Another great way to invite readers to spread the word about your book is to implement “pre-fabricated” tweets, where you choose the text from your books manuscript (similar to a link). You can set up this clever feature in your blog posts or website pages, for example in the first 10 percent of your e-book, in the middle, and at the end.
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To implement pre-worded tweets use a website called “Click to Tweet“, and make it easy for your readers and followers to recommend your books on social media or on reader communities, such as Goodreads or LibraryThing. And don’t forget to add this code into your LinkedIn articles! Your readers only have to make one click, which is so much easier than to type a text and add a link to it.
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As you have already a sales page on Amazon you can add the URL in your tweet form. Here is an example of the code for a useful guide- book for authors, how to create a book trailer that we published a while ago:
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<a target=”_blank” href=”http://ctt.ec/Rsd37″><img src=”http://clicktotweet.com/img/tweet-graphic-1.png” alt=”Tweet: Tweet: 111 Tips to Create Your Book Trailer” /></a>
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Once you are signed up at “Click to Tweet” it will show up as ready-to-send-tweet.
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Everything in this HTML Text is already “pre-fabricated”, you only have to add your title. And best of all: you will receive the statistics for your tweet, as announced:
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Here is a great video that shows you how to implement the tweet to your text. “Click to Tweet” is not only a great tool to spread the word about your book, it should also be implemented in each of your blog articles or in your website.
More about this at YourWriterPlatform @clicktotweet
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BlogTyrant Writes:
“Use a website called “Click to Tweet”. All you do is enter your quote in the box on the right and then click “generate link”. You then use the URL that they give you as the destination for your anchor text. You can add these at any part of your post, it doesn’t have to be a block quote. It could just be a cool little phrase you use to sum up a paragraph or article. Make sure you make the quote short enough to allow people to retweet it within Twitter itself and make sure you include a tiny URL of the post where the quote came from.”
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You will realize that the number of tweets about your books or other text skyrockets! Another way to use tweets: Let readers “Pay with a Tweet“. Instead of giving your book away for free, let your readers promote your book first before you give it away – which means more free promotion and exposure for your book. Read all the details in this article. Who needs KDP Select free days anymore…? You can do this even from your own blog or website.
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What, How and When to Feed Your Tweet
The important point with Twitter is to choose your passion, the topic you want to talk about and also to have a brand. You certainly can send the occasional tweet about something completely different, but for the most part stick to your brand.
There is so much relevant content you can use on a daily basis:
How often should you tweet?
Unless you have millions of followers, the chances that a lot of people will see all your tweets and click on links are very small. The number of followers and the tweeting frequency should match. As no one is 24/7 on Twitter, you might have to send your posts two or three times a day, maybe in the morning, around noon time and early evening – if you have already a healthy following in the thousands. As more followers you have (ten thousands!) and the more you want to build a brand, the more you should tweet – however limit it to not more than once the same tweet per hour.
Tools to automate tweets & save time
Automate your tweets so that you don’t have to sit in front of the computer all day long. There are three tools you can use: Twitterfeed, TwitterAdder and Twaitter. They are slightly different and they serve different purposes.
Twitterfeed
Twitterfeed.com feeds your blog to Twitter, Facebook etc. A YouTube video shows you step by step how to start Twitter feeds, however there are approx. twenty more videos to watch on YouTube.
TwitterAdder
TweetAdder.com will help you – for a fee. However they offer you up to 250 tweets and 250 followers for free – plus when you watch this tutorial (Promo code: DISCOUNT20) you will receive 20% off Tweetadder 3.0. You name a Twitter account, and it will find all the followers of that person. It will then (over time) automatically follow these people for you, on the basis that a lot will follow back – if you have made your Twitter personal info interesting enough – and if you twitter interestingly enough.
Twaitter / Gremln
Twaitter.com – now Gremln is a free product that allows you to schedule your own tweets (up to 20 an hour) on a single or recurring basis. The process is very easy. You will also find Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn integration, detailed analytics, customizable dashboards, stunning reports, multi-user management, and a whole lot more.
Link your blog to Twitterfeed, Twaitter (Gremln) or TwitterAdder
Every time your blog – or website for that matter – has something new it will get sent to Twitter. The other two options, Twaitter and TwitterAdder are where you should put all your best blog posts. When you’ve built up thirty or fifty blog posts, you will have a handful of favorites that you would like to recommend others to read. Post the links in Twaitter or TwitterAdder and schedule them (recurring).
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Monitor your traffic
With the increased flow of tweets you will get more replies from people. Be prepared to answer them! You’re also going to have to carefully monitor the traffic that’s flowing to your blog. This is the only way to understand which of your tweets are working and which are not.
Using the analytics on your blog you can see how many hits you are getting. What time of day do you not get any visitors? When do you get peak traffic? Re-arrange tweets to try and even things out a little. Then try new things. Maybe a few video blogs on YouTube, or a series of special blog posts that you can link to again and again. Over time, you can get others to discover you and getting them to re-tweet your posts.
Building your brand on Twitter – or any other social media site doesn’t work overnight. It takes time and as earlier you start as better for you as an author. You will want to have a big following BEFORE your book is finished in order to have a great start when launching your work.
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