La Counte Scott

Jumpstart Your Platform

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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 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.

So how do you build platform? In part one, you’ll see the three places most people start: blogs, Facebook, and Twitter. Part two gives a brief overview of how other social networks work; these include Google+, LinkedIn, Instagram, Goodreads, and Reddit.

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58 printed pages
Original publication
2017
Publication year
2017
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  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted2 years ago
    Many famous people have held an AMA (“ask me anything”) session—including President Barack Obama, Stephen Colbert, Ron Paul, and many others. President Obama’s AMA was so popular that the high amount of traffic shut down the website at times!
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted2 years ago
    Sign-Up Process

    To sign up for Reddit, visit www.reddit.com and click the Register link in top right. From here, create a user name, enter your email address and password, and hit enter (or click Create Account). Reddit is somewhat cryptic as to whether or not this process is as easy as it appears – trust us, though, it is! You don’t even need to enter an email address to register. Just choose a username and password, and you can get started right away!
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted2 years ago
    Reddit is a content aggregator, which means that users can submit links to content on the Internet that they find interesting. Other users of Reddit can then vote these links up or down, giving a good idea of what is popular at any given moment. Users can also comment on links that have been shared, and there is a very large and active community of commenters on the website. There are also “subreddits” that focus on individual categories, such as Technology, Movies, Politics, etc. so that users can quickly find trending topics in any field they might be interested in. Any user can create a subreddit on the topic of their choice, and can even make that subreddit private, making team collaboration for special projects easy!

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