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Turn Your Words into Social Posts that Attract

Turn Your Words into Images

Today, we’re going to turn your words into images that you can post. I did a selection of quotes about writing. I met Lisa See when she was on a book tour at the Sonoma Valley Library. I selected her quote, copied the text.

Next stop, Canva.com

I selected a template for a Facebook post and paste her quote into the Canva frame. I’d like a background that would work with this idea. I use the element of a little typewriter, which could be your logo.

I searched in Canva and I found a background I really liked, water.

Add your website to the image.

Change colors and fonts to match your branding.

Turn words into Social Posts

In a few clicks I created a template. You can duplicate pages and make changes. In this case it is easy to adjust each of the quote images. I changed the background, the color of the text, and I kept the elements that I want to be on each of the images.

You can go through your book and pick a quote from each chapter or perhaps use the titles of your chapters for your designs. Develop your unique template from scratch or start with one of the templates in the Canva program.

You could quickly and easily create 5, 6, 10, 20 graphics using your words and branding for posting in just a few minutes.

Download Your Images from Canva

The next step I take is to download, the images. I suggest you name each of your pages with identifiable names.

You can publish directly to Facebook from Canva, but I tend not to do that because I want to control what I’m doing and where I’m posting.

I downloaded all three of images in a zip file. I’m going to be putting the images on Facebook, (https://facebook.com/bookmarketingmentor).
I posted the Lisa See and Terry Pratchett quotes.

Words into Social Posts for Fast and Easy Posting

That is how quickly and easily you can get your words out to your audience and become the master of your social channels. I would love to see how you are turning your words into social posts.

Judy Baker Book Marketing Mentor. I’m here to help you get more bang for your book. Get more readers, get more book reviews, and revenue.

You can find me at bookmarketingmentor.com and on https://Facebook.com/bookmarketingmentor.com and on https://Instagram.com/book marketingmentor.com.

And join me in the 30-Day Challenge

I’ll see you tomorrow. When we talk about three questions for your social channels.

Download the 30-Day Calendar and prompts.

Book Marketing

30-Day Challenge Author Profiles

30-Day Challenge for Authors – Author Profiles

Welcome, Day Two of the 30-day Challenge for Authors.

I’m Judy Baker, book marketing mentor. We’re looking at my calendar here in Canva.

And today I am going to be talking about author profiles. So let’s go over to Amazon. What you want to do first is to claim your Amazon Author Central profile.
And you do that by going to Author Central and then marketing and distribution, you’ll be going to KTP and to your marketing page.


So let’s just zip over there and on your, on your page, you can see here’s author central, and it’s going to ask you to choose what market most of you, I believe will choose the amazon.com because you’re in the United States.

But if you were in another country, you would select the one that’s appropriate for you. From there, you can now see my Amazon Author Central profile.


What’s on my Author Profile page?

This is my photograph, taken by Star Dewar, a photographer. She’s done my headshots for years and you can find her at https://starshotsphotography.com/

So you want to have a good recent photograph of you up here and over time, you’re probably going to need to update it. Be sure if someone met you, they would know that’s you. So that’s a tip for you on all of your social media profiles so people can follow you.

But this is something really juicy. Your biography. Look how much you can put in here. (up to 1000 characters). And the one thing that I want to emphasize a good headshot and include your website URL. I’ve got two companies,
https://bookmarketingmentor.com and https://bookmarketingsociety.com.

You might also want to include how to reach you on social media. And you could, you could put those links in there as well. And I think I’m going to be updating mine a bit later today.

Look at how beautiful this page is. You can include video, you can link to your blog and every time you post it’ll show up, you can add other photographs.
So these are, these are additional headshots of me, but you could put shots of you doing something, maybe an event that relates to your book.


And when you are doing an event, you want to post it on your page. Now, these books around anthologies.

This is what it looks like when you start your Author Central journey, and it’ll ask you a bunch of questions and you can learn about it.


And it’ll tell you what you need to know. And once you have your Author Central profile up there, you can look at all your books.


You can look at your sales ranking and customer reviews, pretty sweet, pretty easy to get to. And that’s author.amazon.com/home. It’s your Author Central location.

But back to how do you claim a book when you’re not the primary author?
I have a special video for you showing you how to add books as a contributor to a publication.

How to Add a Book to Your Amazon Author Central Page

https://youtu.be/6HUhuYo3DRo

This video will talk to you or we’ll take you step-by-step through the process. And it was pretty easy. And all the books got added within a few hours. Sometimes it can take longer depending on what’s going on at Amazon.

So this is day two of the 30 day challenge.
You can find me at facebook.com/bookmarketingmentor, and post a link to your social media post, unless you’re doing Facebook. And then of course you can just share it to this page and you can find me at bookmarketingmentor.com.

I help authors get more bang for their book.

Come back tomorrow for day three of the challenge, and I’ll be talking about how you can make the back of your book one of your best sales tools.

Judy Baker, bookmarketingmentor.com

Links to places mentioned in this video:

Star Shots Photography

https://starshotsphotography.com/

How to Add a Book to Your Amazon Author Central Page

https://youtu.be/6HUhuYo3DRo

Author Central

KDP Marketing Resources

https://kdp.amazon.com/marketing/manager

Amazon Author Central

https://author.amazon.com/home

Author Page

https://author.amazon.com/help/G4C8HLZYK4ZHKNR2

My Author Central Profile

https://www.amazon.com/author/judy-m-baker

Where to find Book Marketing Mentor

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCih0o87hETXblMiVty6uIzw

https://www.facebook.com/bookmarketingmentor
https://bookmarketingmentor.com

Book Marketing

Day One of the 30-Day Posting Challenge for Authors

Using Canva to Create Graphics

Thirty Day Challenge 9-1-21, Using Canva

Stop procrastinating. Learn how you can create eye-catching graphics for your posts using Canva. Four minute video where I walk you through modifying a graphic and using your brand colors and style.

You can download a pdf of a blank calendar or access the template in Canva.

Judy Baker Book Marketing Mentor

Welcome to day one of the 30 day posting challenge. Every day in September, you are going to post to one social channel.

And I wanted to start by showing you how you can create graphics in Canva, just by modifying something that exists, or you can start from scratch. You don’t have to be a designer.

And here is the design I selected and modified.

The original is kind of beige, which is not my style. I’m a bit more poppy on my colors. I changed the colors around, changed the content a little, and I’m going to do that even more because I’m going to create a PDF so that you can print it out and fill in what you’re going to do. (I discovered I can share a template with you and you can begin your calendar with the template and make the changes you want right in Canva! 

And you can put stars or stickers on the days that you complete your posting. You can add a page title. This is a 30 day challenge. I want to make a copy of the design. I’m going to duplicate the page. I did some work ahead and will share it with you.

I went in and started filling in what I’m going to do. So you can see each day I put in what I’m going to do.

Today that I’m doing a video tip on Canva. Tomorrow I’m going to do something on author profiles on the third, it’ll be back of the book. And on the fourth, I’m going to show you how to use still images to create a video .

You’ll have blanks you can fill in if you print this out or go to Canva and use the template calendar.

All I wanted to do was come in here and make a change. And so on the sixth, I’m going to talk about branding.

Did you notice how simple it is to make changes? I can go in and change existing text by typing over it.

If I wanted to change the font, I can do that too, but I don’t want to do that right now.

I’m fine with, with what’s in there.

Join the 30-Day Challenge

So I want you to join me on this challenge. You’re going to post to one social channel every day for 30 days.

You’ll find what I’m doing on Instagram. I’m @bookmarketingmentor, and I’ll be posting here and on Facebook, @bookmarketingmentor,

The links where you can find me 

Judy Baker Book Marketing Mentor

Welcome to day one of the 30 day posting challenge. Every day in September, you are going to post to one social channel.

And I wanted to start by showing you how you can create graphics in Canva, just by modifying something that exists, or you can start from scratch. You don’t have to be a designer.

And here is the design I selected and modified.

The original is kind of beige, which is not my style. I’m a bit more poppy on my colors. I changed the colors around, changed the content a little, and I’m going to do that even more because I’m going to create a PDF so that you can print it out and fill in what you’re going to do. (I discovered I can share a template with you and you can begin your calendar with the template and make the changes you want right in Canva! 

And you can put stars or stickers on the days that you complete your posting. You can add a page title. This is a 30 day challenge. I want to make a copy of the design. I’m going to duplicate the page. I did some work ahead and will share it with you.

I went in and started filling in what I’m going to do. So you can see each day I put in what I’m going to do.

Today that I’m doing a video tip on Canva. Tomorrow I’m going to do something on author profiles on the third, it’ll be back of the book. And on the fourth, I’m going to show you how to use still images to create a video .

You’ll have blanks you can fill in if you print this out or go to Canva and use the template calendar.

All I wanted to do was come in here and make a change. And so on the sixth, I’m going to talk about branding.

Did you notice how simple it is to make changes? I can go in and change existing text by typing over it.

If I wanted to change the font, I can do that too, but I don’t want to do that right now.

I’m fine with, with what’s in there.

So I want you to join me on this challenge. You’re going to post to one social channel every day for 30 days.

You’ll find what I’m doing on Instagram. I’m @bookmarketingmentor, and I’ll be posting here and on Facebook, @bookmarketingmentor,

The links where you can find and follow me 

https://www.instagram.com/bookmarketingmentor/ and https://www.facebook.com/bookmarketingmentor

I will post links to the videos that I’m creating every day.

Judy Baker, Book Marketing Mentor. I help authors get more bang for their book. Find me at https://bookmarketingmentor.com

and https://www.facebook.com/bookmarketingmentor

I will post links to the videos that I’m creating every day.

Judy Baker, Book Marketing Mentor. I help authors get more bang for their book. Find me at https://bookmarketingmentor.com