Connecting the social media dots

Now that you told your family and friends about your accomplishment, you are beginning your marketing outside of your immediate bubble. You are going to want to spread the word on social media. Getting all of the social media up and running and connected together was a little more complicated and time-consuming than I thought it was going to be. First I created my author central page on Amazon. That was relatively quick and easy to do. Setting up a website to host my blog and then connecting it to Amazon, took me hours to do. I am a really tech-savvy person and it was a nightmare trying to figure out how to connect the blog page to my Amazon author

central page.

I finally came across a website and eventually just started punching in random stuff on the keyboard until I got the right combination of code for it to work. Quick Tip: If you are using Wix and trying to connect to author central, the correct combination is to copy your webpage and then add //blog-feed.xml it will link your blog correctly and save you some time...you're welcome! The next thing I did was set up a business IG account and business FB page, set up Twitter, updated Linked in, and then connected all of the accounts so that no matter which platform I posted on, it would share and post to the other. In each of the professional accounts or business accounts (IG, FB, Twitter, Wix) just go to the settings to connect and link everything. Again, all of this took a while to set up and I totally understand while people hire professionals to do it.

Pro Tip: I sent out test posts and test blogs before I told everyone about the accounts, I did this for about several weeks, that way I could see where everything was posting and to make sure that it was all done correctly. It took some adjustments, but I finally got it right. Then I slowly added more and more features, once I knew everything was correct. I also wanted to make sure that when people went to my blog page there were several stories that they could check out, that they were not just looking at one story and leaving the page. Overall, connecting the social media platforms was time-consuming, to say the least, but if you have the patience to figure it out, it is totally doable on your own.