by Joel Friedlander | Nov 26, 2012 | Author Blogging 101, Marketing, Social Media
New blogs are popping up all the time. New writers, new authors, new businesses and new ideas find a friendly space and set up shop. Authors are encouraged to use author blogging to help build their careers. There are lots great reasons for authors to blog, and I...
by Joel Friedlander | Nov 19, 2012 | Author Blogging 101, Marketing, Social Media
There’s nothing that’s more important when you start your author blog than getting traffic. Yep, you read that right. It’s more important than content, more important than what platform you’re blogging on, more important than your blog design...
by Joel Friedlander | Oct 1, 2012 | Author Blogging 101, Marketing
When you search out great content for other people, you spend a lot of time surfing websites and author blogs to gather the best articles you can find. A couple of weeks ago I was on an author’s blog and noticed a series of comments that sounded oddly familiar....
by Joel Friedlander | Sep 5, 2012 | Author Blogging 101, Editorial, Self-Publishing, Social Media
It seems like a lot of the things we do online now revolve around images, videos and other types of digital media that augment, amplify or otherwise complement the written word which is, after all, our stock in trade as writers. For instance, if you want to take the...
by Joel Friedlander | Aug 27, 2012 | Author Blogging 101, Marketing, Social Media
The idea of an author blog is pretty simple, really. As most authors understand it, they write articles around the same topics that are central to their books, market their blogs to people who are interested in those topics, and slowly build an audience, a readership...
by Joel Friedlander | Aug 13, 2012 | Author Blogging 101, Marketing, Self-Publishing
It seems that authors fall into two categories when it comes to author blogging: Authors who are blogging regularly Authors who think they should be blogging regularly If you read blogs you come to the conclusion that there are lots of reasons authors are blogging....
