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If you’re like me… You remember that you never RSVP’d to your friend’s book launch, so you log onto Facebook to search for the invitation and you see that another friend finally gave birth to her long overdue baby. You congratulate her. Then you notice that a third friend has posted a fascinating article about […] April 30th, 2014 | Tags: Meghan Ward, Social Media, social network, Writerland, Writing | Category: Marketing, Social Media, The Author Platform, Writing | 14 comments - (Comments are closed) If you live in the San Francisco Bay Area, I have two blogging classes starting in the next week at the San Francisco Writers’ Grotto. Blogging for Beginners starts this Wednesday, January 29, and I still have two openings. My Six-Week Blogging Workshop begins the following Monday, Feb. 3, and four spaces are available. […] January 26th, 2014 | Tags: blogging, blogging classes, Meghan Ward, San Francisco Writers' Grotto, SF Grotto, The Grotto, Writerland | Category: Blogging, Social Media, The Author Platform | 10 comments - (Comments are closed) Tuesday night, I had the privilege of attending Sin and Syntax author Constance Hale’s class The Book Biz from A to Z at the San Francisco Writers’ Grotto. One of the topics that arose was platform. Today, every agent and editor wants to know that you have a platform before representing/buying your book. But […] January 23rd, 2014 | Tags: author platform, book marketing, Marketing, Meghan Ward, personal brand, Publishing, Social Media, social networking, Writerland | Category: Blogging, Publishing, Self-Publishing, Social Media, The Author Platform | 29 comments - (Comments are closed)
In 2012, Twitter and Pinterest rose to prominence, and Facebook bought Instagram and went public. In 2013, Twitter released Vine and went public, Google+ starting gaining traction, and SnapChat turned down a $3 billion offer from Facebook. What will 2014 bring?
1. Google+, Google+, Google+ 2014 is going to be all […] January 9th, 2014 | Tags: Facebook, Google, Google Plus, LinkedIn, Medium, SnapChat, Social Media, social network, social networks of 2014, Twitter | Category: Blogging, Marketing, Social Media, The Author Platform | 20 comments - (Comments are closed) Last month I wrote about how NOT to promote your book. This week, I want to talk about a few ways you SHOULD promote your book and other writing. 1. Include your website, Facebook page, Twitter handle, etc. in the signature on all your emails. Include your email and Twitter handle (at a minimum) […] October 18th, 2013 | Tags: author platform, book promotion, freelance editor, Marketing, Meghan Ward, Publishing, Self-Publishing, Social Media, social media marketing, Writerland | Category: Marketing, Publishing, Self-Publishing, Social Media, The Author Platform | 292 comments - (Comments are closed) Everyone’s been talking about Medium lately. Alexis Madrigal wrote a post about it for The Atlantic. I’ve received multiple invitations from writers who are looking for feedback on drafts of work they’ve posted on Medium. Students in my Blogging for Beginners class have been talking about Medium. But what is Medium? And should you be […] October 3rd, 2013 | Tags: blog, Blogger, blogging, blogging platform, Medium, Medium.com, Meghan Ward, Writerland | Category: Blogging, The Author Platform | 35 comments - (Comments are closed) Don’t do this to your friends
Here’s a common scenario. I say to a friend, “I wonder what Sarah is up to. I haven’t heard from her since we were in that writers’ group three years ago.” Friend: “I haven’t heard from her either. I googled her once, […] September 5th, 2013 | Tags: author platform, blogging, book marketing, book promotion, Facebook, Instagram, Self-Publishing, social marketing, Social Media, Twitter | Category: Blogging, Marketing, Publishing, Self-Publishing, Social Media, The Author Platform | 40 comments - (Comments are closed) Last week in my Blogging for Beginners class at the San Francisco Writers’ Grotto, a student declared that she doesn’t feel comfortable putting her photo on her blog, something I strongly encourage all my students to do. People want to know what the blogger they’re following looks like, and the more professional the photo, […] August 27th, 2013 | Tags: author platform, extrovert, introvert, Marketing, Meghan Ward, Publishing, Quiet, Self-Publishing, Susan Cain, The Power of Introverts, Writerland, writers, Writing | Category: Marketing, Publishing, Self-Publishing, Social Media, The Author Platform, Writing | 31 comments - (Comments are closed) First, a few updates: It’s not too late to win some BlogHer ’13 swag and an ebook copy of Guy Kawasaki’s APE: Author, Publisher, Entrepreneur. Just leave a comment here (You must be subscribed to Writerland to participate–you can do that by entering your email address over there in the right sidebar–>) by midnight Sunday. […] August 16th, 2013 | Tags: Alta Peterson, blog, Blogger, blogging, freelance editor, host your own blog, Meghan Ward, San Francisco editor, self-hosting, Social Media, social network, Tumblr, Wordpress, Wordpress.com, Wordpress.org, Writerland | Category: Blogging, Marketing, Self-Publishing, Social Media, The Author Platform | 61 comments - (Comments are closed) Guy Kawasaki and I at BlogHer ’13 The weekend before last I attended BlogHer ’13 in Chicago along with 5000 other (mostly female) bloggers. We heard keynotes by Pioneer Woman Ree Drummond, social media guru Guy Kawasaki, Facebook COO and Lean In author Sheryl Sandberg, and Walking Dead producer Gale Anne Hurd. Queen Latifah […] August 6th, 2013 | Tags: Blogger, blogging, BlogHer, BlogHer '13, freelance editor, Guy Kawasaki, Lean In, Meghan Ward, Queen Latifah, Randi Zuckerberg, Ree Drummond, San Francisco editor, Sheryl Sandberg, Social Media, social network, The Pioneer Woman, Writerland | Category: Blogging, Contests, E-Books, Marketing, Publishing, Social Media, The Author Platform | 38 comments - (Comments are closed) |
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