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How to Decorate Your Website This Christmas

December 5, 2014 By Heather Hart 1 Comment Click here for a FREE book marketing training

I LOVE Christmas!!! It’s my favorite time of the year. I love the lights, the music, and pretty much everything about it. So this morning, I updated my website for the Christmas season. (You can check it out here: www.paulandheatherhart.com) In this post, I want to share how you can do the same. 3 Ways To Update […]

Filed Under: Book Marketing, Marketing Tips Tagged With: author websites, authors, Book Marketing, book marketing tips, Holiday Marketing, marketing

How to Win the Spam Battle

July 14, 2014 By Heather Hart Leave a Comment Click here for a FREE book marketing training

After spamming 102 out of 104 comments on my author website one morning last week, I thought it was time to write up a post on minimizing spam on your website to share with you. I know I am not the only author plagued with spam. Spam seems like a common problem to all new […]

Filed Under: Marketing Tips, Product Reviews, Technology Tagged With: author websites, productivity tips, websites, Wordpress Plugins

12 Must-Follow Blogs For Authors

July 8, 2014 By Heather Hart 36 Comments Click here for a FREE book marketing training

 One key factor to our success as authors is what we have learned from others along the way. So today, we want to share 12 of our favorite blogs for authors. We encourage you to check them out as well as share which blogs are your favorite blogs are in the comments.   #1. The […]

Filed Under: Book Marketing, Fiction Writing, General, Marketing Tips, Publishing Tips, Self-Publishing, Technology, Writing Tips Tagged With: author websites, authors, Book Marketing, book marketing tips, fiction authors, marketing, non-fiction authors, websites, Writing Advice, Writing Tips

JumpStart Your Book Marketing (with this jumpstart checklist)

March 21, 2014 By Heather Hart Click here for a FREE book marketing training

I love checklists. They always help me make sure I have everything done and keep me headed in the right direction. When my husband published his first book last fall, I wish I would have had a checklist for new authors. I’ve been writing and publishing books for close to 5 years now – it’s […]

Filed Under: Book Marketing, Marketing Tips Tagged With: author websites, authors, Book Marketing, book marketing tips, facebook, google plus, marketing, tools for authors

Building A WordPress Author Website From Scratch In 6 Simple Steps

March 5, 2014 By Heather Hart Leave a Comment Click here for a FREE book marketing training

Author websites are a key factor to book marketing. I always consider them the foundation of any good book marketing plan. When you market your book, you’re always sending readers somewhere. Having a base of operations can give you a good place to send your fans as well as a place where they can go […]

Filed Under: Book Marketing Tagged With: author websites, authors, Book Marketing, SEO, tools for authors, websites

3 Easy Ways To Add Tweets To Your Blog Posts

December 2, 2013 By Heather Hart 2 Comments Click here for a FREE book marketing training

Online marketing is all about encouraging others to help you spread your message. We can do this by adding tweet or pin it buttons to our post (see above), but those only go so far. They are becoming the standard for readers and are frequently overlooked. So how can we encourage our following to help […]

Filed Under: Marketing Tips, Social Media, Twitter Tagged With: author websites, Blogging Tips, get exposure, marketing, tools for authors, twitter marketing

Increase Your SEO In 5 Simple Steps

May 14, 2013 By Heather Hart 1 Comment Click here for a FREE book marketing training

Increase Your SEO in 5 simple steps

Search engine optimization (most commonly known as SEO) is one of those things that makes most authors want to groan. We look at it as one of those techie things that we need to do, but would rather that it just did itself. SEO do not have to be difficult. In fact, I want to […]

Filed Under: Marketing Tips Tagged With: author websites, Book Marketing, marketing, Search engine optimization, SEO, websites

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