Building your Author Brand with Google Serious about your writing career?
Not exact matches
Ducker,
author of The New Business Manifesto, presented a plan for entrepreneurs to
build personal /
brand influence
with content marketing, eventually seeking to launch a business from that attention.
Our
Brand Advocacy Program
builds relationships
with industry influencers, expert journalists and respected
authors to have them produce content for your site, as well as sites managed by influencers they already have connections
with.
Renowned
author Bright has
built her personal
brand around being the epitome of single womanhood - but when a fortune teller predicts doom if she doesn't fix unresolved issues
with her past lovers, Bright must revisit her relationship
with 5 of her exes.
He has
authored and co-
authored the following: Learning Transformed: 8 Keys for Designing Tomorrow's Schools, Today,
BrandED: Tell Your Story,
Build Relationships, and Empower Learning, Uncommon Learning: Creating Schools That Work for Kids, Digital Leadership: Changing Paradigms for Changing Times, Communicating and Connecting
With Social Media: Essentials for Principals and What Principals Need to Know About Teaching and Learning Science.
In working
with thousands of
authors over twenty years to help them
build their
author brand, enhance book discoverability and spark sales, we've identified a number of initiatives
authors with minimal budgets can do to attract new readers.
Whether you are a professional service provider looking to
build your
brand and find prospects or an
author with talent to spare for helping your fellow
authors, you can sell your service on the BookWorks classifieds.
Authors who use the 20 minutes over daily morning cup of coffee for creating platform are rewarded
with better findability, interested audience who will buy your book, and networking that
builds your
author brand by teamwork, so we hope you join in over your morning coffee.
In an interesting aside, even traditional publishers are looking for the multi-book
author, as it's becoming more lucrative to
build an
author's
brand with readers than to sell a stand alone title.
In addition to
building your own
brand, you should also look into forming strategic alliances
with authors who share a similar audience.
Collectively, all of these components work together to help
build the
author's
brand, connect
with target audiences and over time, convert members of the target audience into buyers.
I worked
with Claire Wingfield the winner of my Pinterest for
Authors draw to help her
build her
author brand using Pins and Boards.
Sessions will teach
authors how to
build their
brand and platform, launch your book
with great reviews, get national distribution and navigate common legal challenges for writers.
To sell books,
authors use social media networks as marketing tools for
building brand equity and getting free book publicity by sharing online conversations, posts, book excerpts, links, videos, photographs and text files
with family, friends, fans and professionals.
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Build your
author brand by filling out your profiles to the fullest extent, linking back to your website, staying consistent
with brand colours and photos, and sharing content that your readership will find valuable.
It was so much fun
building Claire's
author brand on Pinterest
with pins and boards, and I look forward to seeing how her Pinterest activity grows and flourishes.
As she states in a 2009 post, «How to Discover and
Build Your
Author Brand», she had mistakenly
branded herself towards this non-fiction book
with words like «career change» and a business image, and had to rebrand towards her writing work.
* Top literary agents can help you find the perfect title / subtitle for your book, turn your book into a series or
brand, decide which book you should pitch first, edit your book and / or book proposal,
build your
author platform, identify your competition and differentiate you, get you more publicity, and help
build a business around your book (
with multiple streams of income).
The investor is making a bet that they'll recover their investment, plus generate a profit, and the investee uses that capital to fund their business, either by paying their cost of living, paying themselves a salary, hiring a publicist, or working
with a
branding expert to
build their
author brand, etc. (To learn how to
build your
author platform and get published, start here.)
Just look at the difference between the sales of «Robert Galbraith» [Rowling's pseudonym] and J.K. Rowling... Literary
authors, both traditional and independently published, need to learn how to
build brands that resonate
with readers.
It's also worth noting that
authors who have spent time, effort, and money on
building a readership exclusively on KU have little to no
brand recognition outside of it, so many who do leave are immediately hit
with a lack of sales through other channels and are forced back because, hey, a writer's got ta eat, too.
She collaborates
with authors to help
build and leverage their online and offline networks, strengthen their
brand and ignite buzz for their books.
Add on the strategy of
building an email list of readers who love your work and you'll be able to launch and grow your
author brand to new heights,
with the aim of becoming a full time writer.
It's tempting to say that the self - publishing world is infested
with sharks, but I suspect the truth is more prosaic — that it is rife
with well - meaning «experts» who don't know much more than I do about how to
build my
author brand.
This post is written by indie
author Dane Cobain and sponsored by Publishing Addict, an organisation that
builds author websites to help writers to establish a
brand, connect
with their readers and to sell more books.
Whether you want to write a book to boost your business,
build your
brand, leave a legacy or become a best selling
author — we will work
with you to achieve your goals.
Free Published & Profitable
author interview
with Mary Virginia Swanson discussing how business coaches can use published books to
build their
brand and promote their expertise.
They don't realise they have to persist
with a post-launch marketing plan to continue
building their
author brand awareness to increase their book sales.
Aaron Pogue, the Co-Founder and President explained the key acquisition drivers that the company employs to
build brand awareness and get more indie
authors publishing
with Draft2Digital.
How to leverage blogs to
build your
author brand and collaborate
with fellow indie
authors, plus how to organize a blog tour
I've talked before about the importance of book marketing and
author branding to
build a platform, but it's also about getting out there, from behind the computer screen, and connecting
with people.
That means focusing very much on the
author as [a]
brand, and aiming for a select number of high - quality writers we can work
with to
build long - term careers.»
Like James Patterson and Stephen King, you'll want to be
building your
author brand, your personal
brand with a voice your readers will become familiar
with.
There's some great opportunities here to really fuel your
author and book
branding and the changes to encourage more social engagement
with visitors is going to weed out all those people who simply spam «like me» posts that don't result in actual platform
building or sales conversions.
Not sure what your blog is about but I find that having experts guest (here on practical advice, and on my personal
author blog RachelintheOC.com sharing real - life stories which is my
branding there), gives me a chance to share my platform
with others (again,
building relationships), and brings their followings to my blog and vice versa.
With well - aimed funding and sustainable scaling, iAuthor can become the marquee platform for book discovery and
author brand -
building.
I will work
with you to
build an
author brand that will give your books a strong and distinctive visual presence.
The experts at Web Design Relief know that successful
author websites have one clear, primary mission — whether it's to sell books, develop a fan base, connect more personally
with readers, or
build a
brand.
They must market not only as a
brand but as an
author who wants to
build lasting relationships
with fans — this latter usually gets buried under the former, resulting in stagnant sales despite high metrics, not to mention how time - consuming it is.
Authors interested in
building their personal
brands with a book will appreciate Bob Baker's recent post, The Top 7 Book Promotion and Self - Publishing People to Follow on Twitter.
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build readership, engage
with readers and incentivize list -
building... and much more.
It's so easy to be overwhelmed today
with all these different online channels available to grow your
author platform and
build a community around your
author brand and books.
A focused
brand -
building strategy,
with the help of a good book publicist, can turn a non-fiction
author into a recognized thought leader, who then becomes a sought - after speaker, media commentator, and professional consultant.
As she states in a 2009 post, «How to Discover and
Build Your
Author Brand», she had mistakenly
branded herself towards this non-fiction book
with words like «career -LSB-...]
This ongoing series of essays on the craft of writing will include all topics related to writing fiction, including: The Basics Plot & Structure Voice Theme POV Characterization Dialogue Narrative Creating a bond
with your reader Pacing Advanced writing and plotting techniques Writer's block Marketing
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Author interviews Media appearances Websites Blogging And so much more... Are you ready to be called an a
Author interviews Media appearances Websites Blogging And so much more... Are you ready to be called an
authorauthor?
Having a blog isn't about selling on other platforms, although it's good for that, it's all about
branding yourself,
building what I like to call your «
author brand» and communicating
with and creating a base of fans.
When it comes to
author marketing and
building a
brand, ensuring fans and followers have ways to connect
with you on a more personal level is equally as powerful.