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Awesome site, Ben! Curation is really hard. I was with a company called Roadtrippers where we were curating road trip destinations and had the same passion abou

Awesome site, Ben! Curation is really hard. I was with a company called Roadtrippers where we were curating road trip destinations and had the same passion about travel as you do about reading. There is a zen about browsing in a bookstore, and I see what you're going for here. The aisle experience, the recommendations from the wonderful book nerds who work there, author recommendations. Some of the best bookstores host live author readings and Q+A. Have you thought about doing these to promote your site? Platforms for that are taking off (CH and Spaces). Keep up the good work!

bwb 5y ago
Thanks :), do you have any tips on curation? I could use them :) Great idea! I'd love to do author readings/events. I am hoping I can start peeking at what that would require later this summer. I felt like they would be ghost towns if I didn't have a way to get them in front of the right traffic/readers. I am aiming to ship true topic pages this summer and I felt like then I can show events to people who might be interested. For example, I recently attended a paid online talk by an author called Guy Walters on the real life Great Escape During WW2 (https://www.crowdcast.io/guywalters https://www.crowdcast.io/guywalters - he does these talks often and they are awesome). I felt like I couldn't effective promote it unless I have a topic page about World War 2 to gather signups. What do you think? How would you connect raw traffic to events they are interested in?
- ddoster 5y ago
  How would you connect raw traffic to events they are interested in? Go where they hang with ads: ex. wwII podcasts, r/ww2 subreddit. Where did you see the Guy Walters talk? Advertise there! Start with your most trafficked topics. Analytics are your friend. Same goes for curated content.
  - bwb 5y ago
    Thanks :). When they are on Shepherd I am thinking about how to divide them out into interest beyond topics. i.e. I wouldn't want to pitch a WW2 book reading to people not interested in WW2.

bwb 5y ago

Thanks :), do you have any tips on curation? I could use them :) Great idea! I'd love to do author readings/events. I am hoping I can start peeking at what that would require later this summer. I felt like they would be ghost towns if I didn't have a way to get them in front of the right traffic/readers. I am aiming to ship true topic pages this summer and I felt like then I can show events to people who might be interested. For example, I recently attended a paid online talk by an author called Guy Walters on the real life Great Escape During WW2 (https://www.crowdcast.io/guywalters https://www.crowdcast.io/guywalters - he does these talks often and they are awesome). I felt like I couldn't effective promote it unless I have a topic page about World War 2 to gather signups. What do you think? How would you connect raw traffic to events they are interested in?

ddoster 5y ago
How would you connect raw traffic to events they are interested in? Go where they hang with ads: ex. wwII podcasts, r/ww2 subreddit. Where did you see the Guy Walters talk? Advertise there! Start with your most trafficked topics. Analytics are your friend. Same goes for curated content.
- bwb 5y ago
  Thanks :). When they are on Shepherd I am thinking about how to divide them out into interest beyond topics. i.e. I wouldn't want to pitch a WW2 book reading to people not interested in WW2.