Archive for the ‘Web Marketing’ Category

Squidoo Lens for Your “Best Ever”

by Lisa Copen

Monday, February 11th, 2008

What do you have that is the “best ever” that is related to your book or web site? Head on over to Squidoo and quickly create a “lens” to let the world know at The Ever Project: at http://www.squidoo.com/ever/hq .

This project allows you to create your best ever collection on any subject. You could do the best recipe books ever, best quotes ever, best authors ever. I created a lens on the best Adoption Scrapbook Album ever (which happens to be my book…)

URL Tips for Writers and Authors

by Lisa Copen

Thursday, February 7th, 2008

Here’s a tip for every person who owns a web site, especially authors and writes. Never use a hyphen in your URL (that’s the www._____.com) unless it’s strictly used as “secondary site” to point search engines to and not used in any of your publicity materials. If your name is already taken add on a phrase or name such as www.greatbooksbymyfirstnamelastname.com.

In my magazine, HopeKeepers, we featured an article and at the end of the article gave the author’s bio and web site. Unfortunately, her web site was www.myfirstname-mylastname.com.

When the paragraph was justified, unfortunately her bio appeared to say:

Looking for Deals on Internet Marketing Software, Tips & More?

by Lisa Copen

Wednesday, February 6th, 2008

I would never tell you about something that I haven’t personally tried without telling you I’ve not tried it. Well, I’ve used DealDotCom.com and they are the real thing! You will find a deal of all kinds of software at this site, but every deal lasts just 24 hours and then it’s gone. Software that will help you with good ebook covers, blog promotional tips, SEO ideas, article marketing and much more! You never know what you will find and these guys that run this have a great sense of humor that will make you actually want to read the description!

Why do I Need More Than One Web Site?

by Lisa Copen

Wednesday, February 6th, 2008

They call it “concentration” but it’s the addictive little game I play with my son where you turn 2 cards over and try to match. Check out the computer version over at LinkTiles where our button “You Can Sell More Books” was chosen as one of the Tiles today!

LinkTiles is a catchy little site where you are able to create a “tile” (a little square) that represents whatever you want to be promoting and then it links to ALL of your web sites. If you just have one site, you may soon have more. I would have laughed had I heard that a few years ago, but I have about 12 web sites hosted and about 5 other networks like Ning and MySpace. This one is a blog, and it’s my entire site so far.

Looking for Deals on Internet Marketing Software, Tips and More?

by Lisa Copen

Tuesday, February 5th, 2008

I would never tell you about something that I haven’t personally tried without telling you I’ve not tried it. Well, I’ve used DealDotCom.com and they are the real thing! You will find a deal of all kinds of software at this site, but every deal lasts just 24 hours and then it’s gone. Software that will help you with good ebook covers, blog promotional tips, SEO ideas, article marketing and much more! You never know what you will find and these guys that run this have a great sense of humor that will make you actually want to read the description!