You may not know it, but if you’re a writer trying to build a readership, you’re building a brand—and every piece of work you put out there is marketing. I know marketing can make writers cringe, but don’t write me off quite yet. With the right mindset, you can learn to love—and give your reader some love at the same time. Consider these four marketing tips:
Are you having a hard time building your writing platform, your precious brand? Does every day seem like an uphill battle? You work hard but never seem to make any headway, your books aren’t selling. Three stumbles back instead of one step forward.
As a writer, no two months are ever the same. Sales up one and then down the next. Frustrating, right?
Are you on Twitter? If you’re a writer and you’re not using the social media source, you should probably change that.
For most of my blogging “career,” I used Pagelines Platform which is, in my opinion, the best and easiest free wordpress theme available. If you want an easy, free theme, I highly recommend Pagelines.
However, in early 2012 I spent the money to upgrade to a premium theme. Here’s why.
If you’re trying to build your author platform, you want your site both to look good and be highly functional. Plugins are tools that do both, and they are one of the biggest reasons to upgrade from a free Wordpress site to a self-hosted Wordpress site.
In this post, I’m going to briefly describe sixteen plugins I use personally. My hope is that this list helps you create a strong author platform that brings you thousands of readers. That’s not too much to hope for, right?
