FYI, the "PETE Best got kicked out of the Beatles, not Chris Best" comments have already come rolling in. Damn it. Well, if you didn't know already know that I'm a moron, now's a great time to find out.
So maybe this is a moron question but I'm sorry, I gotta ask it:
Let's say you weren't on The Daily Show (where you got your cred to guest-post on Slow Boring, and be interviewed on the Gist), how would you go about building your audience? Like say, if you were a true nobody?
May 11, 2022·edited May 11, 2022Liked by Jeff Maurer
V-e-d-d-y i-n-t-e-r-e-s-t-i-n-g. I thought sure I'd learn the deep, dark secrets to success from Chris--who should know if anybody does--so I sat through the entire thing, not just for that, but because you both held me captive. I had to laugh at your takes on Matty Yglesias. I have mixed feelings about him, at best, but I'll have to agree that he is a good writer. And he must be doing something right, because he has an audience about 30 gazillion times bigger than mine.
But I mainly came here to ease your mind about a Twitter presence. Don't waste a minute of your valuable time trying to promo your writing there. Unless you're already famous, with a name that's known to everyone, any attempt at getting that crowd to read what you've written will cause terrible anxiety and maybe even shuddery tears.
I can get thousands of hits over some stupid thing I've said off the top of my head, but ask that same bunch to take a look at something I've sweated blood writing? They're nowhere to be found. Once I asked if they could actually see my posts and got two answers. The first one was 'Yup', and the second was something about Twitter being bad at algorithms or something.
So forget it. You're doing the right thing. I love Twitter for so many things, but promoting my own writing isn't one of them.
Have you considered just starting a beef with some other Substack author? This seems like what a rapper would do. If he didn’t get into it with T.I. about who was the real King of the South, I’m not sure I’d ever have come to know about Lil’ Flip. I bet if you started spitting some G shit at Yascha Mounk, that traffic would start rolling in on dubs.
I was second on the Pete vs. Chris Best thing, but hey, Jeff's accurate to funny ratio is well within tolerances. I think I actually am going to start a substack after listening to this so . . . . Good job Chris Best!
FYI, the "PETE Best got kicked out of the Beatles, not Chris Best" comments have already come rolling in. Damn it. Well, if you didn't know already know that I'm a moron, now's a great time to find out.
This was fun, thanks for having me. Hello fellow subscribers.
So maybe this is a moron question but I'm sorry, I gotta ask it:
Let's say you weren't on The Daily Show (where you got your cred to guest-post on Slow Boring, and be interviewed on the Gist), how would you go about building your audience? Like say, if you were a true nobody?
V-e-d-d-y i-n-t-e-r-e-s-t-i-n-g. I thought sure I'd learn the deep, dark secrets to success from Chris--who should know if anybody does--so I sat through the entire thing, not just for that, but because you both held me captive. I had to laugh at your takes on Matty Yglesias. I have mixed feelings about him, at best, but I'll have to agree that he is a good writer. And he must be doing something right, because he has an audience about 30 gazillion times bigger than mine.
But I mainly came here to ease your mind about a Twitter presence. Don't waste a minute of your valuable time trying to promo your writing there. Unless you're already famous, with a name that's known to everyone, any attempt at getting that crowd to read what you've written will cause terrible anxiety and maybe even shuddery tears.
I can get thousands of hits over some stupid thing I've said off the top of my head, but ask that same bunch to take a look at something I've sweated blood writing? They're nowhere to be found. Once I asked if they could actually see my posts and got two answers. The first one was 'Yup', and the second was something about Twitter being bad at algorithms or something.
So forget it. You're doing the right thing. I love Twitter for so many things, but promoting my own writing isn't one of them.
Have you considered just starting a beef with some other Substack author? This seems like what a rapper would do. If he didn’t get into it with T.I. about who was the real King of the South, I’m not sure I’d ever have come to know about Lil’ Flip. I bet if you started spitting some G shit at Yascha Mounk, that traffic would start rolling in on dubs.
Pete
I was second on the Pete vs. Chris Best thing, but hey, Jeff's accurate to funny ratio is well within tolerances. I think I actually am going to start a substack after listening to this so . . . . Good job Chris Best!