Easy customization = Brilliant branding Color, font and background can all be changed at the click of a button to enable you to proudly display your genre, style and
author brand site - wide.
Not exact matches
Ruth Burr of SEO Moz recently shared tips for getting Google
Author to work when you have multiple people writing on one web
site — such as multiple employees blogging for
brand advocacy.
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.
NPR's Madeleine
Brand discusses the loss of an important
site in band history with Mats Sexton,
author of The B - 52s Universe: The Essential Guide to the World's Greatest Party Band.
Is your
author brand clearly summed up the minute you click on your web
site?
While
authors like Hugh Howey do offer a shopping art of their titles through their own
sites, most
authors will need to rely on the
brand exposure a major retailer can offer.
I'll be tackling «
author branding» in - depth on my
site in the new year, so I'll make sure to include a printable cheatsheet or checklist with the post / video (thanks for the idea!).
Here are a few plug - ins I think are essential for
authors looking to use their
site to build their
brand.
Now, to tie them both together, today I will discuss how the new
branding will start to reveal itself to our current in - progress and published
authors on the Internal section of the Outskirts Press
site throughout the month of July as we get closer to August 1st.
You can join GoodReads, Shelfari, LinkedIn, Twitter, and all of the other social networking
sites that are where readers gather, and you can post messages, and you can build your own
author platform online, and you can build your
brand as an
author offline, too.
Use an image that creates a consistent
author brand by tying into your
author website and other social media
sites.
But remember the deal: simple, stylish, professional, will sell the book, will be unique and
brand you as an
author... but won't be crazy, cluttered, busy, and you can't decide to move this over here and that over there (within reason — but those requests may demand total coding
site overhauls, and that's not something I'm willing to do).
So using my
brand new Instagram account, I went to work and started studying how
authors and readers use the
site successfully.
Whoever they are, your
author brand can get a huge boost if it they notice you, link to some of your content or talk about you on their
site or podcast.
According to their
site, BookGrabbr is an App and web - based technology product designed to expand the
brand and media platform of any
author by creating and increasing visibility in the book community and securing new readers and customers for those
authors» books.
I define myself as an
author, blogger and speaker and so this
site becomes an integral part of my personal
brand and my life.
The ongoing experimentation and playing that Ricci performed on the Freebooksy
brand that helped it to continue to grow into a
site where
authors asked if they could pay to have their works featured there
You have a well - designed, professional
site, and you actively update the contents so that it continues to function effectively as the hub of your
author brand, fan base building, and online marketing efforts.
Does your
site accurately express and represent your
author brand?
Took my first
author website down end last year, started with fanfare with a
brand new blogging
site in January 2016.
Now I'm making a big push to complete the job and get rid of those two
sites and move everything under one umbrella
site — my
branded author site.
Just make it clear whatever you do that you're an
author, and the
site is your
author website, and use your
author name as the
brand name.
Use the same
author picture and
branding images across all
sites.
WordPress also makes it a breeze to update and, crucially, expand your
site as your
author brand grows.
-- I just wanted to show off my personal
author site as an example of an Inspirational / Women's Fiction
author brand.
The purpose of this
site is to teach artists and
authors the lessons I've been learning from internet entrepreneurs: things like how to make a
brand image, how to build a platform, and how to increase engagement with fans.
She specifically helped me with
author branding for my fiction
site JFPenn.com where we decided on a tagline with imagery to match.
That may be ok in some cases, but we have always recommended that you build a
site and your
author brand under your name.
The perks of having a professional
author website include someone else doing the work to build the
site, a custom theme that has been tailored to your
brand, and widgets that make it easier than ever to sell your book from your
site.
The photo, along with the overall tone of the
site, says a lot about the
author's
brand.
«Many
sites will say it is okay to upload documents in Word or PDF, but will likely open the document in a Text format,» says Danielle Beauparlant Moser,
author of «FOCUS: Creating Career &
Brand Clarity.»