Marketing your Books using Social Media

So, you’ve got your book published. You’re proud of your writing or illustration. If your book is traditionally published, you expect the publisher to advertise and market it? If you published it yourself, you expect your audience to find it? No. Your work is not yet completed. You have to advertise, to market, to mingle with your readers. How do you do this? Find out more by attending our next meeting.

Marketing your books using social media

Venue: Sandton Public Library

Date: 23 June 2018
Time: 09:30 – 13:00
Cost:  R300 non-members, R150 SCBWI members
RSVP: To Jenny at SCBWI.SA.Gauteng@mweb.co.za

About the event:

1. Social Media 101 - Is Facebook still relevant
2. Building your own website and updating it.
3. Paid vs Organic media - Which works, what are you driving and targeting?
4. Self-publishing. How to set business objectives and measure success on digital.
5. Sampling - Using samples to create virility.  

About the facilitator:

Hamish Pillay is a Marketing and Digital Consultant. He hails from East London, now known as Buffalo City. He published his first book ten years ago, winning the Citizen Book Prize and was a finalist in the Mnet Literary Awards. He’s been on the Corporate merry-go-round for the last eight years specialising in digital marketing. You can follow Hamish Pillay on Twitter: Hamish_Hoosen or check out www.hamishhoosenpillay.wordpress.com

This event is for illustrators and writers.

Announcement and call for papers

4^th Unisa Children’s Reading Conference: 11-12 September 2012

Venue: Sunnyside Campus of the University of South Africa, Pretoria

Theme: Social media and children

“One in six children is failing to read books as they spend an increasing amount of time text messaging friends, sending e-mails and browsing social networking sites”.

Social media has become exceedingly popular in recent years, which is a cause of concern among many parents, librarians, teachers and other adults. Sceptics refer to disadvantages of social media such as the effects on children’s ability to concentrate; their ability to communicate; the lowering of literacy rates, etc. In the mean time, children happily find themselves sharing, using and understanding information in ways that were unimaginable a generation ago.

The changes brought about by technology, and social media in particular, in the lives of children should not be denied but embraced.  Social media, as technology, should not be seen as a threat to reading and to books in particular, but.as a challenge and tool to introduce children to books and information via mediums other than traditional print.

Purpose of the conference