Episode - 52 Facebook News & Updates For Authors

In this episode Chris and Becca talk about the latest updates to Facebook and why they are important to authors. 

SHOW NOTES AND LINKS:

-Previewing five new changes to groups and what they mean:

• Group Insights
• Membership request filtering
• Removed member clean-up
• Scheduled posts
• Group to group linking

Also, we discuss two fairly new business page options and why authors need to take a look:

• Setting up the Shop Tab on your author page to sell books directly from Facebook
• The new video cover photo option

LINKS:

Join our closed Facebook group SMART Marketing For Authors here. After you get in, be sure and read the Group Description and introduce yourself. 

Link to press release from Facebook's blog on the new changes in groups.

Link to the Facebook Help section on the new Shop tab.

Link to new Facebook video cover example from author and her blog post about the process

Link to Animoto animation application (Warning: this is for those of you that already have some tech savvy)

Link to Adobe Spark--the video platform I am using to test videos for cover photos.

Link to get an email when Chris' new online course on how to set up a Facebook page that sells more books is available.

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