Authors are writers. Which means that most authors I work with don’t hesitate to write the copy for their own writer website. After all, a writer is a writer, right? Well, not necessarily. Now this doesn’t mean that authors shouldn’t be taking a stab at writing their own content. They should, because no one knows […]
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Here’s another online author marketing tip from our friend Michael Volkin at Social Networking for Authors… I have been getting better and better at creating author promotion videos to help authors have a professional presence online. Check out a couple videos I have recently created: http://www.sellatonofbooks.com/author_video_promotion.html By and large the author promo videos I see
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Earlier this week, I posted a blurb about what people are looking for on author websites. Today, I want to continue the thought and discuss Google Analytics and why every author website should have it. First, for those who aren’t familiar with it, Google Analytics is a free service offered by Google to anyone who
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Ever wonder what people really look at on an author website? Or what makes them want to come back to the site regularly? We now have some insight. In browsing some other blogs and online conversations, I have amassed a list of the things that people say they most want to see on author web
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A special thank you to designer Sara Presenti at Your Inspiration Web for her thorough blog post about what NOT to do with a website. There may be a few things in here that I disagree with (and just a few), but most of what she says is spot-on. I can’t tell you how many
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For several years now, Amazon has had a feature called “Author Central Profile.” You may or may not have heard of it. That doesn’t say much about it, does it? But there are two big reasons why you should build a profile: First, it’s free (can’t beat that). Second, Amazon will create a profile for
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Many authors who are publishing their first book are still unsure as to whether their website should focus on them or on their book. Should it be JaneDoe.com or MyBookTitle.com? Should it look like the book cover or look like the author’s style? In 90% of the cases I come across, I recommend that we
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I get asked this question a lot … Many authors aren’t sure whether to get their photo professionally taken, whether the photo should be a close-up or not, what the background should be, etc… Hopefully I can answer some of those questions here. First, I want to clarify that what we’re talking about here is
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Thanks to a study conducted by Codex Group (which describes itself as as a “pollster for publishers”), we have some really interesting numbers about author web sites, how readers use them, and how books are purchased. The gist of the article is this: You need a website to promote yourself and sell books. Their numbers
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I get asked this question a lot, so it only makes sense to use this blog post to answer it … even for those people that haven’t asked! Basically, there’s no bad time to launch an author website. The goal of the website will be different depending on what the status of the book is,
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