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 […]
Use Content Curation to Build Expert Status
Many people blog for one reason: to build expert status. Sharing your knowledge and experience on your blog and social networks provides an ideal way to become an authority. However, sometimes your blog content is not enough. Maybe you only blog once per week. Therefore, you only have one post per week to share on […]
7 Maximum Exposure Methods For Authors And Bloggers
Writing a good nonfiction book is a tremendous accomplishment. The same goes for putting in the time and effort to create a well-trafficked blog. One of the biggest challenges writers and bloggers face is getting exposure for their work. Marketing your book or blog to your potential audience is a critical task that can determine […]
How to Build Platform and Promote Your Book with Articles
All aspiring and published authors should consider themselves journalists. Whether you want to build author platform or you simply want to find ways to promote your book, articles provide an effective promotional element to add to your marketing toolbox. It’s easy enough to simply write articles about the topic of your book “off the top […]
Book Bloggers Write, But Do They Speak?
Writers tend to be introverts. They like to hide away in their offices with their computers and not talk to many people. Like most aspiring authors, book bloggers in many cases tend to be introverts, too. However, they’ve figured out that they can build that coveted author’s platform from the comfort of their lonely writer’s […]
Creating a Platform for You and Your Book
The publishing world has changed dramatically over the last decade. No longer can you simply present an agent or a publisher with a good idea and good writing and expect to get a contract in return. You must prove that you already have people ready and waiting to purchase your book as soon as it […]
Why Blog a Book? You Get Exposure and Build “Platform” (Part 2)
You Get Exposure and Build “Platform” Many writers enjoy spending time alone in their “lonely garret” with only the company of a hot cup of coffee or tea and a computer (or a pad of paper and pencil). In fact, that’s what most writer’s like best. To become a published nonfiction author, however, you […]