My goal for the rest of this year is to get over 100,000 followers for my Lightship Chronicles, but I'm falling far short, and I'm stuck, and my confidence is falling fast. I don't know what else to do. For those of you with more experience than me, my question is, is this reasonable? Or are my expectations too high? I really thought that since I'm giving it away for free I would get a flood of readers.
My biggest issue is that I'm really bad at self promotion, and I'm a bit antisocial even online. For me even talking to people on forums, or using twitter and facebook is like going to the dentist. Very uncomfortable and unpleasant. So I'm worried that I'll never reach my 100000 goal. I'm clueless when it comes to promoting online. I've tried posting to Twitter and Facebook, but other than posts like; hey, here's a free story for you, I don't know how else to promote myself. How do you guys do it? Or is the only option to spend thousands of dollars buying advertising. At this point I can't do this because I'm in a bad financial situation. And all this stress and worry, on top of my day job, is interfering with my ability to continue writing this series. So I'm afraid I'm not going to reach my goal from two angles. First, it doesn't seem that I have the knowledge to correctly promote the story and find its audience, and second, the stress of that, in addition to other issues, may kill the series all together. That would be devastating. So any advice or insight from your success stories would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks.
My biggest issue is that I'm really bad at self promotion, and I'm a bit antisocial even online. For me even talking to people on forums, or using twitter and facebook is like going to the dentist. Very uncomfortable and unpleasant. So I'm worried that I'll never reach my 100000 goal. I'm clueless when it comes to promoting online. I've tried posting to Twitter and Facebook, but other than posts like; hey, here's a free story for you, I don't know how else to promote myself. How do you guys do it? Or is the only option to spend thousands of dollars buying advertising. At this point I can't do this because I'm in a bad financial situation. And all this stress and worry, on top of my day job, is interfering with my ability to continue writing this series. So I'm afraid I'm not going to reach my goal from two angles. First, it doesn't seem that I have the knowledge to correctly promote the story and find its audience, and second, the stress of that, in addition to other issues, may kill the series all together. That would be devastating. So any advice or insight from your success stories would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks.