Can you believe we’re almost through this entire month of #NaNoProMo? Wow!! This last week has been full of all kinds of tips, resources, and excellent expert information and giveaways. Now it’s time to recap and announce the winners, so let’s do this thingy.
Alexandria Szeman discussed the importance of good eBook design and formatting. Such an informative, helpful post! Alexandria’s giveaway is a free E-Book Design and Format (150-300pp), a $350 value!
Wasn’t this blog from GeniusLinks eye-opening? If you haven’t read it, definitely do so now! I’ll definitely be signing up for this service because, whoa. What a ‘genius’ idea! Thanks for CEO Jesse Lakes and CMO Mario Schulzke for this excellent explanation of their extremely affordable product and the benefits for us authors (and if you’re pre-published, you can still use it for any kind of products you mention on your own site).
The Geniuslink team has generously donated 10 authors $30 in credit (15,000 clicks) to be used over a six-month time period. Accompanying the credit, each winner will also receive a free 20-minute onboarding session to help them get set up and running.
I was SO excited to share this post with you from CoSchedule! It’s one of my all-time favorites. As I mention in my BadRedheadmedia 30-Day Book Marketing Challenge, the CoSchedule free headline analyzer is one of the top tools any writer needs to use for their headlines — I also have used it for book titles, emails (they even have an email headline tool now!), and more. This article expands on what works and what doesn’t. Bookmark this article!
In this article, Mike Allton (expert blogger and blogging coach) discusses three new tools to find blog topics. If you plan to invest in monetizing your blog, these tools can be invaluable to you (as well as a tax write-off — talk with your accountant). If they are out of your price range, this post is informative for you to know what’s out there and to give you ideas of how to come up with blog topics on your own or look for similar, less expensive versions.
Mike is generously giving away his fabulous 2018 Blogging Planner, and one copy of each book, How to Start a Blog and How to Promote Your Blog
Author and publisher Blaise Ramsay discusses the importance of live events (conventions, conferences, festivals) as opposed to only promoting our books online. She discusses specific ways you can interact with readers, other authors, mentors, agents, and publishers as well. It’s important for us to keep in mind that live interactions are crucial to building our author platform (despite how comfortable we are behind our computers!).
Blaise is generously offering a one-hour hangout to anyone new to Scrivener and/or how to go about using offline means for marketing and promo in conjunction with social media.
Author platform expert Alexa Bigwarfe discuss the crucial importance of effectively growing and establishing your author platform. A good marketing strategy is important, but if you don’t have a reader base, how will anyone know who you are or be motivated to buy your book?
Read this post. Then re-read it again. Even if you don’t win this giveaway, read everything this expert writes and become a raving fan of hers. Alexa is generously offering a 30-minute 1-on-1 consultation (Value: $125)
and the lucky winner is…Iola Goulton!
Please continue to join us for these last few days of #NaNoProMo amazing expert posts and giveaways. Remember to comment so you can enter!
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