How to promote your music via Social Media
What a week. First I nab the goods from children’s author Alex Milway on How to promote your children’s book via Social Media then the ever talented solobasssteve whips up a similar post for musos with ‘Social Media- first principles for musicians‘.
At this rate I may never have to think of an original thought again!
Both new and established creatives are lucky; they don’t need to wait for help from fancy agents or publicists and can take hold of their online self-promotion today with these masters sharing their best tips.
How to promote your children’s book via Social Media
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This is a follow up post to How to promote your book via Social Media. In that post I mentioned a chidren’s book called The Mousehunter.
Now you can read the author, Alex Milway, explaining what he’d recommend for self-promotion in his own words (which, you know, is probably better than me trying to paraphrase here because he’s like a proper writer and stuff).
How to promote your book via social media
I love this. It’s called Book Launch 2.0 [via The Longstockings] from author Dennis Cass.
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But seriously… Just like with the MySpace/music promo trend the literary world is getting clever at self-publicity, leveraging a social media fanbase to get published with awards such as The Blooker Prize and self-publishing service Lulu.com which even provides a sales channel.
I’ve been admiring a friend’s work to promote his children’s book The Mousehunter, published by Faber and released earlier this year. The book has a website, blog, facebook group, Twitter stream and a whole lotta interactive stuff going on.
While all this activity has been off his own back, Faber seems to be quite web aware too running a seminar day for their authors on using the web and setting up their own YouTube channel amongst other things.
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I'm Darika Ahrens and I help brands develop marketing strategies for Social Media. My background is in Public Relations for companies like Orange, Microsoft, Philips, HTC, Yell.com, and Estee Lauder. I've worked with and trained some of the UK's top agencies.