Be Shareable: Social Media Tip for Indie Authors

I make it a habit to peruse the blogs and publications that cater to indie authors, mainstream authors, and writers of most other stripes. I also make it a habit to share those pieces that seem especially useful or especially interesting on Twitter and with my online writers group.

So, imagine my surprise today when I ran across this very interesting, very useful blog post and could not find a share button anywhere. I guess I’m old enough that the idea of doing a simple copy and paste of the URL doesn’t seem like that much trouble and that’s what I did. My impression, though, is that I belong to an increasingly small minority of people who will take the extra time to do this.

By not enabling the share buttons for this post, the blog owner has intrinsically and unnecessarily limited how far the post is likely to spread via social media. Every blogging software package I’ve seen comes standard with an option for share buttons. It’s usually a one click process to turn them on. Making it as simple as possible for people to share your posts or articles isn’t just good practice, it’s expected these days.

So, be smart and be shareable. It’s worth it.