I’ve recently been hit with the TikTok bug. Okay, it isn’t a bug so much as a hope for free marketing, a word I feel is as close to a swear as they get. There is SO MUCH ADVICE!
- Only follow book people (I don’t)
- Only allow people who want to read YOUR book to follow you
- Create one to three videos a day (or is it ten!!!)
- Watch other people’s videos (TO THE END) or it will hurt them
- Along with this, like, comment, share… Show the love
- Create videos with controversial content
- Create videos with book flips (OR DON’T!!)
- Create videos with the latest sounds…. or don’t
- Allow the bots to follow you… or don’t (bots are BAD FOLLOWERS!)
- Get to 1000 followers so you can…
You can see where this gets to be confusing. What have I done over the last few weeks? I have tried to make two videos a day, three if I’m REALLY pushing it. When I got sick there were a couple of days of just one video.
I usually pretend I’m talking to a friend and chit chat to the phone, but that’s me. I find a topic, and give as short a video as I can. Personally the videos that are all music I don’t tend to stay for. I also won’t stay for really LONG videos unless the person is fun to listen to. I figure it’s the same for others. If I treat the viewer as a pal, then maybe they’ll stay to listen.
What I haven’t figure out is, how to get more comments. OR, how to get the views to translate into people reading my books.
So, does this work as free marketing? I assume it will work…eventually. It has worked for others. At the end of the day (or start, since that’s when you’ll find me in the app) it IS free, and there is no harm in seeing my mug talk talk talking away.
Cheers!
Huckleberry
Huckleberry Rahr - Author 