Readership: What It Is and How to Build It with Evan Jacobs

Evan Jacobs will be presenting at #PD14 on Saturday 31st May. His presentation is "Readership: What It Is and How to Build It".

Outline: Building a readership is the single most important thing an author can do to guarantee long-term success. In this presentation, I'll start with defining what I mean by "readership" and then make the case for the importance of measuring it. Finally, I'll provide some very specific strategies for how authors can get started building their readership and how they can continue to grow it over time.

Bio: Evan Jacobs is a software developer and entrepreneur who lives in Seattle, WA. He is the founder of Authorgraph which is a service that enables authors to sign e-books for their readers. Before founding Authorgraph, Evan spent 10 years as a software developer at Amazon.com. When he's not writing software, Evan enjoys rowing and spending time with his wife and 3 children.

Links:

http://www.authorgraph.com/

http://www.twitter.com/authorgraph

http://www.facebook.com/authorgraph

Register for FREE now at www.PromoDay.info to take part in this fantastic FREE webinar. Once you've signed up, you'll also have access to the rest of the presentations happening at Promo Day, the live pitch sessions with publishers, and be able to take advantage of the numerous promotional and networking opportunities available to attendees.

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Follow #PD14 Presenters on Twitter

I have a fabulous line up of presenters for this years Promo Day event. Each and every one of them is an industry expert with loads of great info, tips, and advice to share with you. Trust me, these are people you'll want to be following all year round!

Connect with the #PD14 presenters, follow them on Twitter, and add them to your Twitter lists.

@JoLinsdell

@Authorgraph

@RivkaK

@vljennings

@GlobalForumPubs

@theideagirl

@brandytheauthor

@bookgoodies

@FrugalBookPromo

@SandyLender

@BookGal

@gregorcollins

@AgencyRulesPK

@MichelleElliotW

@JulieFHedlund

And don't forget @PromoDayEvent ;)

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Sandy Lender to Present at PD14

Sandy Lender returns as presenter at this years Promo Day. Sandy has been part of Promo Day for years and always delivers excellent information, tips, and ideas in her presentations and this year she'll be doing not one but TWO presentations!

"Pitch the Short Story"

When building your brand and getting your name out before or during the release of your book, one of the avenues you'll explore is that of sending stories to bloggers and magazines. Take this seminar with long-time magazine editor Sandy Lender for tips and advice on getting your foot in the door at the literary publication of your choice. Whether your interest is padding your portfolio, amassing bylines in a specific genre or getting paid, certain rules apply and others flex like reeds in the wind.

"Create Momentum!"

While waiting for your publisher to complete the editing and production process on your novel, or when you're between novels, you don't want to lose momentum. Are your newfound fans waiting for the next installment in a series? Some anticipation is great; that's why we write cliffhangers! But you want to keep them interested and salivating so they line up at midnight when the new book hits the streets. Let's talk about the little sparks that keep the fire burning and how you can fan the flames as the release date gets closer.

Presenter Bio:

Sandy Lender has used her English degree from Truman State University to manage a successful journalism career for 22 years. She's now the editor of an international construction publication and has launched her own avian publication in print and online. Fantasy readers will recognize Sandy as the author of the Choices Meant for Gods series from ArcheBooks Publishing and the recent young adult Dragons in Space series. She has a handful of fantasy short stories published as well. In her spare time, she works with the sea turtle conservation group Turtle Time in Florida and helps with parrot rescue groups.

Register now for FREE to gain access to these and other great presentations PLUS all the other fantastic features and opportunities on offer at Promo Day

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Tell Your Friends You're Attending!

March is coming to an end and that means the countdown is on. Saturday 31st May is fast approaching and excitement is building for this years event (it's going to be awesome! ;)).

Yet more industry experts have signed up to present at this Promo Day event and will have loads of tips, advice, and strategies to help you in your book marketing efforts and author branding. 

For the first time ever, there will also be live pitch sessions during the event. Publishers, including Muse It Up Publishing, will be looking for authors during the event and taking your pitches throughout the day. This is a huge opportunity!

Registrations are flowing in but I need your help. The more people that take part in the event, the more successful the event will be, and the more opportunities can then come from it. This is where you come in. I can only do so much to spread the word about the event myself and so need you to be part of my street team.

You can find a variety of materials on the press page that you can use to help spread the word about the event. There's audio for podcasters and radio hosts, banners, pre-made status updates for social media, etc... (feel free to use 1, 2, or all of them ;)).

When you do a blog post or social media update, etc... mentioning Promo Day please send me the link to it so I can share it. You help spread the word about the event. I help spread the word about how great you are and drive some more traffic to your pages ;)

A very SUPER QUICK and simple way you can help is to click the tweet below. It will only take you 2 seconds and will be greatly appreciated by your truly.

Event hashtag #PD14

Click the tweet below to tell your friends you are attending:

I'm attending Promo Day! Mega online event for writing and marketing professionals www.PromoDay.info #PD14 @PromoDayEvent

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Google SEO Tips for Bloggers with Linda Randall

Linda Randall makes her return to Promo Day this year and this time she'll be sharing Google SEO tips for bloggers. 

BIO:

Linda Randall is an author in - The Power of the Platform Speakers on Life, a video film producer on her four YouTube channels - the idea girl says, idea girl canada, idea girl consulting and IGC Entertainment Ca.  She is also a daily blogger on WordPress with ten sites that range in topics. Her personal blog - Linda Randall is about her daily journal of activities. Her travel blogs - Idea Girl Canada, The Idea Girl Says, The Calamity Girl, and Niagara Region Ontario Canada include her photographs and videos of local community events in the Niagara Region in Ontario, Canada including family travel Ideas, Restaurant Reviews, Hotels and local Tourist attractions. She also likes to write up ideas for Local Festival events and Tweet and Facebook people with those ideas:)

Linda has created blogs on WordPress with the same names as her YouTube Channels. Some of the blogs average from 2,000 to 12,000 views or higher each month. She also does psychic investigations and remote viewings into missing person cases on - Victoria Stafford a Psychic Investigation. She enjoys doing scientific studies into weather patterns, earthquakes, geomagnetic storm cells and more on her severe global weather warnings and news stories blogs - Tropical Storms Hurricane Predictions Idea Girl, and Idea Girl Severe Storm Predictions Warnings.

She features movie chick flicks and all things that chickie's like to do nails, hair, makeup, music, books, movies, restaurants and travel ideas for Toronto and global destinations on - the calamity girl.

She receives submissions on her YouTube channel and posts them on her WordPress blogs - the idea girl says and idea girl consulting - topics being submitted are - international Music, Short Story Films, Movie Trailers, Animations, TV Series and new TV Shows, Celebrity Interviews and News Stories, along with Author's Book Trailers and Interviews. 

Linda Randall's physics/science project since December 2011 is figuring out keywords she found in an alien radio signal called WOW!  It was thus named by Dr. Jerry Ehman who was working on a SETI Project on the big ear satellite. NASA confirmed that the signal was alien in origin and made it public knowledge on August 15, 1977.

Linda found ancient hidden math equations in the computer binary code of numbers. Once she started to decode the math equations she found certain keywords that connected numbers, while doing a Google Search. She is using the keywords to connect results from scientists, physics journalists, university professor's theories and student abstracts and lab results from physics and chemistry, Space Jet Propulsion, DARPA, COUGAR, CERN, ATLAS and people that work on particle physics and space travel from all around the world. 

Linda blogs her ideas and formula's to help advance the world's space travel technology by looking "outside of the box" of normal physics. She also enjoys connecting ancient math algorithms and equations which also speak of space travels in different dimensions, big bang theories and dark matter particle research theories.

So far she has created over 2234 research videos and has gotten over 243,325 Lifetime views as of 2 March 2014 on - the idea girl says youtube channel and the data with it's research links are being blogged on: Alien Space Science News WordPress

Linda also loves to write different genre's of novels (not yet published) and participates each year in the NaNoWriMo writing challenges since 2008 (she has written over 26 novels). She has also written five screenplays when the Script Frenzy challenges were on in the past.

She lives in Fort Erie Ontario Canada with her husband Harold Chisholm and their toy poodle Daisy (both are on YouTube as well). Linda's two adult sons who live elsewhere - Tim Tenbrinke and Jeff Tenbrinke  - are musically inclined (see their YouTube channels for some good music tunes) and create comical, videos with their Mom, Harold and Daisy when they visit.

http://lindarandall.wordpress.com/

http://ideagirlcanada.wordpress.com/

http://theideagirlsays.wordpress.com/

http://alienspacesciencenews.wordpress.com/

https://www.twitter.com/theideagirl

https://www.facebook.com/ideagirlconsulting

http://www.linkedin.com/pub/linda-randall/12/8a/a64

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