Last week I was thinking I needed some strong social media
presence for promoting my short stories and such... Web
based social media has all these features that shoehorn
posts from third parties into people's news feed... BBS
don't really allow you to share comercial content you found
elsewhere and force it into your friends newsfeed in a
convenient way without looking spammy.
To be honest, I am likely to skip social media for promoting
stories the same way I skip it for everything else. Maybe I
should try to Establish my brand here as an experiment?
For that... a mixed blessing is, ultimately, Facebook. THAT's where people hang
out. The built-in friend-network spreads the news about your existence for you.
For that... a mixed blessing is, ultimately, Facebook. THAT's where people hang out. The built-in friend-network spreads the news about
your existence for you.
An actual book/reading audience is likely in different circles. Social media might be a good way to announce the existence of your your
material, but then it would be best to have your own website for the actual material. Many authors have their own sites. Add the suitable
meta keywords and google is surely to find it for most people too.
I used to be in Facebook a lot of time ago. I was active
and everything. Eventually I deleted my account because it
was too much work to sustain and it didn't beat legging it
to actual conventions, meetings and events.
I am not impressed by social media at all. It helps you put
your posts in the friends of the friends of your followers,
but you need to gather followers elsewhere in the first
place. That is the hard part.
That is also the reason I am skipping Patreon for the time
being. It only makes sense if you have a sizeable fanbase
to work with.
My online presence right now is my website, my account in
some publishers creative writing workshop, and IRC. Oh, and
the BBS too :-) Most of my fans are very anti-facebook so I
gues regular social-networking is a bit of a dead-end.
I am expecting mail from you btw. You were off for a couple
of days and I was getting worried for you :-P
I see that Patreon even encourages "Writers & Journalists", and
there seem to be several successful people represented there.
If there is no fixed monthy cost to you, why not get started
anyway?
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