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I missed being a part of a community!

You can see my stuff on my FA page that I finally just brought back from the dead, if anyone is interested. I'll start working on new projects soon enough!

I'll have to take it easy for a while due to a busy schedule, but I have to say I did miss drawing.

Thanks to everyone who helped me get back on my feet by requesting stuff from me and allowing me to draw their character, hopefully I'll be able to pick it up easily again ;-;

I'm sorry I don't want this to sound like self promotion I'm just happy to be active and posting again !

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Today's "That's right, you can't escape it even here" question:

The bombs are dropping and space in The Vault is limited. Why should your sona be let in? Would they rather take a chance the Wasteland?

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There are plenty of furs who love video game music, EDM, mainstream pop, film soundtracks, and metal... and as a music lover in general there are songs in all those groups I like too! But where are all the indie/alternative loving furs? (And I mean stuff that is deeper than Of Monsters And Men and Black Keys, stuff that doesn't end up in car commercials).

Would love to find others to geek out about post-rock and underground hip-hop and noise pop and all that with :P

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Welcome to the mod AMA where you can ask the /r/furry moderators anything. Each mod, both old and new alike, will be stopping periodically throughout the day to answer your questions!

If you have a question to a specific moderator, please username mention them by including /u/ + their username. For example, if you have a question for me, include /u/mckatze in your comment.

If you'd like to check out intros by the new mods, here's the original post with those

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Headlines, links and little stories to make your tail wag.  Guest posts welcome. Tips: patch.ofurr@gmail.com.  NPR interviews Tempe O’Kun, furry favorite author (again.) Hear the interview on the radio site. Talk to Tempe on his FA post about it. About a year ago, NPR station Prairie Public’s “Main Street” show interviewed Tempe about cuddly Furry romance writing.  Lucky dog!  It was 23 minutes of super respectful […]

I'm not new, I don't have any real point to this post, I just want to say.. good morning, and I hope everyfur is having a great day. =3 I'm generally bashful and shy, trying to wedge myself into the community by taking little steps, hehe. Just in a cuddly and love-y mood! <3

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Hi! I'm feeling lazy to do my own art now, but I don't want end up losing my skill completely, so I decided to take some coloring requests. Feel free to post your sketches, lines etc. and I probably will color them for you! :3

Please note that coloring process may take a while, but I hope that I'll be able to complete all your requests at some point :)

You can see my non-furry stuff at my dA page.

These requests are totally free, but I will appreciate any donations x3

Done so far:

• Lyze for /u/TheFriendlyOwl

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Advertising Statistics and ROI for Authors: Part 4 by Patrick “Bahumat” Rochefort

 

[Part 1] [Part 2] [Part 3]

 

This week, we’re once again looking at major advertising channels I’ve used in promotion of my webserial “From Winter’s Ashes“, and analyzing them one by one for the ROI and needs of an author and publisher. Today’s focus is one of a kind, with 316 million active users, Twitter!  

The first thing out of the gate that I REALLY liked about advertising with Twitter was the very comprehensible targeting. Of course you had your usual demographics analysis, but there was some spectacular other options, like: “Advertise to your followers” and “Advertise to the followers of the people you list here”, the latter option was FANTASTIC for targeting. If you know the twitter handles of, say, five or ten authors who write things like you do, targeting their followers means that you’re probably planting on fertile ground.

The next thing that I liked was that Twitter encouraged you to have more than one tweet as an advertisement. If you want a great experiment in honing your pitches to 140 characters and below, this is a fantastic exercise. I created four tweets that advertised the story, and saw some very different response rates from each of them, which I’ll detail further down this article.

  We’ll begin this week with the raw statistics, this time provided in a big beautiful infographic here: http://i.imgur.com/0W9Abfz.png   Budget: $35.00   Days: 7 ($5.00/day)   Impressions: 43,800   Clicks: 27 / 92* –> 27 clicks directly through to site. Retweets, favorites, or clicking on the “WebCard” of From Winter’s Ashes resulted in upping that total to 92 interactions.   CTR: 0.06% / Engagement Rate: 0.22%   CPC: $1.30  

Analysis:    

Overall, $35.00 bought me 43.8k impressions, with (27/92)* clicks. Why the asterisk? 27 of those clicks were directly to the site, while the total of 92 included people who went to my Twitter, clicked on the website card, favorited, or retweeted. Twitter does some pretty good granularity that way, but they don’t always explain it well.

Overall click-through rate: 0.06%. Devastatingly low. This is one-fifth the rate that Reddit offered me. On the upside, I served a lot of impressions, but overall it’s clear that on Twitter, people generally don’t want to click ads, even less so than they want to on other sites.

Engagement rate: 0.22%. Not terrible, here, when we factor in people engaging with the tweet or otherwise interacting with it. As we’ve covered in prior entries, 0.2-0.4% is the average you’ll find most non-targeted advertisement fall into. The fact though that this was targeted advertisement, is another black mark on Twitter for adverts.

And finally, our almighty Cost-per-click: $1.30. Pricey. I’m paying Facebook cost-per-clicks for a response rate that’s considerably lower. The impression rate is pretty awesome, which is nice for building brand awareness, but overall if people aren’t clicking, they aren’t buying.

I wouldn’t use Twitter again unless my goal was new brand establishment, or to bring in a wave of new eyes and awareness on a story product.

 

By the tweet:

So this was a part of Twitter advertising that was really, really valuable for me. Finding out which tweet I wrote had the most engagement, and drew the most interested eyes to the story.

My top performer, at 0.25% engagement rate: “Does the necromancer who butchered her husband and son deserve a Detective’s justice, or a mother’s revenge?”

In retrospect, it’s an obvious choice. It’s powerful, engaging, leaves the reader with a compelling question, and people clicked through a little more there than any other one. As a result, I’ve included the line in other marketing and synopsis of the story since.

Tied for 2nd place, at 0.22%:

“Heather Blackthorne once hunted down necromancers, until one hunted down her family. Now he’s come hunting for far more.”
“From Winter’s Ashes – A Detective with nothing left to lose, against a Necromancer with the world to gain.”

And my last-place finisher, in 4th, at 0.19%:

“In a world where everyone possesses magic, a Detective seeks justice on the Necromancer that butchered her family.”

 

 

In conclusion:

Twitter, at this expense level per engagement, is probably prohibitively expensive for a webserial’s conversion rates. The ability to finely target other authors followers is very nice, but is countered by the fact that Twitter users are particularly ill-inclined to engage with advertisement there.

The only uses Twitter will have for a webserial’s and publishers economics may be starting up a new brand/story, getting people interested in a new book or e-book release, and generally getting your brand name out there. If so, I would recommend including your name in the tweet, so that even if the title doesn’t stick, your name hopefully does.

I won’t use Twitter again for From Winter’s Ashes, I think, but if nothing else, the $35.00 spent was valuable to see, in stark statistical payout, what one-line summaries of the story were more effective at hooking people.

My proposition is this. My boy scout scout master and some teachers like to go over life tips or how to better your life in a way it's not sucky. I was wondering whether you all would like it if I posted stuff similar to that. Kind of a mixture of a PSA to help others and food for thought. We would go over stuff like family, friendship, confidence, memories etc.

The reason why I'm doing this is because I want to try to help you furs that want help in some "social concepts" for lack of a better term. Basically, it would life tips and some food for thought whose purpose is to make your life better in some way

What do you fuzzies think?

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