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Originally Posted by Steven Lyle Jordan
I've already written short stories and offered them for free. The feedback I got from them was slim. And topjars are notorious underperformers. By request of one patron, I added a tipjar, and got exactly one tip... from the one patron.
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Think that could be because no one knew who you were then and even now no one knows? Could that be it? This is what Im saying, youve just added more proof. You gave away books for free and had a tip jar, only one person tipped you. Now it could that only one person out of who knows how many cared enough to tip you OR maybe, just maybe, no one even knew you existed. I think its the latter. This also adds to what I was saying about the pirates. If no one knows who you are and you arent taking time to advertise Id say these 'pirates' have complimented me. At least someone thinks youre good enough to pirate. Shows somebody is reading your books besides that one person who gave you a tip. Maybe you should consider some sort of advertising.
Seriously though, Ive said it before and Ill say it again. The pirates arent the problem. You can blame them all you want but what you just said about your free stories proves it. They have very little to do with this and are stealing very little, if anything, from you. No one knows a thing about you. Go out, advertise and get your name out. If you did some before, do some more.