Promoting Yourself and Your Skins
Tuesday, August 16, 2011 by Island Dog | Discussion: Personal Computing
People often ask me how to get more views and downloads for their skins. We get a real decent amount of traffic on WinCustomize, but sometimes standing out from the rest of the pack is difficult. We try to feature and promote people as much as we can, but there just so much that can be done by just one or two people here. If you check out our WC Facebook page, we often post skins and news there which has introduced WinCustomize to a whole new group of people.
I wanted to share some various tips that can you and your skins get more attention, which in turns helps WinCustomize as well. It’s a win-win!
Make a Tumblr blog. (www.tumblr.com)
These are quick blogs that people often use for photography and displaying images of all sorts. I actually have one setup for desktop customization, but unfortunately I lack the time to post skins there on a regular basis. Open your own blog, or even volunteer to help with this one.
Use e-mail signatures.
Whether you use a web e-mail service like Gmail or Hotmail, or a client like Outlook or Thunderbird, most have a way to create and save signatures that can be used on your outgoing mail. Depending on what they allow, these are usually rich text or html-based signatures. As you can see from my work one below, I have a link going to the Stardock.com page, and links to our various social networks. E-mail is very common obviously, so placing a link to your galleries or profile is another way to spread the word about yourself.
Share Yourself!
Use social networks to your advantage. Share your individual skins on whatever networks you have access to. Many of these have tools like browser bookmarklets that make sharing pretty easy.
Best places to share:
- www.twitter.com
- www.facebook.com
- www.stumbleupon.com
- http://www.delicious.com/
- http://plus.google.com
Let me make a reminder you don’t have to do any of this. These tips are for people who are looking to expand their reach and willing to do a bit of work to achieve that.
Reply #2 Tuesday, August 16, 2011 2:32 PM
While I may have a particular aversion to providing personal data to any social networking site for those that don't, please go for it.
It might bring more people to the website to view all of our work and help WC with sales. A win-win for everyone.
im there alredy but never ever posted anythin' 
Reply #4 Tuesday, August 16, 2011 11:38 PM
Another way to 'promote yourself and your skins' is to be conscious and critical about what you decide to submit/make public.
A few REALLY GOOD WORKS will always reap better results than a squillion very average ones that are simply lost amongst all the others 'out there'.
Mediocrity for anyone will be a turn-off ...
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Reply #1 Tuesday, August 16, 2011 1:55 PM
Just took you up on that: I volunteer.