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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
3 Proven Ways to Grow Your Blog Audience
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 […]
3 Key Elements to Building 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 […]
How to Share Your Blog Posts in Facebook 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 […]
The Introverted Blogger: Online Networking Tips for Introverts
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 […]
How to Cold Pitch a Guest Post at a Powerful Blog
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 […]
Three Essential Elements for Building a Strong Blog Community
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, […]
Website offers Opportunity for Feedback and Crowdsourcing
As you blog your book, you can benefit by sharing bits and pieces of your manuscript on a new site called Medium. You might be surprised at how well this site works for obtaining early feedback on your concept or story and for crowdsourcing information related to your topic. Plus, if your posts are popular, […]
