Turning Your Website Into a Connection Machine

I am not using “machine” in the cool and/or hip sense, as in, your website will magically cause magic to magically happen.

I am using it the sense of a mechanism which does a thing. Because your website is probably an online brochure, limiting, perhaps even repelling, connection. Do these things well, and your site will have the mechanics to allow, even foster, connection. (These are mechanical steps, not social engineering, which is a subject for a different marketing-based post.)

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Quick and dirty, not necessarily in order of importance unless otherwise stated.

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Ginger’s Images Are Ready

All Davina Kinney’s joyous and funny and scary drawings for Ginger, the Ship Captain’s Cat are ready for print.

Here’s one of my favorites, and it doesn’t even include Ginger:

Ginger Chapter 16 Another Storm

James is doing the first proofreading pass, then I’ll edit, we’ll proof it again, and format it for print.

Still planning to release Ginger into the wild before month’s end.

Do One Thing

waterfallDrip. Drip. Drip.

Water wears away stone by constancy, not power, not volume.

Marketing with a long vision will serve you better than looking for short-term sales.

Every day, do one thing to market yourself as an author, or to learn more about successful marketing. Here are 20 ideas to get you started: Continue reading “Do One Thing”