She wanted to speak from a stage for three years and finally did, standing in an empty room beforehand with tears running down her face. Amy Starr Allen writes that without embarrassment, and it makes a better argument for persistence than any list of tips, because it took precisely as long as it took.
The most immediately useful post explains why hashtags matter more on one particular platform than anywhere else: no clickable link is permitted inside a post there, so the tag is the only route anybody has to find you. She names a free tool that tells you which to use.
Another separates success from significance and argues the second is the harder and more interesting target.
Practical material covers connecting an autoresponder, using a meeting site to find people locally, and what to write about when nothing occurs to you.
Nineteen posts. Read the hashtag one today and the stage one on a discouraging afternoon.