Imp-Chan wrote:
Actually, I talked to marketing people before making my advertising packet the first time. Not just one, but several. I think they had something like twenty to thirty years of experience in marketing apiece, and they'd all worked for major U.S. companies. I did a lot of other research, too. We also included in those packets the results of surveys that we ran with our audience at the time, so not only did we have facts and figures about our audience and their interests, they were real facts and figures. I'm certainly open to revisiting our approach, though, once the new ad functionality is in place. There's not much point before that.
My only thought is that you bend the figures along with the doujin/card game to try and get near some existing market segment.
Imp-Chan wrote:
In terms of adding any more marketable characters... sorry, but we are not going to introduce new major characters to Errant Story. Period, full stop. The story is written, the characters are what they are. More marketable characters would be something to consider for a different comic, but this one is just not flexible like that. I am somewhat concerned that this wasn't obvious to begin with.
I kinda knew that in the back of my head but I'm suffering from flu. sorry about that.
Imp-Chan wrote:
I find the suggestion of a card game amusing in the extreme, as I first got involved in these forums trying to get Poe to contribute to Project C.A.R.D. We're actually looking into producing an Errant Story deck soon, but it's a ways off because card decks are expensive to produce in comparison to how much they can be sold for. Additionally, the main problem according to the person I talked to at Speechbubble is the actual content of the comic, not the products associated with it. This is a very, very narrowly defined box which we are sitting outside of, apparently.
Glad I amused you.
Imp-Chan wrote:
Once the new site design is completed, flash ads will be possible, along with many other kinds. However, the current site doesn't actually allow us to make changes of that sort (the autoupdate habitually deletes changes to the main page), so we can't put in that functionality UNTIL we switch to the new design.
Flexibility is always useful.
Imp-Chan wrote:
The dating advertisers would be great... do you have actual contact information for someone in their marketing department? Without it, I can't exactly solicit them for ad sales.
^-^'
It was only a thought.