Posts Tagged ‘marketing’
I joined Helium based on the many lists online suggesting that writers try their skill at publishing (and earning money) through the site. I soon discovered how much I really hated the site.
My biggest complaint is they own the copyrights once you publish. You can’t move, remove, delete, or do anything with your own articles [...]
Marketing for writers can often prove difficult. There’s nothing really creative about it, nothing fun, and certainly nothing to do with the craft of writing…or does it?
If you do get published by one of the big publishing companies, they do much of the marketing for you. This doesn’t mean you should sit back and wait [...]
Reasons for blogging are many and varied. Writers can keep in touch with friends, family, and their fanbase, keep everyone up to date on their writing projects, or simply share their knowledge on a favorite subject. Online journals allow for posting video, pictures, and even music. Many blogs end up being a web site, where [...]
I submitted my blog to a site called Reviewme more as an experiment than any expectation to monetize this e-journal. After all, I don’t get the numbers that constitutes as a successful blog, so I didn’t expect them to accept this into their ranks. I wanted to network, to find more readers, and to see [...]
RSS, or Really Simple Syndication, is a web ‘feed’ in which subscribers can add your blog or web site to a feed reader, or a widget to their site. (Such as Google or Yahoo). This is a crucial marketing tool for bloggers. Once you know your RSS web address, you can then add to various [...]
I found myself ‘tagged’ the other day by Dailywritingprompt and felt the idea very interesting the way to market one’s blog. Not to say a blogger shouldn’t consider the general routes of marketing such as the link sharing web sites like StumpleUpon.com or Technorati.com. But this tagging exercise sounded fun, linked to me other blogs, [...]
Marketing is not something a writer considers when they first start out. A writer’s job is doing the actual writing, experiencing the creative flow of putting word to paper (or pixel). Generally its expected that the publishing company will do the marketing work for you, right? Not exactly. You’ll still be expected to do book [...]
















