibitively expensive international shipping.
Building a name for your business locally, whether by word-of-mouth, paid advertisements or organic social media (more on those later!), is particularly beneficial when you have a physical presence like a bricks and mortar store. However, it can also be a big boon for online businesses as well.
Here are my top five local marketing methods for local marketing newbies as well as a few tips on how to get started with each one.
read more: http://www.jeffbullas.com/guide-to-local-marketing/
How to Profit From Ebook Self-Publishing
By Mariah
Not too long ago, first-time novelists had to send their printed manuscripts to multiple publishers before getting published—if at all. If they play their cards right, today’s novelists can skip the publishing houses and agents and earn money through self-publishing. Ebook fiction, in particular, does extremely well. A number of authors have earned incredible sums with their popular ebooks, like Michael J. Sullivan, Lisa Genova, and Hugh Howey. While you may experience insta-fame from your experience, there are ways to improve your profits.
read more: http://www.digitalpubbing.com/guest-post-how-to-profit-from-ebook-self-publishing/
Author Blogging 102: a Practical Guide to Developing Your Weekly or Monthly Link Post
From The Digital Reader:
Content curation (or as I prefer to call it, “link posts”) is a great way for authors to help both their readers and other writers by one, pointing readers articles worth reading, and two, giving other writers public kudos by including their work in a post.
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I’ve ben doing this so long that I have developed hard and fast rules on what should and should not be included. Here are my guidelines for curating a link post.
How to Get 10,000 Facebook Fans in 72 Hours #h2e via @jeffbullas
Patience. It is a virtue I don’t have.
So when I wanted to grow my audience quickly before my current book launch, I started researching growth hacks. I had a few requirements for what I was looking for:
- It couldn’t take a lot of time to execute. I run three companies, am a published author, have two kids and occasionally like to see my husband, so time is limited. This hack had to be quick.
- It had to be easy. I am not a techie and my tech team is busy working on client accounts, so this had to be simple. And yes, I could have hired someone, but I wanted to make sure I could personally do this hack so I could share it with our students as a strategy they could use when I found what worked.
- There had to be ROI. Audience growth is great, but you can’t use the audience to pay for your next vacation or hire your next employee. The growth strategies had to be ROI positive.
- It had to work quickly. I started this project in June and our launch started just a few months later, so this had to work quickly. And as mentioned before, I am not patient, so speed was a must.
How To Ebook 