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This Week in the Blogs, December 30, 2017 – January 5, 2018

by Joel Friedlander on January 7, 2018 Leave a Comment

Well, we’ve rounded the corner and headed into 2018. What will the new year hold for authors and self-publishers? We rounded up some of the best articles on the year ahead and mixed them in with some great advice you can use today. Enjoy! Mark Coker on Smashwords 2018 Book Industry Predictions: Are Indie Authors […]

Filed Under: Social Media Tagged With: Author Blogging 101, book marketing, Self-Publishing

Author Blogging 101: Your Quick Guide to Content Curation

by Joel Friedlander on July 3, 2017 9 Comments

Curators have traditionally been found in museums and libraries where, relying on their expertise in a specific field, they acquire, organize, and present selections of works with something in common. Enter technology, and we’ve had an explosion of online content aimed at specialized audiences. The last time I looked, there were a reported 73 million […]

Filed Under: Author Blogging 101, Marketing, Social Media Tagged With: Author Blogging 101, content curation

Content Creation for Bloggers: 14 Kinds of Shareable Content

by Joel Friedlander on May 1, 2017 12 Comments

In this increasingly social world, where the effectiveness of your book marketing can seem to be a matter of metrics—hits, shares, likes, re-tweets, re-pins—shareable content is, or should be, the goal for all author bloggers. All these ways social media gives us to comment and pass on each others’ work depend on one thing: great […]

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Content Creation for Bloggers: 3 Questions

by Joel Friedlander on April 17, 2017 2 Comments

A lot of the authors I talk to who want to use blogging as a tool in their overall book marketing strategy get stalled with content creation. Since they are authors, they already know how to write, that’s not the problem. But there are specific questions that come up over and over again that stymie […]

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How to Choose a Domain Name for Your Author Website

by Joel Friedlander on June 6, 2016 26 Comments

I don’t think there’s any doubt at this point that every author needs a website. Publishers recommend them for their own authors, and self-publishing writers know that, for most of us, our natural home is online. But the next thing that comes up when you decide you need a website to advance your writing career, […]

Filed Under: Author Blogging 101, Marketing Tagged With: Author Blogging 101, blog, domain name, web hosting, website

Live Event: How to Sell Thousands of Books Using Your Blog with Yaro Starak

by Joel Friedlander on August 10, 2015 6 Comments

Live Event: How to Sell Thousands of Books Using Your Blog with Yaro Starak explores the results of blogging and announces a free webinar

Filed Under: Author Blogging 101, Self-Publishing, Training Tagged With: Author Blogging 101, Blog Mastermind, blogging, Yaro Starak

7 Traps Waiting for Successful Bloggers, (Part 2)

by Joel Friedlander on November 3, 2014 8 Comments

7 Traps Waiting for Successful Bloggers, (Part 2) describes problems with technology, pitches, burnout, and life itself

Filed Under: Author Blogging 101, Self-Publishing Tagged With: Author Blogging 101, burnout, internet marketing, technology, VA

7 Traps Waiting for Successful Bloggers, (Part 1)

by Joel Friedlander on October 27, 2014 11 Comments

7 Traps Waiting for Successful Bloggers, (Part 1) describes problems with SPAM, hackers and internet trolls

Filed Under: Author Blogging 101, Self-Publishing Tagged With: Akismet, author blog, Author Blogging 101, blogging, Sucuri

How Research Sets the Stage for Blog Marketing

by Joel Friedlander on November 25, 2013 5 Comments

Author Blogging 101: How Research Sets the Stage for Blog Marketing describes two activities to research a new topic area

Filed Under: Author Blogging 101, Marketing Tagged With: Author Blogging 101, author platform, blogging, book marketing, email marketing

5 Steps to Author Blogging Success

by Joel Friedlander on October 30, 2013 32 Comments

5 Steps to Author Blogging Success includes links to helpful articles for author bloggers

Filed Under: Author Blogging 101 Tagged With: Author Blogging 101, blogging, book marketing, indie author, social media

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