100 followers on Royal Road!

[CountVanBadger]

I started uploading XNPC less than two months ago, and it just hit the 100 follower mark on Royal Road.

Meanwhile, I only have 16 followers here on ScribbleHub. You're not going to let those Royal Road losers embarrass you all like that, are you? Show them who's boss by clicking that link and reading XNPC!

 

[Conqueror_Quack]

...on Royal Road.

I started uploading XNPC less than two months ago, and it just hit the 100 follower mark on Royal Road.

Meanwhile, I only have 16 followers here on ScribbleHub. You're not going to let those Royal Road losers embarrass you all like that, are you? Show them who's boss by clicking that link and reading XNPC!

@SirContro how much tact would you say that this post has on a scale of 1-10.

 

[TheKillingAlice]

Gratz. Have a cookie to commemorate!

 

[SirContro]

@SirContro how much tact would you say that this post has on a scale of 1-10.

8. He's self-aware that he's shilling, and he's not trying to manipulate you into reading his story by using a completely unrelated topic. This very tongue-in-cheek way of promotion is both unserious, causing people to not jump at the chance to flame his ass, and is also ironically a better way to get people to actually click the link than most shameless shillers on this site, because he mentioned Royal Road was better. A lot of people here hate Royal Road.

The only thing he could have done better is include Royal Road in the title, enticing more smuthubers to engage in their guilty pleasure. Many people see the generic title of '100 followers' and probably ignore the thread for something more exciting, but you mention Royal Road, and SH authors are drawn to it like me to a flame.

 

[CountVanBadger]

The only thing he could have done better is include Royal Road in the title

Done. Don't let nobody tell ya the badger can't take constructive criticism!

 

[SirContro]

Done. Don't let nobody tell ya the badger can't take constructive criticism!

Good lad. 9/10.

 

[SouthernMaiden]

Damn! Congratz, I only have 52 and Ive been publishing there since november, and I had under 10 for like 80% of that time!

 

[CountVanBadger]

Damn! Congratz, I only have 52 and Ive been publishing there since november, and I had under 10 for like 80% of that time!

I think it's pretty much 50% buying an ad, 50% begging for shoutout swaps with everybody on the Rising Stars list, and 50% just having a story in a genre that people on there already like (litrpg) with a spin I haven't seen other stories do (grind for XP or you turn into an NPC).

It was an intricately calculated plan. Unfortunately, I am really bad at math.

 

[SouthernMaiden]

I think it's pretty much 50% buying an ad, 50% begging for shoutout swaps with everybody on the Rising Stars list, and 50% just having a story in a genre that people on there already like (litrpg) with a spin I haven't seen other stories do (grind for XP or you turn into an NPC).

It was an intricately calculated plan. Unfortunately, I am really bad at math.

You should make a post about how well your ads worked out! I'd love to know!

 

[CountVanBadger]

You should make a post about how well your ads worked out! I'd love to know!

Not sure how much useful information I can give you. It went up on February 11th. I paid $55 for 280,500 views. I've had 205,193 views so far, 75,307 left to go, and of those views I've had 1,615 clicks. Out of those clicks, 25 people followed the book and 68 put it on their Read Later list. This was the ad I ran:

I'm thinking about running another ad with this. It was originally the "Undertaker behind AJ Styles" meme, but apparently you can't use real people in RR ads so I had chatgpt turn them into two different people.