Do promotion threads really work?

[NekoSensei]

I've seen a lot of people posting regularly and I do too myself, but I can't help but wonder if people really take a look at other people's works or they simply copy and paste their own link and leave. I think most people do that. Do you guys know any other promoting methods that could be more effective?

[JoshRaed]

Not that well. They don't get you that many fans, just a temporary spike in viewers. I imagine if you have the talent to keep readers the results will be different though.

[NekoSensei]

I don't even get a temporary spike in views xD

[BoomerZ]

The main problem seems to be we are talking amongst ourselves. The casual readers don't come in here.

[NekoSensei]

We should start doing crosspromotions, I've seen that on other sites. Basically, you add a banner of someone else's comic at the end of your own episode and they do the same with yours.Then their readers see your comic and viceversa. But that only work if you two have similar art styles or catter to the same audience.

[EncryptedWriting]

Imo not really. I think it can help at the start but it likely won't lead to actual fans of your creation.

I did the whole promotion thing awhile ago and just got sick of it. I think there needs to be a limit on promotion threads as it just flutters the threads.

[kyupol]

They get it out there. So after repeatedly notifying the world that your comic or novel exists, people will be bound to check it out after more than one exposure to it

[NekoSensei]

So basically... You gotta spam?

[summergirl455]

Some promotion threads work like starting from the beginning, where each creator promoted every comic or a novel for the readers to engage. Perhaps it depends how a reader checked out the series, they might have a review of how it went.

[AmysGames]

Depends. The more focused ones tend to work pretty well. The ones that are just "post your link!!! uwu" usually just result in everything getting buried.

[Ayumi]

Yeah, I think crosspromotion has more sense. But it would probably work only if your comic is at least in the same genre, or having similar art style.