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Originally Posted by Steven Lyle Jordan
I hear this so often: Just give some away for free... that'll solve all your problems... but I've had free material available forever.
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But only on your own website? Your website is for people who have already discovered you, it's useless for finding new readers. Mine gets about 40 visitors a week spending an average of 3 minutes per visit. I'm guessing they are just there for that week's new chapter, but they will all be people who found me somewhere else. Before I started putting them on pirate and other free read sites I didn't get any visitors at all. My blog gets a few more visitors, but some of the things they search for to find it are pretty weird (and mostly unprintable here).
I don't really care about money, what you never had you don't miss. But before you can make money from an audience you need to have an audience. I would suggest you find that audience before you worry about how much you can make from them. And I certainly wouldn't spend money on advertising or anything else until you were making enough to cover those costs.