3 Ways to Get Free (Or Almost Free) Training

Welcome to Toolbox Saturday where you’ll find tools for various things from writing to whatever. I’ve blogged about using a training budget before, but sometimes you may find your budget is hovering around $0. What do you do then? Spend time trolling through other author’s blogs, especially those who offer eBooks (and other types of [...]

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Marketing Monday: Platform Building The Tortoise Way

If you’re a highly sensitive person like me, then you’ll understand how stressful marketing yourself, your product or your business can be. If you aren’t an HSP, then today’s marketing landscape with its hurry, scurry push in social media probably doesn’t bother you. You may, in fact, thrive on the pressure, the excitement. The downside to that is that mistakes [...]

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3 Ways To Boost Potential Book Sales Using Samples

I was recently browsing the blogosphere for eBooks on self-publishing and blogging when I came across Kristen Lamb’s eBook We Are Not Alone: The Writer’s Guide to Social Media. It sounds like a very interesting read based on the blurb at Who Dares Wins Publishing. Will I buy it? Not without a lot of thinking [...]

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3 Ways to Get Free (Or Almost Free) Training

I’ve blogged about using a training budget before, but sometimes you may find your budget is hovering around $0. What do you do then? Spend time trolling through other author’s blogs, especially those who offer eBooks (and other types of media) covering topics you’re interested in, and prowling over social media networks. There are three [...]

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BookBuzzr Review

As those of you who have been following along will know, I’ve been working with the BookBuzzr people to test out whether their service was a better choice for me as an Independent Author versus Scribd. After looking over their services and comparing stats from both, I’ve come to one conclusion… neither one is perfect [...]

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Choices, Decisions, and… Cover-ups?

Marketing is an essential element to book sales, but to market a book before it’s finished one must have some kind of cover art to show the masses. Crazy as it seems, I decided to “put the cart before the horse,” so to speak, and design a cover for my newest book before I’ve completed [...]

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Something To Be Said… Again

If you work at something long enough, eventually you’ll find a work around what “can’t be done.” Today I challenged myself to finding a solution to the Gravatar image problem I’ve had. The problem: keep the Gravatar image of my book cover while adding a photo of me to my blog. Why, you may ask, [...]

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Believing In The Dream

It’s probably every writer’s dream, secretly or otherwise, to make a living as a freelancer. Unfortunately, the reality seldom meets the dream and most of us either suffer until we die or, more likely, until we get a “real job.” Enter the idea of self-publishing. Many Independent Authors plunge into self-publishing as a way to [...]

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The Dangers of Facebook,Myspace

Originally this post was going to be just about the little experiment I’m running on Facebook vs. Myspace. I wanted to have a less subjective (or rather “other’s opinion”) view on which would be the better network to use for marketing. So far, Facebook is far superior, but mostly because that’s the one used by [...]

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Taking The Social-Networking Plunge

I’m currently looking at doing is social-networking via MySpace or Facebook.  It’s sad, but the very idea of social-networking scares the bujeezes out of me.  I’m a very private person, but I know a writer can afford only so much privacy and an Independent Author can afford even less.  And so I must decide to [...]

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