Why are hashtags so hot? It’s all about social media … that phrase that is now ingrained in our thoughts and tongues: search engines. Those little devils love hashtags as they are the cat’s meow for finding results.
Hashtags have been a key factor in growing our radio show, AuthorU Your Guide to Book Publishing … or I should write: #AuthorU Your Guide to #Book #Publishing. After every show, six to ten Tweets are created around the contented, all using key phrases and words that will hook potential podcast listeners. Words/phrases like authors, books, publishing, marketing, promo, pr, book sales, book marketing, author platform, platforms, book platform, publicity, get published, indie publishing, self-publishing, writing, writers etc. Or, how they are used would be like this
#authors, #books, #publishing, #marketing, #promo, #pr, #book sales, #bookmarketing, #authorplatform,
#platforms,#bookplatform, #publicity, #getpublished, #indiepublishing, #selfpublishing, #writing, #writers
For a recent show with Brian Jud that deep dived into target marketing and niche marketing, here’s a few of
the Tweets I created along with the link to the podcast:
#author alert: get the key steps to target your #book buyer-listen to podcast. http://ow.ly/pUTHu
#author tip-POD sales can rock with direct sales strategy-get key steps from an insider-listen to
podcast. http://ow.ly/pUTHu
Why #authors should stop selling #books and start selling the content within-listen to podcast. http://ow.ly/pUTHu
Why #authors should stop selling #books and start selling the content within-listen to podcast.
#Author strategies to repurpose content in segments and promote differently-listen to podcast.
Key tips for #authors to sell fiction #books to non-traditional buyers-listen to podcast.
#author tip-Why there is “no one size fits all” rule in special #book sales, except one-listen to podcast.
Notice that there is a variation for each Tweet, but they are all connected. For a Facebook, Google+, LinkedIn posting, I would add additional info since character space will allow it … yet the hashtag will
always be in play.
Many of the old ways of calling attention to your news along with links within your articles and blogs are
lessening is use. The Hashtag has risen! Use it. Don’t leave your postings, your Tweets, your anything that is in writing that goes out in cyberland without out it.
Judith Briles is known as The Book Shepherd, the Author and Publishing expert and the Founder and Chief Visionary Officer of Author U, a membership organization created for the author who wants to be seriously successful. She’s been writing about and conducting workshops on publishing since the 80s. She’s the author of 31 books including Author YOU: Creating Your Book and Author Platform that has won multiple “best” in the writing/publishing categories in book award competitions. Her next book is Snappy, Sassy, Salty … Wise Words for Authors and Publishers and will be available this fall. Join Judith live on Thursdays at 6 p.m. EST for Author U Your Guide to Book Publishing on the Toginet network at: http://togi.us/authoru
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