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Facebook Now Integrated into Google

February 25th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Facebook

Google and Facebook have inked a deal to include the popular social network’s posts in its searches.

That means your rankings in Google could get a lot better – especially if you are plugged in to Facebook.

Got a Fan Page? Integrate your blog feed into the wall posts. Get on the Networked Blogs application.
Integrate Twitter with [...]

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Is Your Writing Dressed for Success? by Marnie Swedberg

February 25th, 2010 · No Comments · guest blog

Special thanks to Marnie Swedberg for guest blogging at Market My Novel today!

Successful writing requires more than simply slapping words onto paper and calling it good. In the same way you dress with care for a gala event, you need to assemble your words with style for a polished presentation.

Consider how you get dressed every [...]

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Marketing—Using the Social Media by Jo-Anne Vandermeulen

February 15th, 2010 · 2 Comments · guest blog

Please welcome romance author and book marketing expert Jo-Anne Vandermeulen today to Market My Novel!

In 2010, how will you perceive the social media?

If you’re new to blogging and involving yourself in the social media sites like Facebook and Twitter, you do have a choice on how to handle this new form or tool of marketing. [...]

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Blog in Advance to Save Sanity

February 15th, 2010 · No Comments · Blogs, Marketing

You’ve got to love it when someone who gives advice needs a healthy dose of his – or her – own.

One of my key components to any plan for clients is blogging in advance. It is wonderful to have two or three weeks worth of posts ready to go live, or be pushed to a [...]

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Garey Adds Virtual World for Fans

February 6th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Online Marketing

When I read Terri Garey’s Nicki Styx series, I cannot help but picture the clothes, shoes and all things vintage in the protagonist’s shop, Handbags and Gladrags.

I’m a vintage nut, so this element of the character totally appeals to me. Apparently, it does with other fans, who have asked Garey to showcase some of Nicki’s [...]

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Enthusiasm a Must for Today’s Authors

January 27th, 2010 · 10 Comments · Marketing, self publishing

I’ve always been a huge proponent of self publishing.

Years ago, self publishing wasn’t easy. Many authors ended up with boxes of books gathering dust in their garages. They wrote the books and paid to publish, but they had a hard time finding buyers for them.

With the explosion of the Internet and social media, the publishing [...]

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Market My Novel Survey Results

January 26th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Marketing

The results are in from the 2009 Market My Novel Author Marketing Survey!

Of course, these would have been to you much sooner than the end of January, but I’d wanted to create some nice graphs. That was this post’s near demise. After struggling to get the program to work for I don’t know how long, [...]

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Kim Smith Talks Marketing

January 8th, 2010 · 11 Comments · Interviews

Today Kim Smith, author of Buried Angel, drops by Market My Novel to talk about book promotions.

Before you were published, did you know anything about marketing?

No. I felt like a lost ball in the high weeds. It was something that I did without knowing what I was doing. I just went out and joined as [...]

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How to Find Your Audience Part II

January 6th, 2010 · 7 Comments · How To, Marketing, Online Marketing

In a follow up to Monday’s post, How to Find Your Audience, I discussed ways for writers to find readers. Today, get some advice from other writers. Special thanks to Marilyn Meredith, Cheryl Malandrinos and Cheryl Kaye Tardif for responding to my shout out via Facebook!

H’mmm, that’s an interesting concept. I suppose by having a [...]

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Food Makes Good Conversation with Readers

January 5th, 2010 · 3 Comments · Marketing, Online Marketing

Good food makes great conversation.
No matter if you are out to dinner with friends, or skimming the best hors devours from the buffet at a party, food tends to bring out the conversationalist in most people.
Food is also terrific for marketing. I cannot tell you the number of times I’ve checked out a blog or [...]

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