So Tapas is great for creators to connect with other creators. And that is awesome. But how do we connect with all those readers that we create for?
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usually just chatting with them whenever they comment on your work! Or have something you're socially active on like twitter or facebook or tumblr or something like that. Or even better, join a discord group!
Most readers-only readers are on mobile in my experience. So the best way to reach them is through your series' episodes and episode descriptions.
It normally does since you can basically create comics and novels. But I have a good amount of subscribers who actually are there to just read your works and not create anything. Mainly its because of the way you can support them via tipping some ink their way.
This thread I've been linking to a lot lately, but try some of the things listed here 
Also this one:
The gist, though, is that if you're looking for non-creator readers, you'll probably have to advertise outside the platform itself. Tapas only actively promotes its premium (and staff picked) content, so if you just post your stuff and don't advertise, you'll have a hard time finding readers.
The other hard part, though, is that even people you direct here via advertising probably don't have tapas accounts and probably don't want to make one... that's the tough part xD I get ~200 views per update/week, but only ~1 new sub per update. Even so, as a newbie creator I'm happy with views/people's eyes being on my content at all ^^
Thank you. And thank you all for the advice.
I also made this special episode for Inksgiving to give hope and remind myself to be happy that there is at least someone out there that appreciate your work
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I feel like most of them are on mobile. Which is why when people get promoted on the mobile app they get such a huge boost in subs.
I just have little events on my comic that are built in episodes (vote for this sort of things) and I try my best to reply to all the comments I receive.
I think one technique that I haven't seen talked about (I've sorta seen it tried in the world of YouTube/Instagram) is to somehow hijack the word of mouth of the readers you already have. Usually I see this done with some sort of give-away where the rules for entry involve 1) leaving a comment 2) being a subscriber 3) sharing the post/link on their own wall.
Other methods might be to promote fanart (just by sharing it with your other readers publicly whenever you get fanart) or on a similar thread doing big comment response posts such as a Q&A or a comment-comeback type of thing.
Now of course - all of this requires having any sort of readers at all. And I've found that creators are really good at being early adopters of new series / active engaged fans. And they're easy to connect with here in the forums and also just by reading their stuff. So I wouldn't neglect their value. (That said other creators can also have really high standards, they inherently have less time to spend reading comics than other readers do, and so they tend to be a bit more choosy with what they spend their time reading)
Uhh kinda I guess? I like the idea of tying an ink goal to a narrative event in the comic, it's probably not something that everyone could do. I think try he issues here have to do with
1) the quality of your comic is a bit janky imho, so it's naturally just gonna have a hard time finding readers. Please don't take this the wrong way. If you want I could give you A more detailed critique.
2) the "call to action" for the comic is a bit confusing. From what I understand it's "if we reach the goal the alien safe will open up + subscribe to this other comic and that creator will tip me" my immediate thought is "why doesn't the other creator just tip them? + Why should I tip if I'm not getting subscribers out of the deal?"
3) while this does in theory motivate your readers towards action, the action itself will not spread throughout their Network unless they choose to promote your comic for you. In order to hijack word of mouth you need to encourage your readers to share your comic with other people in some way.
Hope this helps
That's great feedback. Thank you.
1) Yes, my comic is janky and "easy made"
But that's the style I want. But please, do feel free to leave critique. Because there is clever ways to make it look janky.
2) I was not planning to do the crossover with other creators in the beginning. It was just a creator that contacted me and ask if I was open for this. That creator is also a reader and follower and wish to open the safe.
I.m not sure if that kind of stunt is something I want to do again. But my Blue Life is an open universe an driven by the readers.
3) Yes you nailed it. That's why i started to post here.