What is YouTube? Many would answer that question as a website of uploaded user videos including fabulous plays and bloopers in the sporting world. Others visit YouTube to witness animals and children’s cutest moments and catch outrageous television moments missed the first time around. But YouTube is more than that. With over 1 billion hits per day, YouTube is a free resource for businesses to market its products and services. Much like other forms of… read more →
As we’ve discovered, social media reaches far beyond Twitter, blogging, Facebook, Google+, and LinkedIn. Today we’re focusing on two different social networks to help promote and sell our products (e-books, music, and other business ventures) via the organic marketing. Users search the Internet for news, content, reviews, and recommended sites daily. Reddit allows its millions of registered users to post content (links and self posts) and also vote as to whether or not the links and… read more →
The past few weeks, we’ve discussed some of the most popular forms of social media available today, as well as the latest platform launched: Twitter, blogging, Facebook, and Google+. But, we’re not done. Social media reaches far beyond these four markets, and there are many other methods of promoting our works (e-books, music, and other business ventures) via the World Wide Web. One of the largest online networks available today, and rapidly growing in size,… read more →
When someone thinks about social media, the most popular platform that comes to mind is Facebook. Since its launch in 2004, Facebook has swept the social media world with more than 750 million users. If people were unaware of Facebook, they quickly learned about the social site in 2010 with the release of the successful motion picture, The Social Network. Initially, a user creates an account at Facebook, and then they invite friends and family members… read more →
As writers, most of us don’t have a background in marketing. If self published, it’s unlikely that we hired a large public relations firm, editor, or anyone else for that matter, to help market and sell our e-books. Instead, we’re doing it on our own. Self publishing is stressful, and watching the sales numbers slowly climb definitely takes a toll on us. So what do we do? We turn to social media. Last week, we… read more →