So you have an author website. And you, of course, have links to buy your book through your website (or at least I hope you do!) But how do you track book sales? In other words, how do you know if people are actually clicking on those links? And how do you know how many […]
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Very rarely do I stumble across an author website that I wish I had built myself. This was one of them. This brilliant Japanese novelist, author of Norwegian Wood and Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, admits to being a bit of a recluse. And that’s what makes his author website so special: it
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It’s the first thing you do when you decide to create an author website. It also may be the most important: choosing your domain name. Here are six things to keep in mind when you make that big decision. 1. What’s the purpose of the site? Is this a book-focused site, a series-focused site or an
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Does Facebook have a new rival in the author community? They do if Melbourne-based publishing startup Tablo has anything to say about it. And you don’t need to be a resident of Australia to participate. According to ITWire.com, Tablo was founded by 21-year-old Ash Davies (yikes! 21???), who recently completed a new round of funding.
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ust a quick note this afternoon to inform all of you about a newly-launched site that may be of interest to authors (and many other creative types). It’s www.SelfEmployedCentral.com, and it speaks to anyone who is (or hopes to be) a writer, artist, freelancer, small business owner, or professional in private practice. And, I confess,
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Good news for all the authors and aspiring writers who’ve been following our blog. We now have a handful of Smart Author Sites clients who are going to be blogging here as well. They’ll tell their stories of getting published (or self-publishing), their writing strategies, and what’s working for them in marketing themselves and their
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I came across a really interesting blog entry (and subsequent conversation) by Barbara Vey, a regular Publishers Weekly blogger. It starts like this … Does the idea of Twitter cause you to tremble? Is Facebook giving you heart palpitations? Blogging becoming a four letter word? If your answer to any of those questions is “yes,”
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Too many people think that author websites are only for published authors. But more and more people have figured out how to use websites to actually get themselves published. Here’s how they’re doing it…. Why Build a Website Odds are that you’re going to be submitting a proposal or manuscript to a publisher at some
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A little off the topic of our usual blog entries, but I thought this might be a new and different way to say goodbye. One of the members of the Smart Author Sites staff, Stacey Elms, will be leaving us next month to go on to bigger and better things. So I want to use
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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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