Thanks for letting
me know about your readers.
One thing you should
know about the Reader's year - end film rankings is that, from time immemorial, we've limited the candidates to movies that premiered locally between January 1 and December 31 — that's why Toni Erdmann, a big awards favorite in 2016, wasn't eligible until this year, and a handful of highly touted films premiering on the coasts now to qualify for the Oscars (such as Paul Thomas Anderson's Phantom Thread and Michael Haneke's Happy End) won't be considered until 2018.
(If you're on the fence about hiring an editor, see this article on what editors
know about readers).
What you're saying: «Yes, you know all there is to
know about readers and the market, and if you didn't find readers for my work, then obviously they don't exist.»
A well crafted 25 word pitch tells the reader everything they need to
know about your reader target
While UNESCO research indicates that hundreds of thousands of people in countries like Ethiopia, Nigeria and Pakistan are reading on mobile devices, very little is
known about these readers.
«Before the rounds of publisher fusions and buyouts by huge media companies the North American publishers were run by people who
knew all about readers and reading.»
The ONE THING
I know about my readers, the one uinversal thing I know they have in common with myself is, they don't want to be one of these poor, hapless souls.
The more
I know about my readers, the better I can make my blog.
The more
you know about your reader, the better your chances of writing a spot - on cover letter.
Not exact matches
No, the real reason to write a book is because there is something you have to explore that you think
readers want to learn
about, not because you think putting «author» on your LinkedIn profile is smart.
No, this book won't offer you many chuckles, but it might help
readers break through our culture's unhelpful silence around our inevitable end and think through how to go
about the final chapter of life with some dignity.
I don't
know that it's something a
reader would really think
about, but it's part of a larger relationship.
These ads either brought
readers to a site they never intended to go to, or pushed them over to the app store to download a suspicious app they probably
knew nothing
about.
I like to start off with a mini 1 - 2 sentence paragraph directly stating my point, so that the
reader instantly
knows what this email is
about and why I've contacted them.
I call them secret rules because (based on
reader messages that I critique in my free weekly newsletter) very few companies
know about them.
Where you set the scene and tell your
readers everything they need to
know to understand why what you're
about to say is important.
Readers want to
know about the «best» way to put together a funding deal when purchasing another business.
What are some interesting innovations in the biotech space that Term Sheet
readers should
know about?
Now,
readers of The Uncanny X-Men comics in 1981 might
know what it's all
about but to everyone else it appears to be just another feel - good corporate marketing effort.
Recently, when I wrote
about how email as we
know it will become obsolete by 2020, several
readers took issue with the prediction, arguing that email might change but we will still rely on it as a primary form of digital communication.
I'm sure you and well informed
readers as well
know about SEPPs in regard to IRAs / 401Ks.
For example, if you want to connect with Darren Rowse for the first time,
knowing that direct contact may not be useful at this level, you may instead leave a significant comment on one of his blog posts,
about 200 — 300 words in length, that offers something helpful to his
readers.
Many of your
readers are probably interested in retiring early and want to
know when they can be serious
about taking the plunge.
«And in example after example, radical notion after radical notion, Jay and Shel don't just make the assertion
about something that challenges everything we thought we
knew about marketing — they give
readers chapter - and - verse examples that make the case for one simple concept after another that... well, could just revolutionize everything.
Advertising to non-fans instead of building a fan base and then engaging them sounded like a dangerous plan at first, and I think it's very (very) important that your
readers know that you're only talking
about advertising to reach a highly targeted group of people (which in your case means website vistors).
It's always good to
know something
about the
reader to get some context.
Hey, guess what, I
know what you are after and believe it or not I'm after the same exact thing, don't give me your BS
about how great my work is or how your content is going to be useful to my
readers.
For one, Amazon, like other e-book sellers, has used a scheme
known as «digital rights management» (DRM), which limits the types of devices that can read certain e-book formats.259 Compelling
readers to purchase a Kindle through cheap e-books locks them into future e-book purchases from Amazon.260 Moreover, buying — or even browsing — e-books on Amazon's platform hands the company information
about your reading habits and preferences, data the company uses to tailor recommendations and future deals.261 Replicated across a few more purchases, Amazon's lock - in becomes strong.
His individual investor -
readers desperately need to
know what his institutional money - manager clients and friends
know about the specific investments available to help them succeed in challenging markets.
What do curious, well - informed
readers need to
know about emerging technologies?
As
readers of this site
know, I'm not a big fan of gold as a core exposure in portfolios (although I've been very, very wrong
about this for a number of years).
Many journalists pay attention to such metrics as they try to match coverage to the subjects that
readers, viewers and listeners want to
know more
about.
The
reader wants to
know what I think
about new prospects going forward, if I still think the company is undervalued, or if I would think
about selling now if I find it to be overvalued.
When we at the Tribune have a conflict of interest, you as our
readers should
know about it.
Now, of course, if you are a regular
reader of my website, you
know that stock price declines are what you should get excited
about because they represent great buying opportunities to own excellent companies that grow profits and dividends year after year.
He also makes the
readers know about the different traders in the Singapore binary options trading industry.
Anyway, when I wrote
about it recently, some
readers wanted to
know if they were still allowed to contribute to the fund, given the fund's press release on February 28th, 2013:
Frequent
readers of this weekly
know that we write often
about credit.
It was Philip Fisher, author of the groundbreaking Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits, who often exhorted his
readers to be cautious
about trading in the stock of a company they have
known for many years and come to understand well for one with which they are not as familiar as it introduces different types of risk.
They may pick up a piece
about a cause or social entrepreneur, but oftentimes,
readers already
know who those folks are or what civic dish they're serving.
The «American Survey» section (renamed «United States» in 1997) was aimed not at Americans but at British
readers who, Crowther believed, needed to
know more
about their new allies.
It's a sure sign that you don't
know what you're talking
about, and smart
readers know it.
•
Readers of C. S. Lewis will want to
know about the first, and as far as we
know only, peer - reviewed journal dedicated to his writing.
The speakers include most of the major players in ongoing debates
about law and religion in public life, many of them well
known to the
readers of this journal: Sam Rabinove, Dean Keliey, John M. Swomley, Michael McConnell, Robert Michaelson, William Bentley Ball, Edward Gaffney, Jeffrey Hadden, Robert Destro, Mary Ann Glendon, Sandra Day O'Connor, and your editor.
In an interview
about her latest work, she let
readers know that «When I was accepting the Library of Congress Prize, I think I thanked Planned Parenthood first of all.»
No question
about it, the listening is demanding, not only because of the writer's rhetorical style but also because of the assumption that the
reader knows the Old Testament and the wilderness life of Israel, a life centered in the tabernacle and the daily ministrations of the priest.
In this chapter the author invites the
reader to join in a thought experiment
about what some theological school
known to them is and ought to be.
Writes one
reader about yesterday's announcement that archeologists have found the oldest
known image of the apostles Andrew and John in Rome:
Little did my
reader know that as she wrote «compare and contrast» essays
about me in her head, I was writing «compare and contrast» essays
about Anne Jackson in my head.