3 Steps to Playing a Social Networking Game You Can Win
As a writer, you may think that social networking is waste of time. And you’re right. It is — if you don’t create a game plan, and play a game you can win.
As a writer, you may think that social networking is waste of time. And you’re right. It is — if you don’t create a game plan, and play a game you can win.
book marketing / Book Promotion
by Beth Barany · Published March 17, 2010 · Last modified March 21, 2010
Twitter is a lot of fun! I’d be the first to admit it. And it’s a time suck. In researching this article I spent WAY too much time playing on Twitter, doing good things...
Author Career / Book Promotion
by Beth Barany · Published January 22, 2010 · Last modified January 26, 2010
You’re in charge of your schedule. So set up a game you can win around social networking. Have a goal, which is how you “win” the game. Overall make your goal 100% attainable and fun, unless you also need to know you’re climbing to the top of a really tall mountain to motivate you.
I’m an avid reader. This holiday weekend I’m reading the internet, inhaling is more like it. Specifically, I’m trawling Twitter.com, Facebook.com and various and sundry links I find posted there. Mostly on social networking.
Beth Barany uses social networking for her business and now incorporates it in her work as a creativity coach. In her talk, she provided excellent insight into this exciting and important way to build an author platform.
In addition to a website, newsletter, and a blog, authors can use social networking tools to connect with friends, make new friends, interact with readers, and gain new readers. In my previous Promotion Posse article (”Heart of the Bay,” January 2009), I wrote about how authors can use Facebook to network and market.
by Beth Barany · Published September 12, 2008 · Last modified December 15, 2008
140 characters. That’s it. No more. No less. Why? It’s fun, it’s short, and you can write some interesting stuff in 140 characters. To learn more about Twitter.com, check out these resources: NY Times...
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