Comments on: What Do Your Social Media Stats Mean to an Agent or Publisher? http://writenonfictionnow.com/what-do-your-social-media-stats-mean-to-an-agent-or-publisher/ A Challenge to Write and Publish Nonfiction All Year Long Mon, 13 May 2013 03:22:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Nina Amir http://writenonfictionnow.com/what-do-your-social-media-stats-mean-to-an-agent-or-publisher/#comment-5213 Nina Amir Fri, 03 Feb 2012 03:22:42 +0000 http://writenonfictionnow.com/?p=1721#comment-5213 Kimberly,

Don’t despair. You are doing all the right things, and you have an agent. She might find you a mid-range publisher who is happy with your platform–or a bigger one.

You need to look at UNIQUE visitors to your blog. Not visits. Visits and visitors are not really that important and hits don’t count at all. I admit I used some of these stats, and I did land my deal, but in the end, WDB asked for Unique Visitors and page views.

Keep up the good work. You’ll land a deal. I know you will.

Thanks for your comment and for reading my blog.

Nina

]]> By: Kimberly Spice http://writenonfictionnow.com/what-do-your-social-media-stats-mean-to-an-agent-or-publisher/#comment-5198 Kimberly Spice Wed, 01 Feb 2012 20:26:56 +0000 http://writenonfictionnow.com/?p=1721#comment-5198 Thank you for this article. It really helps knowing that other people are going through the same thing! I was approached by a wonderful agent whom I adore working with. She reads my blog, loves my writing, and we were both very excited to get started on turing it into a post-divorce dating memoir. She shopped me around to editors who also really liked my style and voice, but were concerned about my platform. With almost 3,000 facebook fans and 5,500+ visits to my blog each month, I thought I was moving right along. But the publisher told us they last blog to book they sold had 500,000 monthly views and I can’t compete with that – at least, not yet. Building your platform is such a slow process but I’m working on social networking more and more each day. All I can do is be the best writer and self promoter I can and hope that it gets picked up eventually!

]]> By: Nina Amir http://writenonfictionnow.com/what-do-your-social-media-stats-mean-to-an-agent-or-publisher/#comment-5178 Nina Amir Tue, 31 Jan 2012 01:06:33 +0000 http://writenonfictionnow.com/?p=1721#comment-5178 Thanks for your comment! I actually think sometimes aspiring authors think platform is more important for a traditional publishing deal and don’t bother with it if they think they will self-publish because no one is requiring it. That’s very short sighted. Thanks for you support!

]]> By: FriesenPress http://writenonfictionnow.com/what-do-your-social-media-stats-mean-to-an-agent-or-publisher/#comment-5177 FriesenPress Tue, 31 Jan 2012 00:46:39 +0000 http://writenonfictionnow.com/?p=1721#comment-5177 Totally agree with what you say – building a platform is key to any author looking for a career. This is obviously the case with self-published authors, but I think many authors also don’t realize that it’s equally as important as a traditionally published author. Even if you’re signed with a traditional, the author is responsible for creating a lot of the content for marketing. Traditional publishing gets you a great rolodex of contacts, but what you pitch to those contacts is up to the author. So building your audience and platform are really important, no matter where you plan to publish in the future.

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