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101 Quick Actions You Can Take Today to Build the Writer Platform of Your Dreams

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101 Quick Actions You Can Take Today to Build the Writer Plaform of Your Dreams _ YourWriterPlatform.com

What does it really take to build a writer or author platform?

Money?

Connections?

An intimate knowledge of vampires, wizardry or erotic romance?

Actually, the most important aspect  to building an author platform is understanding that it’s about engagement; about connecting and interacting with people who are aligned with your message and affected by your story.

Your platform is a web of intertwined beliefs, values, emotions, thoughts, stories, images and ideas that stem from your own core philosophy and are ultimately shared by your fans.

The tricky part is finding ways to effectively share your message with an audience that is yet unknown to you, and you to them.

Establishing and maintaining a link to your potential ‘tribe’ is both the challenge and the reward of building your writer platform.

What can you do today to craft a powerful writer platform?

By understanding that your ultimate goals when creating a writer platform are to find, engage and cherish your audience, it makes the application of the tools much more effective.

But remember: insight is useless if you don’t take action. So, go through the list of tools and strategies below and choose those things that you can easily do today.

By starting with what you can easily accomplish you will a) be more likely to complete the tasks, and b) gain the confidence to start implementing some of the more challenging items on the list. [Read more…]

Twitter Marketing 101: For Writers

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Twitter Marketing 101 for Writers _ YourWriterPlatform.com

Here’s the first thing you need to know about Twitter:  no one “gets it” in the beginning.

If you’re new to Twitter, it’s unlikely that you will intuitively grasp how to properly and effectively use this social media tool right off the bat.

But every week, over a billion tweets flow through Twitter exploring every imaginable subject and a wide variety of writers are using Twitter to make their presence known.

There’s some work involved, but it’s doable.

The second thing you need to know about Twitter– your readers, your clients, your audience is already on Twitter.

Are you willing to miss the opportunity to be part of the conversation?

Me neither.

Let’s start with the basics. But before diving in, take a breath, and remember that everyone starts at zero.
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