Social Media, Book Signings & Why Neither Directly Impact Overall Sales.
At first I was unhappy and a bit discouraged because as a writer I have to say there’s a LOT of marketing plans and there’s sooooo much conflicting information. Do this! Don’t do that!!! This worked for me! Don’t waste your time, that doesn’t work.
UGH!!!! I’m chasing my tail and spinning my wheels but going nowhere. I created a blog and a facebook page as well as many other pages on social media sites to help promote my books. Not even 1 book that has sold was due to that hard work. ANNOYING!!! I could’ve been writing!
So as I read through the post I realized she was right. It isn’t that social media is a waste of time, it is just not a viable or reliable way to sell books. So don’t hang all your hopes on it…. I get that.
It is a way to build hype for established authors and their books; to help build fan bases and get feedback from other writers and to seem approachable. To get encouragement maybe.
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Kawanee was born in Alexandria Louisiana but her first real memories are of Russellville Arkansas. She's always loved to read, and has always had an vivid imagination. She grew up in a house where almost everyone read, they didn't need a TV although she could still be found planted on her butt in front of her grandma's TV watching cartoons on Saturday mornings.
She made up her first story with her mother when her cat died; it was about where pets go when they die. She continued to create stories from bad dreams she had and her dad would help her change nightmares to stories. They would sit up in a chair until the scary went away. He told her that: "Dreams, good or bad, are just stories your mind makes up. You are the author of your dreams; if you don't like them rewrite them. "
She was hooked and has continued to read and write stories drawing from dreams, sights and just pure imagination. She just recently decided she'd like to try and get published and fail than wonder what if.
Her story continues but where it goes from here is up to you, the Reader... She hopes you'll join her in finding out where her journey goes from here!
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It was a great post, and I think very right in what it said. Social media is for social and building up an online presence, not for shoving marketing in everyone’s faces 😀 But yeah, there is so much info out there on marketing, it can be overwhelming at times.
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