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Creating and Building Your Author Online Presence: Website Creation to Be

Karen Cioffi. As an author or writer, it’s a certain bet that you have something to sell; it may be your book, your skills, or your experience and knowledge. In order to sell what you’re offering, you need to create and build your online presence. 

Why is this absolutely necessary? 

Well, imagine being a spec in the sky . . . so tiny and far away that you’re invisible to the human eye. That’s you in the internet universe. So, how do you get a flickering light going and build it into a steady strong beam? By creating and building your author online presence. 

If you’re a first time author, this process should begin before your book will be available for sale; this workshop will take you from square one right on through beyond book sales.  

If you have one or more books under your belt and already have a website up and running , but want to extend your marketing reach and draw more traffic to your site, or you want to branch out with additional writing related products or services, topics two through seven will help you achieve just that. 

Join Maggie Ball and Karen Cioffi and learn:  

1. The Bare-Bottom Platform Basics: Creating an Author Website and Blog Content

2. How to do Article Marketing

3. A Bit About SEO and Keywords

4. How to Create Your Own Podcasts

5. How to Create eBooks for Freebies and for Sale

6. How to Create a Product Line and Attract Customers Through Information Marketing

7. How to Create ‘Buy Now’ Buttons for Your Site/s  

Each topic will include assignments to help you apply what you learn and there will be a one hour webinar with additional tips and information on creating and building your author online presence.

WHEN:    Jun 25, 2012 - Jul 17, 2012

COST:   $20 for Premium Members
$30 for Basic Members

Cancellation policy: Registrations are non-refundable except when the workshop is cancelled by Savvy Authors.

REGISTRATION:      *** Registration Closed***

INSTRUCTOR:   
Karen Cioffi is a published author, ghostwriter, freelance writer, editor, and founder and manager of the marketing group Writers on the Move. She is a member of the International Association of Professional Ghostwriters, the National Association of Independent Writers and Editors, Freelancers Union, and a number of other groups. Karen offers professional writing services for businesses and individuals and has written several e-books on writing and marketing. Find out more about Karen at http://www.karencioffiwritingandmarketing.com and http://dkvwriting4u.com  

Magdalena Ball runs The Compulsive Reader. Her short stories, editorials, poetry, reviews, and articles have appeared in a wide number of printed anthologies and journals, and have won local and international awards for poetry and fiction.  Magdalena holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in English Literature from CCNY (New York), an MBA from Charles Sturt University (NSW, Australia), and has studied literature on a postgraduate level at Oxford University (UK). She lives in on a rural property in New South Wales with her husband and three children.  She is also the author of the critically acclaimed novel Sleep Before Evening, a nonfiction book The Art of Assessment, and two poetry books Repulsion Thrust and Quark Soup.  Her second novel, Black Cow, is due out in 2011.  Find out more about Magdalena or her books at http://www.magdalenaball.com

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