
New Leaf Publishing Group Author Wayde Goodall and his wife Roselyn share with us some of the work they do in their ministry.
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The Marriage and Family tools teach about the importance and the blessings of a home built on biblical principles.

New Leaf Publishing Group See photos of authors Ken Ham and Dr. Jason Lisle as they reach thousands of teens and children with relevant resources in Portland; update on children's titles touching lives in Africa.
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At the two school assemblies for the Answers for Darwin conference yesterday in Portland, Oregon, around 2000 teenagers (junior–senior high) and 1600 children (K–6) from Christian schools, homeschools, and a number who had permission to leave public school turned out to take in the two one-hour sess...

I started by connecting with people in one place and making relationships. I invited those people to my other platforms. I explored their interests. I learned what mattered to them and tried to fuel it. I moved into new platforms. I went everywhere that information could spread easily...

We're writers, you and I. It's our job to fill endless screens with scintillating text. Words should flow effortlessly from our keyboards, right? Blogging in 500-word bursts should be far easier than writing book-length manuscripts, you think?

Just yesterday the largest Christian publisher in the U.S. Twittered about the importance of authors from all genres building their online platforms.

"Twitter 101: A Special Guide" is written for businesses wanting to share information, as well as garner customer feedback. For authors, Twitter is an excellent communications tool for updating readers on the status of your latest books...

Dr. Cuozzo notes, "It seems that the genetic make-up of Neaderthals was just established for mitochondrial DNA...that part of the cell which is the "battery," so to speak, of the cell...

So how about free books? David Meerman Scott, author of The New Rules of Marketing and PR, recommends writing free ebooks in the freemium/premium business model and linking them to your blog, your Facebook page and your Twitter account...

There are lots of knowledgeable people who highly recommend Twittering as a means of both building your own online platform/presence/following, as well as researching what the online world is talking about.

We've presented the case for generating online visibility as a means of getting published. We've written about how to increase your platform. We've posed the conundrum of best-selling versus best-writing. We've quoted a multi-pubbed author about using Facebook and Twitter together...

Writing stuff people actually care about is what we authors do. Right? Trouble is, that's sometimes incredibly difficult. Here are 5 specific steps to blogging that make targeting our messages considerably easier than crafting 50,000- or 100,000-word books.

There are 3 key building blocks to your online platform (full disclosure - these were first brought to our attention by blogger and social media guru Chris Brogan). Core to successfully using your online presence is listening to what your readers are saying about you and your books...

In today's world, marketing your product, your service or your newest book can be accomplished far less expensively, more effectively and with more widespread impact via "inbound marketing" (another Hubspot term). Inbound marketing creates opportunities for customers to come to you.

Brandilyn Collins - @brandilyn for those of you on Twitter - is one hard-working author. I admire her marketing expertise and willingness to share from that expertise. Nearly every week something on her blog, http://forensicsandfaith.blogspot.com, adds to my arsenal of marketing tools...











