Web Hosting
From Bluehost, I get WordPress hosting, my own domain name and email addresses as well. Through plugins, I added a newsletter mailing list and can add other services over time. Maybe sell my ebooks directly from my site?
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Scrivener
Scrivener is designed as a writer’s tool, not just a word processor. Want to write a 4-book series? Put them all into a single Project. With a separate area for research notes, they’ll be available to all books. Projects can be divided into as many parts as needed, with folders and subdocs. Add notes to each subdoc for a corkboard display. Reorder items as needed. Use to generate a Table of Contents, when needed. Manage “Front Matter”, including the book’s cover, separately. Selectively output subdocuments to multiple output formats, adding page breaks for some formats but not in others. And that’s just starting to scratch at the feature set. Version 3 available for MacOS, iOS and Windows. For more info, click the banner above.
Commun.it
Commun.it is a site for managing your social feeds, primarily Twitter. Respond to retweets, mentions, DMs. Track and respond to new followers and unfollowers. Identify users you follow who haven’t engaged with you to possibly unfollow them or engage with them to encourage them to follow you. Find new contacts based on keywords. Any tweet sent can be scheduled, either for best time or a custom setting. Plus activity reports, depending on the account level you’re paying for (note that the cheapest, at $9.99/month will bombard folks with ads – better to go to the next level at $29.99/month)
I will warn right now, that it does have some serious bugs, the worst of which is a tendency to display totally wrong tweets as retweets/mentions, but it’s possible to work around that. I would use another site, if I could find any other site which attempted to provide this feature set.
Note that it has an option for Facebook, but I have not found it very useful. Since Facebook provides better management tools than Twitter, I don’t mind.
Buffer.com
Buffer.com’s Buffer Publish service (they have other services I don’t pay for) is a $10/month tool for scheduling posts to Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn and Pinterest. I use it for the first three of those.
Set up your desired number of posting times, which can differ day by day. Rearrange the order of the posts. Edit the content of the buffered posts. After they’re posted, Buffer tracks the performance of the posts and shows you some metrics (another service they provide gives more detailed analysis, but I haven’t needed it). The same Analysis listing can then be reused to re-buffer the posts.
I currently (July 2021) have my Twitter queue set up to hold 36 of my promo posts, interspersed with queued Retweets of other users, for a total of 72, and Buffer posts 20 of those per day (so it cycles through the queue twice per week).
My queue for my Facebook Page has 13 repeating posts and I post 3 of those on most days, but 5 on Saturdays and then handle sharing of those to my personal profile and various promo groups manually. And I have a separate queue for my Facebook Group which has just two posts that get posted once a week, on different days, until I figure out some additional content to buffer. And my Instagram queue has 30 regular posts in it, which are posted once per day.
