New info for me. I didn’t know one could make my blog disappear!
Oh, a fix for something that has been bothering me. Thanks!
Great ideas!
A month ago, I was drowning in emails. My phone dinged with alerts. I had heart palpitations every time I tried to confront my out of control inbox. It was common for me to wake up to fifty (or more!) new emails every morning. After working all day, I’d come home to dozens of new emails. I couldn’t keep up and had a difficult time sorting the important, time-sensitive stuff from the fluff.
Today, things have changed. My inbox is manageable. New emails trickle in at a much slower pace. The stress associated with checking my email is gone.
How did I do it? By making a few, easy changes.
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Good tips. Now I need to follow them!
Because sometimes I’ve had so many files swirling around in my computer that I forgot which one was the last one.
I check the dates. Grab what looks like the right one, but lo and behold there is another one way over on the other side of a black hole.
Head slap! How in the hell did a 100 pages end up with the cookie recipes?
Listen, I’ve always considered myself a pretty organized person. I like the potato chips on the bottom shelf of the pantry. Drives me nuts when someone moves them around.
But sometimes my fiction runs rampant, and like scurrying little mice, stories duck into hiding spaces on the far side of my computer.
Glad I found the following article in my inbox.
Hope it helps you too.
Lots…
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Wonderful idea, Sally! Looking forward to it.
Reblogging is like giving a Christmas gift to the original author. Yay! Thanks, I say.
There’s even MORE shit I have to do?
While you are building (or expanding) your platform, it’s a great time to polish, edit and add or delete whatever you want added to or deleted from your book. Plus, a lot of the time we have to make choices about what the blurb will say and what the cover needs to look like. Bouncing that stuff off a bunch of Facebook author page friends or Twitter followers or Blog subscribers is a great way to see what the feedback is – and spend no money to find out.
Part of the way you increase your base is by adding people as followers on Twitter, Facebook, and your blog, or whatever other social media you like doing. Most of you have blogs, so let’s focus there.
That’s how it feels, yeah.
Look what happened when I posted and tweeted about my…
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Blogging tips in a nutshell. Not saying that the writer is a nut. Well, we all are sometimes, are we not?
Sometimes you start to blog, not having blog tips as warnings, you are all excited and you do things to your blog or that involves blogging that ultimately end up being traps that are like quicksand. They drag you down and deplete you of energy as you work to pull yourself out of what has happened.
What you do with your blog is ultimately up to you, because you want your blog to BE you. It represents part of you that you want to put out there.
Today I want to cover 10 things, traps if you will, that will cost you time, cause you weariness, and create misery. Knowing these things ahead of time might be able to save you. As a blogger now, you can maybe head these things off before they get out of hand. Or if you’re neck deep already, perhaps these 10 tips will give…
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The most effective way for authors to market books is by talking directly to readers through email marketing. How to start list building.
Source: Email List Building for Authors: Get Started with Email Marketing
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