This is one of the big things I need to get a lot better at, publicity. Right now just for my blogs, but I will eventually write a book or repurpose early blog posts and make them into a book.

Honestly, I suck at good publicity. I’m not consistent, I don’t always follow up, and it’s costing me readers, I know. I’ve been improving, but there is a lot of room for more.

I really have no excuses either because I’ve got all my social media integrated; twitter, facebook, and friendfeed. I’ve also been better at stumbling all my articles as I publish, and that has helped. I’ve reached over 100 subscribers on each of my blogs for the first time.

What I seriously need to work on most? Building email lists for my most prominent blogs. My RSS subscribers far outpace my email subscribers. I need to give something away to get people to subscribe, but I dropped the ball there. I’ve started reports and never finished them.

I love your new blog theme, too! Very clean, easy to read and navigate.

Thanks for more great advice!
Sherri
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YOU ARE A GENIUS.

BEST IDEA OF ALL!

I have a beginning author friend who wrote a noval based on his experiences as a high-school football player. He asked if I had any thoughts that might help peromote it. I told him I think about it. Finally the “light bulb” went on!! I called my friend and said, “you and I are going to have dinner together and I know JUST the restaurant. But before we do I want you to do some home work: Write a ‘Forward’ to your book.” Then off we went….to Mike Ditka’s.

As we walked in I asked the hostess if Coach Ditka was in. “Oh, yes, he’s always in on Tuesday evenings. You’ll find him upstairs at the bar.” Up the stairs we went. Sure enough, there was Coach Ditka at a side table injoying his cigar. Now it so happens that in his novel my author friend mentions Ditka and a number of his famous players.

We showed “da coach” the Forward my friend had written and asked if he might sign it so it could be included in the book. Guess what? HE DID!!

Yah, it helped. My friend found a publisher. Bottom line: Think out of the box….then DO IT!

Thanks for weighing in here. You are definitely a first.

You are right. Listeners have to be built up.

But if you can put the recording on your website, which most Internet radio outlets will allow -

You are LIVE all the time.

Think about it.

Didn’t I say it was a lot of work????

Since when have you been afraid of work?

You are one of the most active bloggers on the Internet.

JUST DO IT!

Sorry about that. Keep trying. Change your pitch to them. Make it more exciting.

Perhaps you are being too modest about your authority.

My advice is if you can’t beat ‘em – Join ‘em.

Start your own show.

Didn’t mean to leave out any social networks – just giving some examples. There are many like MySpace that are also great.

I am glad you liked my post enough to forward it to your groups.

My intention is to help and you are helping in doing that.

By the way, the links in the article are for information only based on my experience. I am not an affiliate of any of them.

I probably should have mentioned that in the article. But I have now!

Thanks for your tremendous support.