...or how to share your creations with the world...
Question: There are so many ways to be connected over the Web. It boggles the mind. Do I have to use them all?
Answers: No, pick a few that work for you and that you like to use.
I blog and promote my posts through Twitter, Linked In, and Facebook.
Question: How do I know it's working?
Answer: Statics. For example, since October 10, 2010, this blog has received over 680,000 page views. For me, my combination of blogging and Twitter, Linked In, and Facebook.
Question: Are there other ways to determine if social networking is working?
Answer: Yes, absolutely, but page views is what I'm focusing on right now.
Question: How does this blogging work? I set up my blog a few months before my book is published. Blog 'buy-my-book, buy-my-book' like crazy. Then a few months later stop.
Answer: Hmm, no. I blog on a regular basis over an extended period of time. Offer quality posts. Build a community with your readers and with your fellow authors.
Question: But I hate to blog because it takes so much time away from my writing.
Answer: I use blogging as a means of sharpening my writing skills.
Question: How has your blogging changed over the seven years?
Answer: I created my first blog--Designer's Note--in 2005 as a way to attract surfers to my knitwear design website. I continued to blog as a way of being accountable for writing daily. Now I blog to promote my creations and to celebrate your creativity.
To summarize, in the beginning, I thought it was all about me. Now I know it's about building a community.
Question: What do you do if you run out of things to blog about?
Answer: -post a photo
-post your old writing (i.e. short stories, essays, articles, etc.)
-gain inspiration from other blogs
Question: So you did everything right?
Answer: Nope. I wish. And I do wish I'd...
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