{"id":6253,"date":"2019-10-05T22:06:25","date_gmt":"2019-10-05T22:06:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/on-line-interactivity.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/05\/six-weeks-to-sustained-self-promotion\/"},"modified":"2019-10-05T22:06:25","modified_gmt":"2019-10-05T22:06:25","slug":"six-weeks-to-sustained-self-promotion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/on-line-interactivity.com\/blog\/six-weeks-to-sustained-self-promotion\/","title":{"rendered":"Six Weeks To Sustained Self Promotion"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p><body>&#13;<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">&#13;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/on-line-interactivity.com\">&#13;<br \/>\n  <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/on-line-interactivity.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/abbtop.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"120\"\/><\/a><br \/><a 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class=\"style7\">&#13;<br \/>\n                <font color=\"#FB7014\" size=\"4\" face=\"Tahoma\">Six Weeks to Sustained Self-Promotion<\/font><\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n            <\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\" height=\"19\">\n<div align=\"justify\"><span class=\"style2\">by: &#13;<br \/>\n                <font size=\"3\" face=\"Times New Roman\" color=\"#FB7014\">Pamela White<\/font><\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n            <\/tr>\n<tr>\n<div id=\"article\">\n<td align=\"left\" height=\"12\"><span class=\"style2\">&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Writers write. &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p>Want more money? Then memorize this phrase: &#8220;Writers promote.&#8221;&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p>Think you don&#8217;t have time to organize a marketing plan for&#13;<br \/>\nyourself, your books, your website? Try this six-week plan to a sustained program of self-promotion and you, too, will find new friends who will help you, editors who approach you, and readers who will follow you throughout your writing career.&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p>Week One: Focus on online message boards and lists. Yahoo, MSN,&#13;<br \/>\nTopica and Smartgroups all have online discussion lists that you can&#13;<br \/>\nsearch by topic. Sign up, read past messages, then decide whether&#13;<br \/>\nyou&#8217;ll stay with the list or move on. Some lists have nothing but&#13;<br \/>\nspam messages; others are packed with information. Register with&#13;<br \/>\nmessage boards that focus on writing. Do the same with these as you&#13;<br \/>\ndid the lists. Choose at least five to participate in. Choose two&#13;<br \/>\ndays a week, at a minimum, on which you will send messages to the&#13;<br \/>\nlists. Be aware than many of the same writers will be on more than&#13;<br \/>\none list so don&#8217;t just write a canned message and send it to&#13;<br \/>\nall. Show that you&#8217;ve read previous messages &#8211; answer a question, ask&#13;<br \/>\na question, share a valuable link. Once in a while you can mention a&#13;<br \/>\nfavorable review or a &#8220;Hurray, I got the assignment&#8221; message.&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p>Week Two: Keep up your week one efforts. Study local newspapers,&#13;<br \/>\nboth daily and weekly. Investigate any magazines published for local&#13;<br \/>\nreaders. Keep a running list of local media contacts. Some of the&#13;<br \/>\nthings you should note: who is writing about food, what type of&#13;<br \/>\nstories are turned into juicy features, what kinds of announcements&#13;<br \/>\nrun in the business section, how many food articles are syndicated&#13;<br \/>\nfrom another source? This list of media contacts will save you time&#13;<br \/>\nwhen you have an article you want to write or you are seeking an&#13;<br \/>\narticle to be written about you, your business or your book.&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p>Week Three: Weeks one and two plus a trip to an office supply store.&#13;<br \/>\nBuy some great paper &#8211; matte, two-sided coated paper, color or&#13;<br \/>\nwhite. Write a brochure for yourself. Don&#8217;t feel it&#8217;s&#13;<br \/>\nappropriate for what you are writing about? Then design a business card and print it up. Or ask a graphic designer to create a unique look for&#13;<br \/>\nyour business card. I was at a business fair, manning the table for&#13;<br \/>\nmy employer at the time (a college), and I realized that I could&#13;<br \/>\nhave networked my own writing business if I&#8217;d only had a business&#13;<br \/>\ncard to hand over to the advertising and web design businesses. Get&#13;<br \/>\nsome business cards.&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p>Week Four: This is the week when you take your writing business on&#13;<br \/>\nthe road. Go to the local Chamber of Commerce&#8217;s Business After&#13;<br \/>\nHours event. Chat with people, and hand over a brochure or business&#13;<br \/>\ncard when you meet someone who can hire you, or who can connect you&#13;<br \/>\nwith a publisher or editor. Keep posting on those message boards and&#13;<br \/>\nlists; have fun with them.&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p>Week Five: Write a press release about your recent success. Did you&#13;<br \/>\npublish an article, finish a workshop, win an award, or open for&#13;<br \/>\nbusiness? Write your press release in third person as if you are&#13;<br \/>\nwriting an article. Send it to someone &#8211; your discussion list&#13;<br \/>\nbuddies for a critique, a local weekly that runs news releases&#13;<br \/>\nunedited to fill in the news holes, post it on your website&#13;<br \/>\n(don&#8217;t have a website \u0096 that&#8217;s what you can do on week seven). Need&#13;<br \/>\nhelp? Visit <a href=\"http:\/\/prwire.com\" target=\"new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">prwire.com<\/a> for advice on writing press releases.&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p>Week Six: Two tasks this week: This is the week you make contact&#13;<br \/>\nwith three new editors. Call the local food editor or features&#13;<br \/>\neditor and take him or her out to lunch. Email a magazine editor&#13;<br \/>\nwith an article pitch. Contact an online newsletter editor and see&#13;<br \/>\nif you can trade ad space for an article you&#8217;d love to write for&#13;<br \/>\nhim. Your second task is to subscribe to online newsletters for&#13;<br \/>\nwriters &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.writesuccess.com\" target=\"new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">www.writesuccess.com<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fundsforwriters.com\" target=\"new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">www.fundsforwriters.com<\/a> are only&#13;<br \/>\ntwo that consistently provide essential information for writers.&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p>Throughout these weeks, you should also be writing, researching&#13;<br \/>\nmarkets for publication, and submitting your work. Keep up with the&#13;<br \/>\nlist discussions. A great one for information and markets is&#13;<br \/>\n<a href=\"mailto:workforwriters@yahoogroups.com\">workforwriters@yahoogroups.com<\/a>.&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p>Keep up the good work &#8211; network with writers online and potential&#13;<br \/>\nclients and editors in person to sell yourself and your writing.&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p>****************************&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p>Free to reprint in all no-fee publications and websites. Please limit editing to corrections and the resource box at the end must be included.&#13;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<table width=\"100%\" cellpadding=\"8\" cellspacing=\"0\" border=\"0\" bgcolor=\"#dddddd\">\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><b>About The Author<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Pamela White is publisher of Food Writing, an online ezine for writers and food lovers. Visit her at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.food-writing.com\" target=\"new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">www.food-writing.com<\/a> . 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