Yesterday Facebook and Instagram were down and there was a huge huge huge panic because most people do it all their business on Facebook or Instagram. There was no promotion or building relationships going on most of the day. This was a good lesson for every author who uses social media as their contact with their audience. You need a Back Up Plan. If you follow me, you know I’m always preaching start your mailing
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Check out this video I did on How To Get Readers To Buy Your Readers Did you find this broadcast helpful, share it to your community? Are you ready to become a Social Butterfly? I offer three ways to work with me – 1. Join my free promotion training group – See Ya On the Net – http://bit.ly/SYOTNPTGlist 2. Join my membership – Social Butterfly Promotion Membership – http://bit.ly/SBMCALL Or 3. Private Consulting – Virtual
I always preach to know your audience, because when release a book we automatically assume, our friends and family will purchase a copy. Then our feelings are hurt when they don’t. I will use me as an example. I promote authors. I’ve met a whole bunch of them, so you would naturally assume when I published a book about promotion that I would sell one copy to every author I ever met. I would have
After I promoted my book for five months, I was in promotion overwhelm. I was tired, I didn’t want to post another post about my book. I didn’t want to do another interview. I was so done. I think I slacked off in December. My sales suffered because I wasn’t doing a lot of promotion. I didn’t even schedule promotion. I had to take a moment to breath. I had virtual tea with myself and
During the furlough it made me revisit my why of why I continue to work a full time job. When you’ve been at a job over 20+ years you get a little frustrated. I’ve had those days. This 30+ days furlough really had me frustrated. I wanted to call it quits and go do my heart’s desire. When we returned to work, the first week was hard, because I honestly didn’t want to be there.
This year I decided to start doing livestreaming on Periscope. I’d missed hanging out on Periscope, so I will be broadcasting every Tuesday at 9pm eastern. If you are on periscope, watch me on the app. If not you can catch me live or replay at http://www.periscope.tv/sormag I will also share the link on FB and linked in if you are on that platform. Bring your questions because I’m starting a new series called Social
I thought I knew grief until my mother died in 2011. I didn’t have a clue and each day since I’ve learned to deal with it. 1. People think they understand but until they sit in the front pew they only have a glimpse of it. So if they are not there for you, know it’s because they don’t understand the pain yet. 2. Seek therapy or good friends to listen to you. Don’t do
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