by Laurence O'Bryan | Apr 20, 2023 | Advice, Marketing Advice, Members, Steps to Success |
One of the most challenging tasks for any writer is what to create for social media. Twitter is important and we can retweet, reply and link to other content with it, but if you have a blog or web site with valuable content you can draw people to your own site and...
by Laurence O'Bryan | Apr 10, 2023 | Advice, Marketing Advice, Members, Steps to Success |
These are the key areas you will need to consider when developing a social media plan as an author: What are your objectives? How will you get all this social media activity done and still be able to write? What resources do you have available? How will you...
by Laurence O'Bryan | Apr 5, 2023 | Advice, Marketing Advice, Members, Steps to Success |
The pic below is some newspaper coverage in Ireland of Dan Brown’s most recent book. It describes how I found echoes my own novel, The Istanbul Puzzle, on many if its pages. Would you be willing to court controversy to promote your writing? There are more...
by Laurence O'Bryan | Apr 2, 2023 | Advice, Marketing Advice, Members, Steps to Success |
There are three classic methods for building a loyal following of readers online: 1. Provide something of value, related to your book, which you can talk about online. Are you an expert? Can you share some of your expertise? Are you funny? Are you knowledgeable on a...
by Laurence O'Bryan | Mar 26, 2023 | Advice, Featured, Marketing Advice, Members, Steps to Success |
The # symbol, a hashtag, is used to designate keywords or topics in posts. It was created by users as a way to categorize messages. It is now used across other networks including YouTube, Facebook, Google+ and Instagram. Hashtags (#) make it possible to...
by Laurence O'Bryan | Mar 20, 2023 | Advice, Marketing Advice, Members, Steps to Success |
We all know that X should only be used for self promotion for about one in ten of the Tweets you send out. But that still means you can send the occasional Tweet, as long as you have given value to your followers in your other Tweets, either linking to...
