Your author e-mailing list needs a good, solid carrot. That’s a freebie you give to those who sign up to be on your newsletter list. So, what do you need to know about choosing a carrot? Make it something that your true fans would love to have. You may not even have one true fan […]
Get busy on that email list, authors!
Setting up an email list seems like a lot of bother to many authors. They’d rather use Facebook, Pinterest, or whatever. It’s easier and more fun. Who needs an email list? You do. Marketing experts tell us the email list is the key to success, as I’ve said before. Here are some reasons: People reading […]
Marketing: A findable website contains a blog
Writers, you want your website to be found by those looking for something like what you offer. So your website needs to contain a blog. For Google to start noticing your blog, it must have regular new articles (two or three times a week is best; once a week is minimal but maybe OK). If this […]
Marketing: Get people to search for you online
Writers, you’re puzzling over this whole website thing. What kind of website should you have? How should you use it? And how does it help? The bottom line is that you want people to search online and find you. That’s the beauty of the Internet. No longer do you have to interrupt people while they are reading […]
Help with marketing: some links
Writers, here are some websites that may help you get the word out about your book. http://ereadernewstoday.com/bargain-kindle-books/ Putting your ebook on sale at Amazon for a couple of days? This site markets a limited number of books on sale for free or 99 cents each day to a large group of readers and takes a […]