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 | 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 | Mar 2, 2013 | Author Platform, Google Plus for Authors, Social Media for Authors
Activities you can and should be doing on G+ Circle Share Re-share +1 Comment +mention Reply (basically commenting with a +mention) Join/Form Communities Hangout Post Photos Use #hashtags Google+ is a giant, non-stop, global conversation. Doing a few of these...
by Amanda Hagarty | Feb 13, 2013 | Audience, Author Platform
During my social media lessons I often hear: “All this social media is great, but how do I find my readers” and one of the first things I say is “Find yourself and you will find your readers.” We write things that we like usually. So inside...
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 | Feb 3, 2013 | Author Platform, Google Plus for Authors, Social Media for Authors
I just wanted to share some interesting developments in the social media world. Basically a Facebook vs Google+ discussion. (Warning I am admittedly a Google fangirl so yes I am biased but you can’t ignore the facts). Recently Google+ surpassed Twitter to become...
