Thank you for this very detailed response! It's very helpful.
In my observation, periodic events tend to do better, because people think of them when the announcement goes up and they know it's not open all the time.
Yes, that was my thinking, and limited experience, as well.
The rule here is that intermittent projects can post whenever they update. Ongoing or daily projects can post about once a week, or when they do something extra special. So you could be right about getting buried if the project is ongoing -- the intermittent ones seem to attract more attention.
Yes, that sounds quite reasonable.
That's likely. Consider your work style too -- do you deal better with stuff all at once, or spread out? I like to keep the Poetry Fishbowl concise, because then I can just devote a whole day to writing poems. meeksp spreads out her requests in Story Sketches. djinni takes requests during Icon Day but then spreads out the painting of the icons over several weeks.
I'm in a place right now where devoting an entire day or two to multiple projects just isn't feasible, but taking requests on certain days and completing them within a week or so seems to work quite well for me.
I built for it, and I've been doing the Poetry Fishbowl for 4 years now. My LJ is a little older; it started in summer of 2007. I looked for people who were creative, or loved reading, or had some interesting expertise. I browsed friends' journals and friended people who made insightful comments. When I saw important issues come up, I wrote anchor posts about them to attract more eyeballs. I posted polls and things to encourage audience interaction. Later on I was able to generate a lot of cross-traffic by boosting the signal for crowdfunding activities, which encourages the creators to do the same for my projects.
All very good suggestions, some of which I've been dabbling with and finding some success from. Thank you :)
In crowdfunding, I made a point of creating a range of prices -- one poem gets posted free, there are different sizes of poetry to buy, and then sponsored poems go up so everyone can see them for free. Scrapbooked poetry pages have a range also.
Sounds about like what I'm considering for my Portrait Days. Various options, different prices for each option, and posting final pieces to my blog with permission of those who commissioned me.
Thank you also for the article link; will take a look. :)
In my observation, periodic events tend to do better, because people think of them when the announcement goes up and they know it's not open all the time.
Yes, that was my thinking, and limited experience, as well.
The rule here is that intermittent projects can post whenever they update. Ongoing or daily projects can post about once a week, or when they do something extra special. So you could be right about getting buried if the project is ongoing -- the intermittent ones seem to attract more attention.
Yes, that sounds quite reasonable.
That's likely. Consider your work style too -- do you deal better with stuff all at once, or spread out? I like to keep the Poetry Fishbowl concise, because then I can just devote a whole day to writing poems. meeksp spreads out her requests in Story Sketches. djinni takes requests during Icon Day but then spreads out the painting of the icons over several weeks.
I'm in a place right now where devoting an entire day or two to multiple projects just isn't feasible, but taking requests on certain days and completing them within a week or so seems to work quite well for me.
I built for it, and I've been doing the Poetry Fishbowl for 4 years now. My LJ is a little older; it started in summer of 2007. I looked for people who were creative, or loved reading, or had some interesting expertise. I browsed friends' journals and friended people who made insightful comments. When I saw important issues come up, I wrote anchor posts about them to attract more eyeballs. I posted polls and things to encourage audience interaction. Later on I was able to generate a lot of cross-traffic by boosting the signal for crowdfunding activities, which encourages the creators to do the same for my projects.
All very good suggestions, some of which I've been dabbling with and finding some success from. Thank you :)
In crowdfunding, I made a point of creating a range of prices -- one poem gets posted free, there are different sizes of poetry to buy, and then sponsored poems go up so everyone can see them for free. Scrapbooked poetry pages have a range also.
Sounds about like what I'm considering for my Portrait Days. Various options, different prices for each option, and posting final pieces to my blog with permission of those who commissioned me.
Thank you also for the article link; will take a look. :)
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