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15 Marketing Tips for Writers
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| Let me bring my expertise to your next meeting or event. With over a decade of professional web development experience, I can tailor my message to address your group's unique needs. Here are a few of my workshop or talk topics: |
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Angela Render to Appear on WOCV-Channel 19
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Birthday Party for MWA’s Anthology!
Cyclops Bookstore, Friday September 11, 2009, 7:00 pm...[more]
Angela Render at the 2009 Baltimore Book Festival
Sunday, September 27, 5-6pm Creative Cafe Tent...[more]
Angela Render Teaches Internet Marketing Classes in Howard County, MD
Write Here Write Now and Howard County Center for the Arts sponsor five fantastic workshops for writers. Class space is limited so register early..... [read more]
Announcing Fall Internet Marketing Classes at The Writer’s Center
Back by popular demand, Angela Render offers her four most popular classes for the fall session at the Writers’ Center in Bethesda, MD...... [read more]
Angela Render to Teach Tech to Middle School Girls Again
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Marketing for Writers - Publishing is a business and as the economy gets tougher, publishers expect help selling books from their authors. With books out there offering 1001 ways to market your books, it’s easy to become scattered or overwhelmed and to not do anything at all. Whether you aspire to a publishing contract or intend to self-publish, this class will prepare you for your role in marketing.
- Week 1: Introduction to Marketing Platforms
What a writers’ marketing platform is and why you need one.
- Week 2: Writers and the Internet
Does Social Media make you want to head for a cave? Do you think the world’s Twitterpated? Relax. This class will help you sort out what the Internet has to offer and how it applies to you.
- Week 3: Advanced Strategies
Find marketing outlets that are free or even pay you! Life and marketing after publication. Create an Elevator Speech. Pitches.
- Week 4: Crafting a Battle Plan
Your project and your background are unique. Take the ideas you’ve learned and formulate a plan for success.
Blogging for Writers - You’ve heard the stories: editors telling their authors to blog for self-promotion and bloggers getting book deals or hired to write for newspapers and other publications. Blogging offers fast, cheap, easy access to a Web presence that even a technophobe can stomach. Learn the what, why, and how right here.
- Week 1: Introduction to Blogging
Learn what a Blog is, how it differs from other types of Web destinations, and what it can do for you. Copyright and the Internet.
- Week 2: Blogging Platforms and Setting Up
Hosted or stand-alone? Wordpress, Blogger, or Typepad? Learn what sorts of blogging platforms are available, which one might be right for you, and how to set one up.
- Week 3: Pretty Posting
Ways to make sure your presentation doesn’t turn readers away. Text formatting, choosing a color scheme, and editing and uploading photos.
- Week 4: Advanced Techniques
Learn how to attract and keep a readership, keep from suffering from “blog-block,” and make sure your blog works for you.
Workshops
Introduction to Marketing Platforms - Getting published is hard, especially for a first-time author. Publishers want you to come with a platform and this workshop discusses what a platform is and when to start building it. It also gives a brief overview of the tools available to writers for building a platform on the web, and discuss internet privacy and copyright. Participants brainstorm what types of internet media might be right for them to use.
"Angela is knowledgable about the topic and willing to answer and share information."
Writer's Center Participant
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Websites for Beginners - Participants gain a better understanding of what a website is, what it should contain, and how it should function. Topics include: look and feel, and form and function. Examples of well and poorly formed Web sites will be provided, as well as vocabulary and tips. Participants will leave ready to develop their own website.
Blogging for Beginners - This class discusses what a blog is and how it differs from a website. It covers several blogging software options, the basics on how to set up a blog, how to post, and how to insert images. Participants get a feel for what type of content should be included in a post, how to organize their content, how to invite comments, and how to promote themselves on other people's blogs. The class brainstorms topic ideas for their own blogs and participants leave ready to begin blogging.
"It was a great benefit to me and at ground level with my writing, and this class explained and opened my eyes to what I need to be doing to build a solid platform. Thank you!"
Writer's Center Participant
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Blogging Tips and Tricks - An intermediate level workshop that is best suited for people who are already blogging and want to take their blogs to the next level. Students learn techniques to improve their posts and their exposure. Basic graphics editing, search engine optimization (SEO), and ways to come up with sustainable topics to write about will be discussed.
Getting Found - This intermediate workshop discusses techniques for Search Engine Optimization (SEO), as well as integrating various Web media, and finding places to promote your web presence both online and offline. Participants learn how a blog and a website can work together to help build their platform. The class will also address how to use web traffic analysis tools to judge how well sites are performing.
"Very informative, clear and advanced. Knowledgable about topic, friendly atmosphere, professional, in-depth, very good! Something to think about and do."
Writer's Center Participant
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Advanced Marketing - This class focuses on building a mailing list and finding avenues for free advertising. Advanced techniques for collecting prospect data will be discussed and participants begin to design their own sales and marketing packages.
Designing a Roadmap Workshop - This advanced class covers individual platform needs and how to design a personalized marketing campaign. Participants leave with a strategy for building their platforms and marketing their work. (Small number of seats for personalized attention.)
Making Your Web Presence Work Better - Participants submit their existing URLs to be analyzed in class by internet marketing professional, Angela Render. They will develop strategies to maximize the platform-building potential of their current web presences. Submit URLs one week in advance. (Small number of seats for personalized attention.)
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"I appreciated the information and Angela made the information easy to understand and fun."
MWAB Participant
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Writers' Marketing Platforms - This one hour talk gives a brief overview of what a marketing platform is and the resources available to writers for building one.
POD and Me -Is Print On Demand (POD) right for you? This one hour talk will go over what it takes to make the most of POD technology.
The Internet as a Marketing Tool - The internet is more than just the web. This one hour talk will outline what the internet has to offer for your marketing needs. Web, email, IRC, newsgroups, and more. |
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