1. Use your name/brand as your Twitter handle. For the same reason that you want your name on your blog and your Facebook page, people won’t realize that Kiala Givehand is “supercoolwriter,” whose Tweets they follow and love, when they see her book in the bookstore, and they won’t buy it. Unlike on Facebook, […]
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March 26th, 2013 | Tags: author platform, freelance editor, Meghan Ward, Networking for Introverts, San Francisco editor, Social Media, social network, Twitter, Writerland | Category: E-Books, Marketing, Publishing, Self-Publishing, Social Media, The Author Platform | 28 comments - (Comments are closed) I had the pleasure to meet Patrick Brown, Director of Community at GoodReads, when he came to lunch at the San Francisco Writers’ Grotto today. Brown spoke about the GoodReads Author Program and offered these tips for authors on GoodReads. 1. GoodReads has a free Author Program. You can use it to post videos and […] March 13th, 2013 | Tags: Bay Area editor, book review, Books, freelance editor, GoodReads, Library Thing, Meghan Ward, Patrick Brown, Reading, San Francisco editor, Shelfari, Writerland | Category: Books, E-Books, Marketing, Publishing, Reading, Self-Publishing, Social Media, The Author Platform, Writing | 31 comments - (Comments are closed) For those of you who were intimidated by the thought of marketing yourself on YouTube, here’s a video tool for you.Vine, Twitter’s new social media video app, allows you to make short videos on your computer or mobile device and easily upload them to your Vine, Twitter, and Facebook accounts. The catch? The videos are […] March 7th, 2013 | Tags: freelance editor, Meghan Ward, Networking for Introverts, San Francisco editor, Social Media, social network, Twitter, video, Vine, Writerland, YouTube | Category: Marketing, Publishing, Self-Publishing, Social Media, The Author Platform | 22 comments - (Comments are closed) Today I’d like to welcome Dane Golden of Hey.com, who is here to talk about how writers can use YouTube to build their author platforms. If you’re a writer, how should you use YouTube? Well, I believe YouTube is best thought of as social video, a conversation between you, the writer, and […] February 12th, 2013 | Tags: author platform, Dane Golden, Hey.com, Meghan Ward, Social Media, social networking, Writerland, YouTube | Category: Publishing, Self-Publishing, Social Media, The Author Platform | 16 comments - (Comments are closed) Happy 2013! If you’re an astute Writerland reader, you noticed that I took a break from social media over the holidays. I didn’t blog, I didn’t tweet, I didn’t Facebook or Google+ or pin. I played Angry Birds (the board game, not the iPhone app), Rush Hour, and Munchkin, I solved the Perplexus Rookie […] January 9th, 2013 | Tags: Blogger, blogging, blogging class, Blogging for Beginners, Facebook, freelance editor, Google, Meghan Ward, San Francisco editor, San Francisco Writers' Grotto, SF Grotto, Social Media, social networking, Twitter, Writerland | Category: Self-Publishing, Social Media, The Author Platform, Writing | 22 comments - (Comments are closed) Today I’d like to welcome back Brooke Warner, publisher of She Writes Press and founder of Warner Coaching. Today Brooke is here to talk to us today about self-publishing and the changes going on with the Big Six Five. Brooke worked in the publishing industry for thirteen years, first at North Atlantic Books, then […] December 11th, 2012 | Tags: Bay Area editors, Brooke Warner, San Francisco editors, Seal Press, She Writes Press, Warner Coaching | Category: Author Interviews, Books, Contests, E-Books, Marketing, Publishing, Self-Publishing, Social Media, The Author Platform, Writing | 32 comments - (Comments are closed) If you have a professional Facebook page, you’re probably familiar with Promoted Posts, which Facebook launched in May of this year. For $5 $10, or $15, Facebook will make your post more visible within your followers’ news feeds. If you don’t promote your post, only a fraction of your followers will ever see it. On […] November 29th, 2012 | Tags: Bay Area editor, Facebook, freelance editor, Meghan Ward, promoted posts, San Francisco editor, Social Media, social networking, Writerland | Category: Marketing, Self-Publishing, Social Media, The Author Platform, Writing | 25 comments - (Comments are closed) Last month I registered for the BlogHer 13 conference, which will take place in Chicago July 25-27 of next year, and I’m very excited! The early bird rate has ended, but there’s a $299 holiday discount right now, so grab that if you haven’t already bought your ticket, so we can hang out in Chicago […] November 20th, 2012 | Tags: author platform, Blogger, blogging, Facebook, Linked In, Meghan Ward, Pinterest, Social Media, social network, Twitter, Writerland | Category: Marketing, Publishing, Self-Publishing, Social Media, The Author Platform, Writing | 17 comments - (Comments are closed) Today I’d like to welcome publisher of She Writes Press and founder of Warner Coaching Brooke Warner, who is here to talk about She Writes Press and her new book, What’s Your Book? A Step-by-Step Guide to Get You From Inspiration to Published Author. Next month, Brooke will be back to talk about self-publishing […] November 14th, 2012 | Tags: author platform, Bay Area editor, Brooke Warner, Meghan Ward, Rachelle Gardner, San Francisco editor, Seal Press, Self-Publishing, She Writes, What's Your Book? social media, Writerland | Category: Author Interviews, Books, Contests, Marketing, Publishing, Self-Publishing, Social Media, The Author Platform, Writing | 18 comments - (Comments are closed) If you’re a blogger, you’ve probably heard the term “SEO,” short for “search engine optimization.” You may even know what SEO is (a method for improving your website’s ranking in Google and other search engine results). But why should you care about SEO? Because few people look past the first page of results when they […] October 23rd, 2012 | Tags: author platform, blogging, blogging classes, E-Books, e-publishing, freelance editors, Meghan Ward, San Francisco editors, San Francisco Writers' Grotto, search engine marketing, search engine optimization, Self-Publishing, SEM, SEO, Social Media, social networking, The Grotto, Writerland | Category: E-Books, Marketing, Self-Publishing, Social Media, The Author Platform | 93 comments - (Comments are closed) |
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