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10 Rules When Making A Website

7/8/2019

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Make it professional. It’s been a long myth that you can get just as good of a website for free as you can for paid. Well, in reality, the first step in making it professional is investing is your own website domain. This makes it professional and yours, and not look like something a high school kid created. This also makes it easier to find. Compare www.(first name)(last name).com opposed to (first name)(last name).(weebly pr words press).com. The first is much shorter and easier to find and will also come up on top of search results. The other is harder to remember, longer, and often will not show up within the first 10 pages of search results. Your website means nothing if your audience can’t find you.
Keep it simple. Don’t load your landing page with every detail of your life and pages upon pages of information. Make it clean and easy to navigate. Utilize images in some places to help catch attention and direct your audience. If you have long articles or reviews put a quick tease on your landing page, but direct them to another page to read the whole thing to keep from cluttering up the landing page.
Make contacting you easy. You don’t need all your personal information and phone number on there, but a simple contact form can go a long way. Make it clean and simple such as subject, name, and comments on it. Also, test it first to make sure it works correctly before putting it up on your website and just assuming you’ll get the messages.
Navigation bar. Creating a navigation bar can really assist in making smooth transitions for your website visitors. Remember, they are like tourists entering your town for the first time and can get lost easily. Make sure there are plenty of ways they can find where they are going.
Simple colors and fonts. Keep things simple and consistent. Choose no more than three fonts and don’t mix them. Typically you’ll have a heading font, sub-heading font, and main text font. With colors choose a scheme of 2-3 to match your font. Make them easy to see and read. A page of all neon text of bright, hard on the eyes, and often overwhelming.
Golden 250. Each page of your website should contain at least 250 characters to ensure good descriptions and examples. To little text with a lot of images can be confusing for your visitors and to much text, unless it’s specifically a blog, can be overwhelming.
Marketing. Make sure you have a good marketing plan weather it is paid such as Google AdWords or organic growth from social media connections. Plan your growth and set targets. If you’re not hitting them, then refresh your plan.
Mobile friendly. In this day and age most people do things over their mobile device or tablet. This makes it extra important that our websites are mobile friendly. When setting up a website check reviews or similar sites to see if this site will be compatible. If you’re using a place that helps you create your own webpage, remember that not all of them are mobile friendly.
Social Media Links. Link it. All of it. This is the age everyone is connected so letting people add you and follow you easily on social media will make networking and growing your following easier.
Reviews. People listen more to reviews than anything else when trying to make a decision. Put your business reviews on your website. Don’t let them either. People will figure this out and it will reflect poorly on you.

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Mom’s Favorite Reads - The Magazine You Need

2/28/2019

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Mom’s Favorite reads has achieved something very special. They’ve produced a #1 selling magazine. March’s magazine is coming soon with many new articles, but there is still time to catch up on previous magazines. They’ve went out of their way to help authors promote and get out there to many people.

So, what all does this magazine have? Well let’s show you some things from February.

Read The Wireless Murder by Hannah Howe, the true story of Dr Crippen, FREE in Mom’s Favorite Reads, the international bestselling magazine.

“On 13 July 1910, Inspector Walter Dew of Scotland Yard called at 39 Hilldrop Crescent where, in the cellar, he found the remains of Cora Crippen. Married to Dr Hawley Harvey Crippen (pictured), a doctor of homeopathic medicines, Cora had been poisoned with hyoscine, the only time hyoscine has been used to commit murder.”

Love Hurts, so Why Would Anyone Read Romance? A fascinating insight into our reading habits by Val Tobin

Cross-cultural love, the heart of a happy relationship by Grant Leishman.

Any many more articles you’ll love. This is just the top of the iceberg. Mom’s Favorite Reads also has an online Amazon store made specially to promote the authors who contribute to the magazine. These are not just any authors. These are 5 star authors with wonderful books.

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10 days of Blog posts

1/13/2018

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What is keeping you from being fully honest in your person blog?
1. Spill your guts. Hook your reader. Be up front and honest. Afterwards make a promise to always be honest and your posts will soon become much more exciting.
What would you do if you won the lottery?
1. Don’t be boring. Open up to your deepest, darkest, and most unique desires.
What was the strangest sex dream you ever had?
1. Sex sells. Be open and honesty. Go into nitty gritty detail. Loop into your real life. Add some humor. Maybe say sorry to your husband for having naughty dream of Hugh Jackman.
Write a letter to your 5-year-old self.
1. Again, honestly counts. With this one get emotional. Make your readers feels your message.
What book most influenced your life?
1. You’re an author. Bring your books and other books into your blog. Start with this one and the go ahead and do some name dropping. But, don’t forget to name drop your own books as well here.
If you could change one thing about the world, what would it be?
1. Give your readers a better view into yourself. Unless it’s absolutely important, try and skirt around religion and politics (unless you’re a Christian author). The reason being is you want to hook a big audience and promote your books, not lose potential readers due to your views that may not play at all in your books. Try using hot phrases in this blog. Bring in current events. Make it current and promote the hell out of it.
Saddest and Happiest moment of your life was?
1. Again, get emotional. Start with the worst so that way you can give your readers a happy ending. Tell every gritty detail no matter how it hurt. Add visuals. Images hook readers far quicker than words.
Favorite character you’ve ever written was?
1. This is a big time name dropping chance, for yourself. Pick your favorite character and compare him/her/it to others you have written. Add in book titles as reference. Name drop a couple of other authors. Try to make them more local and add links to their websites to help promote them.
What super power would you like to have and why? What real world powers do you have?
1. Be honest, but don’t brag.
Things you are most grateful for?
1. Open up about yourself. Name drop your favorite book you wrote.

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Interview With Your Character

12/27/2017

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Sit down and pretend you’re interviewing a character from your novel. Document the best answers you think they would give in their voice and then write it out as if it really happened.

So, Imagine, you and your character are sitting down for a personal one on one interview. Chairs are comfy. The door is closed. You have a pad of paper, pen, and a list of questions. Some nice and some very naughty.

Questions:

Who was the last person you hugged?
Are you easy to get along with?
If you were drunk would the person you like take care of you?
Does talking about sex make you uncomfortable?
Do you have trust issues?
Do you like your neighborhood?
What are your bad habits?
Do you like bubble baths?
What part of your body would you change?
Would you rather live without TV or Music?
What do you do when you wake up?
Do you still think about your first crush?
What was your worst relationship?
Where was your best date?
The nicest thing you’ve done?
Do you play sports?
What celebrities would you have a three-some with?
What do you say during awkward silences?
Would you rather go to outer space or deep in the ocean?
What place would you want to travel to?
If you were locked up with someone for the rest of your life, who would it be?
What is your favorite food?
What are your paranoid about?
Worst way to die?
One person you’d bring back from the dead?

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10 Rules When Making A Website

Mom’s Favorite Reads - The Magazine You Need

10 days of Blog posts

Interview With Your Character

About Our Blog

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Past Blogs

Get Published...
How to..
And More.