Sentences with phrase «rather build the audience»

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Here are a few common «lack of focus» examples I see amongst founders all the time: — Doing shit that makes them look busy, but doesn't have significant impact — Trying to do too many things instead of one thing really well — Getting things done themselves instead of taking time to build the team — Fundraising when it's not time — Acquiring users when existing ones keep churning — Adding features instead of fixing or removing the ones they have — Having multiple audiences, rather than one very targeted — Paying attention to vanity metrics or too many metrics instead of core KPIs — Following the competition's every move — Obsessing with getting up on TechCrunch (or other press)-- Attending multiple networking events a week

I just wished the old SEO companies who have tried to reinvent themselves as content marketers would spend more time helping their customers «invest» in building audiences and authority through their content, rather than promising them short term returns on their efforts.

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).

Personality spamming is the work of arrogating attention for oneself, using social media to build an audience — often a very carefully quantified audience of «followers» and «rebloggers» — rather than a network of friends, as was the initial, notional promise.

Having built up to what promises to be a dramatic, fitting finale, the film's final scenes seem to be more interested in shocking the audience and subsequently leaving them freewheeling rather than providing catharsis.

With a built - in audience of mostly 14 - 17 year - old girls, director Gary Ross («Pleasantville,» «Seabiscuit») puts forth The Hunger Games — a rather faithful version of the first novel in Suzanne Collins» best - selling trilogy, telling the tale of a post-apocalyptic North America divided into 12 districts.

All of which makes Warner Bros. and Legendary Pictures» Superman reboot, «Man of Steel,» both a rejoinder to and a confirmation of the associations audiences have with his work — eschewing much of the muscular style that he applied to «300,» «Watchmen» and «Sucker Punch» in lieu of a more streamlined visual sense, Snyder attempts to build rather than deconstruct superhero mythology in what proves to be his most straightforward film to date.

Plus, I LOVE your tidbit on branding: your genre and your name is your brand, so build your target audience rather than your brand.

Self Published works will win awards, but be honest, would you rather sell 10K books and win a Booker, or sell 100K books and build an audience?

That's why I don't think the big revolution for writers and other content producers will come from Amazon, but rather from startups like Patreon, which allow producers to build audiences directly and develop their own direct subscription model with their most fervent fans.

By building an audience and getting feedback right away, a writer may be encouraged to continue and build on their efforts rather than giving up when faced with a slump or self - doubt.

Now, the focal point of this self - publishing course is going to be how to build an author platform and that is a rather broad subject, so we're going to be breaking it down into eight different chapters where you can expect to learn how to connect with your readers, how to find your book's audience, how to promote your book, information on self - publishing, and even ebook promotion.

That is clearly the model you're using, but when you get some time, you might want to try a tour that focuses on some of the nonfiction nuggets in your book, zeroing in on specific topic audiences rather than blogs that are built around a genre.

As an artist in the business of online marketing, I see this all the time that rather than building their own platforms and «tribes» as Seth Godin calls them, artists rely (out of lack of knowledge and fear) on the social media platforms to build their audience, but forget those platforms are really building their own audience.

Rather than focus on technology, as many law firms do, we'll cover how networking through the Internet is all about building relationships by engaging ones» target audience.

Snapchat should both learn from what Community Lenses prove popular and build more like them, but also promote those that are a hit rather than forcing developers to grow an audience on their own.

Rather than building on already existing technology like Ethereum, Telegram wants to create its own blockchain - based payment platform, the Telegram Open Network (TON), that will offer participating businesses full access to its large audience via advertising exchange and virtual storefronts where its homegrown cryptocurrency, called Gram, will be used for payments.