Nov11-17; On laziness and Social Networking

[covenmouse]

Heavy duty lessons and levels of emotional intensity, along with ‘should I stay or should I go’ scenarios, and reminders of people who have up and left; any and all of things are what’s on top of the stack at the moment. You know for sure that you’ll make it through this, but right now you’re feeling like it would be great if someone or

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[ellorgast]

I find it useful for webcomics to have Twitter, or a LiveJournal community, or both. I don't personally like using Facebook for fandom-type things--my family watches me on there. But as far as I can tell, the best way to build up a continuous reader base is to give people an easy way of being aware of updates, whether through an RSS feed or LJ or anything

[covenmouse]

/nods/ I like the LJ comm idea for easy updates, extras, etc. I've seen a very few webcomics do it, but I appreciate it when I see it. The FB thing makes me nervous as I'm not really sure I'm ready for my family to be aware of fandom things, and there would be too many ways to link it to me unless I used a pseudonym. Maybe I'm just a fuddy-duddy.

Shiny art tends to be the biggest draw, according to the forums. XD Most people into the webcomics scene tend to go "oooo" and click, without caring what it is. Which I'm kind of banking on, really. /cough/ I've also heard good things about Top Web Comics, specifically, for the whole chart thing.

<3 Thanks for the offer, hun, especially with the time of it you've been having. If you're sure about that, since you have G-mail, I'll just copy you into the permissions. XD I host everything on G-Docs these days.

[ellorgast]

I like LJ comms because you get the interaction between fans and author without having to sign up for forums. Lots of comics have their own forums, and it seems to work, but I rarely sign up for them or bother to check them regularly. And yeah, just not into Facebook for fandom things. I don't think you need one.

Exactly on the shiny art. XD You clearly have shiny abilities, which will garner a ton of attention right off the bat.

Oh yeah, guest art for other comics might be good too. It gets other artists noticing you and linking your stuff, and regulars of those comics who like what they see will probably check yours out.

[covenmouse]

lmao, definitely on the guest art thing. XD I went to a web comic marketing panel at a Con last year, and one of the guys mentioned that--and that one of the larger name artists who runs QC actually prides himself on being a "website crasher," as he has a habit of linking webcomics who do fanart for him and totally killer their server with traffic. XD

[baine]

I wouldn't mind helping you beta as well. I know how much an extra pair of eyes can mean! :)

[covenmouse]

I would very much welcome the help! I think you have a gmail, right, if I remember corectly? I just kinda... do everything on GDocs anymore, since I generally always have a net connection of somesort. XD

[baine]

Yep! Are you still at yahoo..wait, no, you said GDocs. I don't think I have your new email on file. I'll send you a LJ message with my email, since it's my name :)

[baine]

Ah, you can't accept them! Um...is yours the same as yahoo (and this) except at gmail?

[baine]

One of my friends recently started an online comic with one of her friends called Namesake. They set up a LJ account for the comic that links every time there's an update (helps me remember to check it out!). This week, they posted this entry: http://namesakecomic.livejournal.com/2735.html. It stated that now that they have 30 pages, they'll be able to host ads to get revenue. Maybe you'll consider that at some point. On her personal journal (http://dqbunny.livejournal.com/462397.html), my friend blogged that the comic has its first ad up over at http://www.redstringcomic.com/, with more on the way. So they're starting to advertise on popular comics to get more traffic. Maybe this can help you at some point?