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The ingredients of a perfect writer’s blog [Guest Post]

A blog is one of the most powerful promotional tools in a writer’s arsenal. Guest blogger and self-published author Patty Jansen shows you what makes up the perfect writer’s blog.

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Why would JA Konrath recommend spam for ebook marketing?

  This week I had an email from Eric Spudic, a newly self-published author marketing his ebook: “Howdy!  I’m an 8-time produced screenwriter who’s entered a new realm of writing.  I just published my first ebook, “Teenage Vigilante”.  It concerns an 18-year old man who takes on a gang of Vietnam vets who have slaughtered [...]

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Are you a self-publisher when you should be a self-publishing house?

“Self”-publishing doesn’t mean you have to do everything yourself; sometimes it’s about working out where you need someone else’s strengths.

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Why authors want to be sticky

You want your readers to trust you and grow closer to you. They aren’t doing that if they’re visiting your site and leaving immediately.

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If you want to rank well in Google, you need to freshen up your site

Why should you care that Google is taking its caffeine fresh?

Google has changed its algorithm to favour recently updated content. What does that mean for your website and how easy it will be to find?

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I said goodbye to half my readers, but I didn't mean to

How I lost half my readers in 48 hours

I cut my mailing list in half last week, partly by mistake. Here’s how and why.

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