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Social Media Offers Great Branding Opportunity

December 23rd, 2010 · No Comments · Market My Novel, Uncategorized

 Today on the FSB Associates blog, Ken Ishii explains why social media is so important to authors today. If you think e-mail marketing is the only “social media” activity you need, think again. More people are using social networks for news and networking, rather than checking emails, Ishii reports.    These few graphs from Social [...]

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The Benefits of Facebook Fan Pages

December 22nd, 2010 · 1 Comment · Market My Novel, Uncategorized

Remember when a website was all you needed to fulfill your online brand?   Social media has changed all that. Now, you need a brand on the most popular networks, like Facebook.   Fan pages – or Like pages – are an amazing Facebook tool that connects you to fans – and vice versa. They [...]

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Glue Offers Book Widgets

September 16th, 2010 · 3 Comments · Market My Novel, Uncategorized

Need a fast way to promote your book with a widget, but don’t like the options available? Check out the GetGlue Book Widget. I discovered this item while booking a Simon & Schuster author at Authors & Appetizers, my new book blog. Using your ISBN numbers, you can pull together a widget in minutes to [...]

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The Future after Pop Syndicate

August 9th, 2010 · 8 Comments · Market My Novel, Uncategorized

For more than three years, I’ve been a volunteer contributor with Pop Syndicate, working hard with Stefan Halley to build the site’s book blog into an amazing resource for readers everywhere. After managing the site for four years, Stefan decided it was time to hand over the reigns to someone else. For myself, it was [...]

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Book Marketing Seminar Coming Soon

July 27th, 2010 · No Comments · Market My Novel, Uncategorized

Use Twitter, but not sure how it can boost your book sales? Then check out this upcoming seminar with book marketing gurus Dana Lynn Smith and Tony Eldridge: During “Boost Your Book Sales With Twitter,” Dana will talk about the importance of Twitter to an author and how to use it to boost your book [...]

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Value Added Content: Key to Web Growth

July 23rd, 2010 · No Comments · Market My Novel, Uncategorized

Dana Lynn Smith was kind enough to host me at her blog, The Savvy Book Marketer. Be sure to drop by and check out my column, Promote Your Book with Value-Added Content.

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Facebook Woes Prove that Self-Hosted Is Best

May 24th, 2010 · 5 Comments · Market My Novel, Uncategorized

Now that I’ve taken my shots at MySpace, let’s move on to Facebook. The site is great for networking, but the constant changes to the interface, privacy setting woes and Terms of Services scandals mean you should use extreme caution when using the site. Last year, I blogged about an agent who wanted to do [...]

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Why I Dumped MySpace

May 19th, 2010 · 6 Comments · Market My Novel, Uncategorized

For years, I’ve had a love-hate relationship with MySpace.   When it first launched, I thought it rocked. There really wasn’t anything quite like it. I met some cool folks in publishing, learned about new writers and groups and was able to keep up with some good friends.   It didn’t take long for the [...]

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Where’s the Link?

April 2nd, 2010 · 3 Comments · Market My Novel, Uncategorized

One of the most annoying questions I receive from authors and publicists is, "Where is my book review link?" Book reviews are fluid animals in the online realm and are posted when 1) the post had been uploaded 2) the post has been edited and 3) when the host has a slot open for it. [...]

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What’s Your Flavor?

March 31st, 2010 · 3 Comments · Market My Novel, Uncategorized

Years ago, I created a portal site on Typepad. The idea was to have one place where I could send everyone to find links to my blogs, podcasts, resume, social networks and references. Today, Flavors.me offers this service for free. Unlike other sites that do something similar, Flavors.me is extremely simple; even the tech novice [...]

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