This is a guest post by Kate Thora. Kate is a Senior Content Specialist for BizSet.com – an online database of company information. In her free time, she loves to catch up with the newest trends on her favorite industry blogs.

7 Ways to Direct Traffic from Facebook To Your Blog

Everyone talks about the benefits of social media marketing. And, without doubt, it’s really important to any enterprise. But unless you’re harnessing your social media pages to meet your ultimate objectives, you’re wasting a lot of time and energy posting on them.

Nevertheless, if your aim is to direct traffic to your blog, there are plenty of ways to achieve this. Here we look at one of the most popular social media platforms, Facebook, and discuss seven ways to direct traffic from Facebook to your blog.

1. Craft Your Post Taglines

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You’ve probably spent a fair amount of…

By Joan Stewart  on The Book Designer:

If you’re like most authors, the long process of writing and publishing your book feels like you’ve crossed the finish line after running a marathon.

But unlike a road race, you’re not done.

The success of your book depends on approaching people, companies and groups and asking for their help to publicize, promote and sell it.

This is called pitching.

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The Secret Women of The American Civil War – To Make America Great!

Women on both sides of the American Civil War took on ‘Secret Identities’ and changed their Appearances to Fight alongside male soldiers in America’s Bloodiest Battles for what it was ‘Worth’.

Taking on these identities gave these ‘countless’ women freedom they usually would never enjoy. Women’s Suffrage, still well over fifty years away, these women could manage a male monthly income with freedom only a male soldier could enjoy. These identities these women took on, kept up long after the war was over, and some even kept their male identities until the day they died and still made impacts to their very cause.

One strong motivation for this new male soldier role-play was brand new Adventures never allowed enjoyed before, although primarily their deep personal reasons were simply money they never experienced.

Average soldier income was…

By Michael Mohr  on The Creative Penn:

Memoir is much more than just writing down an aspect of your life story. 

Intro by Joanna Penn:

In fact, if you do that, it’s unlikely that anyone will read it. Because people want a character they can empathize with and a narrative arc that follows a transformation, as well as immersive setting and emotion that help them live within the story.

All aspects of writing fiction. 

In today’s article, Michael Mohr explains some tips for using fiction techniques in your memoir.

Memoir should be written very much like a novel

I’ve featured a number of very talented writers in this slot over the past few weeks. And I’m on the lookout for more of you!  If you’d like your writing to appear on this page, please contact me here or by e-mail: estherchilton@gmail.com. I accept stories, poems, articles – in fact, anything and everything. All you have to do is make sure your prose is no longer than 2000 words and your poems no more than 40 lines.

I look forward to hearing from you.

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Or just try something new?

Why not write a guest post?

Promotion, especially for authors, can be difficult and finding the right opportunities at the right price is not easy. Free is always good, especially when you know the sites you are writing for have the potential to reach a wide range and number of new readers.

I like to host a guest post in the five pm slot every day whenever I can and previous guests are always welcome for a return visit. Nor am I alone in seeking guests. There are any number of bloggers out there who are always happy to…