5 Reasons Every Writer Needs a Web Presence and Where to Start

I recently talked to a friend who was having an article published in a well-known, highly competitive magazine. She hasn’t yet taken the jump to have a web presence. I tend to forget that I spend thousands of hours online, receive hundreds of newsletters each month and answer over 1000 emails a month. I don’t [...]

Romance and Illness - Who Knew it Was a Hot Topic?

I blog for my ministry, Rest Ministries; it’s more of a way of having a casual voice with my audience. As the ministry has grown, I’ve become more of someone in the background– marketing, writing books, promotions, etc. and so I use my blog to still stay in touch with people.
So I haven’t really looked at [...]

URL Tips for Writers and Authors

Here’s a tip for every person who owns a web site, especially authors and writes. Never use a hyphen in your URL (that’s the www._____.com) unless it’s strictly   used as “secondary site” to point search engines to and not used in any of your   publicity materials. If your name is already taken add [...]

Why do I Need More Than One Web Site?

They call it “concentration” but it’s the addictive little game I play with my son where you turn 2 cards over and try to match. Check out the computer version over at LinkTiles where our button “You Can Sell More Books” was chosen as one of the Tiles today!
LinkTiles is a catchy little site where [...]

Sharpen Up Your YouTube Videos in Seconds

 Do you have a video on YouTube? Want to dress it up? Jump on over to Slide.com for some amazingly free tools to make your videos stand out. Plus, this is where you can find those cool “slide show” tools that places like Amazon.com uses to have their books rotate in a little circle. You’ll [...]

5 Way Authors Sabotage Their Internet Sales

Despite all the work we put into marketing our books, little things count the most. Here are 5 ways I’ve seen many author sabotage their best efforts for online sales.
[1] They don’t take advantage of Amazon’s programs. Amazon wants to make money off of you so they give you a lot of ideas to improve [...]

My “Book Sales” Experiment

I thought I would share with you a little experiment I am doing and let you know the results. I’ve been fortunate enough to attend the workshop of Derek Gehl of Internet Marketing Center, in fact, their large 2-binder training course called The Insider Secrets to Marketing Your Business on the Internet  was one of my main [...]

A Free Web Ranking SEO Resource for Authors

What’s SEO? If you have to ask, that’s okay. It stands for “Search Engine
Optimimazation” and it basically means that you try to find all the ways
to make your web page friendly and desired by the search engines so that people
can easily find you.
There are many, many ways people will try to tell you they have [...]