8 Tactics to Promote Your Writing (Without Social Media)

If social media disappeared tomorrow, here’s how you could still find new readers.

Alexander Lewis
The Startup

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Source: Stencil

“Think of yourself as an explorer. You cannot find anything new if you are unwilling to leave the shore.” Robert Greene, Mastery

Let’s pretend for a minute that Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn suddenly disappeared. These social media sites dissolved in a flash and you were left blinking at the wall behind your computer, jaw agape.

You scramble to Google for answers. It’s confirmed. They’re all gone. Forever.

As reality sets in, you panic thinking about all the photos and distant high school crushes you’ll never see again. Then you call your mother — who it turns out was somehow behind this large-scale social media deletion the whole time.

But never mind that. You can’t be mad at her, so you take a deep breath and try to think practically. You ask yourself: How do I connect with new readers now that social media is gone?

One day you stumble upon this list in the miscellaneous items drawer in your kitchen, next to a once-white sock and your sister’s old CD player:

1. Pitch your work to traditional media

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Alexander Lewis
The Startup

Ghostwriter for Tech Leaders | Bylines in Adweek, The Next Web, Foundr, and Built In www.lewiscommercialwriting.com