And here are Daisy’s 7 Best Practices for Building an Online Presence
1. Be consistent online

- Blog every day or once a week or not at all. Establish the schedule for you and then stick to it.

- Decide what you want it to be about – Writing, querying, kids, family?

2. Pick and choose where you want to be online

- You don’t have to be on all platforms. Do you want to blog, tweet, FB? All of them? Have them connected?

3. Have a personal code – what is your code?

- I have a list of things I will and won’t tweet about and I keep that as a draft in my email.

- minimize tweets about book itself

- don’t tweet while you are drinking, don’t overshare

- be positive

4. Develop a Brand – Think about what you want to be known for and focus on that

- Your reputation online is real! It matters. It lives and breathes and you need to figure out what it is. Treat it delicately and carefully like you would a resume for a job and always put your best foot forward.

- Do not complain about editors, agents or other writers

- Avoid negativity

-If you don’t have something nice to say don’t say it (Save it for texts or emails with friends or families!)

- I would avoid chronicling your rejections.

5. Building a community: How to reach out and develop friends
-Comment on other blogs

-Read their blogs

-Find like-minded friends on Twitter

-Reply to their tweets

-Interact

6. Be authentic
-At the end of the day you need to be yourself. But your best self. And your most authentic self. Inauthenticity can be spotted a mile away! Do your best to be true to who you are and to convey that in your online presence. You need to enjoy it!

7. Know your limits
-I had to pull back on blogging as it was impacting my day job and my writing

-Writing is more important

-The best thing for your online presence at the end of the day is writing your book

Cyberstalk Daisy at her blog and on Twitter.