How You Can Improve Newsletter Results [Reblog] – PH Solomon

I've talked recently about getting your email list set up and how you can go about adding people to that list. What I didn't talk about was what you do after that. Most people approach it with a newsletter, but if you've ever tried that and looked at the results, you may be disheartened. PH …

HOW TO REALLY BUILD A PLATFORM IN THE BOOK COMMUNITY – Reblog – YA and Wine

Following on from last week's post on building your author platform (did you work out what it is yet?), I came across this post over on yaandwine.com that talks about getting yourself integrated into the online book community. It requires work (doesn't anything worthwhile?), but if you want to sell more than 5 copies of …

How To Build An Author Platform – Reblog: David Gaughran

Have you ever considered your author platform? Do you give much time over to building it? Hold on - what the hell even IS an author platform? Clue: it's not a stage where you stand to read your book. Have no fear, because author David Gaughran sets out this handy guide t building and developping …

A Beginner’s Guide to Creating a Free Email List For Authors – Smartbribe

How To grow Your Email List With Smartbribe This is a special bonus add on to my 4 part series on Creating a free email list. Special because this is technically part 5 of 4. You can read the other parts in this series here: Creating an Email listAdding names to your email listHow to …

A Beginner’s Guide to Creating a Free Email List For Authors #4

How to Attract People to Your Email List #2 This is part 2 of 'How To Attract People Your Email List'. You can find all the parts of this series here: Creating an Email listAdding names to your email listhow to attract people to your list #1How to attract people to your list #2 (this …

A Beginner’s Guide to Creating a Free Email List For Authors #3

How to Attract People to Your Email List #1 This is part 3 of my series on email lists for authors. You can check out part 1 HERE and part 2 HERE. Part 1 covered getting your list set up and part 2 was about how to add people to your list. This part and …

A Beginner’s Guide to Creating a Free Email List For Authors #2

Creating a Free Email List Last week I wrote about the importance of having an email list when it comes to marketing your books. I also gave a number of suggestions as to where you could go to get your list up and running, and how to do that with a free Mailchimp account. What …

Beginner’s Guide to creating a FREE Email List For Authors

Beginner's Guide to Creating a Free Email List For Authors What is an Email List for Authors? You know email, right? You know lists, yes? Well an email list for authors, in its most basic terms, is a list of email addresses and possibly names of people that have given you permission to send them …

How to Win at Instagram Hashtags for Authors

To conclude my series on promoting yourself as an author on Instagram (read PART 1 read Part 2), I want to get on to hashtags. Do I really need to tell you about #hashtags? They are the lifeblood of the social media post. They are the mechanism by which you can categorise your posts. They …