We know that every good business needs networking. So does the writing business. Market your articles through a simple way: Making friends and making them stay!
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An idea struck me while I was browsing through some articles here on Triond. I am amazed to know that a newbie on Triond who has just joined barely since end of last month has got an article which has more than 20 comments. And he only posted around five articles so far. I took a wild guess and thought he must have added a lot of friends. To my surprise, I realized that he has added more than 70 pages of friends.
That lad has merely joined a little more than a week perhaps? And I checked out a random article he wrote only to find that there were 28 comments already! And I figured out how that worked so well for him. You see, I got to know this newbie after I received a message on my inbox. It was an invitation to read his articles. Moreover, the message was phrased in a very polite manner.
When I click on my own profile, I realised that I have only added about six pages’ worth of friends so far. Having said that, I have been with Triond for a year and a half. Well, I have to admit I haven not been that active going around adding anyone I see on Triond. Maybe that’s just me. I tend to add friends here only selectively, although I know there is nothing to lose to add more friends. There is no limit anyway, right? Besides, the point is to garner as many viewership as possible. And more viewership would increase the earnings right?
The most comments I got so far in a single article was the one entitled Thanks to Triond, I Got a Job. It has a total of 22 comments so far. Even so, it is not more than the article the newbie wrote!
So yes. To make someone comment, and thus increasing viewership and earnings ultimately, there’s some “marketing” you need to do. Besides actively adding any Triond-ian you come across, you apply the “sales” process by “following-up” with a simple message. And this is a form of “investment”, as members who like what you wrote would probably follow through by checking out new articles you write in the future. And of course, reciprocate by commenting back would maintain or increase more chances of future viewership to your articles.
Follow these steps and you would find that the views and comments will start rolling in. Not to mention that your articles have more recognition, and are therefore more worthwhile to be published. And that gives you motivation to write more, doesn’t it?
December 7th, 2009 at 12:54 pm
Nice one…
December 7th, 2009 at 1:15 pm
A very interesting article. Thanks for sharing.
December 7th, 2009 at 2:05 pm
Some people simply fall
Some rise
Some surprise.
I have been on Triond
For over a year now
And for max trends you can
Go see my profile.
McDonald and
My Comments on Premarital Sex,
Got the most hits,
Very few comments
They seem to have liked it.
I am a forced
Unconventional pseudo poet
They said I wouldn’t last long,
No one read my initial 100 poems
I wondered what’s gone wrong.
Then some guy or perhaps a gal,
Who liked my hidden nakedness commented
Dear change your name
You are no contemporary poet
That’s no shame
But being a creative poet
Create a creative name
That’s what precisely I did
Changed my name to a sexy one
And
Became Lovely and Honey
A two in one
For some lovely, means a girl
Honey means hubby,
So to me it means much more
As now so many read me
So it’s all in luck who hits you
Where and when,
Hope none will hit me below the belt
And want to know how, to find out
Then
How, where and when
December 9th, 2009 at 12:27 am
I agree. If you check out hot users they have ravished the friends button litterally clicking it to a smouldering stub.
Some have added hundred of friends in an frenzy . j
December 18th, 2009 at 1:53 pm
That is so true. BTW, thanks for adding me as a friend. One of two things, either a person writes without wanting to earn, in which case no marketing is ok. But for more feedback and money, marketing in any way is always good. Sad but true. lol