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Social Media Marketing

Blogging and Why it is Important

Strategic Book Marketing - Blogging and Blog Tours

Book Publishers Network
The Title Wave News

Why Every Author Should Blog!

The popularity of blogs has soared in the last few years. There are now over 100 million blogs tracked by Technorati, a popular blog search engine. According to demographics collected by the Pew Internet Study, blogs have become mainstream and represent virtually every audience and topic area.

You can use blogs to:
? Develop an audience for your work
? Promote your book

A blog bears many resemblances to a book. Both have a title and subtitle that reflect the content of a book. Blog posts can be organized into categories which serve as a kind of table of contents to classify and group related material. Blog posts, typically 300-500 words in length, represent the raw content of a book. Links within posts or on the blog roll serve as a bibliography, showing references to source material.

How do you attract people to your blog? Initially, through searches individuals make on popular search engine sites like Google, Yahoo and MSN. By using popular keywords in your blog title, subtitle, categories and posts, your blog will begin to turn up in these searches. You can discover these keywords using keyword discovery tools or simply checking out popular blogs in your topic area. The more you blog, the more others discover and link to your blog content, the higher will be the ranking of your blog site in search results, and the greater the traffic you will receive.

Blog software usually provides a basic set of statistics that allow you to track important information such as number of visitors, page views, referring sites and average time spent by each visitor. Page views and comments left by visitors for specific blog posts provide an indicator of popular content. This makes blogs an excellent way for you to field test
and select material to be included in your book.

Once you have cultivated an audience, you can transform your blog into a great marketing platform. For example, you can promote your book on a special page, featuring your bio, a book description, excerpts, press releases and testimonials. Thus your blog can double as a book website. You can also promote your book to a wider audience by arranging a blog tour. A blog tour is a series of scheduled guest appearances on related blogs, where you have the opportunity to talk about your book. This is a low cost, high impact method to discover new readers for your work.

Whether you are publishing independently or trying to sign on with a traditional publisher, blogging can be key to your success. More publishers are now starting to view the blogosphere as a fertile ground to find
promising writers. Why? As an author who blogs, you can quantify your audience and this is attractive to risk averse publishers.

Blogging is a low risk, low cost way to build your audience while you are developing your work, and then promote your finished book to that same audience. Give it a try!

(lnformation from Tom Masters, author of Blogging Quick and Easy)

Social Media Marketing Industry Report

Social Media Marketing Industry Report: How Marketers Are Using Social Media to Grow Their Businesess.

To understand how marketers are using social media, we commissioned the Social Media Marketing Industry Report: How Marketers Are Using Social Media to Grow Their Businesses.

Social Media Marketing Industry Report - Click to downloadWe set out to uncover the ?who, what, where, when and why? of social media marketing with this report. Nearly 900 of your peers provided the kind of insight that previously has not existed. In this report you'll find:

* The top social media marketing questions marketers want answered
* How much time marketers are investing in social media
* The benefits of social media
* How time invested impacts results
* The top social media tools
* And much more!

If you're pondering starting social media marketing, these findings will help push you over the edge. If you're already onboard, feel free to examine what the really experienced marketers are doing (and use this study to persuade others).

Enjoy the report! Remember, the nature of social media is to ?share,? so if you find value here, please let your peers know about this report.

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Mission: One Trillion Served! More fun than a McDonald's Happy Meal - well maybe. I just love this!

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YouTube - Smart Blog Commenting for Social Media Marketing

Secure high-quality backlinks and new RSS subscribers without wasting time with this new social media marketing technique. Tom Deeter at Web2Center.com explains how to do "smart blog commenting"

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Just before I became completely immersed in my next Lens on one of my super singing heros or actors or authors or artists, or yet another lens on homeschooling and freebies or SMM and Coaching, I decided that I would do a Lens about ME. We're allowed to have fun right? And so this is a fun and compl

Are you linkedIn? - TRCB

Twitter, MySpace, Facebook, You must have heard of these social networking sites, but have you tried using any to market your self and business? With these social networks growing in popularity, there is one social network in particular that should be a part of your social media marketing plan.

Google's Orkut - A Social Networking Site - TRCB

Orkut was voted one of the best social networking sites by PC.com (a magazine published in Malaysia) with a score of 8/10 in their April 08 issue. Joining Orkut is easy.

POD Publishing, eBooks,Traditional Publishing

Great new Publishers in YOUR part of the World that Offer more than just producing a book.

Electric Book Works

Overview: Publishers and media departments turn to EBW to save time and to produce high-quality content, including books, manuals, and reports.

Strategic Book Marketing - Social Media

Social Media: Site setup and Posting

Social media sites create a combined accessible potential audience of over 200 MILLION people that we can reach out and virtually touch! Even if only one tenth of one percent (0.1%) of that number looked at your book that is over 200,000 visitors. Mathematically speaking, it makes sense to utilize ALL of these venues and integrate them with each other as much as possible.

We will sign you up on the following Social Media pages, deck out your pages with images and information you provide in the most attractive way, and then provide you with a list of the 100 top social media sites so you can sign up for any others that interest you.

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* In short, you can do absolutely anything you want with these PLR Articles, other than give them away!
* And much, much more!