Last Saturday, I led the workshop, A Business Approach to Marketing Your Work, at Midsouth Christian Writers Conference in Collierville, Tennessee. In that session, I showed the class how to organize their thinking about marketing based on the Four P’s of Marketing: Product, Place, Price, and Promotion. In last week’s post, we covered Price. This […]
Networking—that’s what those birds are doing when they line up on the utility lines. They perch high above the action so that they can see what’s going on. They hunt food and face dangers all day. When they gather in their groups, they share their experiences—what worked, where the pitfalls are. Writers need to network, […]
Why go to a writers conference? Well, the conventional wisdom is that we hone our craft, meet editors, pitch our work, and network with other writers. Sometimes I think the networking is the most important benefit. Today I’m sharing some photos from Kentucky Christian Writers Conference 2013. I attend this conference to learn from the […]
Continuing the series on social media for writers, today I’ll share what I’ve learned about Twitter, the micro-blogging tool. If you are not familiar with Twitter, go to this article on Wikipedia now. Instead of having friends as on Facebook, Twitter users have followers. I’ve used Twitter for several months now, following people mainly in […]
Have you been to a writers’ conference lately? It’s been about a week since I got back from Kentucky Christian Writers Conference, and I’m still working on ideas and leads obtained there. Why Attend Conferences? If you’re a writer seeking to get published, you must attend conferences to: Improve your craft through sharing information with […]