Social Media Just for Writers Quotes

“focus on producing quality content, writing short posts (80 to 190 characters), and always including stupendous photographs that are colorful, unique, and compelling.”
― Frances Caballo, Social Media Just for Writers: The Best Online Marketing Tips for Selling Your Books

“post real information. Perhaps you’ll mention the literati you met at Book Expo America, the latest insight you gleaned from Bob Mayer’s blog Write It Forward, the book festival where you’ll be a presenter, or a courageous new book a colleague is publishing. The news can’t always be about you, right? But your posts can and should be informative and interesting, like the first paragraph of a Wall Street Journal article.”
― Frances Caballo, Social Media Just for Writers: The Best Online Marketing Tips for Selling Your Books

“Facebook is popular, approachable, and a fast, easy read. This social media behemoth is all about plot.”
― Frances Caballo, Social Media Just for Writers: The Best Online Marketing Tips for Selling Your Books

“Have you notified your local newspaper, weeklies and dailies from locales where you once lived, and the alumni offices of the colleges you attended about your book? You should. The best way to communicate with these publications is with a press release.”
― Frances Caballo, Social Media Just for Writers: The Best Online Marketing Tips for Selling Your Books

“Independent Author Network (IAN) The IAN is an online group of authors who are either self-published or published by a small indie press. Members of this online community promote their books on social media channels, share their experiences in self-publishing, and promote other members. Writers who join receive a member page with biographical information and links for up to six books. There is a one-time setup fee of about $25.”
― Frances Caballo, Social Media Just for Writers: The Best Online Marketing Tips for Selling Your Books

“There are applications that will crawl the Web in search of news on whatever topic you select. Many present the information in a magazine format you can share with your readers. The two top applications in this field are Paper.li and Scoop.it.”
― Frances Caballo, Social Media Just for Writers: The Best Online Marketing Tips for Selling Your Books

“Zemanta This is an application for your blog, and one of its features is to find free images to accompany your newest post.”
― Frances Caballo, Social Media Just for Writers: The Best Online Marketing Tips for Selling Your Books

“iStockPhoto.com The photos aren’t free here, but they do offer one image daily that’s free of charge.”
― Frances Caballo, Social Media Just for Writers: The Best Online Marketing Tips for Selling Your Books

“FreeFoto.com This website claims to have more than 130,000 photos and 182 sections organized into 3638 categories.”
― Frances Caballo, Social Media Just for Writers: The Best Online Marketing Tips for Selling Your Books

“Freedigitalphotos.com This website lists their stockpile of photos by categories, and they are all free.”
― Frances Caballo, Social Media Just for Writers: The Best Online Marketing Tips for Selling Your Books

“Corbisimages.com You will find royalty-free and fee-based photos at this website. You will need to register to use the site.”
― Frances Caballo, Social Media Just for Writers: The Best Online Marketing Tips for Selling Your Books

“      •   Share some of your personal experiences in writing the book. Did you take the ferry to San Francisco one day for a fresh perspective? Did you frequent garage sales or flea markets in search of ideas for your characters’ attire? Did you sip a Bombay Sapphire martini at a local dive as you searched for unusual character traits in people?”
― Frances Caballo, Social Media Just for Writers: The Best Online Marketing Tips for Selling Your Books

“      •   Feature an excerpt from your novel, and explain why you love that passage or scene.”
― Frances Caballo, Social Media Just for Writers: The Best Online Marketing Tips for Selling Your Books

“      •   Assume the voice of one of your characters and have them talk about dreams they have that they didn’t express in the book.”
― Frances Caballo, Social Media Just for Writers: The Best Online Marketing Tips for Selling Your Books

“      •   Discuss how you researched the background for your book. Which libraries or resources were most helpful? What did you learn from the experience?”
― Frances Caballo, Social Media Just for Writers: The Best Online Marketing Tips for Selling Your Books

“Reading List by Amazon Share your reading list with your LinkedIn connections by using this application. Don’t”
― Frances Caballo, Social Media Just for Writers: The Best Online Marketing Tips for Selling Your Books

“Events This is an often underutilized application on LinkedIn. Similar to Facebook’s Events application, you can use this one to invite colleagues to a book launch, a book signing, or a reading. Once your colleagues receive the invitation, they can share it with their contacts as well.”
― Frances Caballo, Social Media Just for Writers: The Best Online Marketing Tips for Selling Your Books

“BlogLink This application will automatically send updates to LinkedIn each time you add a new post and will include your blog title and the first few sentences. Alternatively,”
― Frances Caballo, Social Media Just for Writers: The Best Online Marketing Tips for Selling Your Books

“Returning to the top panel, you have an opportunity to list links to your website or blog. Don’t settle for LinkedIn’s default language of “company website” or “blog” (instructions on how to do this are below). Instead, use your blog title or the name of your book, and include links to your blog, Amazon, iTunes, or wherever people can purchase your book.”
― Frances Caballo, Social Media Just for Writers: The Best Online Marketing Tips for Selling Your Books

“      12. Respond or reply to at least three of your followers daily.”
― Frances Caballo, Social Media Just for Writers: The Best Online Marketing Tips for Selling Your Books

“follow the 80/20 rule: 80% of the time, you will promote others and 20% of the time, you can promote your books.”
― Frances Caballo, Social Media Just for Writers: The Best Online Marketing Tips for Selling Your Books

“      •   Tweet at least four times daily Monday through Friday, and space your tweets throughout the day. On weekends, however, twice a day on both Saturday and Sunday is sufficient. Fewer people tweet on weekends, and it’s best not to flood your followers’ news feeds with your messages.”
― Frances Caballo, Social Media Just for Writers: The Best Online Marketing Tips for Selling Your Books

“#writetip / #writingtip — If you don’t have time to take a workshop, trying using these tags to learn more about your craft. #writing / #editing – These terms are also used, but aren’t nearly as popular as #amwriting and #amediting. #writingblitz – This one is used to let your followers know that today you are writing as fast as you can and locking your internal editor into a closet. #writingfiction – Fiction writers use this hashtag to meet each other or to share their books, goals, or ideas on writing fiction. #writingprompt — Is it hard to get started on the next chapter of your novel? Well, worry no more. Log on to Twitter, search for this tag, and you’ll find a great prompt to get those creative juices bubbling. #ww / #writerwednesday – Is there a writer you would like to introduce to your followers? Use this hashtag and introduce your colleague to your Twitter tribe.”
― Frances Caballo, Social Media Just for Writers: The Best Online Marketing Tips for Selling Your Books

“#writegoal – Users use this hashtag to publicly announce how many words they intend to write that day.”
― Frances Caballo, Social Media Just for Writers: The Best Online Marketing Tips for Selling Your Books

“#FollowFriday / #FF is a fun Twitter tradition that expresses gratitude to your retweeters and gives them exposure to a wider audience. On Friday mornings, compose a tweet comprised of the usernames of your most loyal retweeters. You can also #FF writers you admire or members of your critique group or book club.”
― Frances Caballo, Social Media Just for Writers: The Best Online Marketing Tips for Selling Your Books

“It´s recommended that you tweet four to eight times daily Monday through Friday, and less frequently over the weekend.”
― Frances Caballo, Social Media Just for Writers: The Best Online Marketing Tips for Selling Your Books

“Success on Twitter is determined by how social you are, how courteous you are, how informative you are, and how much you engage with the faces behind the avatars.”
― Frances Caballo, Social Media Just for Writers: The Best Online Marketing Tips for Selling Your Books

“      •   Vary your content. Write about what you’re reading and ask other users what they are reading. Talk about the events you attend, an accomplishment, or what you’re writing.”
― Frances Caballo, Social Media Just for Writers: The Best Online Marketing Tips for Selling Your Books

“      •   Offer a chapter of your book for free. Post it on Scribd or GoodReads and provide a link.”
― Frances Caballo, Social Media Just for Writers: The Best Online Marketing Tips for Selling Your Books

“      •   Include links to community events, newly published books by colleagues, and writing workshops you plan to attend.”
― Frances Caballo, Social Media Just for Writers: The Best Online Marketing Tips for Selling Your Books