Apr 14
How much time do you spend marketing? How much time do you spend going through your email? When I turn on my computer, usually around 8 am, I usually have over thirty emails to go through. Most are things I can just delete right away without even opening, some are digests of Yahoo! loops I …
Apr 07
Yesterday I did something I probably should have done a long time ago. I’ve been getting these requests from people to join LinkedIn. I thought they were spam and deleted them. But then a discussion began on one of the Yahoo! groups I’m a member of and some people made some very compelling arguments to …
Mar 02
It’s always exciting bringing a new book into the world. After slaving away at the writing process, then going through the agony of the editing process, it’s a sheer joy to format a book. Of course, there’s always the fun and painstakingly detailed work that comes with attempting to create a cover (unless you go …
Feb 12
An appropriate follow-up to all the marketing I’ve been talking about is how to keep it in control. I will read a blog, flip through a few others, follow a link here and there and all of a sudden, I glance at the clock and three hours have flown by! Has this happened to you? …
Feb 05
I not only walk the walk, I talk the talk, and I put my money where my blog is — is that enough clichés for you? What I’m trying is say is that after all of my blogging about marketing for the past two weeks, I’m going to start to show you about marketing, rather …
Jan 29
As promised, here is the low-down on a number of sites I listed last week. I reiterate, there are just a very small list of websites where you can publicize your self-published book and, possibly, get reviews. These are websites where you can connect with readers and get your name out there — exactly what …
Jan 23
Last week my husband had a huge project he absolutely had to get done. Naturally, he couldn’t get any work done in his office because of the constant interruptions there, so he decided to stay home and work. I love my husband, I really do, but work with him in the house? No way! I couldn’t concentrate with him …
Dec 11
Did anyone else hear it, or is it only me? It’s kind of like the sound of a cork slowly being pulled from a bottle of wine. Sluuuuurpop! It’s the sound of my head slowly being pulled from the bed of sand it’s been stuck in. Every so slowly I’m discovering more and more websites, …
Dec 07
It was another one of those chance comments at the holiday party I told you about on Monday: “Oh, my God, I know, branding is so important!” Branding? As in my name? The name I write under? It’s important to keep using that same name, huh? Well, yeah, I guess it is. All the time …
