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The Building Blocks to Your Social Media Strategy

By Alix Martinez

November 9, 2020 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

The Building Blocks to Your Social Media Strategy

A social media strategy is an essential part of publishing and marketing a title. It’s the perfect way to get your whole team, both new and old, up to speed on both your ideas for social media as well as the main selling points of your title. Now, getting started on this document may seem overwhelming at first, but here are some tips to guide you in the right direction.

Filed Under: Manager Monday, Social Media Tagged With: books, collateral, examples, guide, instagram, Marketing, mood boards, presentation, publishing, quotes, research, Social Media, strategy, team work, themes, twitter

A Publicist’s Guide to Successful Online Events

By Alexandria Gonzales

September 14, 2020 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

A Publicist’s Guide to Successful Online Events

Knowing how to have a successful online event is crucial to getting readers to engage with your book. We all know that our attention spans are short, and when it comes to online presentations or keynotes, our attention is even shorter—especially with Zoom fatigue. So here is a publicity manager’s quick guide to successful online author events that attract and engage readers.

Filed Under: Manager Monday Tagged With: audience, author, event, guide, host, Online, publicity, reader, video, Zoom

Best Practices: A Social Media Guide for Authors

By Faith Muñoz @FaithAMunoz

March 30, 2020 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Best Practices: A Social Media Guide for Authors

For authors, social media is a wonderful place to share with friends, family, the writing community, and the world at large how fun and stressful the publishing journey can be. But if you’ve never used social media to promote yourself or your book, it can be hard to know how to get started.

Filed Under: Manager Monday, Social Media Tagged With: author, author platform, best practices, Book Promotion, engagement, guide, Marketing, personal brand, platform, promotion, publishing, Social Media

A Quick Guide to Planning a Writing Conference

By Tiffany Watson

December 16, 2019 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

A Quick Guide to Planning a Writing Conference

Your sincerity is the most vital asset you have in planning this conference. It is your social capital—the only currency you have to offer people. Caring about the speakers and having their best interests at heart is an essential part of planning this event.

Filed Under: Manager Monday Tagged With: conference, conference planning, event planning, guide, how-to, Ooligan at large, outreach, pitching panelists, publishing conferences, tips, writers, writing conferences

How to Edit Your Own Short Story

By Claire Meyer

December 6, 2019 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

How to Edit Your Own Short Story

Finding an editor can prove difficult and expensive, but if you go about it with tact and strategy, editing your short story yourself might yield good results. Though editing can be exhausting, there are a few strategies I find helpful when I write creatively.

Filed Under: Editing Tagged With: clarify, edit, Editing, editor, guide, how-to, publishing, reread, revise, revision, short story, tips, write, writers, writing

Hit the Trail: 50 Hikes Is Now Available!

By T. J. Carter @tjudsoncarter

May 10, 2018 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Hit the Trail: 50 Hikes Is Now Available!

This book is special to us because it’s more than just another book. It introduces Northwesterners to beautiful yet relatively unexplored areas in our backyard. It’s about showing people that these forests, which have been famously devastated by fire and logging, are now viable playgrounds for horseback riders, cyclists, hikers, and campers.

Filed Under: Start to Finish Tagged With: camping, conservation, Design, Editing, guide, hiking, history, Launch Event, plants, pub date, Ranger Station, Social Media, Summer, trees

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