Comments on: If You Build It, They Won’t Come: A Guide to Author Websites

By: Social Media 123 | catchthesun.net

Social Media 123 | catchthesun.net — Wed, 25 May 2011 19:35:51 +0000

[...] If You Build it They Won’t Come: a guide to author websites, by Laura Hazard Owen in the Publishing Trends blog contains advice and insights on using social media. [...]

By: Social Media 123 « textbookeditor

Social Media 123 « textbookeditor — Sun, 22 May 2011 02:12:15 +0000

[...] If You Build it They Won’t Come: a guide to author websites, by Laura Hazard Owen in the Publishing Trends blog contains advice and insights on using social media. [...]

By: Elements of a Great Author Website: Links « Virtual Breadwinner

Elements of a Great Author Website: Links « Virtual Breadwinner — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 18:50:05 +0000

[...] and you give them a brief blurb about why you are recommending they read it. For example, “If You Build It, They Won’t Come: A Guide to Author Websites is an informative website about what makes an author website successful. ” These kinds of [...]

By: Kommunikation

Kommunikation — Tue, 11 May 2010 09:04:05 +0000

[...] last category you can use to “make your website sticky” is communication. Start to get in touch with your visitor, I don’t mean you have to chat [...]

By: multimedia

multimedia — Mon, 03 May 2010 20:52:22 +0000

[...] you have a visitor on your site, but “it’s not just to get readers to visit an author site once, but to keep them to coming back.” Actually we don’t just want that readers come back, but also that they tell others about [...]

By: eeleenlee

eeleenlee — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 08:27:08 +0000

You could paraphrase the title to ‘if you blog it, they will come’
However, websites and blogs complement each other, no harm in setting up both

By: The Data Is Coming! — Publishing Trends

The Data Is Coming! — Publishing Trends — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 16:38:34 +0000

[...] surveys Borders customers to discover about genre, author, and jacket preferences (see our coverage here, here, and here); Bowker’s PubTrack, which partners with MarketTools, Inc. to conduct surveys; [...]

By: 6 Things Readers Want from Your Author Website | Author Tech Tips

6 Things Readers Want from Your Author Website | Author Tech Tips — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:25:53 +0000

[...] of respondents to the Codex Group Survey want exclusive online [...]

By: I’m Gonna Go With ‘Well, d’uh!’ « Angela Slatter

I’m Gonna Go With ‘Well, d’uh!’ « Angela Slatter — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 08:11:16 +0000

[...] If You Build It, They Won’t Come: A Guide to Author Websites over at Publishing Trends http://www.publishingtrends.com/2008/12/if-you-build-it-they-wont-come-a-guide-to-author-websites/ brings sobering news for the Luddites among us … and it’s [...]

By: Promotion, Agents, Websites & Librarians | RWA-WF

Promotion, Agents, Websites & Librarians | RWA-WF — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 15:01:14 +0000

[...] If You Build It, They Won’t Come: A Guide to Author Websites is a GREAT article on websites. It gives percentages of what readers want in a website. And on how a website helps sell books. Did you know “Book shoppers who had visited an author website in the past week bought 38% more books, from a wider range of retailers, than those who had not visited an author site”? Neither did I, until I read the article. [...]