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Book Review & Contest Insights from Real Reviews and Submissions
What separates great books from the rest? Below are articles with insights from real reviews and contest submissions—what works, what doesn’t, and how to improve your book. You’ll also find a wide range of articles covering writing, publishing, marketing, and more. Each article has a Comments section so you can read advice from other authors and leave your own.
Why Some Books Win Awards (And Most Don’t) — Insights From Real Contest Submissions New!
What separates award-winning books from the rest? After evaluating contest submissions across a wide range of genres, certain patterns become clear. Some books consistently rise to the top. Others, even with strong ideas and clear effort behind them, fall short. The difference is rarely dramatic—it...
What We’ve Learned From Reviewing Hundreds of Thousands of Books (And Why Most Don’t Stand Out) New!
After reviewing and evaluating books across thousands of submissions over the past two decades, certain patterns become impossible to ignore. Some books immediately stand out to reviewers. Others—even well-intentioned ones—fade into the middle or fall short. The difference is rarely luck. It comes down to...
Have You Been Utilizing Social Media Sites to Get Additional Traffic?
With the popularity of social media sites, are you taking advantage of them to ensure that you get additional traffic to your website? One of the biggest challenges is to bring visitors to your website. Social networking sites can give you a steady flow of visitors and potential leads and clients if you play your cards right. This short article will give you helpful tips to ensure that your social networking skills bring you the targeted traffic your website needs.
Regularly Share Useful Content on Social Media
When you maintain a blog and you regularly share content on social networking sites, the more interesting, useful, and valuable your content is for your targeted audience, the better chances for you to get more leads. Sharing useful content establishes your reputation as knowledgeable in your chosen niche and expertise, thus making these visitors consider you for their needs. Sharing regularly is one thing but sharing worthy content is another.
Be Engaging
Social media is a community and in order to take advantage of your exposure to this community, you have to constantly engage with your audience. Make sure you are approachable, polite, and charming as it creates an excellent first impression to all of your potential clients. This also helps build a more long-lasting relationship with followers and fans that can later convert into more leads.
Add Links on Your Social Media Accounts
Do not forget to include your site’s address in your profile to ensure that visitors are directed to your business website in just a click.
Do Not Be Afraid to Make a Call to Action
You can try to subtly sell your business and/or products. You may include in some of your regular updates how people can use your services and/or products. Encourage them to visit your site should they see a need for your services.
Advertise on Social Media
Take advantage of the millions of people using social networking sites and promote valuable posts to drive more traffic to your site. Make sure you have links to a landing page to increase conversion rate.
Offer Help
The more fans and followers you have on social media, the more queries you get. Take time to respond to questions and let your audience know that they can always contact you for anything. This will help you become more respected and create a good image for your brand.
Add a Contact Form to Your Page
There are “contact form” apps that you can install in seconds. This ensures that you can generate more leads and traffic to your site.
Don’t Just Wait, Look for Potential Clients
It is not enough to make your presence felt in social media, you have to go out there and find potential leads and clients. Join groups and regularly engage with the community to find people who might be in need of your products and/or services.
Social media is the perfect tool to ensure that your online presence is felt, so take advantage of the millions of users who frequent social networking sites; you’ll never regret it.