5 Ways to Reach Your Audience

5 Ways to Reach Your Audience

There are many different ways to reach your audience. Today we are going to look at 5 different ways you can reach out to your audience. Remember that people buy from those they know, like, and trust. Marketing is all about building good relationships with people. Let’s take a look at the first way to…

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Establishing and Marketing Your Company – 1001 Ways #2

A mission statement is strategic in marketing your company. If someone asks, "What do you?" do you have a concise, powerful answer?

[tweet_box design=”default” float=”none”]A mission statement is strategic in marketing your company. If someone asks, “What do you?” do you have a concise, powerful answer? #marketing[/tweet_box] “Any institution worth its salt, any service worth its salt…ought to have a mission that’s brief, that says it all, and that everybody knows.” – Robert Coles, The Ongoing Journey…

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10-Day Social Media Challenge

Try out my 10-Day Social Media Challenge to build networks and increase engagement.

What’s more important than Google when it comes to driving traffic to your website, sales pages, and affiliate offers? If you said social media, you’re right. With billions of loyal users, social media sites like Facebook, Pinterest, Twitter and Instagram are now credited with more than 30% of all website traffic, according to a study…

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Summary – Booked by Josh Turner

As a self-published author, one of the topics that interests me is how people market their products. Last week I received a free copy of Josh Turner’s, Booked to preview. Inside the book there are links to a companion video series the reader can access free of charge. Josh starts off the book by reminding us,…

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Marketing Tips from Mark Leslie Lefebvre

I decided to take advantage of two last-minute additions to the workshops offered at Write Canada. Mark Leslie Lefebvre describes himself as a Writer, Bookseller, Book Nerd, POD & eBook Keener. He is the Director of Kobo Writing Life & Author Relations. Here are some of the tips he shared: Author involvement in marketing is required no…

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What I Learned at Write Canada 2015 – Part 2: Indie Writer Continuing Class

The continuing class, Five Keys to Becoming a Successful Indie Author/Publisher with Linda Hall especially fascinated me since I began the process of publishing my own books this year. (My next book – Learn Twitter: 10 Intermediate Steps is launching July 15, 2015.) Linda started out by describing different ways to get books published (Traditional, Independent, and Small…

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Launch Day for Learn Twitter: 10 Beginning Steps

It’s here! My official launch day for Learn Twitter: 10 Beginning Steps. (Due to the number of links included in the book, I decided to launch it only on Kindle. My plan is to publish two more books in this series – Learn Twitter: 10 Intermediate Steps and Learn Twitter: 10 Advanced Steps. Once all three books are available…

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Experimenting with Word Swag

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I find learning fascinating. Not just what we learn, but how we learn, and the incidental learning that happens. Serendipity, if you will. Yesterday I attended a webinar on how to use Pinterest effectively. As I was listening, I received a notification that I had a new e-mail from the Social Media Examiner on How…

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5 Ways to Effectively Market your Book

For the past several weeks I’ve had the opportunity to learn more about book marketing from many different authors. Dvorah Lansky put together The Book Marketing Challenge with a diverse cast of authors who took turns sharing marketing ideas that have worked for them. Some of the strategies I knew about, but having access to…

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7 Keys to Hosting a Successful Twitter Chat

Twitter chats are online, public conversations that take place on Twitter at designated times around a unique hashtag like #ReaderWriterChat. Twitter chats are a great way to learn, engage with your followers, grow your community, and network. How do you host a successful Twitter Chat? 1. Choose a unique hashtag. There are many Twitter chats…

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