{"id":1519,"date":"2017-10-03T00:31:43","date_gmt":"2017-10-03T00:31:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/roguephoenixpress.com\/?p=1519"},"modified":"2017-09-22T18:24:58","modified_gmt":"2017-09-22T18:24:58","slug":"websiteblog-promotion-tools-authors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roguephoenixpress.com\/websiteblog-promotion-tools-authors\/","title":{"rendered":"Website\/Blog: Promotion Tools for Authors"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">This Tuesday Tip deals with the importance of a website and a blog for an author to promote and inform readers about their books.<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">An author can have a website and include a blog as important part of the website.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1521\" src=\"https:\/\/roguephoenixpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/PROMOTION-WEBSITE-BLOG-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"#Promotion #Website #Blog\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<h3>Build A Website And A Blog Together<\/h3>\n<h4>A website has a broader range of promotional services therefore use your website for the following.<\/h4>\n<ol>\n<li>List your books<\/li>\n<li>Post articles you have written<\/li>\n<li>Make a sample chapter available<\/li>\n<li>Run contests to bring interest to the book and people to your site<\/li>\n<li>Schedule appearances and book signings<\/li>\n<li>Promote with a media kit<\/li>\n<li>Reviews should be promoted with your books<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h4>A blog has specific posts which can be changed daily or weekly depending on how much time you want to spend.<\/h4>\n<ol>\n<li>Obtain more and different viewers at your blog by inviting fellow authors to your blog<\/li>\n<li>Post blurbs, excerpts, buy information which include Amazon and Barnes &amp; Noble links.<\/li>\n<li>Author links such as twitter, instagram, Pinterest can be listed in all posts.<\/li>\n<li>Build an email list on your blog by promoting a free book or sample chapters to readers.<\/li>\n<li>Write articles about your characters, give writing and publishing tips.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WordPress.org<\/a> is a good tool to use for building a website and a blog.<\/h4>\n<p>You will also need a host for your website and blog. There are several hosts that work well with WordPress. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bluehost.com\/track\/roguephoenixpress\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bluehost<\/a> is a good one. There are small fees involved.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Check out the earlier <a href=\"https:\/\/roguephoenixpress.com\/blogging-101-how-why\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tuesday Tip<\/a> on creating blogs.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1063\" src=\"https:\/\/roguephoenixpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Blank-Banner-200x300_edited-3-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"Blogging, Why start a blog, blogging for authors\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">Check out newest release from Rogue Phoenix Press<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Tuesday Tip deals with the importance of a website and a blog for an author to promote and inform readers about their books. An author can have a website and include a blog as important part of the website. 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