Social Media Tips for Thursday… As you may or may not know, I’ve been blogging every day since January 1, 2011, and I’ve seen some cool results: * My site traffic has tripled, to nearly 2,000 visitors per month — woohoo! I know other bloggers are seeing higher traffic, but for me, this is awesome, and I celebrate my success! And my numbers keep going up the more time goes by!
book marketing / Book Promotion / social media for authors
by Beth Barany · Published March 15, 2011
Sometimes we just need to shut up and listen to our fellow authors and most importantly listen to our readers.
Today’s focus is my favorite author chats on Twitter, the informal and the formal ones. These chats allow us writers to go from focusing inward on our current work-in-progress, to focusing outward and networking with other authors and industry professionals. We become better writers and sales people of our products — our books — when we network.
book marketing / Book Promotion / book sales
by Beth Barany · Published March 3, 2011 · Last modified March 4, 2011
Many authors think that social media is like traditional advertising, all shouting at ya’ . But it’s not. Social media is social, which means authors succeed at it when we listen and give back. If you just listen deeply to your audience and talk about the things that are important to them then you will be included in their tribe and they will want to buy your book.
Don’t use Twitter is you don’t want to have fun… Don’t use Twitter if you don’t want to connect with your readers. Don’t use Twitter is you don’t want to experiment with writing in 140 characters or less. Less is better.
Welcome to my weekly series on Resources for Indie Authors. Yes, these tips and strategies apply to all authors! We want to sell books, right? But we’re anxious about how to actually make that...
Author Career / book marketing / Book Promotion / social media for authors
by Beth Barany · Published February 21, 2011
Join us for this free teleseminar… February 28, 2011 5pm PST / 8pm EST Join Beth Barany, independent publishing consultant… The 3 Most Important Social Media Tips for Writers Join Beth Barany on her...
book marketing / Book Promotion / social media for authors
by Beth Barany · Published February 17, 2011 · Last modified March 15, 2011
Authors, writers, if you’re not having fun, why use social media? But don’t let the learning curve get in your way. Not knowing how to do something is no excuse! So dive into Twitter or Facebook or making video or podcasting. You’ll find out which one you like by trying it, by yes actually doing it!
book marketing / Book Promotion / Creativity Tools and Tips
by Beth Barany · Published February 16, 2011
With a little help from my writer friends, I asked them this Tuesday at a little before the end of the day: Writers! What is the #1 thing you love @ Twitter? The 1st 10 people to post by 11pm PST I will mention you + your tweet verbatim in my post!
I’m inspired by Kristen Lamb to do a Twitter Tuesdays series. Today is #2! I’m inspired by Kristen and her book, We Are Not Alone: The Writer’s Guide to Social Media… as you may have guessed by reading this blog. 🙂 Today we’ll focus on how to use your Twitter bio to show off your author platform to its best advantage.1111
book marketing / Book Promotion / book sales
by Beth Barany · Published February 1, 2011 · Last modified February 8, 2011
I’m inspired by Kristen Lamb to do a Twitter Tuesdays series. Today is #1! Today we’ll focus on something I got from Kristen’s book, We Are Not Alone: The Writer’s Guide to Social Media. (She’s going to think I’m a stalker! I can’t say enough nice and gushing things about her book!)
You may think that promoting your book is a pain-in-the-you-know-where, but actually, you may be trying to force a round peg into a square hole. And if you just mix your strengths with some of the best tools out there, you will be able to become more visible to your ideal readers, and ultimately, sell more books.
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by Beth Barany · Published April 21, 2010 · Last modified August 4, 2010
by Guest author, Caroline Jaffe-Pickett If you had told me that I would ever have been named one of 39 writers to follow on Twitter, and had an excerpt from my novel in progress...
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