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Bloggers are those who write for one or more blogs. The act of creating a blog post is known as blogging.

For the category see: Blogs and Blogging

woman carrying a baby — One way to spread a little love and point your readers to something interesting is to review or profile another writer’s blog. The writer will love the attention, paying it forward is good karma, and your readers will learn to trust you to recommend things if your recommendations are consistently […]

Platform Building: Review a smaller blog

3rd December 2022 in Platform Building Prompts tagged Author Platform / blogs by Matthew Brown

cheerful young woman screaming into megaphone — Streamline your social media posts by automating shares of your blog posts to social media. Depending on your blog platform there may be many tools available. WordPress, for example, has JetPack and many other auto-posting tools. You could also use dlvrit.com to read your blog feed and post it to […]

Platform Building: Auto share blog posts

12th November 2022 in Platform Building Prompts tagged Author Platform / blogs / feeds by Matthew Brown

shallow focus of letter paper — On social media as well as on your blog, make a point of replying to as many people as possible. If a follower, reader, or visitor has taken the time to say something or ask a question – get in there and offer a reply. If nothing else, this will […]

Platform Building: Engage in a “week of replies”

24th September 2022 in Platform Building Prompts tagged Author Platform / blogs / reply / social media by Matthew Brown

abstract art cobweb connection — Author Buzz is introducing IndieWeb features – something we hinted at a few months ago. What is IndieWeb and why should authors use it? First the boring answer IndieWeb is a community of people building software to enable independent websites to maintain their social data on their own web domains. […]

What is the IndieWeb and how can it help authors?

7th September 2022 in Social Media tagged Author Platform / blogs / IndieWeb by Matthew Brown

photo of people holding glasses — One way to get discovered by readers and fellow authors is to seek out author blogs. Once there take the time to leave a great comment, good feedback, or a solid review. If you have been blogging for any length of time you will know how hard it is to […]

Platform Building: Give great comments

18th June 2022 in Platform Building Prompts tagged Author Platform / blogs by Matthew Brown

girl writing on a black keyboard — The humble blog is a powerful author platform building tool. It gives you somewhere for your social media followers and mailing list subscribers to come to engage with you. If you do not have a blog, you have a number of options: The best solution: Inexpensive hosting and your own […]

Author Platforms: You do have a blog right?

11th June 2022 in Platform Building Prompts tagged Author Platform / blogs by Matthew Brown

man in blue suit — Do you want to know how to use Author Buzz to generate SEO, book promotion, and buzz generation? I assume you do. After all, you just clicked on this article. Author Buzz UK Basics At the heart of a good Author Buzz strategy is a well-defined user account. It pays […]

How to use Author Buzz UK like a boss

3rd January 2022 in Uncategorised tagged Author Platform / blogs / groups / guide / readers by Matthew Brown

“I know I need an author platform,” say some writers, “but I don’t feel ready to set one up right now.” You are never going to feel like it. Platforms need time to grow. A lot of time. The most optimal time to start platform building is two years ago. […]

You are never going to feel like it

23rd November 2020 in Publicity tagged Author Platform / blogging / blogs / social media / Twitter by Matthew Brown

Whenever I read advice about authors building a platform it is always something you have to do alone. Why? Who says a platform cannot be shared, social, and collaborative? This is why I created Author Buzz. Rather than each of us labouring alone, we can collaborate and each benefits from […]

Collaborative platform building for authors

8th May 2020 in Author Buzz tagged Author Platform / blogs / collaboration / free / sell more books by Matthew Brown

Two blogs have been started on this network that are both about as different as it is possible for two sites to be. Yet, despite this, they both use the same theme, the same network (obviously), and share similar contributors. What sets these two blogs apart is the intention and […]

Two blogs that could not be more different

1st October 2019 in Blogs and blogging / Site News tagged blogs / content / standing out by Matthew Brown

Author Buzz UK is, fundamentally, a social network for authors. British authors in particular but all writers, authors, readers, publishers, and agents are equally welcome. In this post we will take a look at the ways you can use Author Buzz as a social network and where else you might […]

A social network for authors

27th June 2019 in Social Media tagged Author Platform / authors / blogs / directory / Facebook / Good Reads / groups / Reddit / Social Network / Stack Exchange / Tumblr / Twitter by Matthew Brown

pocket watch — The perfect time to start promoting your writing was last week. Until they invent time travel, the best time to start is as soon as humanly possible. Book promotion is not really book promotion – it is author promotion. Even before you have a book, you can start promoting yourself. […]

When should you start promoting your writing?

21st May 2019 in Publicity tagged Author Platform / be interesting / blogs / sell more books / social media / tell stories by Matthew Brown