Social Media Marketing Tips for Squidoo

Squidoo (http://www.squidoo.com)

Add –

1. Articles to a new lens (write about your book and it’s progress)
2. Join a group
3. Make a comment
4. Set your favorites to show your books or other author’s books
5. Your Web site, blog URL, contact information, Twitter ID, etc.
6. Invite friends to view your lenses (articles) and rank them

© Copyright 2008 The Author’s Assistants. Cheryl Callighan is a Master Virtual Assistant (MVA) and professional Author’s Assistant (The Author’s Assistants) with over 30 years of administrative and managerial experience, as well as extensive online marketing and technology experience. Cheryl has run her successful Virtual Assistant business, eOffice-Virtual Assistants LLC, “the original multi-VA Team”, for 19 years. Cheryl loves working with creative self-motivated professionals who need someone to hand off the details.

Social Media Marketing Tips for Shelfari

Add to your shelf -

Shelfari (http://www.shelfari.com)

1. Your books
2. Books you’re reading
3. Other author’s books you like and support
4. Add a Shelfari widget to your blog, Facebook and MySpace
5. Ask for feedback and comments (positive of course!)

© Copyright 2008 The Author’s Assistants. Cheryl Callighan is a Master Virtual Assistant (MVA) and professional Author’s Assistant (The Author’s Assistants) with over 30 years of administrative and managerial experience, as well as extensive online marketing and technology experience. Cheryl has run her successful Virtual Assistant business, eOffice-Virtual Assistants LLC, “the original multi-VA Team”, for 19 years. Cheryl loves working with creative self-motivated professionals who need someone to hand off the details.

Social Media Marketing Tips for LinkedIn and Biznik

Tips for using LInkedIn and Biznik -

LinkedIn (http://www.linkedin.com)

Add –

1. Your profile and picture
2. Mention your book and your URLs, blog, Twitter ID, etc.
3. Post a questions and give answers to other peoples questions – share your knowledge and expertise
4. Become an expert of the week
5. Join groups or create your own on your specific topic
6. Build your network by looking for and connecting with other authors and professionals in the publishing industry

Biznik (http://www.biznik.com)

Add –

1. Your profile and picture
2. Mention your book and your URLs, blog, Twitter ID, etc.
3. Select more than one city for your profile to appear in
4. Add members to your network
5. Articles
6. Blog entries
7. As for help with services or referrals and be sure to share your services and referrals
8. For a membership upgrade you can record a video profile
9. Your associations
10. And raise your profile with promotion tools
11. Your upcoming events – book delivery date, teleseminars, interviews, etc.

© Copyright 2008 The Author’s Assistants. Cheryl Callighan is a Master Virtual Assistant (MVA) and professional Author’s Assistant (The Author’s Assistants) with over 30 years of administrative and managerial experience, as well as extensive online marketing and technology experience. Cheryl has run her successful Virtual Assistant business, eOffice-Virtual Assistants LLC, “the original multi-VA Team”, for 19 years. Cheryl loves working with creative self-motivated professionals who need someone to hand off the details.

Social Media Marketing Tips for Blogging

Blog about –

1. Your book progress
2. Getting published
3. Books arriving
4. Endorsements and testimonials
5. Interviews and media coverage
6. Being listed on Amazon.com
7. Your Amazon.com bestseller campaign
8. Support other authors books
9. Have guest bloggers promote your book and theirs

Blogs -

WordPress Blog (http://www.wordpress.com)

TypePad (http://www.typepad.com)

Blogger (http://www.blogger.com)

© Copyright 2008 The Author’s Assistants. Cheryl Callighan is a Master Virtual Assistant (MVA) and professional Author’s Assistant (The Author’s Assistants) with over 30 years of administrative and managerial experience, as well as extensive online marketing and technology experience. Cheryl has run her successful Virtual Assistant business, eOffice-Virtual Assistants LLC, “the original multi-VA Team”, for 19 years. Cheryl loves working with creative self-motivated professionals who need someone to hand off the details.

Social Media Marketing Tips for Amazon Pages

Amazon Pages (http://www.amazon.com/pages)

Create –

1. A profile to your account and your picture
2. Add your website and contact information under “About Me”
3. Add reviews of books
4. Create a book list with Listmania
5. Invite friends
6. Create tags for products and books
7. Post reviews
8. Add favorite items (your books and other authors you support)
9. A reminder on the calendar for upcoming events – like your Amazon.com bestseller campaign!
10. A blog connection on your profile

© Copyright 2008 The Author’s Assistants. Cheryl Callighan is a Master Virtual Assistant (MVA) and professional Author’s Assistant (The Author’s Assistants) with over 30 years of administrative and managerial experience, as well as extensive online marketing and technology experience. Cheryl has run her successful Virtual Assistant business, eOffice-Virtual Assistants LLC, “the original multi-VA Team”, for 19 years. Cheryl loves working with creative self-motivated professionals who need someone to hand off the details.

Social Media Marketing - Twitter Tips

Here is what an author can “tweet” about on Twitter -

Twitter (http://www.twitter.com)

1. Signing a book contract
2. Sending your book to the publisher (include the publisher and your book title, even a link to your website
3. Testimonials
4. Favorable book reviews
5. Awards (include the URL)
6. Your blog posts (include the URL)
7. Your website launch and updates (include the URL)
8. Your cover design
9. Tele-seminars
10. Radio or TV interview
11. Book signings
12. Virtual book tours
13. Amazon listing
14. Amazon bestseller campaign (give the date and time too!)
15. Your other social networking sites

(c) Copyright 2008 The Author’s Assitants. Cheryl Callighan is a Master Virtual Assistant (MVA) and professional Author’s Assistant (The Author’s Assistants) with over 30 years of administrative and managerial experience, as well as extensive online marketing and technology experience. Cheryl has run her successful Virtual Assistant business, eOffice-Virtual Assistants LLC, “the original multi-VA Team”, for 19 years. Cheryl loves working with creative self-motivated professionals who need someone to hand off the details.

No Time to Write?

Technology says that isn’t a valid excuse any more.

The Japanese are using cell phones to write and deliver full length novels. Got a cell phone? Start texting that novel!

A Tokyo-based wireless service began by offering 150 books and in 2003 saw interest in this delivery method grow. They now have about 50,000 subscribers.

Read the full article from Wired.

Start writing that novel and text your finished chapters directly to your author’s assistant for safe keeping!

Happy writing!

Want To Know What an Author’s Assistant Does - Listen here!

I want to publicly thank Melanie O’Kane for having me as a guest on her BlogTalkRadio Show, MODCOM Radio, this morning.

You can listen by clicking here.

We had in informative discussion about becoming a certified author’s assistant and just how those services fit perfectly with Virtual Assistant services.

Again, thanks Melanie for a great opportunity and great interview! For more on Melanie and her virtual assistant business go to www.mad-typing-and-consulting.com.

Research and Fact Checking

Now that you’ve finished the manuscript, read it, edited, proofed it, edited some more, you feel a wave of satisfaction - it’s done. But before you send it to the editor for final polishing you read it one more time.

Wait, that last quote, was that the original source you noted or was that the secondary source? You can’t remember and your notes aren’t clear. Better check that. Oh, wait, what about this statistic? Was it really 30% or 40%? Was that a typo or did you get that number from your notes or the primary source?

These are things that a certified author’s assistant can help an author with - research and fact checking. The author’s assistant can go through the entire manuscript and note all of the quotes, facts and statistics then research the original source and accuracy. The author is free to move on to other tasks related to getting the book finalized for publishing and promotion.

Fact checking and research are only two tasks an author’s assistant can handle. For a complete list please read a previous post titled What’s an Author’s Assistant?

Getting Author’s Organized

There is nothing worse for an author than staring at a blank page. Writing a book means you are facing lots of blank pages everyday.

An author’s assistant can help you fill those pages easily by organizing your materials, your intellectual property. Author’s have files, paper and electronic, filled with notes, clips and ideas. An author’s assistant can take all that information and create an easy to search electronic filing system or even a hard copy notebook for handy access to this information.

Author’s have intellectual property in the form of -

• Client documents (proposals, presentations, emails, memos, etc.)
• Interviews of themselves (audio recordings and transcripts)
• Tele-classes, seminars, webcasts
• Articles
• Workbooks or handouts
• Bogs
• Podcasts
• Special reports or white papers

All of these materials can be organized by the author’s assistant to help them begin filling those blank pages through simply cutting and pasting of the information.

The author’s assistant can even research these materials to identify what is truly the author’s original material, what is public domain and what materials may require permission for inclusion in their book.

 

For more information about working with a certified author’s assistant please go to http://www.eOffice-VirtualAssist.com.