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Kiss Your Publicist Goodbye (and pitch your book online)

March 13, 2010
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5 Ways to Kiss Your Publicist Goodbye And Pitch Your Book Online:
1. You’ve compiled your list of bloggers to reach out to. You’ve read their blogs, followed their blogs or websites and know the kind of books they like to highlight or review.
2. You demand coverage or review of your blog in an ALLCAPS [...]

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Don’t they Know Who I Am-itis…

March 10, 2010
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One of the things an author must avoid no matter how famous or unknown is the disease of “Don’ttheyknowwhoiamitis“.
The symptoms of this deadly and narcissistic disease include the following:
1. Author does not believe they need to continue doing outreach after their book has been out for six months, because everyone should already know who they are and [...]

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If I Were An Author I Would…

February 7, 2010
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1. Spend most of my time researching blogs and online websites instead of kvetching that my traditional publicity firm is just not trying.
2. Understand that I don’t need a publicist, mygrandma or even my publisher to work on my behalf to get coverage for my books! I can compile a list of blogs and start participating way before my [...]

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Six Ways To Connect with A Journalist

January 27, 2010
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1. Not only read their work, but print their last ten stories out and look for all the ways they tell a story. Good journalists are incredible storytellers and you can find out alot about how they write, what they look for in an expert source and what interests them by reading several stories all [...]

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Is Your Website A Silent Movie?

January 13, 2010
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One of the most important things to ask in the new year is, “What movie is my website playing to visitors?”
What that means is to really identify the changes that are driving this new social media technology usage and ensure  you are doing the very best you can to employ those tools as well.
No matter what [...]

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What? Really? I Have to Help Market My Own Book?

December 3, 2009
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Remember you can always do more on your book’s behalf.
1. Check out this group of book bloggers and book reviewers at Ning.com.
2. Check out Readinggroupguides.com and for as little as 100.00 you can submit your book in their ReadingGroup Guides. I’ve had several authors do this and find their books picked up by groups!
3. [...]

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Six Ways to Expand Your 2.0 Sociability

October 2, 2009
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Six Ways to Expand Your 2.0 Sociability…

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7 Ways To Beat Bloggers Block

October 1, 2009
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1. Make writing your blog a part of your day just like anything else. Don’t wait to be inspired. Set aside 30 minutes three times a week to write a blog post.
2. Read other bloggers – you’ll be inspired and it helps you understand what you can also add a topic that has not yet [...]

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Blogroll Scrubbing is Not Just for Girls

September 22, 2009
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Ok, I just stuck that video up there because it made me laugh. It also reveals a deeper question to ponder about product endorsements/reviews and how they can quickly turn to broken painful shells in one’s marketing plan. (Or at the bottom of one’s bathtub.)
Now, back to the topic of the day, blogroll-scrubbing. I recommend that you [...]

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5 Tips for Building Your Blog Editorial Calendar

September 9, 2009
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If you think of your blog as an online magazine (which you should) then one of the best ways to beat bloggers’block is to create an editorial calendar for your blog posts. Organizing your blog topics and future posts in this manner will help inspire you to write more and kvetch less about having nothing [...]

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The New York Times And Blogs

September 4, 2009
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Fantastic insider’s look at how The New York Times uses the Wordpress blogging platform to generate hundreds of posts daily.
If you truly want to understand why blogging is powerful, how it is not going away and why you should be blogging then read this article.  
The article was penned by fantastic journalist Paul Boutin and features insight [...]

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10 Reasons For Writing Blog Posts

August 28, 2009

Here are my ten favorite things about writing a blog:
1. Instantaneous gratification after you’ve finished a post.
2. No writers’ block allowed or “blog block.” If you don’t have something to blog about – then take time out to thank or link to all those other peer blogs who inspire you.
3. Freedom from an editor or [...]

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