Cyndy Aleo
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Hi, First Waver who watched this weekend happen and wow, are people getting it wrong. Let me explain romance authors to you: they make up anywhere between 18 and 25% of the ENTIRE publishing market. All of it. They sell a lot of books, and even more so, THEY BUY A LOT OF ADS.
01:18 AM - Feb 20, 2023
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Cyndy Aleo
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One of the problems romance authors have run into on every single platform they advertise on is content. I can tell you as someone who worked in marketing for a romance publisher that developing an entire ad campaign and then finding out your ads can’t run creates a lot of monetary and time loss.
01:21 AM - Feb 20, 2023
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Cyndy Aleo
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In response to Cyndy Aleo.
An author who is also an attorney who has experience in this offered to help. Instead, everyone jumped on, claimed they were “making demands,” called them Karens, and basically told them they don’t belong here. (P.S., Courtney isn’t white, and Google would have told you that.)
01:28 AM - Feb 20, 2023
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Cyndy Aleo
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So what happened is everyone flew off the handle, told a bunch of people who really wanted to join the community AND WHO WPILD HAVE SPENT MONEY ON ADS to pound sand. Claim there’s a conspiracy against the platform.
01:30 AM - Feb 20, 2023
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Cyndy Aleo
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In response to Cyndy Aleo.
In order for Spoutible to succeed, it’s going to need money. And if the very first bunch of people who would have spent some are run off, how on earth is that going to happen? Not to mention, OTHER potential advertisers likely watched this all play out, both here and on Twitter.
01:32 AM - Feb 20, 2023
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Cyndy Aleo
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Purely from a PR perspective? It looks like users will run potential advertisers off if they don’t like them. Or don’t agree with them. So why bother when you can already have the same problem over on Twitter with arguably more eyeballs?
01:34 AM - Feb 20, 2023
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Cyndy Aleo
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So now you have a host of members of a giant industry telling everyone they know not to come here. The whole “we don’t want them anyway” attitude is not conducive to building a successful platform or attracting advertisers. It’s not how anyone should be running a business.
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01:37 AM - Feb 20, 2023
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Cyndy Aleo
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So by all means, call them Karen’s and float conspiracy theories about them, but I’d suggest the next time a group with money to spend comes on, this community reacts a lot differently, or there isn’t going to be a community long-term.
01:39 AM - Feb 20, 2023
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