Firstly, Happy New Year! A bit late I know but I was ill and so my 2014 starts today. Have you made your new years resolution yet? My resolution this year is simple, to be more awesome than last year. With that in mind, I was thinking of little things I can do that will make a big impact. That got me thinking about the little tips that I can share with you that can have a big impact on your results. As I'm currently working on a book about Twitter I figured that was a good place to start and so in today's post I'm going to share with you a little known fact about Twitter.
When you post a status update on Twitter starting with an @ tag only those that are following both you and the person you tag will see the post.
For example, if your doing a Twitter interview and the interviewer and interviewee start each post by tagging the other only people following both of you will see the posts. Not what you want. There are some simple ways to get round it though and make sure your posts are reaching as many people as possible.
1) put a . before the @ sign
The . won't interfere with your post but it will mean that the post is view-able by the public.
2) include the @ tag later on in the post.
You can still address the person directly, just make it part of the sentence. e.g.
As the tag isn't right at the beginning of the post it can be seen by everyone.
As you can see, sometimes little things can make a big difference.
What little things will you be doing this year to help make it your most awesome so far? Share in the comments section below.
Firstly I’d like to wish you all a very happy and successful New Year. Let’s make 2010 the best one yet!
For those of you organising virtual tours or just looking for a way to spread the word and promote your writing, books, publishing company, magazine etc… I’d like to invite you to be interviewed for this site. All interviews will be posted on this site on Tuesday each week. Spaces are assigned by the order in which they are applied for, so first come first served! If you are planning a virtual tour for a specific period of the year please contact well in advance to assure posting at that time.
If you are interested in being interviewed please send an email to writersandauthors@yahoo.it including some information about yourself/company, your web link and why you would like to be interviewed e.g. to promote latest book. All genres are accepted however interview questions and answers will be clean and suitable reading for all.
I’d also like to invite you all to send in your book reviews for posting to this site. It can be a good review you received and want to share or one you’ve written for another author. Please remember that the idea is to promote good books and not to put down authors. I’m not saying negative comments can’t be included (constructive criticism helps writers grow and let’s face it not everyone likes everything about the books they read) but I ask that the positives out weigh the negatives.
Reviews should be sent in the body of an email to writersandauthors@yahoo.it. Please include a by-line for the reviewer and ISBN for the book where possible.
Other features on the site include; video’s for authors, sites of interest and short articles related to the writing industry. If you would like to submit content for any of these categories please use the email writersandauthors@yahoo.it (for video’s use embed code).
Please feel free to let others know about these opportunities so they can take advantage too.
Just one last note. Recently lots of people have been leaving SPAM in the comments section on the posts on this site. I now have a big job of cleaning it all up again. SPAM will not be tolerated. All comments should be in English language and related to the content of the site.
