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VIRAL JUICE! #3 Facebook Chat as promotional tool?

VIRAL JUICE! #3 Facebook Chat as promotional tool?

Viral Juice - No Facebook Chat!

Promote wisely (i.e. without Facebook Chat)

There are a lot of ways to use Facebook to promote yourself. Set up a product page for your book, run some polls, post some cool photos, arrange an event, interact with your fans. But Facebook Chat is an awful way to reach out. First of all, it’s unreliable. Secondly, few people use it on their computer to chat in real-time (though mobile is picking up speed). Most people (who know better) set themselves to invisible which means all chats are sent to the Message box. That may be fine for a quick ping. But if you catch someone online and try to chat up your new book with them they probably won’t appreciate it. The ambiance of Facebook is still one of arms-length. Even if you spend a lot of time on it, and feel fulfilled by it, most people use it to interact, but with some distance. Chat is too immediate for Facebook. I expect it will become even less prominent on their website as time goes on.

VIRAL JUICE! #3 Facebook Chat as promotional tool?

VIRAL JUICE! #2 – Pause Your Ad Campaign!

Viral Juice - Pause Your Ad Campaign

Google Ads are awesome. They genuinely generate traffic, which is what we all want, right? But beware! Google likes to send out free ad credits to new sites. You must enter your cc information when you sign up. It’s easy to turn on a few campaigns with those credits and then forget that you will be charged for everything over and beyond the freebie. So put it in your calendar. Pause your ad campaign!

VIRAL JUICE! #3 Facebook Chat as promotional tool?

VIRAL JUICE! A comic strip with a disgusting name about self promotion

 

comic strip that lambastes social media

Years ago I did a comic strip titled The Block. It was a wonderful part of my creative life and I realize I miss it. I’ll be posting this new strip, Viral Juice, as often as possible. What’s “Viral Juice” mean? Well, I can tell you that it will lambaste our obsession with using social media for self promotion. For more than that simple summary, tune in next week to find out!