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Why Your Book Launch Doesn't Matter

Yes. I said it, "YOUR BOOK LAUNCH DOESN'T MATTER!"

Yes. I said it, “YOUR BOOK LAUNCH DOES NOT MATTER!”

Think of it like this if you compared your book launch to a wedding you could arguably say that the wedding day isn’t the most important day in a marriage. It is a BIG day it is the day you become husband and wife, or wife and wife, or husband and husband. Your launch day, well the first time you launch, is the day you become a published author.

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5 Things You Can Do Today To Market Your Book

5 Things You Can Do Today To Market Your Book

How many webinars have you signed up for? Books have you bought? Online universities have you enrolled in? To help you market your book? That number is probably a little scary. You know you need to do it. You know your book needs a website, SEO,  social media, and a marketing plan, but when it comes to the executing it, you freeze up. I mean this is your book you want it to be successful, but you…

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74 Blog Post Ideas for Authors

Are you stuck and don't know what to write about? Here are 74 suggestions to help you get your creative juices flowing.

74 Blog Post Ideas for Authors

Are you stuck and don’t know what to write about? Here are 74 suggestions to help you get your creative juices flowing.

10 things you don’t know about me.

Share your top 10 favorite books.

Review others books.

Share a few embarrassing stories with your readers.

Share excerpts or Chapters from your book.

What I wish I knew about editing.

A background story on your…

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Who would I recommend for your SEO?

Who I recommend for your SEO?

SEO is what allows your website to be found on search engines. In my book A Blonde’s Guide to Be A Better Marketer: For Authors Only  I discuss the steps to improve your SEO in Chapter 4. In that chapter, I break down the steps to helping you find keywords to use and where to place them within your website.

While SEO is essential to getting “traffic” to your site. It isn’t the only way. Many…

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12 Social Media Managers to work with in 2017

12 Social Media Managers to work with in 2017.

While I love, love, love, my social media clients sometimes I am not the best fit for every business.

Here are 12 Social Media Managers I recommend if you want to work with someone other than me.

1. Marley Baird

Marley spends her days creatively rockin’ the social media world. She is the person her friends and coworkers come to when they have questions about pop culture, celebrity news, social…

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12 Social Media Managers to work with in 2017

12 Social Media Managers to work with in 2017.

While I love, love, love, my social media clients sometimes I am not the best fit for every business.

Here are 12 Social Media Managers I recommend if you want to work with someone other than me.

1. Marley Baird

Marley spends her days creatively rockin’ the social media world. She is the person her friends and coworkers come to when they have questions about pop culture, celebrity news, social…

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Published Bliss and Learning the Ropes

I figure, what’s the worst that can happen by reaching out to other writers, reading more...

Finally, August 2016 I published my book “W” on Draft2Digital.com.I sat down, pregnant and all, every work day and made sure to get all the love, hormones, tears, and sexual impulses down on each page of the short story. As I finished the manuscript, I felt immediately accomplished. I was elated to have finally finished my first work in which I’d publish. I’d written plenty of full-length novels…

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Branding 101

Branding… What is it? Why does it matter?

Branding… What is it? Why does it matter?

Branding is the image you create for your business. This includes logos, colors, font, and more. It is important because it helps you stand out from your competition and if done right makes you recognizable.

Think about when they brand horses. Why do they do it? Simple, so they can tell whose horse is whose. So that their horse is easily recognizable as…

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5 reasons to STOP selling on Social Media

Are you sick of people using social media to sell you something? #mlm #sales #marketing

Do you every login to your social media accounts to be solicited by unwanted direct or private messages from people trying to get you to buy their products or services. It is typically informal and annoying.

Before you think I have lost my every loving mind, please know what I am saying does work. I am a successful social media manager, and I own my own digital marketing company. This blog only…

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Growth Hacking 1000 followers in 6 days

How I got 1,145 followers in 6 days.

Last week, I decided I really needed to step up my Twitter game. I spend most of my time helping my clients and rarely take the time to do my own social media. So, I started Monday morning trying desperately to increase my following and begin to establish myself as an expert in the social media and marketing world. So I  set out to try things the average Twitter follower would try to grow their…

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179 Hashtags writer needs to know

Every writer needs to be on social media, but most don't know which hashtags to use.

Every writer needs to be on social media, but most don’t know which hashtags to use. I have compiled a list of 179 hashtags to help you grow your audience and increase your reach.

Hashtag rule of thumb on social media: Facebook: Most people don’t use them or search for them. Twitter: 2-3 per post Instagram: 11-30 in the first comment Pinterest: 2-3 per post

#140Poem #1K1H (write one thousand words…

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What to do when your eBook has errors

10 Things to do when your eBook has errors. #amwriting #author

I woke up this morning at 12:37 to a text from my publisher that the format for my new book was not correct. She informed me that they had to make adjustments. Instead, of panicking I rolled and went back to sleep. I knew she would fix it. I also knew it wasn’t the end of the world. I had only sold a handful of copies because I hadn’t marketed it the way I should have.

But, what on earth do you…

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I Am Only Successful if You Are

My goal is for you to be successful. I am only successful if you are.

When I wrote A Blonde’s Guide to Be a Better Marketer for Authors Only my biggest concern was it not soundly like me and second it was that I copied someone else’s ideologies. I refused to read anything on the subject. I also failed to secure an adequate number of preorders to land on a number one best seller list. I had time working against me from the very beginning.

I was asked to write this…

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Life doesn't come with MAGIC wands

Life doesn't come with MAGIC wands. It is a series of little lessons....

This is probably the hardest blog I’ll ever have to write.  It’s about my greatest failure in business. It left me depressed for months. My depression was so bad I didn’t even want to get out of bed. It also financially ruined me and completely defeated my spirit.

In 2012, I quit my job to become an online millionaire, or so I thought. How was I going to make my first millions? Yes, millions-…