Tagged: blogging

Tips & Strategies for Blogging Power

Throughout the month of June, AuthorU-Your Guide to Book Publishing Host Dr. Judith Briles will be the solo voice on a variety of topics. This week’s is about the power of blogging—why you should and how to be successful.

How to set up a blogging strategy that works for you—not someone else’s.
How to shout out your blog once you create it.
How to pull new blog ideas together in a nano-second.
How to make money via blogging.

Blogging takes …

Has Your Blog Fallen Down and Needs to Get Up?

Posted on Sep 19 By Judith Briles

Summer “officially” passes this week. For authors, their eyes begin to look at upcoming Holiday sales. The thought of writing anything new moves to the back burner. Should it? Nope.
Keep your blogs ALIVE during this busy time … with new ideas, repurposing of old content … and not opening the door to an invitation of doing nothing–of letting stickiness creep in.
Have you ever had one of those days? Can’t think of a thing … not …

Top Ten Twitter Tweets of March 30, 2017

Posted on Mar 30 By Judith Briles

Today
Author U – Your Guide to Book Publishing, host Dr. Judith Briles of The Book Shepherd digs into a variety of writing and publishing insights each show.
Today, Judith dives into MORE Author Success—as in marketing success. She will focus on the ins and outs of one of the hottest tools in the Amazon Marketing Services offerings. Listen in live; from the website or via iTunes.
Tune in for the LIVE show at 6 Eastern, 5 Central, 4 …

Author Writing, Book Marketing, Publishing Tips

Posted on Jul 22 By Judith Briles

You never know where you name, your book, your expertise can be picked up and shouted out by media. Here’s a few tips to give you a goose along the way.

1 Are you looking to connect with media—both national and regional. Have you registered with HARO (Help a Reporter Out)? It is a service that helps reporters
find sources for stories. Each day they send out three emails with lists of requests from reporters. Within the …

Top Ten Twitter Tweets of February 11, 2016

Posted on Feb 11 By Judith Briles

Today
Author U – Your Guide to Book Publishing, host Dr. Judith Briles of The Book Shepherd digs into a variety of writing and publishing insights each show. During December, she will focus on strategies to kickstart your publishing success … or reboot it. Today her guest is Bill Van Orsdel, COO of BookFuel.com and the topic is finding and nourishing raving fans Creating Kickass Author Platforms … essential for both fiction and nonfiction—it will be another …

Author Writing, Book Marketing, Publishing Tips January 29

Posted on Jan 29 By Judith Briles

Blogging is an essential element in your social media outreach. The first quarter of the year is always a good time to kick off ideas to regenerate or just goose you to update what you are doing in the blog world.

Here is a quick 6 step formula to rock your blogs:
1. Have a central idea or concept that you want to jump on.
Ideas are everywhere—sometimes even standing in line at the grocery story or observing fellow …

Top Ten Twitter Tweets of July 02

Posted on Jul 2 By Judith Briles

Today
Author U –Your Guide to Book Publishing is featuring host Judith Briles of The Book Shepherd will focus on how to write a book FAST. Tune in at 6 Eastern, 5 Central, 4 Mountain, 3 Pacific and for our out-of-the-country members and followers … you are going to have to do the clock crunching for your time zone at http://tinurl.com/AuthorURadio. You can also go to the Home page of http://www.AuthorU.org, scroll down and click on …

3 Blog Ideas for Authors to Kickstart the Week

Posted on Mar 16 By Judith Briles

Two weeks ago, I listened in on the webinar that Joan Stewart and Joel Friedlander delivered on how to create a blog and how to provide content for a blog. They’ve even created a template package to goose you and your blogging endeavors–get info on it HERE.
Outside of your core website, having a blog where you practice the 3 C’s: Content, Consistency and Commitment is elementary and essential in your author presence.
I’m the first to admit it… doing …