So today is the day the first promotion I ever bought goes up. If you’re reading this, you may have come here via such a thing. I bought a day on Hidden Gems Romance for Dwarves Can’t Climb Trees. This is the first promotion I ever bought, and it’s my attempt to start actual marketing for things I’ve written. Apparently sending messages in a bottle reaches a limited audience. Also, I can’t keep drinking all this Coke. But advertising is expensive, so I’m keeping conservative at first, seeing what works and what doesn’t. This is the first one because this is not so much advertising as review soliciting (cause man,…
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What I Learned From a Seminar on Marketing (Part 1)
I went to an author’s meeting the other day about marketing. This is something that I think a lot of people in my place need to learn about — self-publishers or going with a small press. The thing is, no matter how big or small, from John Scalzi and Stephen King to the author of that “Sex with Dinosaurs” erotica, they all do some kind of marketing. And there isn’t some bigwig telling them what to do. They push their own agenda. The thing that I learned is that a proper marketing push is more than saying “this is a book: you could read it” or buying ads on Goodreads or…
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How Do You Get a Guy Like Me to Pay?
One of John Green’s recent vlogs talked about how to monetize without using advertising. Because advertising sucks, and its awful, and it doesn’t work. It works based on the most views, not the best views. So it’s better to cater to the lowest common denominator than make anything for a special audience. And of course, this concept runs counter to the “New Wave” of video entertainment. YouTube is all about splitting viewership into tinier segments, short durations, and view-when-you-want. And most of it’s made without the need of advertising. Of course, people would like to get money for their work, so the question is, how do you get people to…
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Hot Girls You Don’t Know About: Morgan Smith Goodwin (The Wendy’s Girl)
Here on “The Hot Girls You Don’t Know About”, we aren’t just about highlighting attractive and talented women, we’re also about discovery, and exposing truth where you might not think about it. Take the new Wendy’s girl. If you’ve never thought about this new fresh-face is, here’s the skinny. This woman is Morgan Smith Goodwin, but her Facebook says she’s Maggie Mae Morgan. She’s an actress/singer, but I don’t see any IMDB page for her. Her website is supposed to be here, but I get a 404. Does this woman exist? Aside from information more contradictory than the bible, she’s from the south and been in a few plays/musicals. And…
