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Social Media Guide contest
The girls on their 5th birthday.

How would you like to win a copy of my new social media guide?

Well, here’s your chance.

Today I’m offering DaveCharest.com readers and their friends a chance to win the premium version.

I doing it because I’m feeling extremely happy!

Why? My little girls are six-years-old today! =)

So I’m in a bit of a celebratory mood.

And I figured why not give some stuff away?

Specifically, I want to give away the premium version, now renamed:

The Indie Artist’s Guide to Social Media

I’ll get to how you or someone you know could get a complimentary copy in a minute.

But first, I wanted to tell you bit about it.

I’ve spent the a lot of time gathering feedback, making adjustments and tweaking the guide and the product page this past weekend.

I also had a chance to reread the guide. And I’m proud of it. Plain and simple.

As I see it, it’s beneficial for two types of people:

1. Creative types who are bit frustrated with the results they’ve seen using social media.

2. People like you, who have a good understanding of social media but are having a hard time getting others on board. They still only see these tools as another way to broadcast and spam everyone.

I’ve purposefully structured this guide to spend a good amount of time proving why short-term thinking and broadcast only messages are not the best ideas for social media success.

The social media guide comes with some cool stuff too!

The guide also comes with a workbook so you can actually get moving in the right direction. I’ve also added some pretty cool bonuses as well.

There’s an audio version of guide, read (more like performed) by yours truly, so you can listen to it on your MP3 player or computer.

And I’ve included an audio and transcript of The Journey Factor: Case Studies – Mark Lonergan. In the interview you hear from someone who has been putting these tactics to use and seeing great results.

And for right now, because I’ll eventually come to my senses, you can get a 30-minute Skype consultation with me as part of the premium package. (I will at least be raising the price on Friday, Dec. 3rd)

As I said I put a lot work into the page, finding just the right quotes, adding pictures of people, finding the right tone, etc. Click if you want see the new page and find out more about the social media guide. DO NOT BUY IT NOW.

Here’s what I’d like you to do instead…

Leave a comment on this post with the answers to the following two questions.

  1. What’s your biggest frustration when it comes to marketing your work?
  2. What do you want to accomplish with The Indie Artist’s Guide to Social Media?

Once your comment goes through you’ll be entered to win one of two copies of the premium version of The Indie Artist’s Guide to Social Media. I’ll be choosing the winners based on your answers. So make them good!

I’ll be accepting comments on this post until 11:59pm EST on Wed. 11/24. I’ll announce the winners on Friday, 11/25.

If you know anyone else who could benefit from this guide please do send them to this post for their chance to win.

Thanks!

Here are those questions again…

  1. What’s your biggest frustration when it comes to marketing your work?
  2. What do you want to accomplish with The Indie Artist’s Guide to Social Media?

Answer in the comments below. COMMENTS ARE NOW CLOSED.

Congratulations to Cat McIntosh and Donloree Hoffman winners of the premium version of The Indie Artist’s Guide to Social Media. If you know you’d like to get a copy of the social media guide, you’ll want to do so while you can still get a 30-minute Skype consultation as part of the Premium version. This bonus goes away Dec. 3rd. Put an end to your social media frustration today.

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  1. 1. What’s your biggest frustration when it comes to marketing your work?

    I’m frustrated because when it comes to social media, I feel very connected, and people often express excitement about my work before the fact, but then I’ll often not end up seeing them at the actual show. I know people are stretched thin, and that I do the same thing sometimes, but I’d like to learn more about what I can do to turn what feels like a warm, ripe online connection into an actual butt in a seat.

    What do you want to accomplish with The Indie Artist’s Guide to Social Media?

    In the past, with my efforts combined with the self-promotion of everyone else involved on the project, and the marketing efforts of the producing entity behind the project, I’ve been lucky enough to end up with amazing turnouts at my plays. But I know that my efforts as a marketer weren’t primarily responsible for those turnouts, because I was only one of several marketers. Now that I’m starting a theater company and WILL be the primary marketer of my work, I want to know how to continue those great turnouts. And I think I have strong enough connections with my online community that I’m at a great place to start; I just want to make sure I interact with those connections in an effective way.

  3. 1. What’s your biggest frustration when it comes to marketing your work?
    It seems as though it takes a ridiculous amount of money to “get the word out” about my work (or IF I could promote it in all the ways and places I want to it would take a ton of cash) and it also takes a lot of time (which might be even more precious a commodity than money).
    2. What do you want to accomplish with The Indie Artist’s Guide to Social Media?
    I want to be a smarter, quicker and savvier promotion machine. Because, honestly, if no know knows you or your work exist…. do you/does it?!

    And happy, happy to the girls. Might they be ready for another New Vic show soon? We’ll have to make that happen!

    • Thanks Louise! Yes, a New Vic show sounds great. My Dad was in town recently and we took them to the Radio City Holiday Spectacular. They had a blast of course. Email me something you think would be good. =)

  4. 1 – my biggest frustration in marketing my work…do I have to pick just one?! I struggle with connecting with my niche audience and how to speak to others that aren’t my direct audience but are interested. When I have a laser beam focus I have a smaller, very engaged audience that is hard to find and when I am more broad based in my messaging I have more people that are interested, but no one that is ready to commit. I have great ‘product’ with a hard to find market!

    2. What do I want to accomplish? Some practical skills, tips, and tools on how to use the networks that I have created. To use a very government-esque word, a framework, for me to work in! (Can you tell I used to be a civil servant once upon a time?) I also want learn to how to ‘see’ the results of what I have done. If something works or not and why. Currently I just do ‘stuff’ and hope something sticks to the wall. Basically I need a ‘Dave in my pocket’ that I can ask questions to. Is this a ‘Dave in my pocket’ book? If so, then I am going to LOVE it.

    Dave – you’re awesome. =)

  5. 1. What’s your biggest frustration when it comes to
    marketing your work?
    Getting beyond my current circle of known, interested people. I have sizeable mailing lists and quite a few ‘friends’ on social media, but I know there are many, many people out there who are potentially interested in what I have to offer, but I just don’t seem to be able to reach.

    2. What do you want to accomplish with The Indie Artist’s Guide to Social Media?
    Spread the message that ‘natural beekeeping’ is a great way to engage with the natural world, and that many more people could benefit themselves, their local environment and the wider world by taking an interest in how bees play a vital part in our food production system, as well as valuing them for their own sake.

  6. 1. What’s your biggest frustration when it comes to marketing your work? Getting our name out there, and having people place orders. It’s been really hard to get people, other than friends, to pay attention and take us seriously.

    2. What do you want to accomplish with The Indie Artist’s Guide to Social Media? Learn how to get more attention, and hopefully get more orders now that the holiday season is upon us!

  7. What’s your biggest frustration when it comes to marketing your work?

    Like any playwright, my biggest frustration is the invisible curtain between me and most artistic directors. It’s as if there are a phalanx of guards protecting some of them from what I do.

    What do you want to accomplish with The Indie Artist’s Guide to Social Media?

    I’d like to understand better how to promote my blog via Facebook, and also make a determination about whether video would be a useful addition to my communication platform.