I finally finished Chains of the Sciell. I don’t just mean writing. Images are done. I’ve gone over it several times to remove errors and check for consistency. Thanks Kelly Hashway for the Kindle text-to-speech tip! The final step in the editing process was to have Kindle read my book to me. Picked up all…
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Twitter and Facebook are supposed to drive traffic to my blog. They haven’t in years. I actually stopped expecting them to. I share the blog post out of habit. Not the best way to run a marketing campaign. It’s all about engagement. I mentioned in the previous post, A Round of Links 2/13/15, that I…
Just because someone says you should be on that social network, doesn’t mean it’s right for you. I’m talking about you Facebook. Social media is not a one-size fits all approach. That bugs me, sometime. You can’t say, do this on Twitter and it will guarantee you 100 retweets. I’ve been rethinking my social media…
I stopped paying attention to Klout last year. I couldn’t understand how they came up with the score. I was learning most people didn’t care about your Klout score. However, I stared using it again maybe a month ago. Not for my score. Though, it’s hard not to pay attention to it. A part of…
Recently, I’ve come across more posts about people ditching Facebook. I just read a convincing article, Closing the Facebook, about why Facebook is no longer useful. The comments show people are focusing more on sites like Google+ and Twitter. On the other side, I have people in the publishing industry saying Facebook is still the…
