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Promotion Is Free – Traffic Widgets

Written by Sharon Hurley Hall on June 18, 2008 - 3 Comments
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Today I’m going to talk about traffic widgets. These are little snippets of code that you put on your website, perhaps in your sidebar, to bring traffic to your site. This a free way to promote your site. There are dozens of traffic building widgets out there and I have tried quite a few. They all [...]

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Promotion Is Free – Social Networking

Written by Sharon Hurley Hall on June 16, 2008 - 2 Comments
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If you’re promoting yourself as a writer, then you can’t ignore social networking. The question is where to start and which sites to choose. I am not going to pretend that I could ever answer this question to everyone’s satisfaction, so instead I’ll tell you about the sites I use and how I use them. [...]

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Promotion Is Free – Joining The Blogosphere

Written by Sharon Hurley Hall on June 12, 2008 - 5 Comments
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In the first part of this series I suggested that writers start a blog as a virtual shop window for their writing services. If you’ve done that, then you are now part of the blogosphere, and there’s more to participating in it than simply having a blog. Blogging is all about conversations with your readers [...]

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Promotion Is Free – Social Bookmarking

Written by Sharon Hurley Hall on June 9, 2008 - 2 Comments
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Social bookmarking is another free self promotion technique that writers can use effectively. It’s also an excellent way of keeping track of your writing research, though I won’t say much about that here. If you’re interested I wrote a post on Why Writers Should Use Social Bookmarking which explains that function in more detail. So, [...]

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Promotion Is Free – Article Marketing

Written by Sharon Hurley Hall on June 6, 2008 - 13 Comments
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I can’t talk about promotion without mentioning one of my favorite ways to promote – through article marketing. I’ve heard people criticize it, but I have found it an effective and free way to promote my writing services. The only investment you need to get started is the time it takes you to write an [...]

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Promotion Is Free – Forums

Written by Sharon Hurley Hall on June 5, 2008 - 4 Comments
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Once you’ve got a virtual shop window for your writing services, it’s time to let people know it’s there. One effective way you can promote yourself is to use forums. There are thousands of forums on any topic you can imagine, so it won’t be hard to find one. As a writer, you can choose [...]

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Promotion Is Free – A Web Presence

Written by Sharon Hurley Hall on June 4, 2008 - 1 Comment
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One of the first things to address when promoting yourself as a freelance writer is having somewhere where people can find you. These days, that means having a web presence – and that doesn’t have to cost you anything. My preferred method is to get a blog, because you don’t have to mess around with [...]

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Promotion Is Free – New Series

Written by Sharon Hurley Hall on June 3, 2008 - 6 Comments
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I often get questions from new writers about how to get the word out that they are there and available for writing work. This topic has been coming up a lot recently, so even though it’s been covered before, I thought it was time to revisit it. From my experience, when you’re starting out as [...]

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Self Promotion: What’s The Point?

Written by Sharon Hurley Hall on May 22, 2008 - 3 Comments
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If you’re working as a freelance writer, then you should be promoting yourself. You might wonder whether you have the time and money to undertake promotional activity, and whether there’s any point. I can tell you, from my own experience, that there IS a point. Promoting yourself will help you to attract new clients for [...]

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Promotion Tip: RSSHugger

Written by Sharon Hurley Hall on May 8, 2008 - 0 Comments
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You can file this under ‘things I didn’t do when I should have’. I heard about RSSHugger months ago and somehow I never got around to signing up. The premise is simple. For the price of a review on your blog, you get a page where you can promote your RSS feed and your blog. [...]

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