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Selfie Made: Your Ultimate Guide to Social Media Stardom
With just an idea and wi-fi, Meridith Valiando Rojas started her wildly successful company, DigiTour. Now she is sharing her stories, tip and tricks, and more in Selfie Made: Your Ultimate Guide to Social Media Stardom.
Whether you want to be a social star or online entrepreneur, Meridith has you covered! As one of the first companies in the social media ecosystem Meridith and her company DigiTour Media have worked with over 500 social stars from nearly every platform, seeing first hand how people go viral, grow an audience, and leverage the popularity of the internet to build their brand in front of, or behind the camera. Sharing her personal and zany stories while providing real-world (never shared) advice, Meridith gives a peek behind the curtain of DigiTour and what it's been like working with every major star from YouTube to Musical.ly. With some of her biggest social friends weighing in with advice, Q&A's, sample schedules, and their secret tips and tricks—if you want to launch your online career, this book is for you!
Whether you want to be a social star or online entrepreneur, Meridith has you covered! As one of the first companies in the social media ecosystem Meridith and her company DigiTour Media have worked with over 500 social stars from nearly every platform, seeing first hand how people go viral, grow an audience, and leverage the popularity of the internet to build their brand in front of, or behind the camera. Sharing her personal and zany stories while providing real-world (never shared) advice, Meridith gives a peek behind the curtain of DigiTour and what it's been like working with every major star from YouTube to Musical.ly. With some of her biggest social friends weighing in with advice, Q&A's, sample schedules, and their secret tips and tricks—if you want to launch your online career, this book is for you!
272 pages, Paperback
Published October 16, 2018
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September 21, 2018
I love it, it´s greatest.
December 29, 2019
I’m an old hand at the internet and an early user of Facebook and some other social tools. And this was a take on social that is a step beyond what I was familiar with. Rojas approaches her topic from her expertise gained from running her company, DigiTour, which provides a live tour of viral social media “stars”. From her perspective, having a post go viral is key, and she provides advice on how to engineer your social media for optimum virality, if that’s a word. Interspersed with the advice are stories of her business. I found these stories were very interesting, with parts of her experience being a kind of concert promoter mixed in with her learnings in social media. As a how-to book, this was interesting given the currency of the topic, but I couldn’t decide whether the topics have limited audience or not. The audience Rojas describes tends to be young, younger than 25, and you can’t tell if these tactics work with older audiences. The book is very worthwhile if you want to appeal to this demographic. I also enjoyed the “business biography” of DigiTour and Rojas’ growth operating her business. Great tour stories, and great stories about how to blaze trails in creating a new kind of venue, a “talent” show where the “talent” is in acquiring views online.
October 11, 2018
I was given this book by the publisher in exchange for an honest review.
Today’s post is on Selfie Made: Your Ultimate Guide to Social Media Stardom by Meridith Valiando Rojas. It is 272 pages long and is published by Wednesday News. The cover is yellow with a cell phone in the center. The intended reader is young adult and interested in being the next big internet star. There is no foul language, no sex, and no violence in this book. There Be Spoilers Ahead.
From the back of the book- With just an idea and wi-fi, Meridith Valiando Rojas started her wildly successful company, DigiTour. Now she is sharing her stories, tip and tricks, and more in Selfie Made: Your Ultimate Guide to Social Media Stardom.
Whether you want to be a social star or online entrepreneur, Meridith has you covered! As one of the first companies in the social media ecosystem Meridith and her company DigiTour Media have worked with over 500 social stars from nearly every platform, seeing firsthand how people go viral, grow an audience, and leverage the popularity of the internet to build their brand in front of, or behind the camera. Sharing her personal and zany stories while providing real-world (never shared) advice, Meridith gives a peek behind the curtain of DigiTour and what it's been like working with every major star from YouTube to Musical.ly. With some of her biggest social friends weighing in with advice, Q&A's, sample schedules, and their secret tips and tricks—if you want to launch your online career, this book is for you!
Review- This is a book with some good tips on internet stardom but that about it. Rojas talks about her life, how she made her business, and some ideas about what you can do to make yourself internet famous. But if you looking for anything more than that, then this book is not for you. The real focus of this book is musically based and how to make it in this new music world. If that is what you are interested in, then Rojas has some great advice for you but if you want to something else, like because the next big book reviewer, she does not have anything for you really. But it was still an interesting and easy read with interviews of interesting people, so you do not lose anything by giving this a look.
I give this a Three out of Five stars.
Today’s post is on Selfie Made: Your Ultimate Guide to Social Media Stardom by Meridith Valiando Rojas. It is 272 pages long and is published by Wednesday News. The cover is yellow with a cell phone in the center. The intended reader is young adult and interested in being the next big internet star. There is no foul language, no sex, and no violence in this book. There Be Spoilers Ahead.
From the back of the book- With just an idea and wi-fi, Meridith Valiando Rojas started her wildly successful company, DigiTour. Now she is sharing her stories, tip and tricks, and more in Selfie Made: Your Ultimate Guide to Social Media Stardom.
Whether you want to be a social star or online entrepreneur, Meridith has you covered! As one of the first companies in the social media ecosystem Meridith and her company DigiTour Media have worked with over 500 social stars from nearly every platform, seeing firsthand how people go viral, grow an audience, and leverage the popularity of the internet to build their brand in front of, or behind the camera. Sharing her personal and zany stories while providing real-world (never shared) advice, Meridith gives a peek behind the curtain of DigiTour and what it's been like working with every major star from YouTube to Musical.ly. With some of her biggest social friends weighing in with advice, Q&A's, sample schedules, and their secret tips and tricks—if you want to launch your online career, this book is for you!
Review- This is a book with some good tips on internet stardom but that about it. Rojas talks about her life, how she made her business, and some ideas about what you can do to make yourself internet famous. But if you looking for anything more than that, then this book is not for you. The real focus of this book is musically based and how to make it in this new music world. If that is what you are interested in, then Rojas has some great advice for you but if you want to something else, like because the next big book reviewer, she does not have anything for you really. But it was still an interesting and easy read with interviews of interesting people, so you do not lose anything by giving this a look.
I give this a Three out of Five stars.
January 12, 2019
I loved it! I loved the excitement and rush and encouragement the author gave her readers, alongside tips, secrets, and awesome anecdotes.
Even though I am completely out of the age range of this book's targeted audience, I've learned so much that I can use in my own endeavors of promoting my accounts and projects.
Thank you, Meridith Rojas and St. Martin's Press, for the gift!
Even though I am completely out of the age range of this book's targeted audience, I've learned so much that I can use in my own endeavors of promoting my accounts and projects.
Thank you, Meridith Rojas and St. Martin's Press, for the gift!
March 29, 2019
The book was okay. Some of it was useful, but there are areas that could have been more useful. It doesn't mention anything about WordPress, or how to monetize our social platforms. She doesn't suggest ways to customize our platforms. She doesn't give advice on how to live stream videos or edit them. If you're writing a book about blogging there needs to be more details.
July 8, 2024
Published in 2018 -- predating Tiktok -- and now deeply outdated. Still interesting as a historical document of how this one social media influencer thought about her job and role in 2018. There are some lessons that apply to the 2024 landscape, but platforms and norms change so fast in this realm that I can't recommend this as anything more than an interesting historical document.
September 18, 2018
This book guide had good tips and tricks on how to be an active social media famous person. I love this book and enjoy it. If you want to read a novel and learn how to be a star on social media, then please read this book.
May 9, 2019
Selfie Made really targets a young audience with tips and tricks for becoming an internet sensation. No so great for older audiences wanting to use social media to enhance an existing business. Not bad, but not applicable.
July 19, 2018
Some very good tips!
September 10, 2018
Great book for those who are looking to branch out in the digital media space. Very informative and fun to hear about.
March 3, 2019
Three words: intense, relevant, realistic.
May 20, 2019
It was good but pretty repetitive.
September 23, 2025
Very outdated, a lot of blah blah blah... personal stories and stories about other influencers. Not much useful info even if it was current. Don't bother.
January 5, 2026
Truly appreciated how well Rojas explained the business side of social media and how disruptive this new model has been. Reading it in the era AI, I wonder if a new version is warranted?!
October 13, 2018
Selfie Made: Your Ultimate Guide to Social Media Stardom is written in Autobiography incorporated the storytelling technique of writing about the social media and how a young boy or girl should wisely take advantage of social networks to become successful in professional life. The intended reader is young adult (Gen X, the targeted demographic) who want to be a social star or online entrepreneur.
Meridith the Author of Selfie Made Book, explained her life story since she was 10 and performing in Theatre, dreaming of songwriting, singing and her parents who supported her and gave her advice, she explains the difference between social media, and which one you should choose for your dreams, who you need to follow and how to get more active followers on your social network.
Selfie Made teaches you how and when post on social media, how to write the caption and how to use hashtags, Meridith also interviewed celebrities and social stars and revealed their secret of success which could be really important for millennials who don't know where and how to start.
As a Social Media book it's an awesome book not just for teens and young entrepreneurs but also adults who are business owners with no experience of digital or social media marketing, can benefit from it, if I knew a teenager who was looking for a book to give them advice on how to follow their dreams, and how to make them come true, I would suggest Selfie Made book to them.
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Meridith the Author of Selfie Made Book, explained her life story since she was 10 and performing in Theatre, dreaming of songwriting, singing and her parents who supported her and gave her advice, she explains the difference between social media, and which one you should choose for your dreams, who you need to follow and how to get more active followers on your social network.
Selfie Made teaches you how and when post on social media, how to write the caption and how to use hashtags, Meridith also interviewed celebrities and social stars and revealed their secret of success which could be really important for millennials who don't know where and how to start.
As a Social Media book it's an awesome book not just for teens and young entrepreneurs but also adults who are business owners with no experience of digital or social media marketing, can benefit from it, if I knew a teenager who was looking for a book to give them advice on how to follow their dreams, and how to make them come true, I would suggest Selfie Made book to them.
https://lnkd.in/eG7Xi2v
October 18, 2018
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This is a 101 guide to enter the virtual world of social media. The book is clear and it explains how it works and how to use social media from scratch using different platforms like Instagram, Twitter, Facebook and more. I loved the section of how to select who to follow.
This is a 101 guide to enter the virtual world of social media. The book is clear and it explains how it works and how to use social media from scratch using different platforms like Instagram, Twitter, Facebook and more. I loved the section of how to select who to follow.
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