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February 8, 2022 by Nina Amir Leave a Comment

How to Build a Powerful Local Audience for Your Blog and Book

build local audience at bookshops and libraries

Everyone talks about building a platform online. However, you can also build a strong local audience by teaming up with bookstores and libraries in your community. Today Jay Artale (@BirdsOAFpress) provides all the information you need to create avid readers and book buyers with face-to-face meetings. As a blogger and author, you spend so much […]

Filed Under: Building Community, Promote Your Book, Promotion Tagged With: audience, blog, blog a book, bloggers, blogging, blogging a book, book sellers, lilbraries, local audience, local book events, local bookstores, platform, platform building

January 11, 2022 by Nina Amir 3 Comments

An Introduction to Using WordPress Plugins to Help Blog a Book

WordPress plugins for blogging books

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 […]

Filed Under: Building a Better Blog, Building Community, Create Your Blog, Increasing Traffic, Success Strategies Tagged With: blog, blog a book, bloggers, blogging, blogging a book, plugins, recommendations, Wordpress

December 7, 2021 by Nina Amir Leave a Comment

5 Quick Tips for Consistently Improving Blog Post Engagement

write better and more engaging blog posts

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 […]

Filed Under: Building a Better Blog, Building Community, Increasing Traffic, Success Strategies, Writing for the Internet, Writing Posts/Chapters Tagged With: blog, blog a book, bloggers, blogging, blogging a book, blogging consistently, headlines, marketing, passion, purpose, reader engagement, SEO, write better blog posts

November 9, 2021 by Nina Amir Leave a Comment

Befriend Your Competition to Grow Your Blog and Book Audience

connect with your book's audience by building connections with the competition

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 […]

Filed Under: Building Community, Increasing Traffic, Publicizing Your Blog Tagged With: audience, blog, blog a book, Blog commenting, bloggers, blogging, blogging a book, competition, competitive analysis, competitors, guest blogging, social media

December 10, 2019 by Nina Amir 1 Comment

3 Proven Ways to Grow Your Blog Audience

how to grow your blog audience with proven strategies

Blogging isn’t like the movie Field of Dreams. If you build it—your blog, they—your readers—will not come. You need a plan to attract a blog audience, and you must work that plan. In this post, Jay Artale (@BirdsOAFpress), a digital nomad and full-time writer and blogger, offers several audience-building strategies that work…and work well. When […]

Filed Under: Build a Business Around Your Book, Building Community, Increasing Traffic, Publicizing Your Blog, Success Strategies Tagged With: audience building, blog, blog a book, blog audience, blogged book, blogging, discoverability, reach

September 24, 2019 by Nina Amir 2 Comments

3 Key Elements to Building a Blog Audience

how to build a blog audience

Many writers begin blogging for one reason: to build an audience. They need a platform to publish books successfully. But to build a blog audience you need to do more than blog. Today, Jay Artale (@BirdsOAFpress), a digital nomad and full-time writer and blogger, offers a three-step strategy to help you attract an audience for […]

Filed Under: Building Community, Increasing Traffic, Promotion, Publicizing Your Blog, Success Strategies Tagged With: blog, blog a book, blog audience, blogging, build audience, platform

July 30, 2019 by Nina Amir 3 Comments

How to Share Your Blog Posts in Facebook Communities

YOu can promote your nonfiction book on Facebook - free - by sharing your blog posts in groups or communities.

Given that many Facebook communities or groups don’t allow you to promote—and you don’t want to be one of those pushy authors saying “Buy my book!” all the time, how do you best use Facebook for book promotion? Jay Artale (@BirdsOAFpress), a digital nomad and full-time writer and blogger, has the solution. If you have […]

Filed Under: Building Community, Promotion, Publicizing Your Blog, Success Strategies Tagged With: blogged book, blogging a book, book promotion, Facebook, Facebook communities, Facebook groups

December 19, 2017 by Nina Amir 1 Comment

The Introverted Blogger: Online Networking Tips for Introverts

introverts can network online

If you want to build a successful blog—and book, you need to have an online presence and be visible to  your target audience. That means that even if you are introverted, you must find ways to use the Internet to network. In this post, freelance writer and ghostwriter Dan Kenitz (@buildwithwords) offers tips for developing […]

Filed Under: Building Community, Publicizing Your Blog Tagged With: blogger, blogging, Introvert, introverted, networking, online networking

November 21, 2017 by Nina Amir Leave a Comment

How to Cold Pitch a Guest Post at a Powerful Blog

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Writing guest posts for polar blogs remains one of the best ways to increase the reach of your work. But how do you pitch a guest post (and land the gig) when you dont’ have the same kind of success as the sites for which you’d like to write? In this post, freelance writer and […]

Filed Under: Building Community, Publicizing Your Blog Tagged With: blog post pitch, blogging, guest blog post, guest blogging, pitching bloggers

November 7, 2017 by Nina Amir Leave a Comment

Three Essential Elements for Building a Strong Blog Community

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Did you ever wonder if anyone reads your posts? You see the visitor count, but no one comments on posts. In this post, freelance writer and ghostwriter Dan Kenitz (@buildwithwords) offers three simple but powerful elements you may have forgotten that build a strong—and engaged—blog community. Your research, write, edit, rinse, repeat. And you post, […]

Filed Under: Building Community, Publicizing Your Blog Tagged With: blog comments, blogging, community, engagement, get personal, giving, particpation

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