What’s an author website for? Do you really need one? Do you need one if you aren’t published yet? Here’s what an author website is for: engaging potential readers. Yes, you really need an author website, and you need it as soon as you can do it–that is, as soon as you can identify who […]
Marketing tip: get an RSS reader and use it
To be an effective blogger, you want to spend time thoughtfully commenting on other people’s blogs in such a way as to draw readers to check out your own blog too. (Nothing blatant, of course.) One effective way to get started on this is to budget some time, like ten minutes a day, for scanning […]
Writing viral blog articles
What you want is for people to pass your blog articles on to their friends. This is marketing gone viral, just exactly what you want the most. So, how do you get that to happen? A useful article is a must, of course. But a catchy title will propel it. Why is that? Most people […]
“I want to quit my blog.”
Writers, people may be telling you to first of all have a website, and secondly put a blog on the website. But regular blog posts are hard to keep up. Let’s say you manage to post to your new blog regularly (at least twice a week at first) for a while, and then assess your […]