Marketing 101d...or 2 Links,5 Tips, Anatomy and a Question

It’s Blog day and we are continuing our little marketing series....which has jumped around a bit with the extra posts on YouTube promotion that authors are doing for their books and online workshops...

Let’s do a little recap.

101a looked at SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMISATION, KEYWORDS AND PRESS RELEASES

101b we learned to be WEB FRIENDLY

101c was where we looked at WHO IS YOUR WEB SITE AUDIENCE

Then we diverted to looking at AUTHOR PROMOTION online, and what one publisher is doing to promote a book. BLOGGING and YouTube videos then got a look in.

Today I’m going to join these all up with links to two places.

The first, 5 Publicity Tips for Authors. READ ABOUT IT HERE

MARKETING AND PROMOTION is all about NETWORKING.

You the author need to become part of the online community.

You need to talk about your work on message boards, blog comments, etc

You need to celebrate your success by posting press releases of your work.

You need to have a distinct voice on line...blog... web... social network.... which brings me to my next link...All you ever wanted to know about writer’s websites...

THE ANATOMY OF A WRITER’S WEBSITE

After you have read these and thought about the implications I will be interested to learn your thoughts about the helpfulness of what I have been blogging about.

Remember, I am co convening the National Children’s Writer’s and Illustrators conference next year in September... It has already been suggested that we have some sort of online teaching component to the conference. What do you think?

BEING ONLINE-What would you like to see covered in a workshop on this topic for Children’s Writers and Illustrators?

maureen

here endeth the lesson...(let's see thats1 picture 2 links... bold words... breaks... a couple of numbers... and a question to finish...)

pic is from eduspaces.net/csessums/weblog/141524.html

The Webs We Weave: Discussion threads, participation, and knowledge creation

www.michaelturco.com/images/Spider%20web%20wi...

Playing with YouTube and The Emerald Tablet

The Emerald Tablet by P J Hoover is set for release in the U.S.

The author a member of the 2K8, another group of authors doing it (marketing and promo) for themselves has made this video for promotion.
Her publisher, CBAY, has put it on her personal blog and it has probably gone everywhere you can think of to raise the profile of this new release.

Yup Trish, it's even being viewed in New Zealand. Congratulations!

I started this blog to learn about them and to try new things out...today just over six months later I have figured out how to post video...along the way I have learned lots of new things... I am looking at the 2 year old and wondering just what her world is going to be like in the future....
The brave new world is here -get out and enjoy it!
maureen