I’m Tom Blubaugh, CEO of Common Sense Marketing Strategies, LLC and Tom Blubaugh Literary Strategist, LLC. My corporations and I are developing an online authors community–authors helping authors–a new concept for a writing community. You will be doing yourself an injustice if you don’t fully investigate this new community. We are looking for authors and writers …
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times….” This is a partial quote from Charles Dickens a Tale of two Cities and sounds a lot like the world of authors today. On the one hand we have access to nearly the whole world through the Internet — on the …
Marketing is often the biggest roadblock for authors. Many of them have a story to tell, and they present it in a remarkable way. Yet, when it comes to sharing their story with the world, they balk. This is the reason many authors have a large inventory of books in their attics or a listing …
Guest blog article by Jennifer L. Self. I recently attended a play portraying Mark Twain’s The Prince and the Pauper. The setting was 16th century England, right before the death of Henry VIII. His son, Edward, succeeded him to the throne but lived for a very short time. After Edward’s death, Henry’s daughter, Mary, took …
YouTube is a HUGE resource for Internet knowledge–not just music, movies, cat videos, etc.. It’s an international university. If you want to know the purpose of a social media platform, you must study it. Not like you would study if you were working toward becoming a Neurosurgeon, but enough to understand what its purpose is and …
Writers are enigmas! Passion drives them to pour their heart out on paper. Then they realize that like the monarch in The Emperor’s New Clothes, they are standing in public in their birthday suit. That’s why it’s imperative to have “good” team support when you embark on this perilous task. The Emperor had a team, …
Technology has changed the game for authors who want to sell books. No longer can you sit for hours at a table in a bookstore and wait for the crowd to find you. It’s a comfortable position, but it just isn’t happening anymore, unless you are a celebrity or sensationalist. Your book is a separate entity …
Social media is shrinking the world. We can communicate with as many people as we have time for domestically and internationally. You might be surprised at the number of social media platforms available. Here is a link to a list I found on Wikipedia. Does this list give you a headache? How do you choose the best …
Writing a book is not for the faint of heart, but if you are called to do so, you won’t rest until it’s done. There are numerous reasons for you not to write a book. But for every reason that you come up with, there at least two reasons why you should. Here’s the top …
When you sat down to write your book, little did you know that you would become a customer service representative as a result of doing so. In today’s marketplace, the best way to build a tribe is through relationship marketing. That literally means that you will have woo, pamper, under-promise, and over deliver in order …