More than a month after moving my blog to this self-hosted site, I’m finally writing about my transition from WordPress.com to WordPress.org. Several readers have asked me whether it was difficult, presumably because they’re considering making the same transition. The answer: no. It wasn’t difficult. But it did take a lot of time, particularly to […]
For authors looking to promote their books, book blogs present some awesome opportunities. But how do you know which bloggers will review your book? And what’s the best way to approach them? Here to enlighten us today is Jen Karsbaek, who reviews books at her blog, Devourer of Books. On Twitter, this Chicagoan is known […]
Anyone who knows anything about social media will tell you that companies should not pay someone to do social media for them. For the best results, they should learn to do it themselves. The same goes for individuals who are promoting themselves or their products, whether they want to sell books, build relationships with potential […]
I’m skipping my Writers’ Roundup this week and next because part of focusing on my book at Hambidge is getting away from my Google Reader and Twitter. Instead, I’d love to see suggestions from you on a specific topic: fostering community and conversation on your blog. If you comment here regularly, you may have noticed […]
Here’s one of the great benefits of blogging: It holds you accountable. If you blog about your goal of finishing a rough draft by next month, that goal is no longer bouncing around your head — it’s bouncing around the blogosphere. If you tell your readers you’re going to move to a new city, they […]
Hey lovely readers, Yesterday I managed to figure out how to redirect my WordPress.com blog to alexisgrant.com. That means traffic from Google that was going to alexisgrant.wordpress.com will now redirect here. Excellent. The not-so-excellent part is that I think it also redirected my RSS feed subscribers (which I couldn’t figure out how to do initially). […]
The tricky part about moving to alexisgrant.com is convincing y’all to follow me here. If you subscribed by RSS to my old blog, you’ve got to re-subscribe here. Stinks, I know. If you subscribed to my old blog via e-mail, you’re all set. No need to re-subscribe because I changed the settings for you.* And […]
Thanks for following me to my new cyber-home! Because I know you’re dying to hear what I sound like, I’ve got my first-ever video to welcome you to alexisgrant.com. I’ll also include highlights below in case you’d prefer to read instead. And yeah, it wouldn’t be my first blog video if my eyes weren’t closed. […]
A writing friend just joined Twitter, and I’m trying to come up with suggestions of tweeps for her to follow. That got me to thinking: wouldn’t it be awesome if I could give her a list of all the readers of this blog? A while back I built a Twitter list that includes members of […]
I am LOVING blog coaching. Loving it! Here’s how this developed: I enjoyed helping friends who were new to blogging — showing them how to set up a blog, brainstorming what to write about and figuring out how to build a readership. And now I’m including that service as part of Socialexis! It’s so great […]