Below
are 15+ online resources that will find online to help you be productive with social media and in the promotion of your books.
1.
Looking
to set up a way to productively give away free content? Try a tool like www.LeadPages.com.
2.
Need
a royalty-free photo for a blog post or website? Try using www.123rf.com or www.istockphoto.com.
3.
Looking
to build your e-mail list and need a way to manage your email blasts? Try Constant Contact or Monkey Chimp.
5.
Want
to gather online with fellow non-fiction authors? Go to www.NonfictionWritersConference.com.
6.
Need
to grow your Twitter following or are seeking to promote specific tweets, look no
further than www.ads.twitter.com.
7.
Looking
to create or edit a list on Tweetdeck?
Click on “lists.” then click on create lists and select the Twitter account you would like to create the list for.
Then name the list and give it a description. Date it too.
You can also click the ‘edit’ button to change an existing list.
8.
Wonder
how your Twitter activity is going? Try www.analytics.twitter.com and see all types
of useful account stuff. You’ll see a
breakdown on how each tweet has performed, not just in terms of retweets,
replies, or favorites, but of how many people your tweet reached (impressions)
and the number of clicks on a tweeted URL.
9.
Are
you trying to plan out posts for your social media and blog but are not sure of
the time zones for capturing the most attention from your followers? Just consult www.everytimezone.com.
10.
Looking
to better manage you Twitter followers?
For a small monthly fee, try www.tweetpi.com. It allows you to hunt through Twitter for
users, their followers and friends, and sort them by interests, number of
tweets, location, or other criteria.
Once you form your list, you can selectively follow those users. For more guidance on lists, see www.support.twitter.com/articles
176460-using-twitter-lists.com.
11.
Looking
to know about Google searches? Try these
three resources:
www.Google.com/trends allows you to look
at what others have been searching for.
It’ll show you how often a term’s been searched for and pinpoint where
those searches are located.
www.Books/Google.com/ngrams lets you search
and graph words and phrases from a variety of books that the giant search
engine scanned to fill up its Google Books.
www.ThinkwithGoogle.com is a one-stop
research hits that looks at 14 industries and aggregates articles, interviews,
infographics, and case studies.
12.
Want
to create your own infographics, culled from U.S. Census Bureau data? Go to www.Google.com/publicdata/directory. Other do-it-yourself infographic sources
include:
13.
Need
more stock photos to choose from?
14.
Want
to delve into your Facebook analytics?
Under Facebook Insights you’ll find tools to help you track your best-performing
content and discover who’s engaging with you.
Check out Engagement, Page Likes and Post Reach.
15. Looking to grow
your Facebook presence via advertising?
Start by looking at www.Facebook.com/ads.
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