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Promoting Webcomics?
krf asks: "Have any other Slashdot readers ever tried to get a webcomic off the ground? What promotional tricks have you used? I've been doing my strip for a couple of months now. Traffic is good, but not great. I think that most of my visitors are friends or people who heard of the site via word-of-mouth. I'm looking for ways to bring the strip to a larger audience. I've submitted links to most of the big webcomics pages, but a lot of the 'top 100'ish lists seem pretty tacky - kind of like linking pyramid schemes. I've paid for some very targeted advertising, but not many people click on ads any more. I've even tried getting in to local print outlets, with very limited success. I enjoy writing and drawing the strip, but it's always nice to know that other people are reading it. I'd appreciate any advice Slashdot readers might have to offer."
If the strip or individual drawings are any good, make it available free to some relevant publications and buid a portfolio of published pieces, thus building a track record you can work off of when approaching paying markets.
Ignorance is curable, stupid is forever.
You might wanna try to get more exposure on webcomics.com. We have a lot of traffic and are just looking for more good comics to feature, which pumps up traffic like 10 times on the featured day. We also have a banner exchange program just for comics, you can help promote other comics, while they help you.
-- these are only opinions and they might not be mine.
I saw this story and was going to look around at your site and suggest Xcomic--but I see you're already using it! I'm glad some people are actually using it (I'm a co-developer along with Helgi and Mike H), and in a production enviroment at that. If anyone's wondering WTF I'm talking about, http://xcomic.sf.net/. You could always try purchasing ads on Megatokyo or such, that should get you a fair amount of hits as those people click the advertisements like crazy and you're a webcomic, and they're reading webcomics, so...