I hope everyone had a great Memorial Day weekend! This week, I’m switching things around a bit and posting my YouTube video today and my regularly scheduled blog post on Thursday. Here are a few tips to help you make your own video blog posts, including links to all my equipment. (To be sure you […]
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May 28th, 2013 | Tags: blog, Blogger, blogging, freelance editor, Meghan Ward, San Francisco editor, Social Media, social networking, video blog post, vlog, Writerland, You Tube, YouTube | Category: Marketing, Social Media, Videos | 2 comments - (Comments are closed) This week, I’m introducing a series of YouTube videos that I am creating to give readers who don’t have a lot of time to read long blog posts quick access to information about writing, editing, publishing, and social media. To be sure you don’t miss any, click on the red “Subscribe to my videos on […] May 17th, 2013 | Tags: author blog, author platform, blog, Blogger, blogging, creative writing, freelance editor, Meghan Ward, Publishing, San Francisco editor, Social Media, social networking, Writerland, Writing | Category: Marketing, Publishing, Social Media, Videos, Writing | 9 comments - (Comments are closed) An essay that ran in Salon two weeks ago titled “I’m a self-publishing failure” recounts how one writer, John Winters, spent countless hours and dollars promoting his book online only to sell a handful of copies. Where did John go wrong? How can you avoid becoming a self-publishing failure? 1. First of all, start […] April 16th, 2013 | Tags: Bay Area editor, Books, ebooks, freelance editor, indie publishing, Meghan Ward, San Francisco editor, Self-Publishing, Social Media, social networking, Writerland | Category: Marketing, Publishing, Self-Publishing, Social Media, The Author Platform | 28 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) Social networks like Facebook, Twitter, Google+, and Instagram are great for connecting with your friends and your fans, but how can you expand your reach to people who have never heard of you? Self-publishing stars like Amanda Hocking know the secret: book bloggers. Reviews by high-profile book bloggers can make the difference between a […] January 24th, 2013 | Tags: Berkeley editor, book blog, book blogger, book marketing, freelance editor, Meghan Ward, Publishing, San Francisco editor, Self-Publishing, Social Media, social networking, Writerland | Category: Dis n Dat | 23 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) 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) 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) Social networking, or online networking, is a style of networking that is popular among introverts writers because it allows us to blog, tweet, and post status updates from the quiet of our desk chairs and sofas. We don’t need to articulately deliberate over the national deficit while sipping martinis and munching canapés in some stranger’s […] October 9th, 2012 | Tags: Bay Area editors, blogging, Facebook, freelance editors, Malcolm Gladwell, Meghan Ward, San Francisco editors, Social Media, social networking, The Tipping Point, Twitter, Writerland | Category: Marketing, Self-Publishing, Social Media, The Author Platform, Writing | 18 comments - (Comments are closed) The $64,000 question when it comes to social media is: Does it sell books? Many authors have written blog posts attempting to answer this question, and the consensus seems to be that yes, done right, social media does sell books, but in modest quantities. In other words, a rock star social media platform does not […] September 25th, 2012 | Tags: author platform, blogging, Facebook, freelance editors, Meghan Ward, San Francisco editors, Social Media, social networking, Twitter, Writerland | Category: Marketing, Memoir, Publishing, Self-Publishing, Social Media, The Author Platform, Writing | 21 comments - (Comments are closed) |
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