Marketing

Planning & Organizing: Part I

Social Media for Authors

My Step by Step process for Planning & Organizing
Three of the Major Social Media accounts

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Sitting at Starbucks early on Saturday morning planning June’s social media posts!

When I decided to become a self-published author, I read a lot about what to do and not do. Most everyone recommended having a website AND a strong social media presence.

This was difficult because up until this time I just had a Facebook page (which I only got to keep up with church group events during college) and I had no desire for anything else. I like my life being private.

But I kept finding posts and books in my research which said this was a MUST DO action to be a self-published author to get my name and novels out in the world.

So, I set up business accounts for 3 major social media sites:

Facebook Business Page www.facebook.com/acboulier 
Instagram www.instagram.com/acboulier_author
Twitter twitter.com/acboulier

Great, I have accounts, but what do I put on them? I’m not a document every moment of my life kind of girl and I can only take so many pictures of my laptop and a cup of coffee.

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Be Consistent

It’s important to be consistent in your brand, in your promises, and the way you promote. I created a media kit for my first novel using photoshop and decided to keep the same format for the second and third novels. Promoting three novels means a lot of behind the scenes work and learning ways to save time, especially since I work another non-writing full-time job.

Consistent Example: Cover Pages

Consistent

The images and color schemes change slightly to match the book cover image. The consistency is in the layout and size.

Let me walk you through my media kit process for all three novels.

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