Products for Writers
Organization
Evernote
Evernote is a cross-platform, app designed for note taking, organizing, and archiving. The app allows users to create a “note” which can be a piece of formatted text, a full webpage or webpage excerpt, a photograph, a voice memo, or a handwritten “ink” note. Notes can also have file attachments. Notebooks can be added to a stack while notes can be sorted into a notebook, tagged, annotated, edited, given comments, searched, and exported as part of a notebook. I highly recommend this site. Click here to use Evernote.
Writing
Scrivener is a word-processing program and outliner designed for authors. It provides a management system for documents, notes and metadata. This allows the user to organize notes, concepts, research and whole documents for easy access and reference (documents including rich text, images, PDF, audio, video, web pages, etc.). Scrivener offers templates for screenplays, fiction, and non-fiction manuscripts. Because of its breadth of interfaces and features, it has positioned itself not only as a word processor, but as a project management tool for writers. I use this product and highly recommend it.
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Click here to use buy Scrivener for Mac.
Click here to buy Scrivener for Windows.
Dragon Naturally Speaking
Dragon Naturally Speaking is a great product for those of you who want to dictate your novel as it is happening in your head without having a real human to do it. It boosts your personal productivity by allowing you to create, format and edit documents by voice. Click here to buy Dragon Naturally Speaking.
Publishing
Reddsy
Reedsy is a company that provides all the services a publishing company does. The website is very easy to use and writers can choose from a talent pool of 200 editors, copy editors and cover illustrators who were selected from a list of over 2,000 applicants. Reedsy is highly selective and only provides the best for their writers, some of their free lancers even worked on New York Times best sellers. So it makes sense that they are an affiliate of ours. I used Reedsy to find my editor and I highly recommend the service. Click here to use Reedsy.
KindleSpy
KindleSpy reverse engineers the best sellers in Kindle Marketplace to reveal the best niches within which to market your book. In mere seconds, you’ll know the landscape of that category and the potential profit you could make here, along with a breakdown of each individual books performance. I use Kindle Spy. It’s inexpensive and easy to use. I use it and recommend it. Click here to get KindleSpy.
Kindle Samurai
Kindle Samurai allows you to analyze your competition by doing keyword research on Amazon. With Kindle Samurai you’ll get the total number of books that currently show up in Amazon’s search for the keyword that you are analyzing, how many reviews your competitors are getting, the average price of your competitor’s book books and a wide variety of other things that are essential to know when publishing your book. It’s inexpensive and easy to use. I use it and recommend it. Click here to get Kindle Samurai.
Marketing
Site Build It!
Your website is the foundation of all your marketing efforts. But, if you don’t know how to build a website let alone drive traffic to it, it can be enough to stop you in your tracks. Fortunately there’s Site Build It, or SBI for short. They showed me not only how to build a website but how to build one that attracts visitors. They have an easy to understand step by step process that I used to build the first version of e-novel-advisor. Whether you know what you are doing but still need some help or know absolutely nothing about websites and internet marketing you will find the help you are looking for here. I’m really fond of this company, had a great experience with them and highly recommend them.
To create a professional website with SBI, click here.
Or, if you prefer to use Word Press click here to get SBI for Word Press
Twitter is an online social networking service that enables users to send and read short 140-character messages called “tweets”. Registered users can read and post tweets, but those who are unregistered can only read them. This is a great medium for driving traffic to your website. Click here to start using Twitter.
Facebook
Facebook allows you to connect with friends, family and other people you know. Share photos and videos, send messages and get updates. As Amazon is the 800 pound gorilla for book stores Facebook is for social media. You need a facebook page to help drive traffic to your website. Click here to start using Facebook.
Instagram
Instagram is an online mobile photo-sharing, video-sharing, and social networking service that enables its users to take pictures and videos, and share them either publicly or privately on the app, as well as through a variety of other social networking platforms, such as Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, and Flickr. Click here to start using Instagram.
YouTube
You tube is a global video-sharing website that is becoming more and more important to social media marketing every day. Videos are a great way to drive traffic to your website. Click here to start using You Tube.
Myvacloud.com
www.myvacloud.com Digital Marketing & Virtual Assistant Services for Authors created by Tracy Kelly. The Team at My VA Cloud worked on all aspects of brand development for www.enoveladvisor.com Word press Website and Forum, Logo, Graphic Design, Social Media Banners, Newsletters, Social Media Management, Video Marketing, SEO and a wide range of services outlined below.I can’t recommend Tracy and Myvacloud.com enough. If you are having trouble launching your career she will get you to where you want to go.
Contact Tracy for a Free 30 Min Consultation; Email; tkelly@myvacloud.com for the following services; Website Design & Mgmt, Logo, Book Cover Design, Video Marketing, Book Trailers, Social Media Community Management, Graphic Design, Unique Video Creation, Virtual Book Tours, Webinars, Podcasts, IT Support & Training, Research, Project Mgmt, Proof Reading, Admin and Much more….
Book trailer making equipment
Wondering what to put on your website and the other social media links above? How about a book trailer? Book trailers are single tactic in your overall marketing strategy. They will not make or break your marketing efforts but, with a comprehensive marketing strategy in place they are an added benefit to your efforts.
They can be expensive so you may want to make your own. Below is a list of the equipment I use to make my videos.
Camtasia
Camtasia lets you record a video of what’s on your computer screen. Use it to make lessons, tutorials, or product demos. Turn your screen recordings into compelling videos with Camtasia’s video editing tools, animations, and effects. Click here to buy Camtasia.
Video Maker FX
Video Maker FX tool allows users to create animation, special effects, and graphics easily and quickly, even if the user has never edited videos before. I create video clips using this software and drag and drop them into Camtasia for editing. Click here to buy Video Maker FX.
Video Blocks
Video Blocks has stock footage that you can use in developing your book trailer. Simply download the clip and edit in Camtasia. Click here to get Video Blocks.
If you don’t have the time or inclination to make your own book trailer you may just want to pay someone to do it for you.
Visual Quill
Visual Quill is an award-winning creative studio designed with the needs of authors and publishers in mind. They can help your books stand out in a crowded market with professional book covers, unique websites, and innovative, sharable book trailers. Click here to get a professionally designed book trailer from Visual Quill.