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Writing, Publishing, and Marketing tips from Shawn Hansen

February 11, 2013 by Margaret Duarte

Sometimes, out of the blue, someone comes along at the perfect moment to point you in the right direction when you come to a fork in the road.

For me, that someone was Shawn Hansen.

A friend told me about Shawn’s weekly Teleseminar Tuesday, and after only one session, I was hooked.  Eleven one-hour, information packed classes later, I had gained the confidence to:

  1. Self-host my website/blog with WordPress.org.
  2. Experiment with WordPress “plugins,” small miracles to make my website distinctly my own.
  3. Download, activate, and update plugins.
  4. Backup my website’s database and content.
  5. Maintain my website/blog.
  6. Optimize my Twitter account (profile page, hash tags, retweets, keywords, and lists).
  7. Optimize my LinkedIn account (how to update my profile, target areas of interest)
  8. Become a Squidoo member.
  9. Look into forms of visual media, such as creating short little trailers.
  10. Download and listen to Podcasts on iTunes (Yep, I’d never done that before).
  11. Make use of Google Reader.
  12. Begin building buzz about my books BEFORE PUBLICATION.
  13. Look into Kindle Publishing for blogs.
  14. Examine my target markets.
  15. Experiment with blog trigger phrases.
  16. Become a content curator.
Unfortunately, Shawn doesn’t offer Teleseminar Tuesday anymore, but she offers some great courses about writing, publishing, and profit HERE.

As always, thanks for stopping by,

Filed Under: Book Talk, For Writers, Publishing and Marketing Tagged With: Margaret Duarte, Profit, Publishing, Shawn Hansen, Writing

About Margaret Duarte

Former middle school teacher, Margaret Duarte, lives on a California dairy farm with a herd of “happy cows,” a constant reminder that the greenest pastures lie closest to home. Margaret earned her creative writing certificate through UC Davis Extension and has since published four novels in her “Enter the Between” visionary fiction series: Between Will and Surrender, Between Darkness and Dawn, Between Yesterday and Tomorrow, and Between Now and Forever. Her poem and story credits include SPC Tule Review; The California Writers Club Literary Review; finalist in the 2017 SLO Nightwriters Golden Quill Writing Contest; First Place winner for fiction in 2016, Second Place winner for fiction in 2018, Honorable Mention for fiction in 2019, and Gold winner for fiction in 2020 NORTHERN CALIFORNIA PUBLISHERS AND AUTHORS Book Awards Competition; 2019 California Author Project winner for adult fiction.

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