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How To Twitter: Tips For Newbies

You can’t have a conversation about social media without discussing the power of Twitter. Twitter is all about building a mutual, interactive network, and I can’t stress enough how important it is to cultivate a community on this awesome platform. But figuring out the basics - not to mention how to build and manage an account [...]

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5 Tips To Optimize Your Facebook Page

Long ago I declared that 2012 would be the Year Of Facebook (FB) for me. Well, better late than never – I’m just now spending more time on the mother of all social media platforms. But here’s the problem: Facebook is a challenge, isn’t it? The functionality changes constantly, and it’s difficult to figure out [...]

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Does Facebook Work For Authors?

I’ve met the most wonderful people on my self-publishing journey, and indie author Susan Salluce is one of them. In this guest post, she’s agreed to share her success with book promotion on Facebook, a platform I know little about. Enjoy! Ah, Facebook. Just take a minute and reflect on what that brings up for you. Fun? Time waster? [...]

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How To Increase Blog Traffic And Gain Subscribers

Confession: I’ve worked really hard to build my blog since March 2011, and today I’m sharing numbers. After a year and a half of consistently publishing a new post weekly, my blog now averages 300-400 total page views on Tuesdays, the day after I post. My all-time high to date: 512 total page views the [...]

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What’s An RSS Feed & How Do I Find It?

Most of you already know how to locate your RSS feed URL to synch your blog with your Goodreads, Amazon Author Central, and Triberr accounts. But if you don’t speak RSS, that sentence probably made you roll your eyes or reach for the aspirin bottle. Okay, let’s start at the beginning. What is a URL? Examples of [...]

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How can a writer use Scoop.It!?

Jane Steen is a freelance writer who lives in the Chicago suburbs. She’s prepared a wonderful post for us about the intriguing content-sharing site, Scoop.It – Enjoy! Take a blog reader, mix in Pinterest, add a dash of paper.li and a pinch of Twitter. This is Scoop.It! — a little-known content sharing site that may [...]

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