Yesterday I wrote about why I thought entering a blog contest in your niche was a good idea. I said it helped increased traffic to your blog and also offered a way to increase your blog’s exposure while building author platform. One more reason exists: Entering a contest affords you an opportunity to create one–or possibly more–links to your blog….
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Using Contests to Generate Interest in Your Blog
Hopefully most of you are blogging either to promote yourself as writers, to promote your books, to blog a book, or to simply hone your writing. I blog a lot; I have five blogs. Every once in a while my dance-related blog, My Son Can Dance, gets voted “best” in its category. The two times this has happened it has…
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Are Some Books Not Cut Out to Become Ebooks?
Well, as a writer, author, writing and author coach, I have to get on board with the changes in the publishing world, such as the market’s turn toward ebooks. They represent the future of publishing. However, as a Jewish writer who writes about practical spirituality, when it comes to the world of Jewish sacred texts, I’ve got to be a…
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Great Reasons to Write in Your First Language
Today I received a call from a writer looking for help writing a book. Although our conversation started out as a discussion of the details of an upcoming Dan Poynter workshop my writing club is hosting, it quickly turned into a laser coaching session about how she should write and market her book. This particular writer is not a native…
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Time to Finish Writing Projects You've Started
Much of the stress that people feel doesn’t come from having too much to do. It comes from not finishing what they’ve started. — David Allen I don’t celebrate Christmas; I celebrate Chanukah. So, I’m already thinking about the New Year. Not that the secular New Year is a Jewish holiday, but I enjoy any holiday that asks me to…
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Create the Write Gift for the Holiday Season
What is the one gift you as a writer want this holiday season? If you could have anything at all that relates to your writing and publishing career, what would it be? I challenge you to take a moment…or more than a moment (take at least 5 or 10 minutes) to get a really clear picture of what it is…
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Move Your Big Writing and Promotion Rocks in 2011
With the New Year fast approaching, it’s time to consider the writing projects and platform building you didn’t finish in 2010 and make them a priority for 2011.What projects have remained on your to-do list all year long, part of the year, or even just this past month? It’s time to make them top priority. Consider them your “big rocks.”…
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