Writers need to do self promotion in order to help them get more gigs and increase the SEO rank of their website. A lot of us spend time social networking and social bookmarking our articles. Thanks to my friend, Sharon Hurley Hall, I found out about Wrideo which is a new social bookmarking tool about writing.
Wrideo.com looks like a great place to not only do some social bookmarking of your writing related articles but to get some great reading material about writing as well. There are lots of writing-related topics and posts have a similar to other social bookmarking site voting button to get the popular articles to the home page.
I'd love it if you'd join and post an article. There's a referral contest in October and I'd love to be one of the top referrers and win myself a prize. Visit Wrideo.com.
Cheers,
Dana
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Thursday, October 2, 2008
Thursday, July 3, 2008
Writers: Be Your Own Publicist
A huge part of the writing life is promoting. As a freelance writer, I use a lot of social marketing tools to promote myself. I write articles for article directories, I blog, I guest post and use tools like Twitter, Mybloglog, BlogCatalog, online community forums and others.
Put On Your Publicist Hat
As a writer, you need to be your own publicist. Today, I'm told that publishers are more likely to sign writers that already have a following. If you show them that you have a Myspace page with 5000 friends and established presence on the internet through book clubs, a blog, an e-course or some other social tools, you'll be more likely to win them over.
If you're not spending at least a few hours a week on promoting yourself, your writing career will likely stall. To move forward and get better gigs, step outside of your comfort zone and act as a publicist for yourself.
*Learn about Web 2.0, social media and about ways you can get noticed in the search engines as well as by your target audience.
*If you're solely ghostwriting today, start publishing free e-zine articles or start a blog of your own.
*If you're starting to get well known in your niche, kick things up a notch and try to get noticed some more.
Writers as creative people can come up with all sorts of ways to increase their profile. Happy Promoting!
Put On Your Publicist Hat
As a writer, you need to be your own publicist. Today, I'm told that publishers are more likely to sign writers that already have a following. If you show them that you have a Myspace page with 5000 friends and established presence on the internet through book clubs, a blog, an e-course or some other social tools, you'll be more likely to win them over.
If you're not spending at least a few hours a week on promoting yourself, your writing career will likely stall. To move forward and get better gigs, step outside of your comfort zone and act as a publicist for yourself.
*Learn about Web 2.0, social media and about ways you can get noticed in the search engines as well as by your target audience.
*If you're solely ghostwriting today, start publishing free e-zine articles or start a blog of your own.
*If you're starting to get well known in your niche, kick things up a notch and try to get noticed some more.
Writers as creative people can come up with all sorts of ways to increase their profile. Happy Promoting!
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