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Creating another Facebook profile. Possible?
Just speculating. Want to create a new Facebook profile to start again with new personal followers and making contact with others.
Is it possible to create another Facebook profile using a different name? Or is it possible to use my Facebook page to contact possible new followers who are not yet connected to my page..? Is there a way this?
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Quite a few writers have author pages that are separate from their personal pages and are kept for their writing and book related items only.
But you need something to make them read your page when they get there.
Should I use create Adwords from google to assist, or do SEOs provide the same outcome? In which case, would something like keywords.io be useful and just how would you use it effectively..?
What's the point of a 'Look at me, I'm a writer' fb page if you never produce the writing it's supposed to be selling? What followers will you have? If they come there expecting you to promote your work, they will rapidly go away again when there's no work to promote.
I believe in the necessity to promote our 'product(s)' but not as the prime emphasis of our social media exposure. Join the sites, communicate, interact, but very rarely (my opinion) will someone read a Facebook post with a view to buying a product therefrom. (Sure, it happens, but it is generally an impulse purchase).
I think Lydia's energies would be better spent PRODUCING THE PRODUCT, and then promoting it through local bookshops, cafes, library signings; maybe a stand at a local market, and many other ways of 'softly' promoting our wares. We have to look at demographics: where is my best opportunity of reaching my audience. Lydia does have an awareness of this by recognising that 'Adwords' and 'SEO' will capture the correct demographic. BUT, capturing the correct demographic to a site that as Mrs B. so correctly says has NOTHING, is merely a wasted exercise and waste of money.
I do not write this so much for Lydia's benefit, because most on this forum have expressed the sentiment: Get the writing done! I write this for general viewers and readers who follow these threads for the express purpose of gathering information to pave the way to their own writing career.
So again, the best information is: Get the writing done!
Your presence on social media is like a stall with an array of enticing wares set out. In the physical world, this might equate to a market stall. Think how disappointing it would be for a customer to wander over only to see a few scraps of paper on the table scrawled with promises, and asking them to make the effort to come back on another occasion to see what's there.
You need to collect together everything you have that's 'good', ie, up to scratch, and see how it can benefit you by posting it. Don't release anything which is sub-standard.
Ultimately, you want snippets to lead to sales of your book, so the book has to be ready and available.
And also, we all remember your posts conferring accolades on your 'fiverr expert' for Facebook and other social media representations. What happened to her?