{"id":4587,"date":"2022-12-30T20:57:40","date_gmt":"2022-12-30T20:57:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/true-life\/?p=4587"},"modified":"2024-12-30T20:58:03","modified_gmt":"2024-12-30T20:58:03","slug":"reaching-out-for-an-audience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/true-life\/reaching-out-for-an-audience\/","title":{"rendered":"Reaching out for an audience&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In one form or another, I&#8217;ve been writing True Life since about 1998. One thing I have never been active about is cultivating my audience.<br \/><br \/>I still run a Facebook Page that I&#8217;d added in 2010 to kind of promote True Life. It still has about 300-350 members, who&#8217;s membership had very little to do with my promotional efforts. Usually, it&#8217;s a simple matter to share a new page or post to my TrueLife page, and hope for a few clicks-through.<br \/><br \/>But I&#8217;ve never tried to use an email newsletter to build attention and traffic. Maybe it&#8217;s time to make an extra effort at promotion and communication.<\/p>\r\n<p>By now, I think I must have generated enough content for a rich and entertaining reading experience. I&#8217;ve now got almost 300 stories and posts on my True Life site, covering experiences from my first twenty years, my family history, and my forays into genealogy.<\/p>\r\n<div class=\"pdfprnt-buttons pdfprnt-buttons-post pdfprnt-bottom-right\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/true-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4587?print=pdf\" class=\"pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-pdf\" target=\"_blank\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/true-life\/wp-content\/plugins\/pdf-print\/images\/pdf.png\" alt=\"image_pdf\" title=\"View PDF\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/true-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4587?print=print\" class=\"pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-print\" target=\"_blank\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/true-life\/wp-content\/plugins\/pdf-print\/images\/print.png\" alt=\"image_print\" title=\"Print Content\" \/><\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In one form or another, I&#8217;ve been writing True Life since about 1998. One thing I have never been active about is cultivating my audience. I still run a Facebook Page that I&#8217;d added in 2010 to kind of promote True Life. It still has about 300-350 members, who&#8217;s membership had very little to do &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/true-life\/reaching-out-for-an-audience\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Reaching out for an audience&#8230;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/true-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/true-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/true-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/true-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/true-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4587"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/true-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4959,"href":"https:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/true-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4587\/revisions\/4959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/true-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/true-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/true-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}