by Amanda Hagarty | Oct 17, 2015 | Author Platform, Marketing Strategies for Authors, Websites
Ok I have been coming up with these Golden Rules for a while. My passions are writing, marketing, sales and social media. So I have come up with quite a few snippets of wisdom over the years. I did a talk about social media for authors at the Skagit Valley Writers...
by Amanda Hagarty | Mar 19, 2015 | Marketing Strategies for Authors
Everyone always wants the magic beans. Have you ever heard about a clever promotional strategy “too late”? By the time you hear about it someone has closed the loophole, or so many people are doing it that it doesn’t give the benefits it used to....
by Amanda Hagarty | Jun 27, 2013 | Author Platform, Marketing Strategies for Authors, Social Media for Authors
Successful social media is an essential part of today’s author platform. But it seems like every writer is worried that social media success is actually a failure in disguise. The million-dollar-question, I hear over and over, is: “But does social media...
by Amanda Hagarty | Feb 13, 2013 | Author Platform, Marketing Strategies for Authors, SEO
Have you ever wondered if your Blog-Tweet-Tube-Post-Plus routine is all you should be doing to promote your book or grow your author platform? What you are doing right now is probably such a grind that you are cursing at me through your monitor at the mere suggestion....
by Amanda Hagarty | Sep 23, 2012 | Author Websites, Marketing Strategies for Authors, Social Media for Authors
Ever since word got out in Bellingham about my social media marketing lessons, I have had a deluge of authors asking for my help. They have varying degrees of skill levels with computers and the Internet, but that all have one complaint: “I have been doing this...
by Amanda Hagarty | May 8, 2012 | Marketing Strategies for Authors
Marketing is something writers tend to dread. They come up with all kinds of excuses to justify not marketing their books: I don’t want to make a profit from my book, just see the story or ideas “get out there.” Marketing is rude/sleazy and will ruin...
