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    Jumpstart Your Platform: A Beginners Guide to Finding Your Audience Through Social Media
    Jumpstart Your Platform: A Beginners Guide to Finding Your Audience Through Social Media
    Jumpstart Your Platform: A Beginners Guide to Finding Your Audience Through Social Media
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    Jumpstart Your Platform: A Beginners Guide to Finding Your Audience Through Social Media

    By Scott La Counte

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    Platform. It can make or break a writer. If you have it, then get ready for publishers to offer you contracts; and if you don’t? Let me kindly introduce you to the slush pile.

    Whether you are a writer or another kind of content provider, there is one universal truth: you need platform. Most writers put all their effort into writing

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPiracyTrace, Inc.
    Release dateMar 16, 2017
    ISBN9781621072492
    Jumpstart Your Platform: A Beginners Guide to Finding Your Audience Through Social Media

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      Jumpstart Your Platform - Scott La Counte

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      JUMPSTART

      YOUR

      PLATFORM

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      A BEGINNERS GUIDE TO FINDING YOUR AUDIENCE THROUGH SOCIAL MEDIA

      BY SCOTT LA COUNTE

      BuzzTrace Publications

      www.BuzzTrace.com

      ANAHEIM, CALIFORNIA

      Copyright © 2017 by PiracyTrace, Inc.

      All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, distributed or transmitted in any form or by any means, including photocopying, recording, or other electronic or mechanical methods, without the prior written permission of the publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical reviews and certain other noncommercial uses permitted by copyright law.

      Table of Contents

      About BuzzTrace Publications 5
      What Is Platform Anyway? 7
      A Beginners Guide to Finding Your Followers 11
      A Beginners Guide to Telling Your Story 17
      Do People Still Read Blogs? 25
      Google’s Desperate Attempt to Be Facebook 31
      Who Should Use It 31
      Sign-Up Process 32
      Crash Course in Google+ 33
      Does Linkedin Work for my Platform? 39
      Who Should Use It 39
      Sign-Up Process 39
      Crash Course in LinkedIn 40
      Connecting with LinkedIn 42
      Build Your Platform One Picture At a Time 46
      Who Should Use It 46
      Sign-Up Process 47
      Crash Course in Instagram 47
      Books Connecting People 51
      Who Should Use It 51
      Sign-Up Process 51
      Crash Course in Goodreads 52
      Adding Books to Goodreads 52
      Friends in Goodreads 54
      Exploring Books in Goodreads 57
      Other Features in Goodreads 57
      Social News Aggregation 59
      Who Should Use It 59
      Sign-Up Process 60
      Crash Course in Reddit 60
      Navigating Reddit 61
      Subreddits 63
      Submitting to Reddit 64
      Users and Karma in Reddit 64
      Rules and Reddiquette 65
      Preferences 66
      Getting more information 66
      About the Author 67

      ABOUT BUZZTRACE PUBLICATIONS

      BuzzTrace Publications is the publishing arm of BuzzTrace.com—online software to help writers and other content creators build, maintain and protect their platform. If you’d like to create a free account and grow your online presence, go to BuzzTrace.com.

      INTRODUCTION

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      WHAT IS PLATFORM ANYWAY?

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      latform. It can make or break a writer. If you have it, then get ready for publishers to offer you contracts; and if you don’t? Let me kindly introduce you to the slush pile.

      Whether you are a writer or another kind of content provider, there is one universal truth: you need platform. Most writers put all their effort into writing their book and haven’t thought at all about their platform. In fact if you asked most new writers what their platform is, they will probably reply with a blank stare and a follow up question: what’s platform?

      If that person is you and you’re sitting here reading and wondering what platform is...platform is your message and the people who will buy your message. This book is geared at authors, but platform and how to build it is the same no matter who you are—be it a musician, a business, or a motivational speaker.

      Publishers want to know you’re an author who already has a proven market and they won’t have to work hard to sell your book—they want low risk with high return. So when they ask what your platform is, what they really want to know is what your message is and how many people are already buying into that message. Think of yourself on a stage with a podium and a mic—your platform is the message you are delivering to all the people in front of you; the bigger the audience the bigger your platform is.

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