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Getting excited about friends' stuff on social media is really fun and has the added benefit of being public so others see your excitement and think "maybe I'll like this thing too"! Yes yes yes! It takes nothing away from you to be pumped about the work of others!

Oh! And don't be afraid to repost your work! You can even get real creative with it or maybe add more depth to those previous pieces.

I see a lot of people do redraws of previous works, or they do side by side of something they changed in their style. Or hell -- sometimes, people repost it because they really liked that piece and just wanted it back on their timeline. :blush:

Thank you very much for the tips :slight_smile:
I think its also really important to figure out which time is the best to update.
because sometimes I get a lot of views and others literally no one look at it.
So I'm pretty curious which time you think is the best for your audience?

So this is one thing I played with over time and actually what influenced me most was other social media. I knew that if I posted my comic at 8am EST, readers would trickle in a bit slower due to simply not being awake, than if I posted at 11am EST. 11am is when twitter really starts to pick up, and at the time (and still) that's where my biggest following is so I'd post at 11, tweet my update links, and hope!

As for days of the week I've seen lots of different opinions! I update Tuesdays/Thursdays, it seems like Wednesdays are really popular days too. And though weekends seem slower on Tapas, I've heard folks say Sunday nights are great for Webtoon because that's when a lot of originals update.

Now that I only update on my website, I tend to schedule pages to post at midnight--1 because there's no trending to worry about, and 2 it's a popular time for webcomic websites to update and lots of people are still awake, watching their RSS feeds.

I'm sorry this answer is all over the place. I think it's one thing that's gonna vary depending on your audience.

ah ok thank you. <3
Social media sadly didn’t work by me :frowning:
I tried it for so long, but don’t get follower and nearly no likes or retweets, even when I use the hashtags to support webtoons.
I think that works mostly only for accounts with a lot follower. Some accounts only get fucked up from the twitter algorithm XD

This is great advice! I started by writing on blogspot, and then moved to Tapas. I've had more engagement on Tapas, but not much. I like Tapas as a episodic platform. It's much easier than posting to blogspot. I haven't started an instagram, but twitter has been fairly helpful, and posting on the tapas forums have worked well too. I'm working on a more professional cover - which I know is very important. I'm looking forward to doing more projects here. Thanks for the forum post!

I havent had any luck on Twitter and Instagram and I've been using relevant hashtags. I've got the numbers I have now because I have been featured briefly on both sites, but I cannot seem to grow organically on social media. I'm pretty sure I know my audience, but I have no idea how to reach them.

I only have the first two points down, but that's only helping me so much.

A lot of the growth I could control on twitter came from interacting with other creators. Start following webcomic creators, comment on their posts, and make yourself known! Admittedly, hashtags can really be tough on twitter on account of their "top" feature boosting already popular creators to the top of the hashtag. The big accounts get all the eyes.

Sometimes, folks do art share threads where they ask you to post your art and they'll retweet it! I did one for webcomics a bit ago, and you've inspired me to make another!

Here it is: https://twitter.com/byelacey/status/129544479317108326428

I do, but folks are promoting their stuff, hoping to make a sale, they are not there to find someone else to read.

And, well, I rarely get likes or retweets when I advertise--honestly, I think people are actually less likely to want to read you if you advertise your book, no matter how clever a quote or a pitch I put in.

There is always this dead silence apart from my already existing nice friends.

The other day, i hit my Twitter best with 167 people liking my first line from the 'Write the first line for a novel inspired by this picture" and that made zero difference in people looking at my profile/links to my books. Only 3(!) out of these 167 people retweeted my line. Probably zero of them visited my profile.

Social Media just baffles me. I end up talking about what interests me on Twitter, but it doesn't translate at all in my readership numbers.

Social media boosting can be beneficial, whether comic or novel creator. Plenty of people read both. I’ve seen some topics where people post their social media accounts. Wouldn’t hurt to help each other promote and gain followers.

Of course, this is on top of engaging outside of the forums under comments on our updates and such. Increase your visibility so people will say “hey I know that profile, I see it everywhere.” Some people shout each other out in their author's notes (I got a sub that way). Definitely don’t beg people to do so, but it’s another option

Actually you know what, if you wanna post your novel links I'll boost it too! I tend to forget tapas has a thriving novel community, my head's always in comics. T_T

Oh, I do that, but the only SM I really grew comfortable with are forums, because one can actually talk about writing.

I had to start over on twitter so I lost all my followers. So I’m ever so slowly getting back up there. I like the forums too but I want to tap into the non creator audience of tapas. As far as people to talk about regarding writing, I’m fine here

yeah!! i tend to only think in comics sometimes and that's my bad! I'll also boost novels!