Reader
Q: Are all the featured articles and blog posts in each issue relatively new?
A: No.
Most of them will be. Occasionally, maybe even all. But it isn’t unusual at all to every now and then see an article or post that was originally published a year ago or more.
Good info is good info. If the info’s potentially useful and valuable, I’m not about to deprive you of that info just because it was written a couple of years ago.
(If you think about it, that’s actually a Wordpreneur Reader benefit, now isn’t it?)
As long as it hasn’t gone stale, that is. And that’s one of the things I check for, that the info is current, regardless of when it was written. Oh, I’m absolutely, positively sure I’m going to miss the mark sometimes, but I’d like to think I’ll have significantly more hits than misses.
Well, let’s see if we have a few hits this issue. Let’s do some reading!
— EES
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Writing
10 Ways To Stop Feeling Like A Failure As A Writer
“From the giddy heights of your initial creative rush, the long hours wrestling to keep your labor of love alive, to landing smack on your face on releasing it into a world that frankly, doesn’t give a damn… That’s one heck of a fall.”
5 Self-Editing Essentials to Give Your Manuscript a Solid Foundation
“A solid foundation is one of the first things our editors look for as soon as they open a manuscript. This helps them determine how much work needs to be done and how much more attention and care the manuscript will need to make it solid.”
How to Be an Awesome (Professional) Reviewer
“[W]riters are also readers, sometimes even exchanging stories with other writers; a beta reading swap, for any who are unfamiliar. You may also be picked as an ARC reader (Advance Review/Reading Copy).”
Read @ The Unconventional Author »
The 12 emotional stages of quitting your job to write full time
“I don’t mean just the finances: That’s another subject and deserves its own space. Here, I mean the emotional path of leaving one established career to transition into writing.”
Indie Author/Publishing
Authors: Don’t Put All Your Eggs in the Facebook Basket
“The true strength of Facebook, and really, all social media is how it fosters a direct author/reader connection. That relationship is what drives book sales, not the platform itself.”
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Is A Large Platform Critical For An Author’s Success?
“The quick answer is ‘no.’ But, it’s imperative that the platform be well-established.”
Overcoming Roadblocks to Marketing
“The numbers vary, but they are usually small. The average nonfiction book sells around 250 copies per year and around 2,000 copies over its lifetime. The vast majority of indie published books sell far fewer than 200 copies…”
Read @ Marketing Christian Books »
Tips for Building Keyword Lists for Amazon Advertising
“The idea of spending a lot of money and not seeing much return was scary. I don’t have a lot of money to spend on marketing.”
Content & Ideas
Create More Shareable Content With This Checklist and 7 Helpful Tools
“To get as many eyes as possible on your content, it needs to be shareable. Shareable content quickly spreads around the Internet as audiences connect with a topic, idea, or story and click to share it with their friends and followers.”
Facebook wants more video creators to compete with YouTube, so it’s rolling out a subscription feature
“[T]he company will roll out what amounts to a digital tip jar, where fans can send creators money each month in exchange for things like exclusive content, or a badge to put on their profile to show they’re a supporter.”
Marketing
6 Ways to Stretch Your Marketing Budget
“[H]ow can you do more, with less? How much of your budget should you spend on marketing? How much should you spend on social media marketing? There’s no magic number because every company is different.”
How to Use Customer Lifetime Value to Clone a Facebook Audience
“Cloning your existing customers by creating lookalike audiences from your database is one of the most effective ways to produce highly targeted audiences on Facebook.”
Read @ Social Media Examiner »
