Facebook marketing

Marketing FOMO is more debilitating than distracting—and if you suffer from marketing FOMO, your marketing tasks will never be done.

Every year, I share hundreds (even thousands) of articles and reports on book marketing. Here, I look back on the best of what I found in 2016.

Getting traction for your online presence—especially a new blog—can feel like an impossible task when you're an unknown writer. But it can be done.

A short-term marketing campaign is a series of strategies designed to reach a goal in a defined period of time, and include projects such as book launches. A short-term campaign has four definite phases: planning, pre-launch, launch, and follow-through.

Author Martha Conway discusses optimizing Facebook ad settings to ensure a realistic click-through rate, and her overall results with Facebook ads.

Author and social media expert Frances Caballo discusses the CARE acronym and how to use it to guide your interactions with readers on social media.

Author and social media expert Kirsten Oliphant explains how to manage your platform-building activities on social media sites.

Social media expert Chris Syme explains why less is more in social media, and how to make the most use of primary and secondary social media channels.

Every author is told to start an official Facebook page. But what if you stick with your personal profile only? Learn the advantages and disadvantages.

Book publicist Patrick Walsh discusses effective social media promotion, what it takes to make the same old book-marketing advice work for you, questions to ask yourself when trying to decide whether your story should be a book or a screenplay, and more.

Kirsten Oliphant discusses how to effectively use Facebook pages and groups.

In this 5 On post, bestselling author Elisa Lorello discusses authenticity, using social media to connect with readers, rejection, and the differences between self- and traditional publishing.

Social media marketing expert Chris Syme discusses how to use Facebook contests and giveaways to turn fans into super fans.

Regardless of when or why you use Facebook, never consider it a replacement for an author website you own and control. Here's why.

It's difficult to give advice about Facebook because it keeps changing—in structure, functionality, and effectiveness. For instance, I used to