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How To Start Your Own Bookstagram
One of the most recent trends of the book blogging community is the art of bookstagramming. Bookstagram is what we call the bookish community on Instagram, where bookstagrammers share aesthetically pleasing photos featuring our favorite things in the world — books.
If you happen to have an Instagram account, you only need to head over to a few of the most popular hashtags like #bookstagram, #bookgram, #bookphotography, and all other bookish derivatives to find amazing book photos and follow your favorite accounts to keep seeing these photos on your feed
7 Reasons You Are Not Getting Enough Traffic To Your Website
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My website is 18 months old, but It’s not getting enough traffic. What’s wrong with my blog that doesn’t increase blog traffic? What blogging mistake I’m making that killing my site traffic?
From 2013, according to WPVirtuoso, on the Internet, we can find more than 150 million blogs. Every day, more bloggers start making posts, and many of them never generate much traffic or revenue. If you do not receive visitors to your blog, you may be committing one of these fundamental errors
http://www.onlinelivingblog.com/2017/02/7-reasons-you-are-not-getting-enough-traffic.html
Should Authors Go Exclusive with Amazon?
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The Author Earnings report has come out once again, and if there’s any criticism to be lobbed its way, it’s that the data is thorough enough to make even the most fanatical number cruncher see spots. The breakdown in last month’s report is once again by sales channel, English speaking sales market, publication route, and more.
But one thing hasn’t changed about the report, and that’s its single-minded focus on making sure everyone in the game can make an informed decision. That sentiment drives almost every aspect of compiling the report, but this particular edition takes it a step further in “guiding” self-published authors in their choice to go exclusive with Amazon or not…
http://goodereader.com/blog/indie-author-news/should-authors-go-exclusive-with-amazon
A Simple Promotion Idea for Your Reviews
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Several times a week, someone will email and ask me to read their book and write a review. It is a good strategy to approach well-known reviewers. Normally their request mentions a book that I have read and reviewed, then pitches their book. Because I’ve written almost 700 book reviews on Amazon, I get these requests. To be honest, I look at their books and in most cases I politely decline the offer—for several reasons. Most of them are ebook only books on Kindle and I do not have an Ebook reader. Also when I look at the books, I’m not interested in reading their book so again I decline.
Because I’ve been reading and writing book reviews for many years, I have publicists and publishers often pitching for me to read their books and write about them. I am committed to continuing to read new books and write book reviews about those books. I review the book on Amazon but also on Goodreads, where I have 5,000 friends (the limit).
Repeatedly I see authors launch their book with no book reviews on Amazon–zero. In fact, during the last week, I’ve seen two long-time publishing professionals (literary agents) launch new books with no Amazon book reviews. If Amazon is selling 70% of the books (a number that I’ve seen recently in the publishing press–unsure if true or not), then it is critical for every author to get book reviews
Read more…
http://terrywhalin.blogspot.com/2017/03/a-simple-promotion-idea-for-your-reviews.html
3 Unconventional Ways To Use Social Media To Effectively Find Your Readers @TheCreativePenn.com
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I’ve been a Twitter power user since 2009. It’s my favorite social media platform, and to be honest, it’s how this introvert manages a social life
But many authors make mistakes with their social media marketing. In today’s article, Dan Blank gives some tips on how to use social media effectively to help you find readers.
The most common mistake I see people make in social media is to use it as a publicity channel.
Quite frankly, many writers see social media as their lone marketing channel. Having grown up in the 60s, 70s, 80s, and 90s, they treat it as one would a television commercial: they buy “air time” and repeat their advertising message as often as possible.
I have seen this many times, you look at an author’s book proposal, and the marketing plan consists of vague mentions of engaging in social media, starting a newsletter, and well, lots of hoping. Because in reality, they have no idea who their intended audience is, how to reach them, and what engages them….
http://www.thecreativepenn.com/2017/03/16/social-media-to-find-readers/
What Is Slow Blogging? (And How Pat Flynn Uses It To Grow His Blog in A HUGE Way)
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Fast food, quick quotes, quick drying cement, 1 hour pizza delivery, 45 minute oil changes and instant soup – these are just a few hallmarks of the “I want it now” mentality which permeates the planet. Rush hour is not named “take it easy hour”, “go slow hour” or “be safe and get there on time hour”. Everyone expects fast, faster, fastest, but this oftentimes leads to a watered-down, low quality result.
There is another approach, and it is called slow blogging.
There are those smart bloggers who look like sloths compared to the “one post per day” formula that most unsuccessful, small bloggers stick to. They practice slow blogging. This gives your readers time to really reflect upon and absorb the content you deliver. It also means more time for you to properly research, write, edit and produce a quality post.
If you spend 30 to 45 minutes a day, 5 days a week, creating 5 short blog posts, have you really given your readers your best effort? What if you took that same 2.5 to 4.0 hours and spent it creating a single, incredibly valuable, well-researched, problem-solving, evergreen resource for your audience? This is the slow blogging idea, spending more time writing a longer piece of content, and delivering a higher level of quality.
Have you heard of Pat Flynn?
http://blogelina.com/what-is-slow-blogging-and-how-pat-flynn-uses-it-to-grow-his-blog-in-a-huge-way/
How One Small Change Got A Video 13,000,000 More Views On Facebook. #how2ebook
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Content that resonates is key, there is no argument. I’ve always said just make great content, and you’ll get the views/likes/subscribers you were hoping for.
In the content world today, that’s not entirely true. Content is still key, but realizing the content context is also huge. Where people are consuming it, why they think they should and how they were referred to it plays a huge part. We have the UnScientific proof.
Last year, we shared a clip of my “Millennial Rant” on the UnMarketing Facebook page. One of the things about this new video landscape on Facebook is that 85% of videos are watched with the sound off so we also added closed-captioning, so people could see what I was yelling on stage.
Original Clip
Stella Togo: The 5-Minute Guide to Writing a Blog Post
The following is a guest post from Stella Togo, book author, speaker, and blog post author.
Do I have your attention? Good, because tip #1 is to grab your readers with an intriguing title.
Use a title that grabs the attention of your readers. Like most beginning writers, I used to draw out all of the details and leave the best for last instead of bringing the best to the forefront as a major point of interest
Read more…
http://bookmarketingbestsellers.com/stella-togo-the-5-minute-guide-to-writing-a-blog-post/
BuzzTrace: A New Platform To Help Writers Find Their Readers
BuzzTrace: A New Platform To Help Writers Find Their Readers
Launching today is BuzzTrace, a new platform that helps authors find their audience and increase their book sales. BuzzTrace connects with social media platforms and provides authors with insightful analytics on how to help sell their books. The site also gives authors tips on how to grow their audience. Scott La Counte, a best selling author, said he co-founded BuzzTrace to help authors save time on marketing, so they can focus on their writing. Authors can sign up for a one-month free trial at BuzzTrace.
Read on for an interview with Scott La Counte to learn more about the platform
http://www.digitalpubbing.com/buzztrace-a-new-platform-to-help-writers-find-their-readers/
So You Want to Teach an Online Writing Course? @janefriedman #h2e
So You Want to Teach an Online Writing Course?
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My first exposure to online writing education—for adults outside of degree programs—was Writer’s Online Workshops, a division of Writer’s Digest. Prior to that, my experience and prepared curriculum was entirely centered around the traditional classroom.
As I gained experience managing and evaluating online education through Writer’s Digest—and teaching online courses myself—I began to field more questions from authors who were curious about doing it themselves, but didn’t know where to start. And so I came up with the following tips
How To Ebook 