Ways For Writers To Use Pinterest Pinterest is a bookmarking site that lets you save images, rather than text links. Find a page (or picture) you like on the web, ‘pin’ it and add one of its images to a visual pinboard Pinterest is also a social network: find interesting images and links based on …
Sep 21
Pinterest: Who really are using it?
Who, specifically, is using Pinterest? Is your book’s audience using Pinterest? According to this infographic from OnlineMBA.com, women dominate the site. Most have “some college” education; almost half of the users are in the $50,000 to $99,999 income range. Can they afford to buy books? I’m thinking that the answer is “Yes!” But, even though …
Sep 04
Online Marketing Tools for Authors
One of the first goals of an author is to develop their author platform as a way of growing their audience and generating more sales for their books. The good news is that there are now many digital publishing tools for authors, that can aid in book promotion, as well as book sales. Your Author …
Aug 30
How To Attract Search Engines and Readers
Book authors You may be relieved when your books are published. But the next stage – marketing the book – awaits you. And by now many authors realize that, for purposes of connecting with prospective readers, they need to be active on social media sites and have their own “home base” book author website. here …
Aug 20
6 Steps to get on Amazon #1 Best Seller
Step 1 – Create the book I’ve found that when I upload files to Kindle, web page filtered or.doc files seem to work the best without messing up the formatting. OpenOffice (which is 100% free) let’s you save the file as both a .doc file as well as a .pdf. I prefer Microsoft Word 2010 …
Aug 14
What Type of Audience Reads Your Books?
Do Readers Of Different Genres Have Specific Craft Preferences? Writing with the eventual reader in mind may give better results. those who write in specific genres or combo genres (e.g., supernatural romance, supernatural thriller), and for whom maximizing sales is a priority, maybe give a thought to the most likely type of person to seek …
Aug 12
What are categories
Here is a really simple idea about Blogging that will help to increase the search ranking of your blog…and it takes only a few minutes to do. Here it is: One of the fundamental building blocks of the WordPress blog structure is the category. A category is like a folder on your PC. In the …
Aug 01
author help-wordpress to the rescue
Maybe you’ve often wished there was a video vault which contains all the tutorial videos for the most common topics of WordPress… If that’s what you’ve been looking for, the “WordPress Mastery Videos” package is exactly what you need! With “WordPress Mastery Videos”, you’ll receive instant access to a comprehensive set of THIRTY tutorial videos …
Jul 18
Market Your Book: Use Teleseminars
Teleseminars Provide Authors a Virtual Way to Connect With Your Audience Teleseminars provide you with a platform to easily reach and connect with your audience. To increase sales of your book connecting with your audience is essential. You want your audience to hear the message of your book and Teleseminars are an easy and effective …
Jul 18
Windows Tip: Add a web address bar to the Windows toolbar
Get quick access to the internet even if you don’t have a browser window open. Just right-click an empty space on the toolbar (it’s the horizontal bar at the bottom of the Windows desktop that contains the Start menu right click select “Toolbars,” then choose “Address” from the menu. Once you do, an address bar—just …