
When writing a book, you are creating a product that will need to be marketed in order to achieve sales. Whether you are planning to self-publish (where you will be doing all the marketing yourself) or to secure a publishing…
Should writers use Facebook? Can writers benefit by using Facebook? Will it help them sell more books, build a community, increase brand awareness? I’ve recently come across a number of authors who are saying that Facebook, for them, has been…
I’m a huge fan of twitter for so many reasons. The main reason is I see it as being extremely effective in terms of sales and for today’s post, I am going to concentrate on how authors can use twitter…
It’s ‘W’ in the #AtoZChallenge today. I admit I missed ‘V’. I had planned to do a post on verifying your Pinterest account but didn’t have time to write it up as it needed a lot of screenshots. I was…
It is the turn of the letter ‘N’ in the #AtoZchallenge. Today’s topic is about being newsworthy. I don’t mean in the writing news articles sense but I am referring to your social media. How can you make your social…
It’s J of the #AtoZChallenge and today I’m exploring how you can help Journalists to find you and your business via your social media. Social media isn’t just about improving the SEO of your website, engaging with potential customers, driving…
It’s the turn of ‘G’ in the #AtoZChallenge and today I’m exploring the importance of ‘googling’ or searching for your own online existence in any of the search engines. Have you ever googled your own name? What did you find?…
My crowdfunding project has been running for 3 weeks now with 2 weeks to go. It is on the Irish crowdfunding website FundIt which operates an ‘all or nothing’ principle which means that if a person’s target is not achieved,…