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Growing Your Author Platform with a Social Media Garden
Kathryn Thomas 
Tags: Are you ready for the BIG DAY – the day your book is published? Do you have a list of 5,000+ people who are chompin’ at the bit to get your book?
If so, that will do wonders for your book sales!
If not, the good news is that it’s not as hard as you might think!
You can easily grow such a platform during the 9-12 months before you publish your book by using these social media websites:
- Google+
Guy Kawasaki shows you how you can do it in his article: Guy Kawasaki’s 10 Social Media Tips for Authors.
His strategies include:
1. Start yesterday
2. Segment the services
3. Make a great profile
4. Curate, don’t create
5. Act like NPR
6. Restrain yourself
7. Candy-fy
8. Respond
9. Stay positive or stay silent
10.Repeat
Discover the details in his article and work out your plan to grow your own platform before your book’s launch day. Then take action to put your plan in motion. You’ll be glad you did!
Featured photo by: mkhmarketing
About Kathryn Thomas
Kathryn Thomas is a #1 Best Selling author on Amazon and a Certified Life Coach. She is the Senior Editor and Content Manager at Coachzing.
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