Sentences with phrase «at building an audience»

The only problem for most fiction authors is they're really good at writing a great story, but not so much at building an audience and getting book sales.

If you are a new author, you need to work several months in advance at building an audience on social media or through your own personal networking channels that creates anticipation and awareness of the upcoming title.

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«There is a difference between having an idea and... actually building on that idea,» Leah Busque, founder of TaskRabbit, told the audience at 99U Conference in New York City on Friday.

With growth in mind, Yahoo has made several high - profile acquisitions aimed at building the Sunnyvale, California - based tech company's audience reach and depth of talent.

Amazon's short game was to drive repeat business, but they also succeeded at the long game, building an audience for their syndicated and now self - produced shows.

Build a relationship with your audience at least three months in advance so they can learn your tone and rhythms.

As mentioned earlier, one way to build an audience is to work on delivering a stream at the same time each day.

We all have an area of expertise and specialties, so at the beginning of building an audience, you want to stick to those things.

This approach acknowledges your audience's vocation before building a bridge to the topic at hand (in this case, healthcare prices).

Without well - built personas, you may tell stories that engage the wrong audiences or no one at all.

While Mozilla wasn't sourcing for persona data here, it's clear that Feedback Army has the potential to be used in this capacity, especially if you build in some audience segmentation at the front end.

Alex Khan @ 1alexkhan CEO at Attractive Media GmbH Presenting: Mass Seduction: Proven Techniques to Engage and Build Your Audience

Not only is purpose great at inspiring content and aligning your efforts, but content itself (when approached this way) will clearly communicate your purpose and help build your audience around that cause or story.

But in order for companies to achieve repeatable link building at scale they must have the right linkable assets for their target linking audience.

Jesus didn't build a group of followers by being hip with the culture or getting an audience at the Orpheum.

But more than this, I wanted this list to honor the individual blogger who started his or her blog from scratch, and has labored away at it for years, slowly building an audience and faithfully writing quality posts which get read and shared.

When footage of Way's giant leap on the Mega Ramp, then the biggest skate ramp ever built, premiered a week later at Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood for The DC Video, the audience went berserk.

Golfers as a demographic are alsobetter educated than the public at large, and therefore they arereaders — hence, a built - in audience.

We at Open Democracy want to build empowered and knowledgeable audiences who can fight back against these trends.

Overall, the Post.com folks show an endearing tendency to try just about anything that might help build their audience, and I'm a big fan of editors who'll throw everything at the wall and see what sticks.

While Trump held campaign rallies with a raucous audience pushing him to «build the wall» at the U.S. border with Mexico, many Senate Republicans want to avoid a government shutdown at all costs — at least between now and the November elections.

Much of the audience at the hearing wore the orange t - shirts of UP4NYC, a building trades union group formed to oppose Mr. de Blasio's proposal to reform 421a to expand the requirements for affordable housing, but not mandate prevailing wages for construction workers.

The film's being debuted across the country in a steady roll rather than all at once, so the producers (working with Democratic consultant Chris Lehane) are hoping to build a national audience incrementally without having to resort to expensive mass - market tv ads (though I've seen some targeted cable ads).

Quotes: Speaking to aspiring self builders at Grand Designs Live in Birmingham, Colette Best, BSA Mortgage Policy Adviser, told the audience that it is achievable and offered tips for getting an affordable self build mortgage.

Providing a demonstration garden at the County Office Building has allowed staff to reach our audience and provide hands - on nutrition education on the importance of consuming fruits and vegetables to maintain health and prevent or delay the onset of diet - related chronic diseases.»

The system, the team says, «builds on the construct that when paying attention at a concert it is possible to see performers» expressions; a guitarist playing a solo and reaching a peak at a certain point of it; a bass guitar player following with his face the lines played; a drummer making accents with the whole body; and in addition to this, the audience responding to the performance.»

Both make contributions to the growing field of «geoarchaeology», which is building a bridge between archaeology and the earth sciences, but they will reach — and were no doubt aimed at — entirely dif - ferent audiences.

At six years old, the RET program is building momentum in terms of sharing its curriculum resources with a wider audience.

You can't expect to build a loyal audience who'll turn into interested customers if the rate at which you create content is sloppy.

Although building a dedicated blog audience is hard work and can be discouraging at you get started, persevering with patience, consistency, and a commitment to high - quality content will help you stand apart from other bloggers and gain traction among followers.

I'm not «traditional» media, I haven't built my brand and my audience big enough to be noticed by the «right» people, and I'm not the daughter of a rockstar and / or very rich person, so I don't have the status that is required of those who generally sit in the front (or even the second) row of anything at the BFC space.

It's hard getting scared just by looking at clips; terror needs to be built effectively, by immersing the audience in a situation; and a clip-fest just isn't the way to achieve it.

For her part, Kidman carves a striking presence out of the non-stop fireworks, acting both as a conduit for the audience's sense of astonishment at the proceedings and the capable, multi-lingual scientist who manages not only the technical details of the crisis — she's graduated from building the bombs to defusing them — but Devoe's hair - trigger temper as well (at one point she calls him «a talented soldier with sloppy impulse control»).

At nearly six hours, pic's extreme length lets Giordana and screenwriters Sandro Petraglia and Stefano Rulli build up a novelistic rhythm, pulling the audience so deeply and forcefully into their story that it becomes like a enveloping dream; when it's over, parting with the characters is truly sweet and sorrowful.

The PlayStation Vita was built as a high end portable gaming device aimed at the 18 to 35 year old audience.

Over the years, Searchlight has mastered the art of the platform release, which involves slowly rolling out a title across screens and gradually building audience awareness, according to Paul Dergarabedian, senior media analyst at ComScore.

Like those other films, Gallery is divided into a series of segments highlighting different aspects of the institution: the tour guides explaining a work or an artist; the craftsmen and women building frames, gallery spaces, designing and testing lighting; restorers at work fixing paintings damaged by time; and administrators debating the best ways to persevere the museums brand and grow its audience.

Conventional narrative building blocks are ignored, while the audience is purely engaged by sensory elements, throwing more brutal violence and profane language at them with increasing intensity.

As the plot begins piling information on the audience and the characters play Hollywood romance in the background, the movie builds to a conclusion that is quite unexpected (at least until minutes before it's revealed) and sheds everything that's come before it in a new light.

Patiently building the tension, relying on a truly wonderful script, on the legendary Vilmos Zsigmond's phenomenal photography, on impressive acting by the protagonist as well as John Lithgow and Nancy Allen, wisely steering clear from underestimating the audience at any point, De Palma creates an ambiance so nerve - shattering, a ride so downright exciting that, as we observe how the plot develops on the screen, we can't help feeling a part of the conspiracy ourselves, terrified and adrenaline - pumped at the same time.

Edgerton's script does a great job at building suspense and making the audience question these characters and their actions.

They all come at the end, so most audience and critics have probably checked out by then, but there were three inventive enough beats to build a boat movie around.

It's not like anyone can possibly be surprised that even Sci - Fi thought the show was too kooky for mainstream audiences to ever embrace it, but at least we can take comfort in the fact that it's built a small but loyal cult following over the years.

Built around the notion that anything outrageous is funny, the makers of «American Wedding» bank on the idea that easy teen - and college - age audiences won't care about tediously underwritten characters, a general lameness of humor and flaccid attempts at emotional investment (Jim takes Michelle on a romantic walk on the beach) as long as those audiences leave the theater with one or two over-the-top howlers to talk about.

For as ridiculous as the premise may be (and it becomes even more so as the story progresses), «Non-Stop» does a good job of building suspension by throwing an almost endless barrage of red herrings at the audience.

At Capcom's Captivate 08 event in Las Vegas last week, journalists were plunged into an audience with the developer Airtight Studios right after watching Jun Takeuchi show off the latest build of Resident Evil 5, while Ben Judd waited next door with Bionic Commando.

After mining its most famous characters to great effect at the box office, Marvel needs to tap fresh, lesser - known characters to build its audience and pave the way for the company's future.

When Rodriguez launched El Rey, an English - language cable network aimed at Latino audiences, in 2013, From Dusk Till Dawn was one of the channel's splashy original offerings, a program with built - in marquee value to draw in viewers.

There is a surprising and unusual cameo near the end, and the movie is well executed to satisfy its built - in audience, while also capitalizing on those who enjoy (and / or need) a good, clean comedy at Christmas time.

«As audiences stay with us and audiences keep telling us, as they certainly did all around the world with «Black Panther,» that they're embracing new ideas and new visions and new places and new ways of telling stories, we will just continue to grow and build on that,» Feige said at the time.