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6 Promoting Tools Every Writer Should be Using, You've Probably Never Heard of #5!

Every now and then I like to share new tools I have found with my fellow writers. Lately, I’ve been doing a lot of promoting and found a few things that work and a lot that don’t much. I’ll skip over the bad ones, you’ll find them easily enough. Here are some great tools you should be adding to your repertoire! You can find them on Twitter,  or visit their website, Copromote.com for some great promotional juice! It is a sharing network, where you choose topics of interest to you and your audience, then, share them! It works on Twitter, YouTube, Tumblr and Instagram and the results are almost instant!

PRO TIP: If you boost a post, make a note to  go back each day and use your max free shares to promote other content, to boost your post even higher. This great list of promotional sites

There are a lot of lists out there of places to share free and discounted books for free, or on a subscription service. The problem with many of them is that they were written five years ago and half the sites have either closed up shop, or don’t have the options the list claims. Here is a great list that is updated and accurate for the most part. It also shows you the main features of each site to save you time.

PRO TIP: If you sign up for a free account, you can save the list, with your selected sites marked, to save time the next time. It’s not a very catchy name, but this little site actually did what they said they would do. Although I have not tried their premium services myself, I recommend this a good place to start, since I saw some good results from their limited free promotions.

PRO TIP: Find and RT every post from Contentmo,  it will get you new followers, replies and likes. This is what Buffer used to be before they morphed themselves into a cross platform social media automation dashboard. It’s a Twitter automator that allows you to easily share content on a schedule you choose. It’s free, it’s easy and if you are doing nothing for Twitter posting, this is a good start.

PRO TIP: Use Twuffer to fill those times of day when you are busy elsewhere, and be sure to check and respond to engagement on your posts! I cannot express how much this tool has helped me! Because of the amazing background tools it has, that no other dashboard has (I’ve tried most of them, except for the uber expensive “enterprise” scale dashboards) and it works!

**Full disclosure, I did sign up as an affiliate, so I make a bit off of each signup here, but if you can’t see the value, I’ll gladly pay you back, even though that’s not part of the company’s plan** This one surprised me. I’ve had a profile there since it started and fed a little bit of content there automatically, but I haven’t spent any time on it at all. I literally just now familiarized myself with the platform enough to get how it works. I get almost instant blog traffic and downloads on freebies with a few minutes of posting and I’m convinced that will grow as my audience increases. If you have a Google account, for Gmail, or any other Google tool, you have a profile, do yourself a favor and optimize it.

PRO TIP: Don’t give up on audience building. It took about a week of regular posting to see the “followers” number start to rise, now it’s up daily a bit more.

Get out and explore

For those of us who have been kicking around online since the 90s, hunting down the tools we need is second nature. If you don’t know, you find the most useful step behind page one, because that’s how it works. Scroll down further, especially if looking for good “free” tools, and you’ll be amazed what you find.
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