

The Art of Narrative: Stream of Consciousness
[A repeat of a popular article which appeared some years ago in this blog.] * for American readers, the ‘football’ to which this article...


'Oh no! Not Marketing again! Do I have to?' Part Nineteen: How to Talk to Your Warm Prospects
So let’s assume that you have set up a social media group based on a general topic in which you are fascinated, and which is connected to...


'Oh no! Not Marketing again! Do I have to?' Part Seventeen: Farming Your Public
You’re probably going to think that I have wandered off the subject of organic marketing here, but it’s in order to make real an analogy...


'Oh no! Not Marketing again! Do I have to?' Part Sixteen: Creating Your Own Audience
Modern culture is made up of some core concepts, one of which is the idea that the mind is made up of two ‘halves’, the conscious and the...


'Oh no! Not Marketing again! Do I have to?' Part Fifteen: Organic Marketing: An Average Day
So what does an average day look like for a writer who wants to undertake organic marketing? Obviously, the pattern of an individual day...


'Oh no! Not Marketing again! Do I have to?' Part Fourteen: How To Run A Facebook Group That Works
Using our Marketing Mantra, we can effectively set up a profitable writing career. But the fact that it is a ‘mantra’ doesn’t mean that...


'Oh no! Not Marketing again! Do I have to?' Part Thirteen: More on the Marketing Mantra
Let’s take a closer look at the Marketing Mantra that we mentioned last time: Attract generally; attract specifically; engage fully;...


'Oh no! Not Marketing again! Do I have to?' Part Twelve: A Marketing Mantra
There’s a little voice in our heads which questions everything, analyses everything, and often jumps to conclusions. When we are browsing...


'Oh no! Not Marketing again! Do I have to?' Part Eleven: Seven Aspects We All Possess
We’ve been talking about using social media groups as a marketing tool — a marvellous one, unavailable to earlier generations — to gather...

