by Amanda Hagarty | Jun 8, 2010 | Marketing Strategies for Authors, Social Media for Authors
Repeat after me: know me, like me, trust me. This is the key to selling anything, including books. If you have this, you don’t need to promote your book, you just wave it in front of their faces, flash your pearly whites and they will want it. If they...
by Amanda Hagarty | May 24, 2010 | Author Blogs, Social Media for Authors
How many people have ever waited with baited breath to see if someone will comment on their latest and most wittiest blog post? It’s about as useless as you sitting at home by the phone, hoping for someone to call you. So how do you get people to start being...
by Amanda Hagarty | May 4, 2010 | Social Media for Authors
My last post was about sharing. Sharing stuff that is worth sharing is important and it’s not good to be apathetic about it. This post is about providing stuff that is worth sharing. This is the other side of the coin. Being original and providing something of...
by Amanda Hagarty | May 3, 2010 | Social Media for Authors
Social Media is all about sharing. You need to create something worth sharing and you need to put it out there so people can find it. Who are the people that share it though? How do you make sure they share it? As good as your content is sometimes people just...
by Amanda Hagarty | Apr 19, 2010 | Social Media for Authors
…Or How not to Waste all your time on Facebook The biggest and, to be honest, quite valid complaint about Social Media is that it’s a time-sink. Especially for someone like me, who works at home on her computer. If you have plenty of time left in your...
by Amanda Hagarty | Apr 5, 2010 | Social Media for Authors
Part 1: The Setup Go do some Twitter! Get on Facebook! Where is your blog? When are you going to have your website up? Have you ever noticed how everyone has plenty of advice about how you should be using the Internet, but nobody really seems to know how? After...
