On joining Triond I looked at the work of others, I saw a few articles that I felt deserved a comment and I left one. The writer of that article messaged me and we became friends.
I then looked through users and found faces not logos, faces. I contacted those faces by reading an article and leaving a comment. I received messages back to thank me and we made friends.
I found a comment in a box at the bottom of one of my articles, I was delighted, I contacted the writer of said comment and we became friends. This is the procedure I use all of the time, it is called saying Thanks for noticing me and taking time out to comment, I am doing the same to acknowledge you exist and I noticed.
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During my time of reading the work of a writer I came across, I noticed the article had a few errors that distracted me from reading what was a potentially good piece of work, I wrote to the writer through the comments box not wishing to follow the abusive insults that others had left behind, the writer contacted me, asked for my advice, I gave it and the article was 'fixed' , resubmitted and the writer contacted me to say the earnings on this article had more than doubled in a day, we became friends.
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I left a comment once that maybe should have been a private message, I learnt a lesson that day but the outcome was I apologised publicly and the writer and I are friends, we support the work of each other on a regular basis.
Every day I read the work of my friends, ninety nine percent of the time I try to leave a comment, not just click the 'I like' box but let them know I support and encourage them as a friend would. They in turn, by about fifty percent, return the favour. All the time I am reading I am noticing others and the way they comment, curiosity about their name or the style of how they comment gets me looking them up, I usually find a new friend.
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Never have I gone cold calling, not bothering to leave a comment in the box provided and then messaging them to tell them their work is great and would they go and read my work, if I want them to notice my work, I use what I consider the polite method of leaving a comment on their work and then messaging privately to see if they will befriend me.
My Blog Method
I have three active Blogs, one that I use for advertisers to come and go, one I use for my hobby and the other I use for linking to my Triond works.
I have links to my friends from Triond, the links takes the world and his friend to their profile page, this is my way of saying, thanks for supporting me, the link list is growing and therefore the more visitors I get a portion of them will call into see my friends too.
I have a side bar set up with the titles of some of my works published by Triond, visitors from outside of Triond click and find, therefore gaining the extra viewer from outside of Triond.
My Website Method
I have a people friendly non-earning (for me anyway) website, I have added a writers corner for my Triond friends to add their scribbles and links to their work, this is a new item and I am thrilled to see a few faces that I know there. The links are linked to my blogs and Triond, see how it can get you noticed? The address is on my profile, but don't forget if you want this effort free way of getting your work linked, be my friend at Triond first.
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StumbleUpon
I and several of my friends from Triond use this method, daily I get the nudge from the StumbleUpon toolbar to say, 'Hi how are you? What do you think of this?' we move our work around together, supporting each other outside of Triond and because we are not clones and we have different types of friends from around the world, our work get seen in places we never knew existed.
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I will confess, I use this method but not often, I find it a little confusing to use at times but that is me, my friends here use it a lot to support each other.
So that is how I use Triond to get noticed, support my friends and get support in return. It is not hard work and it pays to be polite.
