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How to Co-Blog With Another Blogger – 3 Tips for You

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How to Co-Blog With Another Blogger – 3 Tips for You

Firstly, WHY should you want to Co-Blog With Another Blogger? Three reasons:

First, it’s fun! Each person is different and you get variety on your blog.

Second, it’s less work! You get two blog posts for the effort of one.

Third, it increases your traffic. More eyeballs on your content can only be goodness for you. You get all your normal blog readers, plus the readers from the other blog.

My co-blog example: My blog post

Zombie Lady Maximizing Tax ReturnsHow to Co-Blog With Another Blogger - 3 Tips for You

Michael posted my blog on his site here: https://michaeldinich.net/online-tax-filing-software-diy

My co-blogger, Michael Dinich’s blog post:

How To Prepare Yourself Financially For The Zombie Apocalypse

Check it out! You never know when the next zombie apocalypse may strike!

I certainly have one point covered: Estate Planning.  I have my gravestone picked out:

How to Co-Blog With Another Blogger
Andy Zach’s Tombstone

Your ‘Co-Blog With Another Blogger’  First Tip

Be friendly with other bloggers. Make friends on Twitter and Facebook. Subscribe to their blogs. Share their content.

Michael Dinich has very good financial advice that I’m been happy to retweet and share in my Twitterverse.   He’s also a zombie aficionado, so naturally we hit it off!

Now, you don’t merely retweet and follow other bloggers, you interact with them. Chat with them on Twitter and Facebook. Make comments on their blogs.

I also join interest groups on Facebook, like writing, Science Fiction, and Fantasy. My favorite is Sci-Fan Roundtable.  Of course, there’s always the Zombie Turkeys page.

Click to get plan to survive Zombie Turkeys apocalypseWeekly World Internet News

Your ‘Co-Blog With Another Blogger’  Second Tip

You’ve built your friendships with other bloggers.  Now what?

Produce some good content on your blog so you can share it with other bloggers.

In my case, my tax-related posts appealed to Michael Dinich. Perhaps you can write ‘how to breed and raise turkeys’, and post it on a farming blog!  Or write a ‘How to Write A Best Seller’ blog and post it on another author’s site.

You’re talented! Showcase your talent in your blog and offer to give it away to another blogger.

Michael Dinich’s post on surviving a zombie apocalypse didn’t follow my book’s plot, but pretty much followed my financial approach for my life, so it was a natural fit on this

Zombie Turkeys front cover. Click to get a copy!How to Co-Blog With Another Blogger

Look for your natural fit.

Your ‘Co-Blog With Another Blogger’  Third Tip

You’ve got a co-blogging friend. You’ve got great content. What else could you possibly need?

Share your blog posts! Each one you share gets your combined audience. Who knows how many new followers you will attract? How many will your friend get?

Information is free, but valuable. The more it is shared the more valuable it becomes.

That’s it for today! If any of you want to co-blog with me, I’m open! Let me know what you want to share and ask for what you want from me. The more the merrier!

Andy Zach at The Book Nook bookstore appearance. Click to get any boHow to Co-Blog With Another Bloggerok!

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3 More Media Kit Tips for Authors – Get Yours Now!

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3 More Media Kit Tips for Authors

Hi! Those who remember my last blog post, 3 Media Kit Tips for the New Year, will be delighted to know I’ve got three more hot tips for you!

How hot?

Or maybe,

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More Media Kit Tips!

Without wasting more of your time, let’s begin!

Media Kit Tip: The First – Product Info –

First, we must acknowledge our source: Platform by Michael Hyatt

Platform: Get Noticed in a Noisy World by [Hyatt, Michael]

So what do I mean by product info?

1-1 Photos

Like this

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Free Zombie Turkeys book – subscribe to get

1-2 Physical Characteristics

This is from Amazon’s page for Zombie TurkeysTrust Amazon to get all this information!

https://www.amazon.com/Zombie-Turkeys-Blogger-Fought-Unkillable/dp/B0771SPL5R/

Product details

  • Series: Life After Life
  • Paperback: 186 pages
  • Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform; 1 edition (October 17, 2016)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1539466752
  • ISBN-13: 978-1539466758
  • Product Dimensions: 6 x 0.4 x 9 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 12 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars   12 customer reviews

 

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Media Kit Tip the Second – Have Trailers

That would be Trailers, short and long form

Long form trailers would be up to five hundred words. Here’s mine:

Sam Melvin, an underachieving e-reporter from a small town, changes forever when he meets turkeys that won’t stay dead. You can shoot ’em, chop ’em, burn ’em – they come back stronger. The undead plague of poultry spreads uncontrollably, rocking the whole country. As Sam tracks down the zombie turkeys and how to eradicate them, his editor, Lisa Kambacher, nags him to turn his stories and expenses in on time. During their years of working together, Lisa has mellowed from bitchy into an irascible pinchpenny.

Lisa snipes at Sam for plebeian writing but uses her intelligence to pursue the lucrative carnivorous turkey story. Sam and Lisa ricochet across the landscape, tracking turkeys and fleeing the bloodthirsty hordes. Careening from shell-shocked grocery store owners fighting turkeys crawling out of refrigerators, to machine-gunning turkey farmers, to secret militia, Sam and Lisa doggedly report. Throughout the turkey apocalypse, they dare ravaged cities, plow knee-deep in gore and corpses, and upload streams of zombie turkey video news to the world.

With paranoid militias clashing with the federal government and unkillable turkeys, Sam and Lisa doubt their ability to survive. Sam and Lisa have no superpowers. If you have a heart condition or lack humor, you should not listen to Zombie Turkeys, no matter how much you want to find out what happens.

Short form trailers would be up to one hundred words. Here’s mine:

Sam Melvin, an underachieving e-reporter from a small town, changes forever when he meets turkeys that won’t stay dead. You can shoot ’em, chop ’em, burn ’em—they come back stronger.
If you have a heart condition or lack humor, you should not read Zombie Turkeys, no matter how much you want to.

This is from my Createspace book preview.

Media Kit Tip the Third – Author Headshots

When I had my professional author headshots, my photographer took over sixty photos.  Here are some of them.

Paranormal Privateers Novel Progress
Andy Zach Author photo
Weekend Zombie News
Andy Cogitating
Christmas potpourri
Andy Zach dreaming of a white Christmas.

Watch This Space!

I have still more tips to publish in future blog posts!

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Bye for now!

next novel, Paranormal Privateers
Andy Zach smiling about his next novel, Paranormal Privateers