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		By: robintvale (Jessica)		</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Apr 2019 19:21:42 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I really dislike it when people post the manipulative stuff like: 

I’m cleaning up my Facebook friends. If you can see this, type in the comments how we met.

I bet no one will give this post even ONE share.

I can’t believe you would say that. You know who you are O_o. Just unfriend me.

Folks who are constantly #blessed #blessedlife #keepingitreal #blessedandreal #reallyblessed.  

People who that stuff too many times will get an unfollow. Why can&#039;t they simply say they wish people would talk to them more, or you know actually saying hi to those that haven&#039;t been talking to them? I&#039;d say it&#039;s their own fault for adding so many friends they don&#039;t bother talking to. so they caused that problem to begin with. 

I&#039;ll just post what I&#039;m thinking, pictures of my son, or our kitty. Everyday stuff like recipes I tried out (with pics) some writing articles I like. Share a few books that just got published. I&#039;m not on Facebook too often as it&#039;s a time suck. (Fun!) Vacation photos are fun too.

I dunno&#039; I&#039;ll just post what I think is interesting and not worry about it too much. :P I think the people posting too many adverts (spam) are trying too hard and have become desperate.

On another blog, I like to visit, he says (sorry forgot his name) #shame he says a lot of what you say about this. Mainly write lots of books and post them up on Amazon or your website and keep doing it. the more books the better.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I really dislike it when people post the manipulative stuff like: </p>
<p>I’m cleaning up my Facebook friends. If you can see this, type in the comments how we met.</p>
<p>I bet no one will give this post even ONE share.</p>
<p>I can’t believe you would say that. You know who you are O_o. Just unfriend me.</p>
<p>Folks who are constantly #blessed #blessedlife #keepingitreal #blessedandreal #reallyblessed.  </p>
<p>People who that stuff too many times will get an unfollow. Why can&#8217;t they simply say they wish people would talk to them more, or you know actually saying hi to those that haven&#8217;t been talking to them? I&#8217;d say it&#8217;s their own fault for adding so many friends they don&#8217;t bother talking to. so they caused that problem to begin with. </p>
<p>I&#8217;ll just post what I&#8217;m thinking, pictures of my son, or our kitty. Everyday stuff like recipes I tried out (with pics) some writing articles I like. Share a few books that just got published. I&#8217;m not on Facebook too often as it&#8217;s a time suck. (Fun!) Vacation photos are fun too.</p>
<p>I dunno&#8217; I&#8217;ll just post what I think is interesting and not worry about it too much. 😛 I think the people posting too many adverts (spam) are trying too hard and have become desperate.</p>
<p>On another blog, I like to visit, he says (sorry forgot his name) #shame he says a lot of what you say about this. Mainly write lots of books and post them up on Amazon or your website and keep doing it. the more books the better.</p>
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		By: Ross Lampert		</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Mar 2018 03:25:37 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://authorkristenlamb.com/2018/01/understanding-the-business-of-being-an-author/#comment-89074&quot;&gt;Kristen Lamb&lt;/a&gt;.

Hi, Kristen. Sorry it&#039;s taken so long to get back to you on the issue of &quot;oversized&quot; images in the e-mail versions of your posts, but I now have some information I think you&#039;ll find useful. It comes from a lady who&#039;s a &quot;senior member&quot; of the Outlook forums staff on the slipstick.com web site.

The idea I bounced off of her, based on my experience with my own web site, was to reduce the size of the images you select to around 400 pixels horizontally (whatever software you use to do this should adjust the vertical size automatically to keep the proportions right). Diane responded, &quot;Using right-sized images can make a huge difference in how fast a page loads, which can improve SEO and google page rank.

&quot;Many put smaller versions of the image on the page and link a larger version to it... that gives you the best of both worlds- a right-sized picture and a higher quality/larger image for those who want it.

&quot;Email images diffidently [I think she meant &quot;definitely&quot;!] should be sized - i&#039;d say probably 500 - 600 wide max would work well for most recipients - it will fit nicely in the reading pane or a bowser window.&quot;

A side benefit I discovered when I did this was that the size of my regular back-up files shrank from single-digit gigabytes to hundreds of megabytes, and I&#039;ve got A LOT less to back up than you do!

Changing an image dimensions should be quick and easy--&quot;save as...,&quot; select the new horizontal size, click somewhere to let the software select the right vertical size, click &quot;Save,&quot; done--so it shouldn&#039;t slow you down in getting your posts done.

Hope this helps!]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://authorkristenlamb.com/2018/01/understanding-the-business-of-being-an-author/#comment-89074">Kristen Lamb</a>.</p>
<p>Hi, Kristen. Sorry it&#8217;s taken so long to get back to you on the issue of &#8220;oversized&#8221; images in the e-mail versions of your posts, but I now have some information I think you&#8217;ll find useful. It comes from a lady who&#8217;s a &#8220;senior member&#8221; of the Outlook forums staff on the slipstick.com web site.</p>
<p>The idea I bounced off of her, based on my experience with my own web site, was to reduce the size of the images you select to around 400 pixels horizontally (whatever software you use to do this should adjust the vertical size automatically to keep the proportions right). Diane responded, &#8220;Using right-sized images can make a huge difference in how fast a page loads, which can improve SEO and google page rank.</p>
<p>&#8220;Many put smaller versions of the image on the page and link a larger version to it&#8230; that gives you the best of both worlds- a right-sized picture and a higher quality/larger image for those who want it.</p>
<p>&#8220;Email images diffidently [I think she meant &#8220;definitely&#8221;!] should be sized &#8211; i&#8217;d say probably 500 &#8211; 600 wide max would work well for most recipients &#8211; it will fit nicely in the reading pane or a bowser window.&#8221;</p>
<p>A side benefit I discovered when I did this was that the size of my regular back-up files shrank from single-digit gigabytes to hundreds of megabytes, and I&#8217;ve got A LOT less to back up than you do!</p>
<p>Changing an image dimensions should be quick and easy&#8211;&#8220;save as&#8230;,&#8221; select the new horizontal size, click somewhere to let the software select the right vertical size, click &#8220;Save,&#8221; done&#8211;so it shouldn&#8217;t slow you down in getting your posts done.</p>
<p>Hope this helps!</p>
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		By: Kristen Lamb		</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Feb 2018 14:05:54 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://authorkristenlamb.com/2018/01/understanding-the-business-of-being-an-author/#comment-89425&quot;&gt;Robin T. Vale&lt;/a&gt;.

We never need to &#039;worry&#039; about anything. There IS a way to build a platform that is fun. It takes time, authenticity and steady effort. But we can&#039;t outsource to robots or firms for real results. We need a plan then a good plan of action to back it up....as in just being regularly present and engaging as a person with PEOPLE. Simple.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://authorkristenlamb.com/2018/01/understanding-the-business-of-being-an-author/#comment-89425">Robin T. Vale</a>.</p>
<p>We never need to &#8216;worry&#8217; about anything. There IS a way to build a platform that is fun. It takes time, authenticity and steady effort. But we can&#8217;t outsource to robots or firms for real results. We need a plan then a good plan of action to back it up&#8230;.as in just being regularly present and engaging as a person with PEOPLE. Simple.</p>
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		By: Robin T. Vale		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Robin T. Vale]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Feb 2018 01:38:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[10,000 brownies for you! Tosses a GLOMP your way. ^_~]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>10,000 brownies for you! Tosses a GLOMP your way. ^_~</p>
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		By: Robin T. Vale		</title>
		<link>https://authorkristenlamb.com/2018/01/understanding-the-business-of-being-an-author/#comment-89426</link>

		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Robin T. Vale]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Feb 2018 01:34:36 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I do like to share nice blogs like this with tips, writing programs, writing apps, and the occasional book writing website/app that pops up. As for my book only when there&#039;s a new chapter out on wattpad. :p Facebook is great for finding beta readers, I joined a few books clubs and asked the members if they would when it&#039;s finished. They said they would. So nice! &#060;3]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I do like to share nice blogs like this with tips, writing programs, writing apps, and the occasional book writing website/app that pops up. As for my book only when there&#8217;s a new chapter out on wattpad. :p Facebook is great for finding beta readers, I joined a few books clubs and asked the members if they would when it&#8217;s finished. They said they would. So nice! &lt;3</p>
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		By: Robin T. Vale		</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Feb 2018 01:30:58 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[So much stress about what to do on social media and different advice on what to do I just mostly talk with friends and family. I don&#039;t want to annoy anyone or worse alienate them, so never did much, and felt like I should be doing something more, but as to what? Now I&#039;m not going to worry about it. Thank you!]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>So much stress about what to do on social media and different advice on what to do I just mostly talk with friends and family. I don&#8217;t want to annoy anyone or worse alienate them, so never did much, and felt like I should be doing something more, but as to what? Now I&#8217;m not going to worry about it. Thank you!</p>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Feb 2018 12:05:05 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[[&#8230;] https://authorkristenlamb.com/2018/01/understanding-the-business-of-being-an-author/ “Publishing is a business, and&#8212;SURPRISE&#8212;so is being an author. By definition, anyone who decides to go pro is automatically an author business. &#8216;Business&#8217; is what separates the hobbyists, dabblers, amateurs and wanna-be&#8217;s from true professionals.” The problem I think, with thinking of yourself as a business is you might fake things just to get others to like you and therefore, your books. I do want to eventually sell my books but what you get on this blog is me. I am human. I have down days, but I also have wonderful days and I have a drive to succeed. I don’t want to lose myself in becoming someone I’m not. [&#8230;]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[&#8230;] <a href="https://authorkristenlamb.com/2018/01/understanding-the-business-of-being-an-author/" rel="ugc">https://authorkristenlamb.com/2018/01/understanding-the-business-of-being-an-author/</a> “Publishing is a business, and&#8212;SURPRISE&#8212;so is being an author. By definition, anyone who decides to go pro is automatically an author business. &#8216;Business&#8217; is what separates the hobbyists, dabblers, amateurs and wanna-be&#8217;s from true professionals.” The problem I think, with thinking of yourself as a business is you might fake things just to get others to like you and therefore, your books. I do want to eventually sell my books but what you get on this blog is me. I am human. I have down days, but I also have wonderful days and I have a drive to succeed. I don’t want to lose myself in becoming someone I’m not. [&#8230;]</p>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[[Download] Blogs for Self-Publishers, January 27 &#8211; February 2, 2018 &#124; Free eBooks PDF]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Feb 2018 08:15:07 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[[&#8230;] Lamb on Kristen LambAuthor Business 101: Books, Brand &#038; Buds“Publishing is a business, and—SURPRISE—so is being an author. By definition, anyone who [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		By: Jessie Andersen		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jessie Andersen]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Feb 2018 19:10:51 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Good stuff again, Kristen. I need to be consistent in interacting online. I feel I do okay with it, but there&#039;s always room for improvement.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Good stuff again, Kristen. I need to be consistent in interacting online. I feel I do okay with it, but there&#8217;s always room for improvement.</p>
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