I’m a little confused about how to use my social networking platform to market my book. Lots of sources say it’s important to build a social networking platform, meaning make friends, get followers, all that good stuff. Usually they don’t tell you exactly how… I tend to think you rely first on your friends and then you just try to grow your list organically by telling people about your book, and by following/friending others. But that’s not really the part I’m confused about. I have a page on Facebook which I try to keep updated about all my book’s activities/developments. And when I post to it, I think it also shows up on the timelines of most of the people who have chosen to be friends of my page. And then I usually repost my book postings on my own timeline, which means a lot of my friends get it twice. Now that is a lot of book posting clogging up their timelines. And it’s not intentional! On the topic of excessive postings, some books/blogs/people suggest that you need to do lots of updating about your book, and others say it comes across as self-serving if you do too much. So I’m a little bit at a loss as to how to balance it! But I want my friends to know that I’m genuinely sorry if I’ve overposted and worn them out. That’s the last thing I would want to do. But to those that have continued to “like” my posts and been really supportive, I sure appreciate that. It means a lot.
Anyway, what’s my opinion on the subject? I do think too many posts can wear thin, but I also want to continue to capture what all is happening (I’m doing a marketing blitz in the month of February and it is generating a lot of extra activity). So I guess I’ll continue to post everything on my book page, and maybe I just won’t repost quite as much on my own timeline. And I’ll beg my friends’ tolerance during the times when my book happens to be having a lot of activity.
What are your thoughts on the subject? And where in the world Twitter fits in, I have no idea! Still trying to figure that one out.
Anyway, what’s my opinion on the subject? I do think too many posts can wear thin, but I also want to continue to capture what all is happening (I’m doing a marketing blitz in the month of February and it is generating a lot of extra activity). So I guess I’ll continue to post everything on my book page, and maybe I just won’t repost quite as much on my own timeline. And I’ll beg my friends’ tolerance during the times when my book happens to be having a lot of activity.
What are your thoughts on the subject? And where in the world Twitter fits in, I have no idea! Still trying to figure that one out.
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