Here is my promo tweet for the day. The rest of the pictures in this article are ugly, so I'm just sticking this in for effect. (wink) Now on to business...
Why Should You Pin a Promo Tweet Daily?
Let's say I retweet you. I might, I retweet a lot of authors, particularly in the Urban Fantasy and similar genres, because my readers like that. Anyway, curious person that you are, you go to my Twitter profile to check me out. The very first thing you see is my pinned promo tweet. There is it, in full color, pinned right to the top of my Twitter profile page. You don't have to scroll through pages and pages of retweets. You can easily thank me for retweeting you by retweeting me back. I love that by-the-way.
Now let's say you retweet me. I, reciprocal retweeter that I am, go to your Twitter profile page. I scroll through pages and pages of retweets and can't find your promo tweet. I leave dissatisfied and you just lost a retweet. Missed business opportunity...
Don't do that! Pin a new promo tweet daily to your Twitter profile! Why daily? Because once I retweet it, I can't retweet it again, unless I unretweet it first.
How to Pin Your Tweet
1) Tweet it. Clearly it has to exist before it can be pinned.
2) Find it. Look in your Tweet feed.
3) Click on the "..." link or the "More" link (depending on if you opened the tweet or not.
4) Select "Pin to your profile page."
Devices
The only bad news about this is that you can't do it from many phones. I hear that you can do it on I-phones, but I'm not too technical, so I can't guarantee anything. Check it out.
This will make it so much easier for authors who want to reciprocate and for your fans to retweet you. Including me!
If you found this article helpful, feel free to go to my profile and retweet my current promo. It will be easy to find, I promise you that. (Smile)
https://twitter.com/Lilo_Abernathy
Lilo
My news is short and sweet. So short it is hardly deserving of a blog post, but I must mark the moment.
Today, The Light Who Shines hit 4.9 stars on Amazon!
I am so excited; naturally I'm doing the HAPPY DANCE! However, I'm writing this post with some trepidation. I worry that sharing this great news will inspire a troll to leave a bad review. Even knowing the risk, I'm braving it because I think, I hope, that most of those who read this will just be happy for me, and with me.
Part of what amazes me about this is I know my book isn't perfect. I know of at least two editing errors remaining, and I just paid for another round of proofing and editing to tighten it. I have the changes, but I haven't reviewed and pushed them yet. Still, the book seems to make people happy, as is.
I'm also a realist and can't expect the rating to stay this high as it continues to expand it's reach. Right now I've sold 871 copies and I've received 61 reviews. I attribute some of that rating to the fact that I've marketed it to the correct genre audience. Eventually, people outside of my target audience will read it and I can't expect such good reviews from the expanded crowd.
For now, I'm going to try to bask in the glory. I'm not really a basking kind of person, so we will see how that goes.
Best,
Lilo
Amazon Link: http://amzn.to/VGJHL3
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Note: I've corrected this post. Previously, I stated that I'd sold between 300 - 500 copies. I just did an actual count and it is much higher than I had thought. I've corrected it to 871 based on my sales reports.
