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October 12, 2014
WordPress 4.0 Benny (infographic)
Have you upgraded to 4.0 yet? Have you discovered all the wonderful new additions that you have access to? If you haven’t upgraded yet, for security sake, upgrade as soon as you can. But with all upgrades, back up your site first!
Credit for this infographic goes to cloudways.com
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October 8, 2014
Sharing Infographics Online: Best Practices (infographic)
Since I seem to have become addicted to infographics, when I found an infographic about best practices for sharing them online, I thought I’d hit the jackpot!! The one thing that I noticed when sharing my beloved infographics is that they don’t share well. They look weird on Facebook, and Pinterest. I’ve played around with various methods of getting the infographic to look right, but this handy little inforgraphic summarizes what I’ve discovered, and much more!
Credit for this infographic goes to Lemonly
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October 5, 2014
Dressing your Content for Success (Infographic)
Today’s infographic is called Dressing your Content for Success. Although this is accuarate, I would also give this infographic the title of “Tips for posting to the 5 major Social Networks” I thought this was bright and attractive. I enjoyed reading it and I learned from it. I hope you learn and enjoy also!
Credit goes to pagemodo.com
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October 1, 2014
The Multiscreen World (Infographic)
Today we are chatting about the Multiscreen World.
So…do you use multiple ‘screens?’ Do you text with friends while watching TV? Do you do work on your laptop while watching TV or chatting on Facebook? I do 
I hope you enjoy this infographic and the stats that it is sharing! It certainly encouraged me to think about what I do…
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September 28, 2014
Nurturing the Sales Funnel using Social Media
Today we are talking about Social Media, but also Funnels. I often get questions about why we do certain things. I don’t necessarily agree with everything in the infographic, but I think it will present information that you can think about. Many authors don’t consider themselves sales people. I don’t consider myself a sales person, but it is helpful to view subjects through the eyes of a sales mentality! Enjoy!
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September 25, 2014
5 Ways to Make Your Social Media Strategy More Effective
One of the complaints I hear over and over is that social media takes up too much of the day!
Frankly, I agree some times. My guilty pleasure is Facebook – I can’t seem to not check to see what people are doing. Somedays I’m so ADHD that I need to just log out of Facebook to get anything done. How about you? Are you easily distracted sometimes?
I found this infographic a few weeks ago that suggest a few ways to make your Social Media Strategy More Effective. I hope that you find this helpful! I give credit for this infographic to PRmarketing.com
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September 19, 2014
How to add Amazon affiliate links to a post – updated to show Amazon changes
Good Afternoon! I’ve updated a previous tutorial to reflect the changes that Amazon has made to their affiliate accounts. Please don’t hesitate to ask questions if any of this is unclear.
Many people add an Amazon Affiliate link to their post. It is a way of offering your readers an easy way to purchase the product that you are talking about. Let’s face it, most of us can’t support a family with affiliate money, but my Amazon affiliate supplies me with the odd book.
I have a pet peeve about the appearance of links in posts – especially book reviews posts or book features posts. I don’t want to see a nasty long Amazon link in the post like this:
and I don’t want to see a cover graphic that is obviously an affiliate graphic like this:
I know….picky, picky, picky.
Here is how I set up my buy links on my blogs.
I log on to my Amazon affiliate account and hover over the Links & Banners menu item and choose Product Links from the dropdown list. That will bring up the screen below.
In the graphic above choose ‘Kindle Store’ in the drop-down indicated by the red arrow and type or copy and paste the name of the book in the field indicated by the second red arrow. Click on the Go button.
This will bring up choices as you can see in the graphic above. Find the book that you are looking for in the list and then click on the Orange ‘Get Link’ button.
The first screen that comes up shows the cover of the book that you are featuring. I just want the text link, so I click on ‘Text Only’ as indicated by the red arrow in the graphic above. That will bring up the screen that you see below. We will need part of the code that is in the red box as indicated below.
If you look at the graphic below, you’ll see that I have highlighted part of the code. This is the portion that you want. It looks like this:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00E...
The portion of the code that I want is in quotes (but don’t include the quotes), starts with an ‘http’ and ends with my affiliate id. We are going to take that code and use it as the link to embed behind a buy link like this:
Click on the link above and see where you go. Unless I told you, are you aware that you are clicking an affilate link? Isn’t it neater?
By the way, you can do this on Blogger – exactly as I’ve done it on WordPress.
Any questions?
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September 3, 2014
What is Your Social Media Personality?
Sometimes I think we take ourselves too seriously on social media.
When I stumbled on the infographic that I’m sharing today, I had a good laugh. I hope you enjoy it as well!
This infographic was originally created by MyLife.com
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August 31, 2014
What People Share on Social Networks (Infographic)
One of the most common questions I get about social media is “What the heck do I say?” I frequently talk to authors that are new to the whole social media scene and are intimidated by this unfamiliar world. My first piece of advice is to be yourself. Readers are interested in authors as real people, but it is also important share branded information.
I stumbled across the infographic below and thought it was a great idea generator. See if it can help you with some ideas!
This infographic was compiled by GO Gulf Web Design.
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August 27, 2014
How to Increase Instagram Engagement (Infographic)
Instagram is a platform that I don’t spend much time on. It’s certainly on my list of social media platforms to master, but I wouldn’t consider myself a master yet!
Not only is Instagram considered to be a platform that is popular with the YA crowd, (37% of the online 18 to 29 year olds use it) but it is one of the most rapidly growing social media platforms. As you can see in the infographic below, it has 15X the engagement of Facebook and 40X the engagement of Twitter.
Have a read through the stats put together in the infographic below promoted by QuickSprout and see what you can learn.
See you on Instagram!
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