How to Blog a Book

Inspiring You to Build Visibility, Boost Authority and Become an Author Post by Post

Inspiring You to Build Visibility, Boost Authority and Become an Author Post by Post

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How to Get Traditionally Published with Low Blog Readership

You started blogging to build a platform and land a traditional publishing deal. But you’ve got a problem. You’ve been blogging for while—a year or more—and you still don’t have a lot of readers. You’ve been sharing posts on social media sites, blogging often and in a focused manner, but your efforts just haven’t paid […]

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4 Uncommon Content Marketing Tactics to Increase Blog Traffic

Every post you write and publish, whether part of your book or a singular entry to promote your work, represents an effort to use content marketing strategies. However, there’s more to content marketing than writing and publishing blog posts. In this guest post, Mike Dane (@mikedane7) a digital marketing professional and PR manager at TruConversion.com, helps […]

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Are You Blogging a Book? List it here!

Gaining readers to your blogged book represents the keys to success. Whether you plan on self-publishing your blogged book or want to be discovered by an agent or publisher, you must have a successful blog–one with many unique visitors. (If you don’t understand that term, read this post.) That’s your author platform or fan base, […]

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Jonathan Fields on Blog Traffic, Subscribers and Content

Yesterday I published a blog post on my other blog, Write Nonfiction NOW!, based on a very interesting interview I conducted with Jonathan Fields. In that post, Jonathan and I discussed what it takes to create a bestselling book: author’s platform, a business model, hard work, great release strategies, and a great book. (You can […]

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Darren Rowse: On Creating Profitable and Successful Blogs

Not only do I want my book blogging to result in a traditional publishing deal or a successfully self-published book, I also want that effort to create a successful blog that continues to attract readers and income after the book is published. This should be your goal as well. That’s how you create a business […]

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Chris Garrett on How to Turn Blog Readers Into Book Buyers

As part of this blog’s new focus, this is the first of a series of posts I’m going to publish during January based upon interviews I conducted at BlogWorld & New Media Expo in Los Angeles, CA, in early November 2011. While there I had the opportunity to speak with Chris Garrett, Darren Rowse, Liz […]

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Using Video to Drive Traffic to Your Blogged Book

An increasingly popular way to drive traffic to blogs these days involves video. YouTube has become a huge source of  information and entertainment. You may find that by posting videos to YouTube you can drive enormous amounts of traffic to your blogged book. Most computers, especially laptops, have video capability, and flip cameras are pretty […]

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Content is King and Key

I’ve heard it said that content is king. I’ve also heard it said that content is key. The two sentences mean the same thing. If you want to produce a blog people will read–one that will generate traffic and get the attention of a publisher sometime down the road (or simply gain you readers when […]

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