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How Authors Can Use a Blog to Promote a Cause or Issue

By Nina Amir As an aspiring or published author, you’ve probably heard this advice: You need a blog. The reasons are always the same. A blog helps you develop your author platform, create a brand, build expert status, and promote your books. But did you know you can do something even more meaningful with a… Read More

Dog Tweets–14 Ways to Increase Your Clickthrough Rate on Twitter

Here are my Top 10 tweets from this past week, great for retweeting! If you missed these, follow The Publicity Hound on Twitter. 14 Ways to Increase Your #Clickthrough Rate on #Twitter ow.ly/LxZVj How to Leverage Mean #Tweets And Other Negative Feedback ow.ly/LxYmc #crisismanagement 5 Ways to Get 10x More #Retweets on #Twitter | @WordStream ow.ly/LxZae… Read More

Authors: Free training for fast, easy blogging

Update on Feb. 28, 2015 Watch the webinar replay of 7 Fast, Easy Ways to Pull Traffic to Your Author Blog here before 11:59 p.m. on Monday, March 2. After that, we take it down and our killer offer for a product that will make blogging fast and easy disappears too: When… Read More

Panda 4.0 didn’t kill the press release, it just refocused it

This is a response not only to this article, but to many others like it, too. By Mickie Kennedy The constant algorithm changes Google is rolling out continually spawn “the sky is falling” mentality from people on message boards and blogs across the net. Don’t believe me? Just Google SEO is dead, linkbuilding is dead,… Read More

5 cool tools I learned about at #AuthorU Extravaganza

I love learning about free or dirt-cheap tools that make my job easier, and I know you do, too. Here’s a quick list of five tools I learned about today, during the second day of the AuthorU Extravaganza. 1. Video Hive At VideoHive you can buy and sell royalty-free footage and motion graphics as well… Read More

3 conspicuous things that are strangling your PR campaign

I’ve been running my own PR business for over 15 years, and not a week goes by that a potential client doesn’t come along and say, “PR just doesn’t work for us. Why should I invest more time and money when we’re not getting a single phone call from the media, or seeing any decent,… Read More

How to get Camtasia 8.0 for free and make easy videos

One of the easiest ways to create videos fast, without having to look good in front of the camera, write a script and memorize your lines, is to shoot a video of what you see on your computer monitor. You use screen-capture software and a headset with a mic to do things like take people… Read More

5 BS press release facts that everyone thinks are true

This guest post was written by Mickie Kennedy, founder of eReleases Press Release Distribution Service, the online leader in affordable PR distribution since 1998. Grab your free copy of 8 Shocking Secrets Press Release Distribution Firms Don’t Want You to Know, a must-read for the PR professional. Follow eReleases on Google+, Pinterest, Facebook and Twitter. Mickie’s advice… Read More