Our second birthday celebration is right around the corner (oh snap, time for the Terrible Twos), and in those two years of blogging we’ve managed to build up an archive of over 200 posts! Due to the sheer number, it’s easy for some of our favorites to get buried — let’s take today to do some old Duolit blog post reminiscing! *cue flashback music*
Note: I totally resisted the urge to go back and edit these before presenting them to you! With two years of blogging under our belts, I know there are some changes Shannon and I would make to some of the posts below, but I’m presenting them to you as-is. For their historical value, you see!
2010
We started blogging way back in February of 2010, and the self-publishing community welcomed us with open arms. Here’s a few of the goodies from that year:
- Don’t Let Grammar Get You : Resources & Tips
- 7 Steps To Make Your Self-Published Book Look Professional
- Five Tips for Writing a Stellar Press Release
- The Many Paths to Book Cover Failure (and How to Avoid Them)
- 14 Steps to Launch Your Author Blog — Today!
- 21 Author Blog Post Ideas
- Six Steps to Finding Your Target Market
- 5 Key Elements of Author Branding
- 5 Things Every Author Should Know About Design
- Start Your Media Kit Today: Mini Workbook
2011
After a year immersed in the indie author community, we felt way more comfortable in offering up our self-publishing perspective. A few choice posts from last year:
- Motivational board: A visual kick in the pants
- 7 Questions to Ask When Pricing Your Book
- 4 Ways NOT to Find Your Writing Motivation
- No Excuses: 15-Minute Goal Setting for Authors
- 4 Ways to Get Involved in the Online Writing Community
- 6 Rules of Writing Research
- Get noticed: 5 Steps to Boosting Book Publicity
- 4 Marketing Research Exercises to Help you Sell More Books
Thank you, thank you, thank you to all of our awesome RSS feed subscribers (215ish), Facebook likers (315), Newsletter receivers (88), Indie Ninjas (15 strong), and Twitter followers (8,000+) for making the past two years so very awesome. Check back on Monday to hear all about the new goodies we have in store for you for our third year
In the meantime, we have a question for you guys to answer in the comments: what types of posts are the most helpful to you? Do you want more writing posts? Marketing posts? Let us know!
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