If you're not a graphic designer, I suggest making friends with one. Graphic designers are lovely people to know, and even lovlier people when they owe you favors, so be nice to them!
If you are a graphic designer or would like to try your hand at being one, I think having a really cool banner for all your forum posting is an awesome promotional tool. You can even use it to append to your email in your signature. Here's a tutorial on how to make an animated banner with Adobe Photoshop and Adobe ImageReady: Step by step guide to animate a banner which has been created in Adobe Photoshop
I made these in about an hour each:
(I know, I'm totally awesome.) (If you're not a graphic designer but you still want a banner, try this.)
Now, though, you need places to chat where you can use your spiffy banner (rated with Google page rank to the left of each forum for chat/main page):
5/6 Message Boards at Romantic Times
4/4 Diva Forum at Romance Divas
3/0 Janny Wurts chat area
2/5 Otherworld Forums at KellyArmstrong.com
2/4 SUITE Mag Forums at SuiteMag.com
1/4 Cata Network Message Boards at ECataromance
0/4 The Chatter Box at Romance Reader at Heart
0/0 Writer's News Message Board at All About Romance
Give me your favorite message boards in the comments and I'll add them to the list! Thanks!
Sonja Foust
Author of LOVE IN SHADOW (The Wild Rose Press)
Welcome to Promo-Ho.com!
You've just sold your first eBook. Congratulations! Um, hate to slap you with the wet fish of reality, but do you know who your marketing team will be for this book? That's right, it's YOU, boss! Count on your publisher to hand you a contract and a snazzy bookcover, and after that, it's all you. I'm an eBook author myself, and I'm here to help you navigate through the terrifying world of internet self-promotion. Take your time clicking through the topics on the left, and drop a note in the ho bag if you have a suggestion for new content!
Tuesday, February 27, 2007
Being Chatty
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Awesome job, Sonja! 8^) I've got to make me some of those. Hee hee! Seriously, I do. It's right up there with the website WIP. Sigh.
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