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How to get people to come to me for advice
I don't mean to brag or anything but I think I'm wonderful when it comes to giving free advice.
People will follow my advice and get great results each and every time it seems. I give great free advice to my friends and family, but I have always wanted to start my own advice column ever since I was, like, ten years old. I decided to make a free advice column on Advicenators here but how do I get people to ask me questions? I'm totally awesome but I rarely get questions in my inbox. Is there a way I can promote myself or should I just keep answering questions and waiting for people to catch on to my good advice?
I had another idea too...should I link my Advicenator column on other sites I go to (Livejournal, Myspace, Facebook, etc.) to get people to come visit my advice column or is that too cheesy?
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I don't get very many in my inbox as well, but it's actually kinda hard to get people to inbox you. But, I see it like this.
As long as I'm helping people (whether they ask me personally or not), I'm okay. Just knowing that I helped someone or gave someone another point of view on their problem makes me happy. Sure, I like getting inbox questions, but I don't necessarily need them to define me as a columnist.
I think you should just go with Jack's idea. Answer a wide variety of different questions & see if that helps.
As for posting your link to your column in other places - go ahead! I have mine posted on my Facebook & MySpace. I've also posted it on my LiveJournal a few times. :)
Maybe post a bulletin on MySpace suggesting that if anyone needs advice to go onto your column and ask. :)
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Well, if you want people to come to you for questions.
Just answer a lot of questions. That way whenever someone reads the answer. They see your user name. And then they go to you for advice. :)
Hope this helps! :)
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That's the idea. I really didn't start getting inbox questions until I started answering at least ten questions a day.
And don't answer all in the same category; stretch your advice-giving to things you maybe know a lot about but just haven't given advice on before. You have to start somewhere.
There's no advertising on this site, and I'm really glad that you didn't put your column name in your question =]. However, you can advertise ALL you want on Facebook, MySpace, LiveJournal, Wordpress, Twitter, or WHATEVER. By all means! I have my advice column linked from all of those, and it seems to help.
Another thing I found really works is going to your Settings page and allowing questions from unregistered users. You will probably never hear from them again to know if the advice worked, but maybe it will help you get more inbox questions, because some people just come on this site to ask a question, and they don't want to sign up to give advice in the process.
Tell your friends. Maybe tell your school counselor and ask if he/she can advertise your column for you? And maybe Advicenators in general?
--Jack
(17/m)
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