Sentences with phrase «sure your author platform»

To reduce your bounce rate, you need to make sure your author platform is optimized to attract agent and editor interest in those first critical seconds.

The show is densely packed with up - to - date information that can help you make sure your author platform is up with the times.

Not exact matches

But if you want to produce in scale, then make sure you pick an authoring platform, which allows collaboration between authors, editors, testers, reviewers and approvers.

In addition to making sure that your authoring platform is good to go, you also need to make sure that your audience can access it.

If your company has already invested in an eLearning authoring tool, make sure to look for an eLearning developer that has produced samples on the platform you employ.

Sure there are social media platforms like Goodreads, Wattpad, Facebook groups etc. and then there are the «real» opportunities that are so much harder to facilitate and organize (and pay for e.g. expense vs profit) like community or regional events and networks as you point out above, but I feel really strongly that the most important thing for an author to do in order to build a loyal paying (italics) fanbase / readership is to produce good quality works that are publicized properly and to spend time interacting with those of your readers who you know buy your books because they came to you in the first place.

I mean, sure they'll publish a book about prayer if the author has the credentials, platform, and, preferably, thousands of church members to help catapult sales, but if a simple living recipe book about losing weight and saving your marriage while decluttering your home and raising happy kids came along by a Christian author with a huge cooking blog platform, they won't say no.

If you've heard the term «author platform» before, but you're not sure what it is exactly, you're not alone.

I just had a convo with an author who had hired a few people to do various aspects of platform building / marketing, wasn't sure what each of them was doing... there was no coordination between the efforts being made on her behalf....

Beyond that, many writers are unconvinced that having a robust author platform works for book sales (I'm not sure they've done much research into this, but that's another post).

The Author's Three - Step Test for Sellability via Digital Book World — If you market your writing on social media, make sure you're using the best platform to convert sales.

-LSB-...] an effective launch that creates momentum for your author platform and book sales, make sure you implement these things in your pre-launch phase, the few months -LSB-...]

-LSB-...] these key plugins installed will make sure your writer or author website is optimally supporting the growth of your author platform -LSB-...]

How to Be More Successful with the Right Content Marketing Tools (Ben Sailer for CoSchedule): This article is especially helpful for writers who already have an author platform in the works, but they're not quite sure how to drive traffic or followers to those outlets.

Sure, having a well - maintained, active author website is a vital element in your author platform and social media support — but who has the time to deal with that?

By highlighting a different author and book each week, we will be sure to reach out across the platforms to our readers who use a wide variety of digital readers.

Since you may only have a few moments to grab an agent's or editor's attention, be sure your author branding is consistent across all the social media platforms you use — and that your social media buttons are easy to find on your author website.

However, authors are strongly cautioned to scrutinize any self publishing company, platform or service — and agreements to be signed — to make sure it isn't merely a vanity press preying on an author's desire to get published.

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.

If you're a self - published author on the Kindle platform, then I'm sure you've heard all about the Kindle «gold rush» as people looking for a quick buck crank out poorly written prose.

You need to make sure the visual aspect of your author platform is on point, and that includes your book cover design.

Having these key plugins installed will make sure your writer or author website is optimally supporting the growth of your author platform hub.

To create the Author's platform, we need to make sure we target our audience, our READERS.

Sure you're interested in the Olympics and even the Mars Mission but your Author Platform needs to be about what you are interested in AND what you write.

Make sure your author picture and other branding items (banners, etc) are the same or similar across social media platforms and your website.

I'm pretty sure — no, I know I've been spending too long recently Twittering and messing around, very enjoyably, on various indie author websites in the attempt to build a platform.

Following on from my post about prompt cards to make sure you don't waste any valuable writing time dithering, this next tip on being organized is to do with managing your author platform.

So, if you're writing a book or you're in the submissions process, be sure to get your author platform and book marketing strategies in place.

It's all about Author Tool Kits and Platforms — make sure you signup to get the replay (and attend live).

However, in the interim, there is no harm in running a blog whilst writing to start building an author platform (note to self, make sure the blog does not get in the way of writing).

Do you feel overwhelmed by the sheer number of author platform options out there (or not even sure what the term means)?

Before you publish your book, make sure there's a market for it and start building your author platform.

-LSB-...] If you're not sure how to pare down your social media engagement, Frances Caballo, author of Avoid Social Media Time Suck, suggests focusing on platforms where your readership hangs out.

You'll get all the standard stuff everyone else promises — social media profiles, buy buttons for your book... but we'll include headers for Facebook and Twitter to make sure you have a matching branded author platform.

Kelly Gallagher [00:12:06] Sure, again, for most authors that are starting out, again, unless you have a strong platform, or you have an agent, or you're being directly courted by a publishing house to write a book, the idea of an advance is not likely going to be in the cards for you, or if it is, it would be probably a small four figure number.

We'll work with you to integrate your email list and craft your perfect offer and call to action, to make sure your website is actually doing it's job (growing your author platform, and selling more books).

If someone stumbles upon your author platform (usually a blog or a website) make sure they can find your twitter handle easily and that it links directly to your Twitter profile.

I'm sure we've all heard about branding ourselves and / or our author platform.

Make sure your review request — and your entire author platform — reflects your brand.

It's hard to say for sure, though it's undeniably true that (a) there are innumerable successful authors who have never had, and therefore were not built by, a legacy publisher; and therefore that (b) a legacy publisher is one possible means by which an author can build a platform, but empirically not the only one.