Have you checked your book description, referred to as your blurb–recently. If not Do! Did you know that every time you change price, do any clean up on your book, add back matter, or change key words, the original book descriptions pops up on your book. It’s Amazon’s default blurb on your book. If there […]
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Today is the Day~ GDPR and Newsletter Compliance.
GDPR ~ General Data Protection Regulation and You. The brouhaha is all but over. May 25, 2018, which was yesterday in the European Union saw the GDPR go into effect. For those of us in the USA, it actually doesn’t go into effect until mid June, 2018. The best blog and information by an author […]
Read the rest of this entry »INTERNET SAFETY 101~ Must Read
GUEST POST FROM DONNA FASANO Internet safety~How To Disable Apps on Facebook This morning I watched an interview with Facebook Founder Mark Zuckerberg and learned that there was a huge breach of information back in 2015 in which the personal information of millions of Facebook users was handed over to third party app developers. Due […]
Read the rest of this entry »#New Indie Authors~ 5 Tips To Look Like a Pro
How Savvy Indie Authors Know You’re Not~ The “Tells” First, sharing this: I was reminded in a recent forum how dumb I seemed to indie authors and editors more experienced and savvier than I when I first stepped in the Digital Universe. I asked what I considered smart questions about ehow and got snark: “What? […]
Read the rest of this entry »COWBUNGA! Report: Newsletter vs Newsletter
More About Newsletters Good morning all of you awesome authors. Are you wondering what the heck Newsletter vs Newsletter means? You know me. I’m gonna tell you. It’s something specific I discovered by accident. My blog topic was gonna be about my most recent promotion, because we in eNovel often report results. But this happened: […]
Read the rest of this entry »#Is your Amazon Author page working for you? Or against you?
What you don’t do can hurt your book… This is strange thing. Most of my posts get a lot of traffic, but NOT my blogs about simple ehow to make our Amazon author pages and book pages more effective. Here is what made me sit up and take notice: Roger Packer’s blog that shows Amazon sells […]
Read the rest of this entry »Newsletter Mania~Do You Have One?
Indie authors are in manic mode to gather subscribers and generate newsletters… IMO, that is not a bad thing. From the moment we step into the indie author arena we are told to have a newsletter. Marketing experts and gurus insist that for success a newsletter is the single top-ranked item one needs in an […]
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