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Post by HDSimplicityy on Mar 29, 2022 23:40:38 GMT -6
I post about my writing almost every week on Tuesdays, on my writers' website. Ill post it to Facebook, mentioning my brand new author page for it. Ill also post it in Discord servers. And now Im trying Reddit rather than continuing with Twitter, and I am unsure how to do that properly yet. That was advised by a social media marketing consultation a few weeks ago. And all this makes marketing annoying and tedious and necessary. Wordpress tell me I have 22 subscribers though.
I don't think Im good at it nor effective. Roughly six months I have been at it. Not that long, no, but still. I don't yet have the ability to pay someone to do this. When I do, Ill let them do it all for me.
What strategies am I missing? I've taken a free course on Google for digital marketing. Maybe there are writers' updates on other sites to find good ideas. Maybe break them up with real life stuff? I do not want to turn it into a blog. I'm sure peeps here have that process down.
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Post by RAVENEYE on Mar 31, 2022 12:12:34 GMT -6
This is the grossest thing about the industry, IMO. I think I'd rather slog out synopses, outlines, and query packages than waste time with social media, but apparently it's a necessary evil.
I have never gotten comfortable with it or had success with it.
One thing I learned about from marketing panels is newsletters. Apparently you can turn your blog posts, life tidbits, story samples, etc. into newsletters and use a service like MailChimp to bulk-send newsletters to subscribers' inboxes.
I have not tried this yet, but some say it's marketing gold.
That said, I highly recommend attending the Nebula Conference in May. They always have panels on marketing and stuff related to marketing, b/c writers know this is the hardest thing for many of us. You can ask questions of the authors on the panel. Also, you might consider signing up for a mentor during conference time to ask your questions directly in a Zoom session.
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Post by HDSimplicityy on Apr 2, 2022 22:54:54 GMT -6
This is the grossest thing about the industry, IMO. I think I'd rather slog out synopses, outlines, and query packages than waste time with social media, but apparently it's a necessary evil. I have never gotten comfortable with it or had success with it. One thing I learned about from marketing panels is newsletters. Apparently you can turn your blog posts, life tidbits, story samples, etc. into newsletters and use a service like MailChimp to bulk-send newsletters to subscribers' inboxes. I have not tried this yet, but some say it's marketing gold. That said, I highly recommend attending the Nebula Conference in May. They always have panels on marketing and stuff related to marketing, b/c writers know this is the hardest thing for many of us. You can ask questions of the authors on the panel. Also, you might consider signing up for a mentor during conference time to ask your questions directly in a Zoom session. Its pricy but it sounds worth it. I'm trying to get full time, long term work again, so I don't know. And there's some other things I want to buy that are much more expensive lol. Suppose its more important for the long term. You know, a newsletter sounds a helluva lot less stressful than weekly updates. Its frustrating to have barely anyone read them. No one responds. Im tired of them; its not fun. Add in some life updates in between writing updates in a once a month newsletter... that sounds more appealing. How have you gotten word out of your books? |
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You add them to your profile as you do them around the forum.
