Last week, Chris and Gena talked about the importance of building a simple newsletter for your audience. This week, they discuss five things you should always include in your email newsletter for maximum effect. If you’re not sure where to start, this is the place!
Building an email list may be the most powerful tool in any writer’s arsenal – especially independent authors. In this episode of the Writing Momentum podcast, Chris and Gena discuss how you can create a newsletter, why a “simple” newsletter is often preferable, and tricks they’ve learned to improve its success.
Getting your emails opened is SO important. If no one’s opening your emails, no one’s reading them! In this episode, Chris and Gena talk about how they TRIPLED their email open rates quick and easy.
Chris reviews MissingLettr’s Curate – a powerful way to get others to share your content with your target audience. Post great blog articles, get others to share them, and find articles from others that you want to share. Share your content to the curate library, select hashtags related to your niche, watch your traffic and…
Today it’s all about Lead Magnets. I’m four days into my deep dive into Mark Dawson’s Self Publishing Formula in an attempt to boost my online Kindle sales…and I haven’t gotten far. Mostly because I’ve discovered after watching the first video that I still have a bit of work to do on my web site. I…
This morning an article showed up in my Facebook feed: Why Authors Should NOT Use Social Media. And I get it. It comes from the standpoint that authors can waste too much time on social instead of actually writing their books. Well, that goes without saying. But to completely dismiss social media all together is…
Here’s more concerning my “Social Media Manifesto.” In my last entry, I talked about Expanding with Social Media. Before that, it was Evolving with Social Media. Today, I’m going to speak to engaging with it. This is a bit of a departure from the other two, as many of these ideas speak to how a…
Last post, I talked about Evolving with Social Media. In continuing with my “Social Media Manifesto,” containing some of the truths I’ve learned about social media over the past year, today I’m going to share what I’ve discovered about using social media to expand my brand as an author. These are all much easier to…
Over the past year, I’ve been learning a lot about social media and how to use it to declare your brand to the world. Over the next few blog entries, I’m going to share what I call my “Social Media Manifesto”—what I’ve learned about social media as an author. Today I’ll start with: Social Media…
Go back to Part 1: Introduction Go back to Part 2: Hellotxt setup Go back to Part 3: Twitterfeed setup If you’ve been following this series, you’ve got yourself hooked up with hellotxt.com and twitterfeed.com and you’re ready to test out if news of a blog you create will be broadcast across the Internet to…