Monthly Archives: April 2019

#VirtusSaga The Game NEW BDSM #excerpt #mustread 4 Ways 2 Increase Traffic 2 Blogs

Many authors just blog about whatever they’re working on, their cat or dog or the summer trip they took. This is fine of course, but…if you want to use your blog as a showcase for both your books and your author brand, there is a better way. Here are four things you can start doing today to increase traffic to your author blog.

1. Use several graphics for each post. Most blog owners use a photo here or a photo there not realizing that these photos and other graphics can actually increase the traffic to their blogs.

2. Make the first graphic a graphic with the title of your blog post. This makes it uber easy for readers to pin the graphic to Pinterest and be able to see and remember what your article is about! Oh, and sharing it on Twitter, FB and Google+ just adding this graphic can increase your traffic exponentially!

3. Add your website address to every single graphic, stock photo, or vector or clip art that you’re using. (Remember to only use royalty free graphics and stock photos, or ones in the public domain.)

4. Use these same graphics on a Pinterest board, on FB, …

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Ever wondered What an Author’s Street Team is?

The idea of a street team first became popular back in the 1970’s when record label’s would approach savvy young teenagers and get them to hand out music posters, and other goodies, as well as, get them to buy whatever record happened to be the hoped for hit of the moment. While popular at the time and before home computers were around, the idea sort of died out over time. That is until it got reinvented for the publishing industry in the mid-2000’s. Not all authors choose to create street teams, but those that do sometimes find it a useful marketing tool.

In the case of the publishing industry and authors, a street team is a group of readers who join together to help get the word out about an author’s book. Each street team is different. Some just operate online only, and others both online and offline. Here are some examples of what authors ask their street teams to do:

1. Hand out bookmarks, magnets, pens, pencils and other swag to those who they think will be interested in the author’s books.

3. Write honest reviews and post them to Amazon, B&N and other booksellers.

5. Blog …

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How to be a More Productive Writer: Get Inspired by #VirtusSaga BDSM MMF erotic #excerpt from The Game!

While learning how to market and promote your books is very important, as an author you must have something new to promote often. If you don’t, readers tend to forget about you and move on to other authors. Staying in the minds of readers should be one of your goals as an author. In order to that, you have to be productive.

Like most things, productivity doesn’t always come easy. However, it doesn’t have to be difficult. Here are some things you can do to help your writing time be more productive so you can create more stories and more worlds for your readers to get lost in.

1. Shut the door. As strange as that sounds, it’s probably going to be one of your most important tasks in order to be a more productive writer. If the door stays open, it gives others the illusion that it is okay to interrupt your writing time, so close the door.

2. Decide ahead of time what your word count for the day is going to be and stick to it.

3. Write. Don’t spend your time re-reading what you wrote yesterday or last week. The dreaded self-editor can be a writer’s …

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