Posts Tagged ‘marketing’

Welcome to Artist Entrepreneur Fridays, where we focus having a successful author career from the business and strategic perspectives. This week I have another guest post from Matthew Ashdown, Book Promotion Specialist with FriesenPress. FriesenPress is a fee-for-service self-publisher. Matthew offers 4 useful tools that we can use to overcome being discouraged during our author [...]

This video is part 3 in a three-video series on how to finish a novel.
You know you want to write and complete your novel. So, I’m just wondering… are you ready to do that now?!

Many authors think that getting a compelling book done is a matter of finding the time to do all the necessary [...]

Welcome to Twitter Tuesdays where I feature tips on how to use Twitter for authors by authors, like the tips that will be in my upcoming book, The Writer’s Guide To Twitter for Fiction Authors. This week we have a personal story on how Twitter helped author, Anne-Mhairi Simpson, build her author platform, and more! [...]

Major confession time. I stopped blogging regularly a few days ago, and my traffic has been cut in half. And I started blogging more about a topic that is probably not that interesting to most of my readers: my new novel’s blog tour. So two major faux pas, but I’m just going to concentrate on the first one.

Many authors think they have to do everything in social media, but cringe when they think if using _______ . (Fill in the blank with Facebook or Twitter or blogging or another social media tool.) And that keeps us away from even experimenting. But actually you just need to get active in the one (or two) venues you enjoy. Because your passion shows through!

Talent? Mojo? The secret awesome kick ass plot? Money? Connections? Okay. All those things help.
But what we really need to succeed in this business of being an author and making money at it, somehow, some way, is persistence.

Tenacity
Stick-to-it-tive-ness
Gumption
Stubbornness
Pigheadedness
[consulting thesaurus now...] and…
constant
game to the last
indefatigable
indomitable
industrious
persisting
pertinacious
plodding
sedulous
solid
staunch
Yes, there’s more… There’s always more.

When I was little I scribbled on [...]

Welcome to our bi-weekly posts from guest columnist, Bobbye Terry. This week she offers fun tips for thinking outside the box. We’re curious to hear your tips too! Share your thoughts with us! Thanks!
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A couple of months ago, I told Beth I planned to write about thinking outside of the box. It’s something I enjoy [...]

Welcome to my Social Media for Author Tip Series, where I offer you tips to put into practice so that you can:

Connect with your readers and get to know them
Let them get to know you
Build your network
Contribute to your tribe!
Be of service
Create your author platform

So you can sell more books!
Social media is: Blogging, Twitter, Facebook, [...]

We writers know our story circles around three things: plot, setting, and character. I’d like to talk about character. I know you have heard a dozen different ways to create characters, but how about one more time, only with a different take on them.

Today’s Tip #5: The 5-5-5 Rule Often my workshop attendees, clients and students ask me, “How much time should I spend on social networking?” “How’s five minutes a day?” I ask. “That’s all?”

I’m finally ready to share with you my new course, We’re All In This Together: Social Media for Fiction Authors.
This 7-week online/teleseminar course starts soon! April 11th. Yes, we can do it together!

I have resources spilling out of my ears I so look forward to sharing with you!
I have tools and techniques to guide you [...]

Just a quick shout out to all the cool online communities I’m part of that support my life as an indie author:

Shewrites.com: If you do join — yes, it’s free — connect with me! I just attended a cool live chat with other YA authors.
“Hosted by Ning, She Writes nurtures a growing community of women [...]

Um, yes. Book marketing is creative, imho (in my humble opinion).
I’m preempting my semi-regular Saturday series on Spark Your Creativity Through Numbers to chat about creativity and marketing and then get to it!
What is there to say? (I’m itching to get to work. LOL)
Like any creative process, marketing our books goes from first spark to [...]

Welcome to my series of Interviews with Indie Authors. Today I feature — quite proudly — the release of my husband’s suspense novel, The Torah Codes.
In celebration of the day, we’re doing a series of giveaways to blog commenters throughout the day! We’ll be giving away three lovely items:

at 12 noon, the mp3 album, [...]

When do you ask for help? And I mean all kinds of help: financial, emotional, psychological, spiritual, etc. One of the traits often associated with artist and entrepreneurs is independence. Speaking just about myself, I am that gal who said from a very young age, “I can do it myself.”