Salted With Fire:
Nancy LaRonda Johnson says,
Black magic, murder, insanity, humor, honor and devotion. Salted With Fire is a journey of flash fiction and poetry that shows my writing transformation from worldly to wanting to please God.
AMAZON and SMASHWORDS |
AMAZON and SMASHWORDS |
1) Give your Twitter page some “bling.” By that I mean put wallpaper up for your background. Use any image that expresses your brand.
2) Find some people to follow that are recognized in the business. If they use hashtags, you should use the ones they use.
3) I’ve posted this before, but maybe it’s worth repeating. Clean up your Twitter Follower list once in a while. If people aren’t following you, it’s better to unfollow and find new people who are interested in what you have to say in those 140 characters. Here’s the LINK to that clean-up site.
4) I’m scheduling my Tweets now, so I can plan a few days ahead for what I want to put out about my blog or my events. It’s easy to schedule 2 in the morning and 2 in the late afternoon. The one problem: I have to reload the Tweedeck page a lot. For some reason the scheduling drop down freezes on me. If you know why that happens, let us know.
5) Keep your Tweets short so it’s easy for others to RT and lose some of your message.
Here’s someone who knows more about this than I do ( or care to).
Is Twitter worth the effort? Any data that says it helps you become more visible to the world of readers? Have you entered to win Nancy’s book?
Hilary Melton-Butcher says
Hi Lee and Nancy .. I've seen your title around the blogosphere – and have been intrigued by the name … and what a great selection of goodies inside – it does sound really interesting – good luck.
Then the Twitter info – so much goes into marketing and I love your tips here …
Good luck to you both with your books and marketing .. Hilary
DMS says
Wishing Nancy lots of luck and success. I love poetry- so her book sounds interesting.
Thanks for all of the information about Twitter. That is one platform I am still learning about (well I am still learning about all of them- but I seem to have the most to learn about Twitter). I like the "clean up" link. 🙂 Thanks for sharing!
~Jess
Nancy LaRonda Johnson says
Thanks to everyone for your kind words and encouragement!
Carol Kilgore says
Best of luck with your book, Nancy!
Libby says
Congratulations Nancy. Good luck!
Marcia says
Ah, yes, I "met" Nancy on another blog. 🙂 Congrats again!
I like Twitter because I can "get in and get out" without getting lost there for hours. I also like the challenge of 140 characters. I completely agree with putting up a background. The only thing more important to the look of your page is NOT having an egg. 🙂
Nancy LaRonda Johnson says
And thanks again, Marcia!
Sheena-kay Graham says
I love that poetry is your release Nancy, I write poetry as well. Congrats on your latest book.
C. Lee McKenzie says
Great to have your visit, Sheena-kay. Thanks for dropping in to support Nancy.
michelle says
How on earth do you "bling your background"? *sighs* Just when I think that I have the hang of something, then along comes yet another techno lesson designed to "boggle my brains" even more…
Nancy is the Queen Of BloggyVille at the moment! Yay!
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C. Lee McKenzie says
Sorry, Michelle. I understand exactly how you feel. There's no catching up in this world of tech.
Nancy LaRonda Johnson says
A queen? Don't know about that Michelle. But if you'd live to try on my crown for a while, you definitely can. 🙂
klahanie says
Hey Nancy,
As promised, I'm here at that amazingly lovely lady's site of um oh yeah, Lee.
As you will now know, Nancy, I'm wishing you lots of fulfilment with your endeavour (endeavor) for those who spell in American.
Lee, I've got wallpaper up on my twitter account. Although the wallpaper doesn't relate to how nifty neato I am. Way too shy to do that.
Now, as usual, I share your posting to twitter and Linkedup or whatever it's called and even your favourite (favorite) social 'notworking' site, 'Farcebook'! Gosh, I'm nice.
Your starstruckest fan,
Gary
Nancy LaRonda Johnson says
Gary, you're a sweetie, even with the way you spell endeavor. 🙂
Teresa Coltrin says
Great thoughts on making social media work for you. Now to find some…thing to clean my house and write my bestseller.
DEZMOND says
I have the most beautiful tweeter wallpaper over there 🙂
Suzanne Furness says
Nancy is rocking blogland at the moment, congratulations. Trying to get into Twitter at the moment, thanks for the tips.
Nancy LaRonda Johnson says
I'm so grateful to all you guys. 🙂
Christine Rains says
Thanks for all the info! I used to use Twitcleaner but then they were taken down for some reason. Have a lovely Monday! And yay for Nancy!
Nancy LaRonda Johnson says
Thank you Christine!
J.L. Campbell says
Lots of useful information here, guys.
M Pax says
I use my website header and spaceships on my Twitter 😀 Talking to people is a great use of Twitter. I meet so many interesting people. Like blogging, it's a give and take thing.
Theresa Milstein says
I need to figure out how to give my Twitter wallpaper some bling!
Natalie Aguirre says
Congrats on your book, Nancy. And thanks for the Twitter tips. I'm embarrassed to say I'm not on there yet. I need to get on there and your tips will help.
Nancy LaRonda Johnson says
Thanks Natalie!
Elizabeth Seckman says
Thanks for the tips. I am a total tweeting loser!
Samantha May says
So happy for Nancy!
This is very solid advice for Twitter users!
Nancy LaRonda Johnson says
Thank you Samantha.It is good info!
Barbara Watson says
Sounds like an awesome book. I love knowing the 'why and how' behind any story.
Good Twitter tips.
Nancy LaRonda Johnson says
Thank you Barbara! I hope you entered the giveaway and will love the book.
Stephen Tremp says
Good luck Nancy with your tour! I used Twitter a lot to promote a Kindle Freebie Weekend and it helped to the tune of over 8,000 free downloads. So Twitter worked for me.
And I do use JustUnfollow too. Gotta keep things clean and tidy.
Nancy LaRonda Johnson says
Thank you Stephen! Congrats on a successful weekend giveaway! I hope you get lots of reviews from it.
Julie Flanders says
Yay, Nancy!
I'm like Elise, I still haven't gotten the hang of Twitter. But I really want to work on it, so I appreciate your suggestions! I had missed the clean-up site before so I'm glad to have that link.
Nancy LaRonda Johnson says
I feel the same a you Julie.
Angela Brown says
Three Cheers to Nancy for this wonderful work of flash fiction and poetry.
I'm still fumbling the ball when it comes to Twitter. For a while, I thought I had a working plan but that got real tired real fast. So, just sort of winging it now lol!
Nancy LaRonda Johnson says
Thank you Angela. I'd love to develop some kind of plan that I could stick to.
Elise Fallson says
Congrats to Nancy!
I try, but I still haven't gotten the hang of twitter. I did start a twitter list and it does make it easier to see what my writer buddies are up to. Like now for example, your tweet got me here! (:
Nancy LaRonda Johnson says
Thanks Elise. You're the second person to mention the tweet!
L. Diane Wolfe says
I need to start scheduling tweets.
Congrats to Nancy!
Nancy LaRonda Johnson says
Thank you Diane!
Alex J. Cavanaugh says
Congratulations, Nancy! Dig the theme to your book.
My books are my background on Twitter. I often forget hashtags though. Need to work on that. And I do check whounfollowedme.com once a week.
Nancy LaRonda Johnson says
Thanks Alex. It's for things like this lesson here that I wish I didn't need a day job. I'm sorry to say that I'm a horrible tweeter. If not for this blogger app, I wouldn't be able to respond hardly at all during this blog tour.
And a big thanks to you Lee for hosting me today and for so much Twitter info. I never knew you could schedule tweets, and I definitely need to go through who I'm following, especial ly since I can't follow anymore people until I get more followers.
C. Lee McKenzie says
Great to have you here today, Nancy. Wishing you all the best of luck on your launch. As to Twitter, it has it's pluses, but takes time. . . just like everything else!