the three key parts of your author platform framework

One of my goals is to learn about author platform through study, trial and error so that you don't have to.

If your tactics involve the actual tools you use (blogging, Twitter, Facebook, etc.), your strategy involves an overarching sense of how everything fits together: what Chris Brogan calls a simple presence framework or Michael Hyatt calls a social media strategy or many others refer to as a social media framework…and what you might come to think of as "that freaking platform thing."

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