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June 2, 2014
Women are the Real Power Behind Social Media – Infographic
Happy Monday Morning! I’m sharing an infographic that I found last week on FinancesOnline.com
Enjoy!
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Barb DrozdowichOwner at Bakerview ConsultingSocial Media and Wordpress Consultant Barb Drozdowich has taught at Colleges, trained technical personnel in the banking industry and, most recently, used her expertise to help hundreds of authors develop the social media platform needed to succeed in today’s fast evolving publishing world. She owns Bakerview Consulting and manages the popular blog, Sugarbeat’s Books. Her first book is now available on Amazon - The Author's Guide to Working with Book BloggersTwitterFacebookGoogle+LinkedIn
May 26, 2014
New Book Release!
Please welcome my new book!
Book 5 in the Building Blocks to Author Success series has been released!
The Newest Book from Bestselling Authors Barb Drozdowich & Babs Hightower
Facebook for Authors is the fifth book in the ongoing series focused at helping authors understand and use technology named Building Blocks for Author Success. With this book we take a step by step approach to creating your Facebook personal profile and author page, and give you some hints and tools to help you develop and present a professional face to the world.
With the help of this book you can become proficient in:
Creating Tabs
Setting up Street Teams and other groups
Mastering Facebook Events & Parties
Initiating and Managing Facebook Ads
˃˃˃ Are you struggling to use Facebook to your advantage as an author?
We will cover all aspects of Facebook from the initial setting up of a personal profile to controversial topic of Facebook Ads. We lead you through every topic with clear color graphics that everyone, regardless of skill level, can follow.
˃˃˃ Are you trying to connect with more readers and reviewers?
Facebook is the place where 1.15 Billion people, speaking over 70 languages, hang out. Lots of readers and reviewers are on Facebook. Stop feeling uncertain and attack Facebook with confidence!
Facebook for Authors is available:
AmazonUS | AmazonUK | B&N | Smashwords
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Barb DrozdowichOwner at Bakerview ConsultingSocial Media and Wordpress Consultant Barb Drozdowich has taught at Colleges, trained technical personnel in the banking industry and, most recently, used her expertise to help hundreds of authors develop the social media platform needed to succeed in today’s fast evolving publishing world. She owns Bakerview Consulting and manages the popular blog, Sugarbeat’s Books. Her first book is now available on Amazon - The Author's Guide to Working with Book BloggersTwitterFacebookGoogle+LinkedIn
May 12, 2014
Whats new in WordPress 3.9?
Have you upgraded your blog to WordPress 3.9?
Maybe you should!
There are a nice collection of new and improved features available for you to play with!
To summarize the news, I’m sharing an infographic that I found on Innogears.com. After you enjoy this great infographic, pop over to their blog and read their full article!
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Barb DrozdowichOwner at Bakerview ConsultingSocial Media and Wordpress Consultant Barb Drozdowich has taught at Colleges, trained technical personnel in the banking industry and, most recently, used her expertise to help hundreds of authors develop the social media platform needed to succeed in today’s fast evolving publishing world. She owns Bakerview Consulting and manages the popular blog, Sugarbeat’s Books. Her first book is now available on Amazon - The Author's Guide to Working with Book BloggersTwitterFacebookGoogle+LinkedIn
April 20, 2014
Do You Know How to Get Your Reader’s Attention? Cool Infographic
As you all know, I’m a huge fan of Infographics. Lately I’ve been running across some wonderful examples that I just need to share with you! Here’s a great infographic on Getting Your Readers’ Attention. To read the full article, click HERE.
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Barb DrozdowichOwner at Bakerview ConsultingSocial Media and Wordpress Consultant Barb Drozdowich has taught at Colleges, trained technical personnel in the banking industry and, most recently, used her expertise to help hundreds of authors develop the social media platform needed to succeed in today’s fast evolving publishing world. She owns Bakerview Consulting and manages the popular blog, Sugarbeat’s Books. Her first book is now available on Amazon - The Author's Guide to Working with Book BloggersTwitterFacebookGoogle+LinkedIn
April 14, 2014
SEO is Dead: Long Live OC/DC compliments of Copyblogger
As I was wandering around the blogosphere today, I found this post by Sean Jackson from Copyblogger – one of my most favorite sites. As you can see from the provocative title, he claims that SEO is dead! Only Copyblogger could come out with that sort of statement.
After that eye catching title, he then goes on to describe how he feels that the term ‘SEO’ is dead, not the basic concept. He has decided to give it a new name – “OC/DC” and goes on to explain what he means.
“OC/DC” stands for Optimizing Content for Discovery & Conversion and he does a wonderful job of explaining this concept HERE.
I invite you to enjoy the infographic below and click on the link to take you to his post. I hope that you find it as educational as I did!
Enjoy!
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Barb DrozdowichOwner at Bakerview ConsultingSocial Media and Wordpress Consultant Barb Drozdowich has taught at Colleges, trained technical personnel in the banking industry and, most recently, used her expertise to help hundreds of authors develop the social media platform needed to succeed in today’s fast evolving publishing world. She owns Bakerview Consulting and manages the popular blog, Sugarbeat’s Books. Her first book is now available on Amazon - The Author's Guide to Working with Book BloggersTwitterFacebookGoogle+LinkedIn
March 19, 2014
How to Understand and deal with spam in WordPress
While wandering through blogs this morning, I stumbled on a post from Fairy Blog Mother.
Drop by and visit this site! It is chock full of wonderful information!
I’m thrilled to find such a concise infographic on Spam. Enjoy and go visit this site!
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Barb DrozdowichOwner at Bakerview ConsultingSocial Media and Wordpress Consultant Barb Drozdowich has taught at Colleges, trained technical personnel in the banking industry and, most recently, used her expertise to help hundreds of authors develop the social media platform needed to succeed in today’s fast evolving publishing world. She owns Bakerview Consulting and manages the popular blog, Sugarbeat’s Books. Her first book is now available on Amazon - The Author's Guide to Working with Book BloggersTwitterFacebookGoogle+LinkedIn
February 26, 2014
The 25 Best WordPress Plugins of 2014 by Siteber
Welcome!
I’ve found an outstanding site that you really must visit! Siteber is a site that I found today when searching for information on plugins. I was following links from Google to the wonderful infographic that I’ve reblogged below to convince you that they are a wealth of knowledge! Enjoy their infographic and then follow the link and go read everything else that they have to offer!
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Barb DrozdowichOwner at Bakerview ConsultingSocial Media and Wordpress Consultant Barb Drozdowich has taught at Colleges, trained technical personnel in the banking industry and, most recently, used her expertise to help hundreds of authors develop the social media platform needed to succeed in today’s fast evolving publishing world. She owns Bakerview Consulting and manages the popular blog, Sugarbeat’s Books. Her first book is now available on Amazon - The Author's Guide to Working with Book BloggersTwitterFacebookGoogle+LinkedIn
February 2, 2014
Book Blog Tour Announcement
Most of you know Babs Hightower and myself from our blogs Sugarbeat’s Books, Babs Book Bistro and the Book Blogger List.
We have published several books to help authors and bloggers.
Here is the list:
The Author’s Guide To Working With Book Bloggers (Building Blocks to Author Success Series) by Barb Drozdowich
Go Global: Building An International Author Platform that Sells (Building Blocks to Author Success Series) by Barb Drozdowich
Book Blog Tours: An Essential Marketing Tool for Authors (Building Block To Author Success Series) by Barb Drozdowich
The Ultimate Goodreads Guide for Authors (Building Blocks to Author Success) by Barb Drozdowich and Babs Hightower
Public Relations for Authors Take Hold of Your Own Promotions by Babs Hightower
Babs and I are having a two-month blog tour from Feb 24th – April 24th to promote these books. We are offering Interviews, Guest Posts, Book Features, Reviews, and Top 10 favorite list.
We would love for you to join us.
To sign up for the blog tour please fill out the form below:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1NXcoaQD0nkP__3EjqyB2Wkhta1eu0k7lQu2DVMN6pMg
Thank you so much for your help,
Babs and Barb
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Barb DrozdowichOwner at Bakerview ConsultingSocial Media and Wordpress Consultant Barb Drozdowich has taught at Colleges, trained technical personnel in the banking industry and, most recently, used her expertise to help hundreds of authors develop the social media platform needed to succeed in today’s fast evolving publishing world. She owns Bakerview Consulting and manages the popular blog, Sugarbeat’s Books. Her first book is now available on Amazon - The Author's Guide to Working with Book BloggersTwitterFacebookGoogle+LinkedIn
January 27, 2014
How to add Amazon affiliate links to a post
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 above. We will need part of the code that is in the red box as indicated above.
If you look at the graphic above, 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...
Code=as2&tag=sugsboonoo-20
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? What should we chat about next?
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Barb DrozdowichOwner at Bakerview ConsultingSocial Media and Wordpress Consultant Barb Drozdowich has taught at Colleges, trained technical personnel in the banking industry and, most recently, used her expertise to help hundreds of authors develop the social media platform needed to succeed in today’s fast evolving publishing world. She owns Bakerview Consulting and manages the popular blog, Sugarbeat’s Books. Her first book is now available on Amazon - The Author's Guide to Working with Book BloggersTwitterFacebookGoogle+LinkedIn
January 22, 2014
The Author’s Guide to Working with Book Bloggers – Book Trailer
It’s here!
I’m so proud of the final results!
Have a look at the trailer for The Author’s Guide to Working with Book Bloggers
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Barb DrozdowichOwner at Bakerview ConsultingSocial Media and Wordpress Consultant Barb Drozdowich has taught at Colleges, trained technical personnel in the banking industry and, most recently, used her expertise to help hundreds of authors develop the social media platform needed to succeed in today’s fast evolving publishing world. She owns Bakerview Consulting and manages the popular blog, Sugarbeat’s Books. Her first book is now available on Amazon - The Author's Guide to Working with Book BloggersTwitterFacebookGoogle+LinkedIn
