Tag: Social Media Mondays

  • The Great Wattpad Marketing Experiment: Updated Numbers

    We’re now three and a half months into my Great Wattpad Marketing Experiment. For those of you who are following this experiment and considering taking the Wattpad plunge yourself, I wanted to give you an update so you can get a feel for how well (or not) it’s working. First, a look at Part 1 of the experiment…

  • Basic Online Etiquette for Authors

    I find myself chagrined. A couple of weeks ago, another author posted a comment on one of my Social Media Monday posts, in which he thanked me for the information and then proceeded to tell me he thought I would like his book and I should check it out at ‘x’ buy link. I was, to put…

  • The Great Wattpad Marketing Experiment: Show Me the Numbers

    Two months ago, I joined Wattpad and began putting up my contemporary romance novel as a free serial read. I deemed this my Great Wattpad Marketing Experiment, and my primary goal was to increase my fan base by introducing more people to my writing. In a May update, I gave you numbers with regard to…

  • If You Send E-Newsletters, You NEED to Read This!

    As of July 1, 2014, the world’s toughest anti-spam legislation goes into effect in Canada and whether you live in this country or not, chances are good that if you’re sending out an e-newsletter (or other commercial electronic messaging), it will affect you. According to a blog post at Wellman Wilson, an Ottawa social media consulting firm,…

  • Leveraging Facebook: The Best Way to Post a Link

    Facebook has gone through so many changes over the last couple of years that it’s no wonder no one really knows what they’re doing with it any more. One of the things I see a lot of authors doing “wrong” is how they post links. Fortunately, this is also one of the easiest things to…

  • Update on the Great Wattpad Experiment

    Four weeks ago, I ventured onto the Wattpad platform in my Great Wattpad Experiment. My reasons for doing so were straightforward: I was looking to grow my readership. I was hoping to engage in conversation with readers about my stories. This is the update I promised on how my experiment is going. 🙂 My main focus…

  • New! A Facebook App for Author Pages

    Good morning! It’s Social Media Monday here on the blog, and after a couple of weeks of being absent (read: trying to get my act together!), I’m back with a very cool thing that I only just learned about. (In my defense, it’s apparently fairly new. 😉 ) Did you know that Facebook has an…

  • The Great Wattpad Marketing Experiment

    So this week’s Social Media Monday is about an experiment. Specifically, the Great Wattpad Marketing Experiment. Over the last few months, I’ve been hearing a lot about something called Wattpad–with many of the mentions coming in a surge during the past two weeks. Never one to ignore a nudge from the universe (yeah, right 😉…

  • Using Graphics in Your Social Media Postings

    We humans are visual creatures.  I know…shocker, right? Shall I wait for you to recover? No? All good? Then I’ll continue. 😉 The reason I wanted to bring up this stunning revelation is because of its importance to social media. Platforms such as Pinterest and Instagram are both growing in popularity, and Facebook and Twitter have…

  • Just How Effective IS Social Media for Authors?

    Good morning, and welcome to another Social Media Monday! Last week, something occurred to me. Here I am, handing out advice to all of you on a variety of social media-related topics, but I had no idea whether or not social media actually worked. At least, not with regard to book sales. Oh, I like being on social…