10 Tips to Bootstrap your Writing Career

1. Set up Google Alerts for your name, your company

Follow up when someone mentions you in a blog or news post. Write a press release and put it out in the world so that people can find you that way.

2. Set up a Facebook Page

A Facebook Author Page is critical to an Author’s success today. FB has over 700 Million Users.

How many of them do you think are readers?

Set up your page, put a Call to Action for your Email list in the cover photo.

Then post every day.

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You can also go to a site like CANVA or a photo image site, and create 30 images with quotes from your writing.

Post an image per day to your FB page.

Post a blog post per day to your FB page.

Respond to every comment.

Share posts from other FB authors.

3. Automate your email sequence to create a funnel to systemize your sales

Write 12 emails to people who sign up to your email list.

Use Automation software on Mailchimp so you don’t have to think about when the emails are going out.