Barb Drozdowich has been a blogger since 2006 and has been a book blogger since mid-2010. Her book blog is Sugarbeat’s Books. Barb has 15 years of teaching and technical training experience and she closely follows where technology is going with respect to books. She’s spent hours training authors on the use of WordPress and more via her consulting business, Bakerview Consulting. She believes that authors need a social media platform to succeed in today’s ever changing world of selling books. “Authors should be allowed to be an author, and not be expected to be a technology expert. Your social media platform doesn’t need to be complicated, difficult or time consuming,” suggests Barb. Let her help you work with technology. She has experience in WordPress Blog design and operation; Side bar/Menu layout; Spam protection; RSS feed; Widget and Button uses; designing and implementing Twitter/Facebook accounts; Automation of RSS feed to multiple destinations; Search Engine Optimization (SEO); consulting for Twitter, Facebook, Goodreads, Pinterest LinkIn, Tumblr, Google+, Networked Blogs, Dlvr.it. Barb offers a free phone consultation to discuss your needs. She charges for her work by the hour and can provide an estimate of costs in advance. Barb can do what is required to get your social media platform up and running or she can teach you how to do the work yourself.

Barb is also the author of 6 books directed at helping authors with their author platform and technical questions. Her books are available on Amazon and more information is available on her author site.