Bittersweet Candy Bowl

How do you let people know about BCB? Yes, voting, but as for people you actually know?

Word of mouth seems good, but I tend to find people have a job remembering titles longer than two syllables. You get asked almost immediately what that name was again, and realise they’ll have forgotten it by the time they get home.

Social websites seem a bit more hopeful, having the audience already at their computers. I noticed that BCB doesn’t have a picture when posted in Facebook, although Souppy can probably sort that with another tweak to the HTML (http://bit.ly/1aL5eC).

Any more thoughts?

hmmmmm….. Maybe send an email about BCB to all current readers that asks them to forward it to ten friends?

That would be incredibly annoying, and we would all have to give our emails for that anyways

and i dont have ten friends so it wouldent work anyway

1) It would have to be optional
2) yep, it would be annoying, but it might work
3) it was the only idea I could think of, so I couldn’t very well scrap it for a better one! But if anyone can come up with a better idea (admittedly not difficult) I will gladly back that instead.

Is it really that difficult to just link your friends over at some form of IM system or stuff it into your facebook if you’re that sort of kid?

Here’s how you do this if you want more people to read BCB:

“Hey (insert name of someone you actually know), I just started reading this comic called Bittersweet Candy Bowl and I really like it. I think you’d like it too if you’d give it a try.”

You bring it up in conversation. That is word of mouth. Very simple, no?

Spamming is for retards. Don’t be a retard, son.

Unofficial Facebook group here, if you’re interested.

No need to be dismissive of Facebook. It does its job.

You know, an official page on a social networking site doesn’t sound like a bad idea. If you get your fans to add it as a friend and maybe some other webcomic artists to add it as a friend, you’ve got yourself something of a viral campaign there.

Would work for me. Official representatives can use Pages rather than just Groups. Some subtle advantages, I believe.

Why not just put it on your (the readers) myspace/facebook page?

Or announce it on your youtube channel if you have some viewers?

Shit if I know, but I’m pretty sure it shows the other friends of a person. Ergo: the more people befriend the BCB page, the more free advertising it gets elsewhere. Personally, all I needed to see was the art for the advertisements and the different kinds of romance/bromance going on in the comic to draw me. At the very least, what harm could it do?

Ah, see, I don’t know how intrusive Facebook is or isn’t, I just keep thinking in terms of MySpace or whatever where the page is just benign and not specifically intrusive unless it sends friend requests to everyone. If you think it’s too aggressive a campaign, by all means forget about it.

But yeah, that’s my favorite ad. That one right there.

(And now I have to change my name again so people outside RC2 recognize me. Still, I love being able to switch things up like this.)

Sadly I’m paranoid and don’t let anyone know I read webcomics. I do have a rather long list of friends on Facebook, I could make a puppet Facebook account and try to contact the list…

Glad I could help re: the tags.

As I said previously, if you want the Facebook group down, I’ll do so. I don’t want to annoy anyone. And if it becomes apparent that it’s not really going to get members anyway, I’ll take it down to avoid making BCB look unpopular. That sound OK?

I just tell my friends in person… Or if the subject of webcomics comes up, I mention BCB.

Three friends in real life read it and ten online friends read it now. YAY

I’ll get on the tropes thing. I’ve already made a bit of headway, but seriously, almost no-one was adding BCB to those tropes pages. Grr.

Give me a day or two.

O-kay. This might take a little longer than I hoped. I spent an entire evening on this and only managed to complete everything in A, B and C. Not a single one had BCB on its trope page.

I started a article on WikiFur Its kinda of a stub right now but If people help edit it, it could be a good article. Bittersweet Candy Bowl

Things that could be added
-Cast
-Synopsis
-Story behind the creation

furapedia

Oops. I’ve done all the listed tropes up to I. Which is curiously almost exactly 50%.

Still, if you read the Welcome page and Rules down the back of TV Tropes, it actively encourages adding new examples to any (all) relevant tropes. Given that they’re already listed on BCB’s page, there shouldn’t be any problems whatsoever. Worst case scenario is someone deletes an entry. I’m not planning to force the references in - I’m just improving the connectivity of TV Tropes.

And giving BCB the maximum possible publicity, but don’t tell them that.

Heh, no worries. I’ll keep at it whenever I have spare time.

Non of my friends would be remotely interested in this.

Change your friends?