This week on Author U - Your Guide to Book Publishing, Judith Briles will explore the Influence Factor... how authors can build it for themselves and their books. Digital influence is growing ... you as an author need to be tuned in and tuned on!

Your take-aways include:

-What is Klout and why you should care?

-What about this thing called Kred?

-Author tip: how to feed the #Klout beast daily to skyrocket you and your #book influence factors.

-Savvy #author tips to create advocate #marketing for your book.

-How to boost your score when it goes limp.

-What steps you need to take first to get the attention of the SEO world and attract Klout.

-What are the key Klout factors--what counts, what doesn't.

-There are over 12 billion data points--only 400 key areas--what counts?

Joining Judith will be Terry Brock, the author of the newly published Klout Matters: How to Engage Customers, Build Our Digital Influence and Raise Your Klout Score for Success! In this fast pace, yet very hands on session, you will come away with an array of “ahas” and an entire new way to think of your author and book promotion, marketing and influence.