Plugins provide a blogger or blog-to-book author with the special features and automation a blog theme lacks. Plus, they improve the blogging process and make it more effective. Therefore, it’s essential for bloggers to understand plugins…and use them. This is especially true if you are blogging a book. So, today Jay Artale (@BirdsOAFpress) provides an […]
Creating a Plan for More Effective Blogging
As a writer, you may worry that, if you begin blogging, you will run out of material. You may think you have little to say to help promote your work. If you blog your book, of course, the manuscript provides the content for your blog posts—at least until you finish the book. Once you finish […]
5 Quick Tips for Consistently Improving Blog Post Engagement
Engaging your readers attention on a consistent basis can seem tough. But on some days, bloggers also struggle to engage themselves enough to write yet-another post. So how do you and your readers stay engaged in your content? Write better blog posts. Today, Jay Artale (@BirdsOAFpress) offers five tips to help you improve reader engagement […]
6 Essential Branding Steps for Authors and Bloggers
You might think branding seems like an activity best suited to companies, like Nike, Audi, Best Buy, Rolex, or Amazon. Wrong. Books and words brand authors and bloggers. And they do so in an authentic and organic manner. In fact, both authors and bloggers need brands, but most writers don’t think about branding—or don’t want […]
Befriend Your Competition to Grow Your Blog and Book Audience
If you think your competition is the enemy, think again. Authors (and bloggers) benefit greatly by developing relationships with others in their niche. Today, Jay Artale (@BirdsOAFpress) explains why this is true and how to connect with your competitors to increase the audience for your blog and book. Before I became an author, I thought […]
5 Strategies for Getting Early Feedback on Your Book Idea or Manuscript
Receiving reader feedback on your manuscript before you publish might be the most valuable step you can take toward producing a successful book. You can obtain this information in a variety of ways depending upon how you choose to write your book. In fact, you can get early feedback even before you write your book. […]
6 Ways to Supplement Your Blog-a-Book Content
Blogging a book is exciting and interesting…most of the time. But you need a strategy for the days when you don’t feel motivated to work on your blog-a-book project. Today, Jay Artale (@BirdsOAFpress) offers six blog post options you can use instead of a post for your blogged book. Before you blog your book, you […]
One Way to Quickly Improve Your Writing
Writing and editing are two different things, but the latter can be the key to producing well-written blog posts and blogged book manuscripts. Today writing teacher and New York Times bestselling author Jerry Jenkins (@JerryBJenkins) offers advice on self-editing. Want to immediately improve your writing? It’s not a matter of studying a specific technique, learning […]
3 Book Marketing Tactics Perfect For Bloggers
Marketing is an essential for bloggers and authors alike, but it doesn’t have to be hard or overwhelming. Today, Jay Artale (@BirdsOAFpress) explains how you can put your book marketing in place with three simple tactics. You’ve decided to write your book, post by post, on your blog. Blogging your book is the straightforward part. […]
How to Take Control of Your Blogging Career
Bloggers often embark on their journeys with great clarity about the direction they want to sail. Feeling like the captains of their blogging ships, they know what topics they want to cover and where they want their career to land. Later, that clarity may wane, though, and their ships may drift off course. Losing your […]
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