Posts by Rachel Thompson
3 Innovative New Tools to Discover Promising Blog Topics by @mike_allton
What will your next blog post be about? Do you know what your audience is actually interested in? Addressing these questions is what sets the successful blogger apart. She’s done her homework and understands who her audience is and what they want to learn about. She’s researched the niche and identified the specific topics and…
Read MoreHow to Write Emotional Headlines to Get More Shares by @garrett_moon of @CoSchedule
Here at CoSchedule, we recently hit over 10 million headlines entered into our Headline Analyzer tool. That’s a lot of headlines. With this massive resource, we began wondering what, exactly, made a highly-shared headline so shareable. Could we find a way to predict whether or not a headline would be well-shared? You may be surprised…
Read MoreHow to Use Smart Links To Increase Your Amazon Sales By guest @Themarioblog
As an author, you now have the opportunity for people from all over the world to buy and read your work. Depending on your audience, it’s totally feasible that 20-25% of all your Amazon sales can come from outside of the US. And that’s without even publishing your work in another language. Turns out lots…
Read MoreHere Are The Winners For #NaNoProMo Week Three!
It’s hard to believe we’ve already wrapped up Week THREE of #NaNoProMo! So many amazing guests and generous giveaways –so let’s recap who we featured this week and the winners before we head into the last awesome week. Why It’s Important To Check Your Blog Stats and How To Do So by guest @sugarbeatbc Barb…
Read MoreHow to Decide on a Scheduling Tool and Why They’re Helpful by guest @TheRuralVA
There are many great ways an author can save time in their day to day lives, but one of the best things they can do is use a scheduling tool like Buffer or Hootsuite to manage their social media. There are several options out there for scheduling tools and even more ways to utilize them.…
Read MoreDo You Have an Effective Book Marketing Strategy by @SmartAuthors
Are you one of those authors who feels overwhelmed by book marketing? Do you feel exhausted by the long list of things you have to do to promote your book, frustrated that none of them actually seem to work and fed up with everything costing money? If you are, I’m here to tell you: you’re…
Read MoreSimple Ways Authors Can Benefit from Podcasting by guest @SuzKelman
Getting your voice heard above the social media clamor can be challenging. I have launched three books over the last few years and I am always looking for creative ways to market. As well as all the obvious ones, social media, ads, and building an email list, I have found podcasting to be very effective.…
Read MoreFive Tips for Writing a Compelling Book Series by guest @KJWatersAuthor
When I started writing fiction I had no idea it would turn into a book series. I just wrote a story that compelled me to do my best and as it turned out, it was significantly longer than one book. It has been twelve years since I began my journey as an author and last…
Read MoreImportant Reasons Authors Need to Think About Blogging by guest @kikimojo
To blog or not to blog—that is often the question. I mean…isn’t blogging dead? We have Instastories, for heaven’s sake! I really do get it. Blogging has changed a lot in the past twenty or so years when it emerged from the womb of Livejournal and similar sites. But I think the question we should…
Read MoreWhy It’s Important To Check Your Blog Stats and How To Do So by guest @sugarbeatbc
Since I’m a science grad and my major was Genetics, you gotta know I LOVE blog stats. I don’t ‘think’ things happen on my blogs – I ‘know’ they happen. The reason I know that things happen is that I pay attention to the stats on my blogs. On blogs or websites, we use different…
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