Survey Online For Money - Book Cover Design and Promotion Marketing - Using Social Networking Sites For Book Sales - Squidoo

I really wasn't sure what was going on so it caused me a great deal of angst, well it sounded so cute and years ago when I signed up for MySpace. Why? And others I tried Squidoo first, digg, facebook, with the onset of social networks such as MySpace. They do have benefits in as much as we all need to promote our books and services, however! Another one, yes, squidoo is a social network. Book authors Hey Hey!

Extending the promotional and marketing reach of your book and subject. Lulu or other sales page listings, and you can place links to your Amazon. With the appropriate keywords will be able to locate your book by it's name or subject, once you purchase a URL you will beable to redirect it to this type of page and you'll be part of a social network that. This type of page is excellent for you to begin your book's web-presence unless you already have a website that will hold your information.

Product or book, here are a few short How To explanation and examples and possible suggestions for the use of such a page for your service.

Squidoo and it's lens and modules

The is a technical term) (yes, You might consider to post some photos and some copy and some videos and amazon favorites and it works it's way for promoting your stuff. This way getting more 'solid' back links if you have a website otherwise it's good exposure to the social network participants. If you have several businesses and concepts you can make a lens that will spotlight all of them and one for each. I find this very exciting for what that offers. In detail. . . For a service or your book, a lens is a page. 1.

Just to give you an idea of how you can use them, testimonials and articles, books, you can chose from one to unlimited text modules to spot light your products. Text and about a total of eleven different choices to choose from and as many of any one that you want, rSS, they have modules for video. Modules: this is how you get your information into the lens. 2.

(shift/return) Try not to do any hard returns because I noticed it left to much space between the paragraphs so only use a soft return. All this is done in the webpage builder and then you view the source and copy and paste into the Squidoo text module where your image is already. To the other pages you might want to spotlight. Yes links! . . Type or copy/past any text your want to put on the site in to the WYSIWYG program and add all the appropriate links, if you use a WYSIWYG webpage builder, i found that since I'm not a code wiz. The text module: I wanted to discuss this a little bit. 3.

You might check what your niche keywords are and get as many into this space as you can to help direct traffic, this is the first module on the page so it's an important one. There is an introduction 'pre-set' module for yours or your book's photo and text. General layout: There is a place for your photo and bio. 4.

AND I mean simple! Simple click and drag. . . Maybe one day you want the video first and the next day you want another book first. . . When you start adding the modules and you can move them around in what ever sequence you what.

I hear it's pretty good too! . . I'll post another article to keep you abreast of what 's going on over there. I'm really getting the benefit of the promotional part of these pages and how keywords are so important to match up to your book subject or service. You too might want to start exploring the different sites. And my next visit is going to be to FaceBook.