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Comic Promotion and Guerilla Marketting Brainstorm
fenmere:
Good point, Jeph! Tantamount to anything is producing a good comic and being business-like about producing it (stuff I'm still learning, myself). Quality and care from head to toe goes a further distance than any marketting.
However, it can be nice to jumpstart things a bit, when you're ready.
And, TwentyFour, that is some solid advice. Thanks!
FMRL:
Also, you can mention your comic in non-comic places if it relates (and you're not all spammy about it) - e.g. bringing up the pirate comic you drew at the site where you go to gab about buccaneers. This can have the positive side effect of expanding the audience for comics in general ("I didn't know they made comics like that - I thought it was all Garfield & Superman!").
andyscout42:
wow, these are some good tips... thanks! i hadn't even thought of putting up some of my sketches on deviant!
Rone:
--- Quote ---If it's good, it will promote itself no matter what kind of online presence you maintain.
--- End quote ---
I'd like to say that I completely believe that. To a degree I think it's true. However, I think there are a lot of comics that are really well done that don't get nearly the attention they deserve. People simply don't know about them. They haven't been "discovered" yet. I think half the time it's more luck than anything else. Someone who's already reasonably large happens to look at the right place at the right time, links it, and Whammo overnight it's a Internet Name.
If it's good, people will come back, but they have to find it first.
Mollinda:
The only thing that hacks me off with my site is it's all done in html a la moi because php scares me, which makes updating it TEDIOUS. I've got it down to a fine art now but it still takes a while.
I just tried a search for a php script and nothing so if anyone knows of one please tell me :)
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