210-707-Marketing Tips

6/14/14 From Linda

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Linda Lee Schell
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Watch this interview with author Linda Lee Schell:
 
 
 
Marketing Tips
How to use Goodreads
 
 
 
Goodreads may seem as if it is a huge task to set up an author profile, your dashboard and your books.  However, it is a great marketing site as many readers visit and often become your followers.  You may do book give aways, join various contests, join information groups on this site and much more so it makes a valuable tool to use. 
 
All members of Goodreads have regular reader profiles where they can review books, add friends, and post information about themselves. When an author signs up for Goodreads, he or she begins with this basic user profile.
 
For any book listed in the Goodreads catalog, you can click on the author's name to find the author profile. This page lists all of the author's published work, whether he or she is a member of Goodreads or not. When an author joins the Author Program we merge his or
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her user profile with the author profile. Becoming a Goodreads Author carries special privileges, such as the ability to edit profile information, add book cover images, post events, write a blog, upload videos, and start featured author groups.
 
After you've signed up for the Author Program, your log-in process does not change: You'll still use the same username and password, but now your user profile will point to your author profile. You'll also have access to a special Author Dashboard that contains useful links and statistics about your books.
 
Attached is the link for the tutorial to set up your author program.  It is a series of slide shows which take you step-by-step through the process of setting up your author profile, author dashboard and widgets.  The link is https://www.goodreads.com/author/how_to   

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