El Paso Writers' League,
Thanks for having me out to speak to your group on Saturday, January 10th. I always enjoy meeting other writers and I drove home to Lubbock with some great ideas that you all shared. Here are the links and additional resources we discussed. If you have any questions, please feel free to ask me. My contact information is below. Based on one of the questions (I believe Robyn asked it,) I wrote this past Monday's blog post about moving your WordPress website. You can find that by clicking on "Blog" above or the link is just down below in the "Blog Articles We Discussed" section.
Tracy's Information
Website Articles & Book
- Weekly Blog for Small Business Websites: www.15MinuteMondays.com/blog
- Tracy's Book: www.15MinuteMondays.com/the-book
Action Guides
- Long-tail Keyword Development Guide (MS Word or PDF here)
- Domain Name Brainstorming Guide (PDF)
- Website Planning Guide (PDF)
Blog Articles We Discussed
Topics from the Group
Social Media
Wattpad
- Young adult serialized fiction
- http://www.wattpad.com/
Ideas for Social Media Campaigns
- Have people take photos of themselves on Instagram holding your book.
- Have someone read an except on your book on YouTube. Laura Drake of the West Texas Writers (Midland) had a rodeo cowboy read an excerpt of one of her novels.
- Sweet on a Cowboy Trailer (at YouTube)
Other Websites
Quora
- Question & answer oriented website
- http://www.quora.com/
Web Pages that Suck
- Learn how to make your website better by looking at websites that suck (and getting commentary from experts.)
- http://www.webpagesthatsuck.com/
Website Hosting
- Domain Registration & WordPress hosting
- Free WordPress Hosting
- Free Blogger Hosting
- Bluehost (inexpensive WordPress hosting)
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Cool Tools
- Email Campaigns
- Social Media Managers
- Payments & eCommerce
- PayPal www.PayPal.com
- WooCommerce (eCommerce plug-in for WordPress) www.woothemes.com/woocommerce/
- Automation
- www.IFTTT.com (IF This Then That)
- SEO (keyword) Helper
- WordPress SEO Plugin by Yoast (for WordPress only) https://yoast.com/wordpress/plugins/seo/
By Beverley Blount January 15, 2015 - 10:54 pm
Thanks for your interesting and useful talk. I’m interested in your opinion of my website. Thank you, Beverley
By Tracy Thomason January 18, 2015 - 9:59 am
Hi Beverly,
I’ll send you a note via email. Thanks!