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Writing a great book is just part of the equation, your social media platform is where readers will get to know you, find out about what you’re writing, and could determine the success of your book sales.
#writing #marketing via helpasocialistout
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Don’t Let Your LinkedIn Photo Be an Epic Failure Like These Pics Are
The worst is when marketing experts fail at the avatar!
Guy Kawasaki originally shared:
I see terrible avatars every day. In this world of Tinder-like attention spans (interesting/not interesting), a sucky avatar is hard to overcome.
On social-media sites, people use avatars to decide if you’re worth following and taking serious.
On LinkedIn, people use avatars to decide if you’re worth checking out as a possible hire.
I’m not saying that a good avatar is sufficient to succeed in social media or LinkedIn, but it can’t hurt. The qualities of a good avatar are:
- Face only
- Front lit
- Asymmetric
- Friendly but serious expression
Read about the typical kinds of epic failures–as a guide to what to avoid.
There’s a secret that real writers know that wannabe writers don’t, and the secret is this: It’s not the writing part that’s hard. What’s hard is sitting down to write. What keeps us from sitting down is Resistance.
Steven Pressfield
Just type something. Then delete it, because it’s terrible. Type something else. Rearrange the words. Add festive punctuation. Then delete that, and start again. Eventually, something will start to seem right.
(It’s like Michelangelo chipping away at a block of marble, only instead of marble you have a computer screen and instead of a chisel you have a stress headache. On the plus side, you, at least, have a flush toilet.)
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You’ve Been Restricted
Google is practically begging political activists to censor their adversaries through malicious flagging of videos.
Post by +Aaron Renn
http://www.city-journal.org/html/youve-been-restricted-14829.html
I believe that the phrase ‘obligatory reading’ is a contradiction in terms; reading should not be obligatory… If a book bores you, leave it; don’t read it because it is famous, don’t read it because it is modern, don’t read a book because it is old…. If a book is tedious to you, don’t read it; that book was not written for you. Reading should be a form of happiness, so I would advise all possible readers of my last will and testament—which I do not plan to write—I would advise them to read a lot, and not to get intimidated by writer’s reputations, to continue to look for personal happiness, personal enjoyment. It is the only way to read.
Jorge Luis Borges (via austinkleon)
It’s a sad state of affairs when the youngest writer on your reading list has been dead 100 years, but that’s the way it is in school.
“They tore down my house, my son went to jail, for a gram-and-a-half of marijuana that they shook out the bottom of a book bag.”
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