For the month of June, I will be hanging out on Pinterest. I’m revisiting the platform and learning how to use it for marketing. If I find out a few things, I will be sharing it here. I’ve created a new board – Social Butterfly Promotion Tips I will be sharing my promotion tips. https://www.pinterest.com/lashaundahoffman/social-butterfly-promotion-tips Here are three things I’ve learned. Create a business account, this is different from your personal account and you can
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I’ve been writing books for years, and I’ve let fear keep my books in the closet. I know I’m not alone in having a few books in the closet. I created the Produce Publish Promote Summit because I wanted to help writers get their manuscripts out of the closet and in front of new readers. Your manuscripts or printed books don’t have to continue collecting dust because you are letting fear stop you, or you
I had my first paid speaking engagement for the year and I rocked it. I was confident, I knew my stuff and I didn’t even use my 15 pages of notes that I wrote. I know it was because of live streaming. When I published my book, Building Online Relationships -One Reader At A Time, one of my promotion goals was getting myself in front of new people daily. Live streaming was a way to
I’m hosting my first live masterclass with Julia Royston on April 22, 2019 and I would love to have you sitting at desk ready to learn. Writing a book is on everyone’s bucket list. This year scratch it off your list. Join us next Monday and learn how to turn your book idea into a book and promote it to the readers who need it. Click to register today. http://bit.ly/PPMCAPRIL
Last week I was ready to call it quits. I was tired. I was defeated. I felt like nothing was going the way I thought it should be going in 2019. Then it hit me that I’ve been here before when my mom was sick, and we had to decide she would live with us. I knew I couldn’t do caregiving be mommy, wife, government worker and continue doing the magazine – SORMAG. I wasn’t
Last night I had the pleasure of sharing my experiences with Ashley Sauls community. Here’s the video. I created a blog series on Grief. CLICK HERE TO READ.
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
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
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