Best-selling authors, consultants, and publicists all say that you need a blog. Only, you’re an author, not a blogger. How do you start a blog that stands out from the crowd and makes you a best-selling author?
Below, I’ve collected all of the best resources from the Web to get you started. If you notice one I’ve missed, add it in a comment below.
How to Build a Profitable Home on the Web - A great collection of video tutorials
The 120 Day Wonder: How to Evangelize a Blog - Tips from a personal hero
The Blog Starter Checklist - Huge Collection of Tips
Competing for Attention in an Attention Deficit Blogosphere - How to stand out
How I Got a 120 Visitors to a Brand New Blog on Day One - Start with a bang
Don’t Sell… Teach - Use your blog to teach and the sales will follow
Focus on One Blog and Make It Special - Concentrate your efforts
Setting up a Home: Prelaunch Blog Checklist - What to do before you launch
Who’s There? - A free e-book from the master himself, Seth Godin
Blogging for Beginners - A series of posts (Read this!)
How to “Announce” a Blog - How to introduce yourself to the community
The Five Essential Elements of an Influential Blog - Grab their attention
Starting a Blog - An excellent series from the Blog Herald
How to Build a High-Traffic Blog - Tips from a guy that’s making a fortune
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February 18th, 2007 at 9:09 am
I teach writers how to use simple, free web-based tools and technology - like blogs and email - to publish and promote anything they want to on the Internet.
You don’t need to invest a lot of money, and you don’t need to hire a webmaster.
I have written a free ebook Someday, When You’re An Author that explains how and why blogging and web-based marketing can work for writers who are aspiring authors.
February 20th, 2007 at 3:24 pm
[…] Your concern at this stage needs to be how to make yourself irresistible to a publisher, and the best way to do that is to build yourself a platform. Start a website or a blog. Publish some articles or op-eds related to your topic. Start giving presentations at libraries, churches, synagogues, schools, corporations, organizations, etc. Get yourself a lecture agent (we know that, if an author gives lots of talks, we’ll have lots of opportunities for back-of-the-room sales of his or her book). […]
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