30 Twitter Tips You Wish You Knew Years Ago

May 3, 2014 | Marketing

Diana Urban posted 50 Tweetable Twitter Tips You Wish You Knew Years Ago on Hubspot. Here is a smaller selection of 30, for your convenience: Optimizing Your Twitter Profile 1) Make yourself easy to recognize by using a close-up headshot of yourself as your profile...

A-Z: Increase Sales with Countdown Deals

May 2, 2014 | Marketing

My A-Z Guide: How both my books reached #1 on Amazon turned out to be one of my most popular posts. It explains how I used Amazon KDP’s free days to help the two first books of my epic fantasy series, Pearseus, reach that coveted #1 status. However, free days...

15 Simple Ways to Make an Impact

Apr 30, 2014 | Marketing

According to an ancient Chinese legend, there is a huge feast in hell, laid out on the table, but everybody’s knives and forks are so long that they can’t get the food to their own mouths. Struggle as they may, in the face of all this food, they starve. In...

The 10 Social Media Commandments for Authors

Apr 25, 2014 | Marketing

  Anne R. Allen has published a great list with The 10 Commandments of Social Media Etiquette for Writers on her blog. Here’s a brief summary: If you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say it. Not enough?  Alright then, here are her ten tips...

5 Things to Do Before Posting your Blog Post and other thoughts

Apr 15, 2014 | Marketing

When I entered the social media world, I was pretty much clueless, just like everybody else, I guess.  Anyone who knows the difference between a Facebook page and profile and all those tiny but oh-so-perceptible differences between hashtags, @ signs and .@ signs on...

7 fool-proof marketing tips to promote your blog

Apr 14, 2014 | Marketing

So, you want to promote your blog? Here are some blog marketing tips on how to do so. Have good content, posted regularly. It’s best if this has a narrow scope. Since I write mostly genre fiction – fantasy and sci-fi – I post things of interest to...

Basic Book Marketing Tips

Apr 14, 2014 | Marketing, Publishing

It’s Sunday afternoon, and it’s raining cats and dogs. Which makes this afternoon even more melancholic than Sunday ones traditionally are. So, I decided to get some work done, hoping to forget the sad weather outside (on the upside, the garden badly needed some...

Ebooks: Is free the new paid?

Apr 9, 2014 | Marketing, Publishing

As we all know, the publishing world is in major upheaval. With ebook prices dropping even for big authors, and so many ebooks available for free, are we witnessing the end of the paid model? And what might replace it? I can see four distinct models emerging from all...

What’s the best title for your Blog Post?

Apr 9, 2014 | Marketing

I read on Hubspot an interesting post by Sarah Goliger, with the results from 11 title tests, and complemented it with information from the Author Marketing Experts blog. Here’s the main takeaways: Frame your blog post title as a question to make it more...