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We need to keep in mind, the more traffic we can pull in to our web, the more opportunities we will get for sales and affiliate revenue! Nevertheless, it is still important we write our promotional articles and blogs for our reader’s pleasure not the search engines.
Carolyn Howard Johnson for Sharing with Writers begins: Authors Sharing with Authors: Basic Marketing Tips for Newbies. December is a great time to host guest bloggers. I encourage other bloggers to host guests often. Everyone benefits. The guest gets exposure. The blogger gets a bit of a rest. The two of them get to network and possibly to work on future promotions or to collaborate in other ways. This one comes to you from nonfiction writer and poet (with my thanks!) Joyce White.
Congratulations!!! You’ve published your book. You will soon realize the buck stops with you when it comes to promoting it unless you have plenty of bucks to pour out to publicists and/or your publisher. To make a difference, money must be spent. We are living in wicked hard times that require wicked smart solutions. Whatever we do, we must learn to have a sense of humor and not take ourselves too seriously. I’m not one who travels around with jokes in my head, but I think you will appreciate the following, “How many publishers does it take to screw in a light bulb? Three. One to screw it in. Two to hold down the author.” Yes, we authors can be a little stubborn and strong willed. To be successful, we must have relentless persistence in our belief of ourselves and our work, to convince others to spend their hard-earned cash on our books. Most believe authors run on instinct not marketing figures like publishers. John Kremer, author of 1001 Ways to Market your Books says, “The best single advertisement for a book, other than giving away lots of review copies, is the author. An author is a walking-talking advertisement for his book…"The author is his best sales person even though the best solutions emerge through trial and error for all of us.
The famed artist Vincent Van Gogh says, “I dream my painting and then I paint my dream.” Like him we need to dream our writing and then write our dream.
Martin Luther King says, “Faith is taking the first step even when there is no staircase.” Keep the faith and step lightly but loudly.
Confucius says, “Choose a job you love and you will never have to work a day in your life.” I agree. Writing is a job but it is no chore.
To read more tips go to: http://www.sharingwithwriters.blogspot.com/.
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