Another webinar, another promise to teach you how to get 5000 hits in a day, 3000 subscribers, the best guest posts, millions of dollars and a shot at the big times. Yawn. I confess. I’ve watched a couple of these lately. Today it was a webinar on how to publish your own e-book on Amazon [...]
Guest blogging is a great way to be seen by a wider audience. It’s like going to the neighborhood social…in the neighborhood down the street. You get to step out, strut a little and talk to new people. But, ya gotta do it the right way. You can’t just waltz right in, you have to [...]
I’ve spent much of the day setting up my Facebook page, which I started in April, and my profile on Google+. I’m sure there’s more work to be done while I figure things out. One of the most important parts is going to be linking them all together. And, the most important part will be [...]
It’s self-promotion time again, and this time it’s more about sprucing up our image. Let’s look at it as a sort of spring cleaning-tiding up, taking care of neglected things and putting a little plant food into your website, resume, Facebook page and blog. Here’s what I’ve done in the last few days: I’m planning [...]
Social media engagement can be such an overwhelming task(s). What to add, which ones must you use and knowing how, when, where, and why to engage. And, of course this must be done in addition to your day job and your family life. I’ve just spent over 30 minutes bouncing around in tweet-land this morning. [...]
Being self-employed requires a certain degree of self-promotion for success. The old “if I build it will they come” only works if everyone knows the address. In reality, many of us have challenges with self-promotion, and I suspect the difficulty for me has much to do with my upbringing and being a woman of a [...]
We’ve had rain all week long, literally. After a dry and record-setting hot summer the rain has been a welcome relief-tedious, but necessary. I’m working in a friend’s retail shop this week. It’s fun and a diversion from the solitary computer work, but this week I really needed to be at home, in silence with [...]
In case you missed it, last Wednesday’s post, Need to Put A Little Fresh Air into Your Blog, was chosen for WordPress’s Freshly Pressed feature. I’ve seen the varied posts there before but never actually tried to get myself on that page! Of course I want to be noticed as a writer and a blogger; [...]
OK, I’m in. I broke down and set up my twitter account. I’m not real sure what I’m doing and fear that it will be yet another time-suck if I don’t get it ‘right’. It’s part of my larger marketing campaign and seems to be crucial to tapping into multiple streams for freelancing promotion and [...]
I’m going to talk about my newest freelance writing job. I think, in general, talking about specific jobs is a ‘no-no’. Many times one has signed a non-disclosure agreement and is ghost writing. Or possibly wants to keep professional relationships out of the more visible public sphere. I’m blogging about this particular job for a [...]
