Hints to Organize Your Promo

Everyone who knows me knows I don’t think in organized terms. With this in mind, I'm presenting hints for organizing your life to include promotion for your books.
This is in no way meant to be instructions or directions on how to organize your promotion methods. I found out the hard way what every ebook writer learns: the only way to sell books is to market, market. market.

The other big fact is: Selling your book taked time away from your writing.
The solution: organize.
Aaaargh Just the thought makes my stomach ache, but its necessary.
Once I realized I needed to use my time wisely, I made decisions. Here is a partial list of things that helped me.

1. What am I promoting? My books or myself?
   Really important to know to save wasted efforts. It doesn’t make any difference as far as objectives, but  does affect the subject.
2. Where do I go to promote?
   My goodness, the list of places is endless and growing. I got lost in the tangled web of the internet. It takes real dedication to stop trolling and get back to work.
3. Find a network of supportive and like-minded authors.
   I am on several blogs where various authors post. This gives me exposure without the daily expectation.
4. Find how to check how many visitors go to your sites. Are your efforts paying off or a waste of time?
5. Concentrate your efforts.
   I support my fellow authors by following their blogs and found a timesaver: I check the bloggerlist (also worpress and google) daily instead of clicking on each individual blog. Commenting is easy and the numbers add up.
6. Create a blog.
   Focus on something. Writing, interviews, whatever will draw attention.
7. Tweet. I know, I know.
   To make it simple I joined Triberr along with several supportive authors. My followers are growing and the most recent count is over 20 thousand reached. These are people who buy books.
8. Join StumbleUpon.
   Never heard of it? Me neither, but it suggests blogs to people who list interests. Horses, dogs, cowboys, vampires? Click on it. A whole new audience for my books.
9. LinkedIn
   Is a puzzle to me since I’m not looking for an employer, but there I am. It doesn’t take much time and my name is out there on several groups. Connections are growing. Another new audience.
10. Set a time limit.
    I started with one hour a day. Now I’ve divided it into 30 minutes in the morning and 30 minutes in the late afternoon.Why? Because morning is my prime writing time. And I have organized my priorities.

Hope these hints help you. I'm willing to add to my list if you have suggestions.

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In Ancient Awakening, Police Officer ‘Mel’ Petersen investigates a death only she believes is murder. By disobeying direct orders from the Rhodes End Chief, she risks her career to follow clues that twist in circles to her backyard and lead the killer to her.

Her neighbor Stephen Zoriak is a prime suspect. Steve worked for a major pharmaceutical company where he discovered a weapon so dangerous he destroys the research. He is exposed to the dangerous organism. He suspects he is the killer and agrees to help her find the truth.

In the course of their investigation Mel and Steve find the real killer and a love that defies death.

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