As a writer, maintaining a good online presence is an absolute necessity. Successful writing career are often built or broken by reputation.
So as a writer, you may be asking yourself, why should I be careful with what I put out there on the Internet? Here are several reasons you should have a good, professional online presence:
*Audience Building:
*Marketing
*Skill Development
*Networking
*Audience Building:
A Creative Writing Skill, is a skill that requires the presence of an audience. In this generation, audiences have moved from; kids gathered around an older individual listening to moonlit stories. Nowadays, with the advent of technology, there is an audience present everywhere.
The 21st century writer is not needed to be physically present to tell his/her story. There are several social media tools that have been developed in recent times; the blogging sites like Blogspot, Wordpress micro blogging sites such as Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn.
It has become somewhat mandatory for a writer to have an online presence to remain relevant to his/her followers.
For a blogging writer, his/her blogs will be their major form of online presence where they can share their pieces with the rest of the world. With the share buttons, their followers can share the pieces to their friends all over other platforms such as Twitter and Facebook. Online presence keeps a writer relevant to his/her followers.
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In this generation, a "good" writer that maintains a good online presence, is sure to make huge sales when he publishes a book more than that "better" writer that has got no presence online.
*MARKETING to be continued tomorrow stay glued.
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