Promotions Friday, November 17, 2006

Today, I thought I'd touch on promotions. There's a world of it out there, not only for us to do ourselves, but from others to catch our own scattered attentions. There's a lot of sites that range in preferences, wants and readers who lurk or participate. Some allow active drive-by promos, while others request or require active participation to promote. Honestly, I can easily see the reason for the second and recognize the ease of the first.

There's all levels of paid for promotion opportunities. I'm still not entirely sure that's the best route for me to go. In truth, I should probably be putting more money into visual promotion than just supportive promotion, like contests and being there for fellow writers and for my publisher. Doesn't it make more sense that the more sites you are "visible" on, the better following you would have?

This is why I'm not so sure.

A lot of sites are any heat level or strongly encourage erotic. I don't write it, so am I being noticed? I don't know. It's too soon to say. I've only purchased one promo slot on a high traffic, well known site. I'm researching more, and at the beginning of the year, I'm going to try for more, but how much is reasonable?

Do you notice the banners and covers on sites? Do they encourage you to visit the writer's sites?