As an author and blogger I have made many decisions good and bad in terms of promoting, creating, or designing different projects. I have witnessed how much I like WordPress.com website designs over webs.com or blogger.com. I have seen how much people hate Comic Sans or other weird fonts. I have seen many things especially how a well designed website goes a long way. Also social media is big too. With my blogs their FB pages are dormant but my book page’s Twitter and FB are very active. I have also seen how Google + is not really a good place to sit at. Some sites don’t need Facebook pages to be successful. For example: my tech site after a year with little social media help (less than 1% of my views come from social media) has 26,000 + page views and still reaps about 71 views a day. Could it be better? Heck ya. It could be at 100,000 right now if I actively tended to it, had a better social media campaign, and maybe had some more writers it would be able to be a nice cash cow. I could even get some free test products so I could do YouTube videos. I could be a minor player in a big game. So why don’t I invest in it? Time, school, and life invades my time so I am forced to spend more time on other projects. On the other side of the spectrum I have seen my book blog make an epic fail. Over a year old with 302 views that is Horrible. Why? It has about 5 or 6 posts compared to 71 on Tech Gone Wild. What have I done? Converted to the modern standard of reviewing books. Has it helped? Not really so far but I am learning. My prize project my book hasn’t really done much. I have heard the term a slow boil but it has been boiling a long time. So far sales are super low compared to how many times it has been previewed. So what am I going to do? Revise the entire book. After getting some people to read the book they said it needed some love no bias. Do I think it will help? Pretty sure it will. So what am I trying to say? Don’t be depressed if you “flop” at first. Just pick yourself back up and try try again.
The Big Thing Studio
The Studio that will change the world.
Review: Flotilla by Dan Haight
Publisher: Indie
Genre: Science Fiction / Adventure
"Flotilla is crossover apocalyptic science fiction that fans of Blade Runner, Star Wars, the Hunger Games and Firefly will fall in love with. This is a story that will bring hard-core sci-fi geeks, teens and adventure fans together." This is the quote taken directly from all retailers in reference to Dan Haight's novel
this is a great book!
The Planning Stages
So far I have not updated the website very much, or my other social media sites. Here at my HQ I decided to say that I will not be doing much until the launch of Windows 8 and some other key events I am looking forward too. Most of my projects are in the planning stages and will be announced.
- The Haunted Hoax Project – A book written by Mr. Harry Mcginnis which I am the social media manager of.
- Stop Motion studio – I am still trying to figure out a name for it because I was going to call it The Big Thing Studios but it feels redundant and there is already an indie video company called Big Thing Studio.
- Fireplace Chat – my book blog which is rarely updated and in need of a new vision. Site views are extremely low, and I have not put much time and energy into it.
- Tech Gone Wild – my largest project to date which so far has done me the best luck. I am planning some new articles in my The History and Windows 8 app reviews sub division because they have the most promise. I will do a review of Windows 8 itself and hopefully Jelly Bean and some other Mobile OS.
- Animal Conflict Series – I am still writing my first book which is almost done and will be launching Facebook, Twitter, Goodreader, and Google + pages. I am very excited about it and will be publishing through Smashwords and a paperback will be available through Lulu temporarily.
