How to market what you write
Last Saturday, Ryan Schneider @RyanLSchneider , a new and good
Twitter friend, sent an email about TwitterAdder. Ryan, is in the same boat I’m in. Maybe you’re in there with us - the how do you sell it after you’ve published it
boat. He was persuasive enough to
get me to take a look at the software. I
downloaded the trial version and botched the installation when I mistyped my
Twitter password (be advised, you only get one shot at that on the trial
version).
After fiddling with it for an hour, I emailed Ryan and
asked, “Are you sure about this?”
His response was, “I’m not sure about TweetAdder, but I am
sure about Michael R. Hicks, and he told me about it. He said it was critical to his success.” OK, I’ll be honest here (Michael, don’t take
this personally), my first thought was, since I’ve been on Twitter, I’ve been
hit on by so many people who are going to make me successful I’m beginning to
have flashbacks to hot landing zones in Vietnam, where a lot of people I didn’t
know were hitting on me with the intention of making me dead. However, that didn’t stop me from finding
Michael on Twitter @kreelanwarrior
and discovering that I was already following him and wonder-of-wonders, he had followed
me back. That’s a wonder because as of
last night 872 people that I’ve followed haven’t returned the follow.
I sent a Direct Message to Michael, told him what Ryan said,
and he confirmed that TweetAdder has been instrumental in his success, and he
gave me a link to the info on his site, this link, http://tweetadder.com/ Before
you click it, let me tell you my Michael R. Hicks story and give you some
more info about him – Saturday night I watched the number of people following
him go from 8,999 to 9,000 - at this moment (Tuesday 8/2/11 – less than 3 days
later – 9,324 are following him, and
here’s the kicker, he was on a road trip Sunday, Tweeting from his phone while
I was on my laptop trying to find people to follow who might follow me.
Hopefully, Michael’s new book, The
Path to Self-Publishing Success will
be out this week, but I couldn’t wait, so I went to his web site and dug out a
number of blog entries he has written about what he’s done to be successful in
self-publishing. I shared the link to my
search results with my best Tweeter friend, my wife @carsoncanada and another good
Twitter friend, Kathy Hall, @redmojomama
who I mention because they are great writers, and they would appreciate a
follow. This is the results of my search
of Michael’s blog posts about his marketing
success – which should keep you busy until his book goes live.
Have a wonderful day writing, and selling every word that
you write.
7/5/2011 The Path to Self-Publishing Success is now available -
