Making more money on Triond is a lot more than just pumping articles
and crossing your fingers. But it is also more than just commenting,
although that’s a good start. Here’s a how-to-guide based on helping each other.
This mentality is actually not very different from the understanding of creating value for your customers in marketing. You help people out and they help you out in return. If your product/service/article/blogpost/short story….can help someone enhance their lives, have more fun, escape the responsibilities of the real world or gain them any other benefit, that person will give you something in return too. They will buy more, read more and interact with you more.
Luckily for us Triond writers, market research doesn’t have to complicated. Our target audience consists mostly of fellow writers. Sure, there are non-writers. You do your best to write the best articles you can. And fingers crossed, they will come back.
Your fellow writers though- it is easier to make them come back: Just support them. Here is how:
*Read their articles
* Comment on them.
* Click on the like button. If you have noticed an article related to the stuff you are writing, link to their articles. Almost all my friends here write about a variety of stuff so it shouldn’t be hard. For instance, in this article I am talking about how to gain more views. Martine has an article on the unpredictability of traffic.
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* If they are using Twitter, Facebook, Stumble Upon, Digg and/or other social media, friend them. And post their stuff there or if they have already posted it, you can give them a thumbs up on their votes. I regularly try to check if my friends on Triond have Twitter or Stumble Upon or Digg accounts. I log in, see what they have posted there and click on them. On stumble, I give them a thumbs up. On digg, I “digg” it. What I do is make their stuff more visible and popular. I might have missed your accounts so if you use these tools, let me know.
My nickname is “zoeyclark” on all 3. If you have posted stuff there, send me a note.
* Are you on other writing sites like Associated Content, Helium, Bukisa, Factoidz? Let each other know. I am on Bukisa, Factoidz and Associated Content, for instance.
More views=more friends= more support=more fun.
*Join in the conversation. If you are commenting, comment the way I encourage you to. And if you have time, take a look at other people’s comments. Did they give their nicknames for the social media sites? For the writing sites? Add them and ask them to add you. There is commenting and then there is participation. Make most of the community.
* Visit each other’s blogs. For example I was visiting Guy Hogan’s blog just now. I noticed his links to his older triond articles. Clicked on one and left my comment.
* Which reminds me- look through each other’s articles. Who cares if it was written last February? It is there, right? Which means it is there to be read and commented upon. And a great way to remind a fun article is not forgotten.
Here is what happens in a community: We help each other out. What do we get in return? Sure, more cents or a couple of bucks, in monetary terms. But it is actually more than that. We make friends, gain an audience, and help our friends reach a wider audience. Yes, we know commenting is great and we all do it but do not ignore the social tools. Stick to my hints and suggestions. And before we know it, we will have read a lot of fun stuff, made more friends, learned a great deal about a variety of topics and most importantly, made much better use of the Triond community.
April 14th, 2010 at 5:06 am
great article Zoey, it makes a lot of sense.
April 14th, 2010 at 8:45 am
thanks lily:) it is how the whole thing works so why not make the most of it?
April 14th, 2010 at 9:55 am
You are right about everything. In my particular case I have so many other writing commitments that the only thing I can do on Triond is to read articles and leave comments. I ghost write for Textbroker. I’m the editor/publisher of the Pittsburgh Flash Fiction Gazette, I follow ProBlogger and I’m a contributor to Flash Fiction Chronicles. That doesn’t leave me much time for any other social media to boost my fellow writers. I have to do all my boosting here. But you are absolutely right in what you say.
April 14th, 2010 at 10:39 am
Very good advice. Well done.
April 14th, 2010 at 2:05 pm
Excellent advice.
April 14th, 2010 at 2:06 pm
@ Guy: Thanks, Guy. I appreciate it. It is the same with my writing gigs and blog. They all take so much time but while I’m on Triond, why not make the most of it? With blogging, your own your own to create your very own community. Here, there is a whole community waiting for interaction.
@Peter: Thanks, Peter
April 14th, 2010 at 2:08 pm
Thank you, Mace. I tried my best to show I mean it in my blog. Linked to Guy’s blog and linked to Martine’s article. I was going to try and link to more articles by my friends, but then the piece was never going to get finished. But it is a start.
April 15th, 2010 at 10:05 pm
good one.
April 16th, 2010 at 7:50 am
thanks, V.
April 18th, 2010 at 1:58 pm
Lovely article
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I really liked it
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good effort
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well done
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looks like you’re really a good writer
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thanks for sharing this article
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Regards,
From Mr Arrogant
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April 18th, 2010 at 7:57 pm
nice article, i just followed you on twitter. i’m @MatthewSE on twitter. i’m also on factoidz, bukisa, helium, redgage, i have a blogspot blog, wordpress, hubpages, and there are other sites i write for but i just cant think of their names right now.
April 19th, 2010 at 6:02 am
@ Thanks Matthew. I followed you back on Twitter. I am glad you applied what’s written in the article. I will friend on you those places as well. Just send me the names of your blogs as well.
April 19th, 2010 at 7:18 am
I think its a great share. I would like to add that it is important to comment on others articles and mean it. I really don’t believe in saying “hey…great share” when the article might be trash. So its important that we mean what we say.
April 19th, 2010 at 7:57 am
@yep,vanguard. it is important to mean it and it is important to read and show it. adding value is crucial.
April 20th, 2010 at 12:51 pm
I almost don’t believe this place earns anymore …the pay-rate has dropped so much in the last 3-6 months and the ads that jump & hover on Triond articles have become annoying to the point of spammish..
April 21st, 2010 at 2:02 pm
you are right, stickman. still, it is a relief to know that you can
make something instead of nothing by publishing what you want.
I wish we had the freedom and the bucks in the same place.