Blogs Versus Web Sites – Which One is for You?

As I finished writing a colleague privately, I realized this may be helpful for some of you. Forgive me for all the self-promotion as I shared my ideas and comparisons. When people explain things to me I like something tangible to look at!
Lisa Copen
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Do you use it as your sole website or do you also [...]

Thousands of Twitter Followers?… Hmm

I’ll admit it… I decided to “bite” on this offer just for the heck of it. I get frequent email updates from James Ward over at BiblioScribe.com and he just added the following to his newsletter.
I just found this site that shows you a way of getting 1000’s of new followers on Twitter, I just [...]

Who is Talking About You?

In my quest to organize information overload, I found this. We should all have our book titles, names, etc. in it just like we do for Google Alerts (do you have Google alerts set up for these right?)
Tweet Beep: http://www.tweetbeep.com — This service will alert you via email anytime your name, book title, company, [...]

Blog Posts to Twitter

I’m trying to combine some of my efforts so I can concentrate more on content and less on posting it all over. I’ve been testing out some different things to do with Twitter and here is a link to Twitterfeed that seems to be working. It takes about 5 minutes to jump through the hoops [...]

Print Magazines Going Digital – What That Means for Authors

More and more magazines are being discontinued. And we’re not just talking about those niche magazines you can only find online. Some of my favorites, including Simple Scrapbooking and Quick and Simple (do you see a theme there for my life’s ambitions? Simple. Ha!) are a couple of the five that I’ve faithfully read who [...]

Everything You’d Ever Need for Twitter

I am a twitter novice and learning to find the balance between being interesting, being honest and also using it as a marketing tool. But this week John Kremer (book marketing EXPERT) struck again by providing us with a wealth of resources for everything you’d ever want for Twitter.
Posting in advance, tweeting your blog, social [...]

Feb 9th is “Doing Business in Your Bathrobe Day”

I just saw this and thought I would pass it along to you!
Web Momz has detail on prizes you can win and how to bring recognition to your business. They list”4 Great Ways to Celebrate Doing Business in Your Bathrobe Day!”

Checking in… and still selling books

Well, just when you think you have plans to “get busy and back to work” along comes… the holidays? Not in my case this year. Instead it was the flesh-eating virus (on my ankle).
No kidding. 7-days in the hospital, 3 weeks of IV at home.
Nothing like having Amazon orders going up, distributor calling for your [...]