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Audiobook narration. Woooooeeeeee. If you want a challenge, get into this. It will kick your ass six ways from Sunday. And you say, butbutbutbutbut I’m gonna hire a professional narrator. Okay, let’s talk about that. The cheapest upfront way to do audiobooks is to split royalties, and ACX is already extremely low. 40% versus KDPs 70%, and so far, I haven’t seen anywhere to set a price for the audiobooks. I have three sitting in audio approval, and they’ve been there since the 30th of November and the 2nd and 5th of December. It’s the 9th of December. So, that right there is extremely unacceptable, but they do tell you it could be as long as 10 days, so there is that. But let’s get into this hiring a narrator thing. It’ll knock your socks off.
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Are you wondering what Twitter life is going to be like as you gain an increasing number of followers? Here’s what to expect at each major Twitter follower milestone.
0 Followers
You just opened your Twitter account and things are pretty quiet because you have exactly 0 followers. This is an intimidating position to be in because no one is going to see anything you tweet, and you’re not going to be able to read and interact with anyone’s tweets. However, chill out for a second before you go into your Twitter recommended suggested followers list. The first thing you need to do is fill out your profile. This means you need to say a few words about what you do. You also need to hashtag. For authors, a good Twitter profile might say #author of #fantasy, #sciencefiction and #adultfiction #Writingcommunity #amwriting. That’s a decent author profile. Next, you need to add your author image. You should add that in the small circle. Then, add your background image. You can make your background image anything you like, but if you’re published, I recommend uploading a banner image of all your books. Don’t forget to list your author website or amazon author profile somewhere.
Read more: What to Expect at Each Twitter Follower Stage: From 0 to 10,000
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When it comes to being effective on social media, Direct Messages (DMs) can help spread your message and garner you new clients if done correctly. Unfortunately, if they're done incorrectly, you could be making yourself look like email spam. Thankfully, there are some things you can do to make your DMs more effective to ensure they are read instead of ignored and deleted immediately.
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If you don’t know, there’s a huge #writingcommunity on Twitter, and they want to follow you. They want to get to know you, and they want to know about your books and your thoughts on writing. They also want to answer your writing questions, and they want to help you be successful, but how do you find them? Here’s a comprehensive list of ways to get involved in the Writing Community on Twitter (X) and build your following.
1. Create Your Twitter (X) Account
If you’re reading this, there’s a good chance you already have a Twitter account, but if you don’t have a Twitter account and you are an author, you should have a Twitter account. Just make sure you have what Twitter considers a valid email address. That would be any address by Yahoo, Google or a dedicated hosting account or business email address. Twitter doesn’t tend to accept “mail” accounts from mail.com. I had big problems when I tried to use a mail.com email address with Twitter.
Read more: From 0 to 10,000: How to Build a High-Quality Twitter (X) Audience as an Author
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Are you tired of all the social media hubbub? Do you hate interacting with your Twitter (X) followers? Are you seeking new ways to totally piss off your Twitter followers so you have an excuse to interact less? If you answered yes to these questions, then you need my 5 step guide to totally pissing off all your Twitter followers to the point where they unfollow and block you!
1. Be a Follow for an Unfollow Account
In the past, the recommendation was to follow a bunch of people and after a certain number of days, unfollow everyone. The thinking is that this makes you look special. I mean, if you’ve only followed 25 people and you have 15,000 followers, you have such awesome content that people can’t bare to unfollow you, even if you don’t reciprocate or participate with your follows. People are getting wise to this, and there are numerous programs that allow Twitter users to see who unfollowed them and who isn’t following them. Some Twitter users even utilize programs that follow and unfollow automatically, according to certain triggers. For example, if a new person follows the account, the program automatically follows that account back. It does the reverse for unfollows. The reason for this is that Twitter’s algorithm has gotten stricter, especially for accounts that have more than 5,000 followers. You can only have about a 10% difference between your followers and following lists in order to follow more people. This has caused an increasing number of Twitter accounts to regularly check for unfollowers. Not to mention, you’re not being special. You’re being an asshole.
Read more: How to Piss Off Your Twitter Followers in 6 Easy Steps