{"id":2441,"date":"2011-03-15T12:22:27","date_gmt":"2011-03-15T18:22:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/?p=2441"},"modified":"2011-03-15T12:24:04","modified_gmt":"2011-03-15T18:24:04","slug":"social-media-tip-for-authors-7-listen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/15\/social-media-tip-for-authors-7-listen\/","title":{"rendered":"Social Media Tip for Authors #7: Listen"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2453\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Listening.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2453\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2453   \" style=\"margin: 6px;\" title=\"Listening\" src=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Listening.png\" alt=\"we have two ears and one mouth for a reason...\" width=\"190\" height=\"123\" srcset=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Listening.png 661w, https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Listening-300x193.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 190px) 100vw, 190px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2453\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">we have two ears and one mouth for a reason...<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Welcome to my <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>S<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>ocial Media for Author Tip Series<\/strong><\/span>, where I offer you tips to put into practice the your social media tips so that you can:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Connect with your readers and get to know them<\/li>\n<li>Let them get to know you<\/li>\n<li>Build your network<\/li>\n<li>Create your author platform<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>And so you can <\/strong><em>sell<\/em><strong> more books!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Social media<\/em><\/strong> is: blogging, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin, MySpace, other specialized online networks like yahoo groups, YouTube, etc.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Today\u2019s Tip #7: Listen<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>What is there to say?<\/p>\n<p>Exactly.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes we just need to shut up and listen to our fellow authors and most importantly listen to our readers.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Listening<\/strong> requires we turn off the internal chatter and turn all our attention to the other. hard to do, I know. I have one of the loudest internal chatterboxes, ever. So I am constantly shushing her to hear better the other. When I do that I relax and absorb their messages, both intended and implied and subconscious. Wow &#8212; there&#8217;s lots of levels of listening&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Listening is not the same as hearing. I can hear my husband say something&#8230; &#8220;Yes, dear!&#8221; But I didn&#8217;t really listen, and missed it. Whoops!<\/p>\n<p>Listening is also not talking back even in our heads. And listening is not saying, &#8220;I know that!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why listen?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When we listen we learn. We make connections we wouldn&#8217;t already have made. When we listen we hear things in a new way, make new brain connections. We can actually rewire our brain by perceiving reality in a new way. We can learn the language of our readers. We can learn what they care about. <em>And what&#8217;s important about that? <\/em>When we learn what&#8217;s important to our reader we can make choices: do we want to give them what they want? Hopefully the answer is Yes! because what you want is perfectly aligned with what they want.<\/p>\n<p>For example, I just read in a forum that a reader wants: &#8220;So im lookin for some books with Ass Kicking Heroines with paranormal  aspects to it and romace with a big hunky guy oh and can it not be  erotica (can&#8217;t stand that ) im ok with sex sences just not every page in  the book. Im not asking much am i? (chuckle).&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m working on a book with about a Ass Kicking Heroine with paranormal aspects to it and romance with a big hunky guy, and the sex is not over the top. Working on it ! How cool is that? My interests and her needs align.<\/p>\n<p>But how would I have known how to frame it the way she wanted without listening to here?! And also how would I have known how to engage with her, interest her in my future marketing (book blurb, social media chatting, etc.) if I hadn&#8217;t paid attention to her words?<\/p>\n<p>I wrote: &#8220;Sometimes we just need to shut up and listen to our fellow authors and most importantly listen to our readers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>How do we do that? you may be asking&#8230; (I&#8217;m asking!)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>By going to our reader is!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Where are your readers? And where are they chatting about their favorite books or even books they don&#8217;t like. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Live! And in-person:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>bookstores: what what people buy; hang out as a book buyer and chat, ask questions with your fellow book browsers<\/li>\n<li>libraries: your local wonderful ones! Support them! And see about connecting with your readers through a chat or asking the librarian questions. Librarians are one of country&#8217;s treasures!<\/li>\n<li>book signings: yours or another author&#8217;s<\/li>\n<li>book talks and lectures: yours or another&#8217;s!<\/li>\n<li>fan conventions like RT or World Con or ComicCon<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Online (Oh, where do I begin?)<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Forums like Kindleboards or cat fanciers or horse breeders (Pick a theme in your book and see if there is a forum for that! *See pic below! I typed in my theme &#8220;kick ass heroines forum chat&#8221; and found a bunch of forums I should be hanging out in! <em>On it boss!)<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Twitter<\/li>\n<li>Facebook<\/li>\n<li>Blogs<\/li>\n<li>LinkedIn groups<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Example of my quick search for forums on my topic of &#8220;kick as heroines forum&#8221; (Yep I even misspelled an important word!) :<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<div id=\"attachment_2451\" style=\"width: 512px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Kick-ass-forum-chat-search.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2451\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2451  \" style=\"margin: 6px;\" title=\"Kick ass forum chat search\" src=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Kick-ass-forum-chat-search.png\" alt=\"Kick ass forum chat search\" width=\"502\" height=\"203\" srcset=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Kick-ass-forum-chat-search.png 627w, https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Kick-ass-forum-chat-search-300x121.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 502px) 100vw, 502px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2451\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kick ass forum chat search<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Show up on Twitter and Facebook and listen to your buddies chat about your mutual interests. I covered how to do that <a title=\"how to connect with your readers on twitter\" href=\"..\/2011\/02\/01\/how-to-use-twitter-to-connect-with-your-readers\/\" target=\"_blank\">using hashtags on Twitter in this post.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Where do you go to listen to your readers?<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m doing a countdown for my <strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">10 Social Media Tips for Authors<\/span><\/strong>. 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