I’ll Self-Promote Like Crazy for a Week
Let’s just see what happens…
Let’s just see what happens…
I have always self-promoted. I usually wore a sandwich board wherever I went, inviting people to read my stories.
I used Twitter a lot. I beeped and re-beeped the old Renault horn with all my stories.
In March, I read that I should limit my self-promotional tweets to only 20%.
So I backed way off. The kinder, gentler tweeter in me took the reins.
To be honest, I think I did pick up a lot more great Twitter followers during that period, but my story views dropped to a third of what they had been previously.
After a couple of weeks at the lower rate, I started to worry about this trend. so I stepped the tweets back up, not all the way, but significantly.
My views that week rose hallway back to where they were before.
I now intend to self-promote like crazy this week to see what that does.
I have decided there is a fine line to walk between polite tweeting and aggressive story promotion. I feel that although a larger Twitter following is very much to the author's advantage in many non-measurable ways, the number of reads and fans have a more direct effect on what I earn.
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