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Upon meeting someone, when you take the time and make the effort to learn, remember, and use the ‘sweetest sound’ of their name, it makes a lasting and positive first impression on them, Price adds. ‘In turn, they are immediately drawn to you and are more likely to remember you and your name. This is [...]
Create a novel inspiration pinboard. Tease your fans by creating a pinboard that showcases photos of people and locations that inspired your upcoming book. This would also be a great thing to pass on to your publishing house’s design team. It would give them a helping hand when creating the perfect book cover. (I’ve also heard [...]
The cover image for an ebook is important to its success, but it’s also a rather difficult skill to master. Not everyone has the artistic skills to design a good cover, but in the not too distant future that will no longer be a problem. There’s been no announcement from Amazon, but I have just [...]
Many writers I speak to often mention these two challenges: • Not knowing enough about who their audience is. • Not having enough time to do everything they want to develop their author platform. …[A]nalytics can be used to help answer these questions. Now, I am not some person who loves spreadsheets, and you don’t have to [...]
Ribbon, a payments service… unveiled a tool that lets sellers create a special link to a one-page checkout that can be copy and pasted directly into the Twitter news feed. Any Twitter user interested in purchasing the item can preview a description and video of it in the tweet and then click on the link [...]
Let’s start a new tradition hereabouts — new-ish, anyway, since in a sense, we’re revisiting our roots. Grasshopper, let me introduce you to… Wordpreneur Tools Friday! The concept’s simple: Every Friday, in a single post, I’ll give you a few (or more) links to “tools” you may find useful as a wordpreneur. To do, well, [...]
Analytics are great for seeing your site’s performance, but we can’t usually peek into other people’s web stats. However, there is a tool that gives you a view you may not have seen before. It’s called Google Author Stats… I think of guest blogging as modern-day PR. It has social media and search marketing benefits, [...]
Funded by a prototype grant from the Knight News Challenge, Truth Teller is a mobile and desktop app that will be able to record, transcribe and show disputed facts and statistics in real time for everyone. Although still in its nascent stages, the end result would be an app that simultaneously transcribes speeches obtained via [...]
Whether business cards are irrelevant or not, they’re definitely a cool way to express yourself and easily provide your information. If you’re looking to make some cool cards, set aside a few hours this weekend and use these resources to help.” Read full article @ Lifehacker »»» AD: WORDPRENEUR RELOADED – Some of the best [...]
Just got wind of BookRX, a new, free webapp that employs some fancy-schmancy artificial intelligence (AI) engine or algorithm or whatnot to generate personalized book recommendations for you based on your Twitter activity. Just enter your Twitter account username and away it goes! A project of Northwestern University’s Knight News Innovation Lab, BookRX says its [...]
Plagiarism is a problem of epidemic proportions on the internet. It has been much too easy for someone to copy a webpage’s online content and then spread it around like it’s their own. Google is getting better at detecting who the original authors of newly created content are. However, there is a chance that thieves [...]
Are you looking for tools to help better manage your Twitter presence? Managing your Twitter presence along with your other online networks can be difficult if you have limited resources. In this article, you’ll discover 3 tools to make your basic Twitter marketing tasks easier.” Read full article @ Social Media Examiner »»» AD: FROM [...]
Want some cool apps that you can use on your smartphone to improve your marketing? Mobile apps can help you manage your social media activities with your busy schedule and help you maintain your reputation. Here are 6 free smartphone apps to keep your business active on social media.” Read full article @ Social Media [...]
How can this information help you improve your marketing? You can apply this information to your business goals. For example, you can use this information from Google Analytics to help you decide what locations might be best for a meet-up, where to set up the best Facebook location targeted ads or determine the best locations [...]
If there was still any debate about whether serious photojournalism can take place in the context of camera phones and cutesy retro filters, it’s over now. To document the effects of Hurricane Sandy on the northeast, Time magazine turned to Instagram, a.k.a. that iPhone app your sister-in-law uses to document her creative table settings. And [...]
Now here’s an “app” I’ve found exceedingly useful, and you would too if you have a Kindle and use the Google Chrome browser. A browser extension specifically for Chrome, Send to Kindle is Amazon-official (not some third party thingamajig), and I think I read somewhere that support for Firefox and Safari is forthcoming, but frankly, [...]
Today we’re looking at a cool new online tool, that lets you record a screencast without any software. So even if you do have a program like Screenflow or Camtasia, you might need to use this solution if you’re on a friend’s computer or if you need something quick and easy.” Read full article @ [...]
Implementing Google Analytics is an essential part of gaining insight for improving the customer experience, and improving profitability for your organization. As they say, what gets measured gets managed.” Read full article @ Toprank »»» AD: FROM FREE TO BOOK – Get your book published and into the hands of readers without needing to spend [...]
How much money did you drop on your latest home page video? How long did it take to produce? If you consider the total time and energy you put into creating your video (from the original scripting sessions to the final tweaks), videos can be quite a resource draining endeavor. And if after all the [...]
