How are you using Twitter?
Feb 16writing, blogging, blog, fiction, novel, book, freelance Are you on Twitter? You can follow me here. I just crossed the 100 followers threshold, so I’m pretty excited about that. What is twitter? Twitter is a social networking site that allows you to post updates in 140 character blips. Think IM plus social networking, and you’ve more or less got it. With twitter, it’s...
Self Publishing Your Fiction
Aug 12I’m back. I just finished a good sized freelancing project which took up most of my attention. I’m back though, and here’s a link to an interesting discussion. Self-publish — or Not? This is an intelligent discussion of the benefits and drawbacks of choosing self-publishing over a traditional route. All too often these discussions degenerate into insults and absolutes that...
Where to sell your writing
Jul 07You’re interested in selling some writing, maybe even starting to “freelance,” but where do you go to SELL your work? Here are some of the most popular sites and the pros and cons of using each. Constant Content After registering, you’ll submit your work for approval. You can submit content that matches up to a previous request, or you can write whatever you like. After...
Social Media Update
Jun 24Social media sites can be a great way to promote your blog. However, choose one that fits in with your site’s content and tone. For example, Digg is a great site, but it would be a bad fit for most of my content. I tend to use StumbleUpon and Twitter primarily. I try not to bombard by followers/friends with links and posts, but many of them are nice enough to Stumble my posts when I do. The...
Running a StumbleUpon Campaign
Jun 23I recently bought a small StumbleUpon campaign for one of the posts here at Corner Scribe. I did it without much research or planning; I just picked a post I thought was good and bought $10 of StumbleUpon traffic. The results… I’m not really sure. I got about a 4 percent thumbs up rating, which was lower than I’d hoped for. However, since it’s my only campaign, I...
Entrecard StumbleUpon Update
Mar 30It looks as if Entrecard has moved the Stumble exchanges into another forum. Since I haven’t seen anything to explain, I’m assuming the moderators are going to enforce the “must be Entrecard related” dictate on the promotions forum. Will I be participating? I’m not sure, but I probably will from time to time. Will I promote posts that I feel are of low quality? No....