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An Easy Way to Get More People to Share your Content on Pinterest

Blog, Author Platform, Marketing, Pinterest Marketing, Work From Home

We all know getting your content onto Pinterest is critical to driving quality, targeted traffic to your website. However, we don't all have hours and hours to spend on Pinterest trying to build followers, increase our viewership, or keep our content in the newsfeeds. The answer to this, of course, is to get more people to share your content on Pinterest.The more other people are sharing your content on Pinterest, the better:Every time your image is pinned onto Pinterest, Pinterest's …

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How to Use Amazon Giveaways to Drive Traffic to your Website

Author Platform, Blog

We've discussed how important having your own website or blog is. If you want to stand out from the crowd and get noticed, you need a website: some place where you aren't blending into a sea of other authors. Your website is one of the most important pieces to your author platform. But only if people can find it. If no one can find your website, then what good is it doing sitting there in a lonely corner of the internwebs surrounded by other abandoned and unknown websites? Just as important as …

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Getting Book Reviews

Author Platform, Blog

If you asked an author what the most important part of the marketing process is, and you'll hear a few different answers: social media, your author platform, Thunderclap or some other crowdspeaking marketing blasts, and book reviews. Of all the answers, getting book reviews is probably the aspect many authors focus on the most. And for good reason: readers still rely on reviews to help make their book-buying decisions. Platforms like Amazon use the reviews to help show their customers books they …

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Why you need Tailwind in your Pinterest game

Author Platform, Blog, Marketing, Social Media, Social Media Marketing, Tailwind, Time Management, Work From Home

Are you on Pinterest yet? Good. You need to be. Now, are you on Tailwind yet?Once again, you need to be.Life with Pinterest before Tailwind If you're using Pinterest for your business or blog, then you already know just how good it is as a marketing tool. And you know how much good it can do. Knowing this, I spent hours on Pinterest every day: pinning, repinning, and moving my content, looking for other content to repin, finding new people to follow, finding new group boards to join. …

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Are You Using Pinterest in your Author Platform?

Author Platform, Blog, Pinterest Marketing

Are you using Pinterest as part of your author platform? If you're not, then you really should be! People tend to think of Pinterest as a place to look for recipes and craft ideas. Let me tell you, these people have never really looked at Pinterest. Do not make the same mistake and underestimate the power of this amazing resource.First of all, Pinterest is not merely a social media channel, although it is often categorized as one. But it would be more accurate to say that Pinterest is a search …

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Not your Typical "What not to do on Social Media" Post

Author Platform, Blog

It seems like everywhere you go online, there is another author, social media expert, or marketing guru telling you what not to do on social media. I just did several searches using Google trying to find exactly what's out there for "social media marketing for authors" and "social marketing best practices" and several searches in between. And you know what kept popping up? What not to do. "Top mistakes authors are making on social media." Don't spam your followers with buy links. Don't buy your …

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