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Leading Ebook Channels and Royalty Rates for Independent Publishers
This post is now a resource for writers and authors, somewhere I can direct people to for the top eBook retail platforms along with the royalty rate offered by each retailer. It’s a weekly question, so I thought I’d address it with a post. Notice I referred to these as ‘retailers‘ not ‘publishers‘. This is [...]
Great Podcasts for Writers and Authors
I’m a big podcast advocate, perhaps you might call me a podcast junkie. I have a wide selection of my favourite podcasts I listen to regularly on my iPhone, that is attached to my hip. I find podcasts allow me to use what would otherwise be ‘dead time’, such as commuting or whilst driving. Some [...]
The Key To Building Lucrative Platforms For Non-Fiction Authors
photo by Kris Krüg I’ve spoken to many authors during my time in the publishing industry and the authors who have clearly leveraged their book to accelerate their brand building, all had one thing in common. They had a very clear perspective on how their book is a marketing tool and part of a bigger [...]
Are You Spreading Yourself To Thin?
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. There isn’t a week that goes by, where I don’t hear the frustration of an overwhelmed author, who is clearly spreading themselves to thin. Do you [...]
The Authors Guide To Email List Building
For a long time online businesses, marketers and entreprenuers have understood the importance of building an email list for success. To this day, it’s still considered the backbone of any successful platform and will remain so, as our society and way of living increasingly incorporates online digital technologies. As an author in today’s ever changing [...]
Infographics: 2012 Facebook and Twitter Trends, Usage and What They’re Worth
They are the two biggest social media channels online. We’ve all heard of them and most of us use them to some degree. The web will increasingly become more social and recent changes such as Google factoring in social profile information such as ‘tweets’ and ‘likes’ into your website’s search engine ranking is just the [...]
Key Factors in Having a Good Author Website Pre-launch
When recently working with a client building her author website, I thought about the fact that this process of pre-launching an author website is an area that authors really don’t invest any planning or forethought into. You may of heard a friend or colleague who was all excited about creating a new blog. They announce their [...]
Twitter Hashtag Guide for Writers and Authors
As a writer or author you are no doubt familiar with what Twitter is, but if you’re not familiar with the use of Twitter hashtags, then you’re reading the right post. What’s a Twitter hashtag? Hastags are words or phrases used in tweets, which have the ‘#’ symbol preceeding them. hashtags don’t have any spaces [...]
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