Facebook for Cosplay: Part 2

Thanks for all of the support that everyone gave to Part 1 of this series. It is nice to know that there are people out there that are interested in listening to what I have to say on this subject. Hopefully you’re still interested in hearing the rest of it since I decided to be dormant for most of December. This is another blog post that is just covering the basics of this topic, but I feel without the foundations laid in this post and part 1 the rest of my tips will be useless.

Shameless Self Promotion

If you’re going to create a cosplay page, and you want people to take you seriously as a force to be reckoned with then you have to be able to shamelessly self promote yourself. Running a successful Facebook page is not for the faint at heart. This is going to sound blunt. #sorrynotsorry. Growing and maintaining a following on Facebook is hardwork, and if you don’t want to put the work in then don’t expect to get cosfamous over night. Sure it happens, but for most people success happens because they believe in themselves and they were willing to go the extra mile. Here are some key elements on the path to shameless self promotion:

• Confidence
  I’m awkward too, but I do my best to put my best foot forward. I’m even an introvert, but I’ve learned that being an introvert doesn’t mean I’m incapable of promoting myself. Do your best to smile, and own your badassery.
• Share
  We will delve into the different ways to share your work in future posts, but you have to be willing to take your posts beyond your own page. Sharing your post allows more people to find your page, and thus gain you more followers. If the only place you are sharing is on your page you will surely still grow, but it will be at a much slower rate.
• Know your audience
  In order to play your strengths you have to know what appeals to your audience. Or if you don’t have an audience you have to know what direction you want your audience to expect from you.
• Entrepreneurship
  Cosplaying is its own form of business. All business owners who started at the bottom and worked their way up weren’t afraid to showcase their business as the next great thing. I think we can all learn a thing or two from the way business owners treat their ideas. I treat my cosplay as a growing business, and I think there are a lot of aspects of entrepreneurship that really speak to how we should approach our cosplaying.

Support Others

This kind of goes hand in hand with shamelessly self promoting yourself. If you aren’t willing to support other people then why should they support you?

I’m not saying you have to go and like every single cosplay page you come across, but I see this as kind of a Karma thing. Share the love, and be courteous. Be respectful that everyone is at their own place in the process. We all started somewhere, and without the support of others we wouldn’t be where we are today. Every now and then it’s just good to pass on a little love.

Get excited because next round we are getting more serious. Has this been helpful so far? Is there anything specific you would like me to focus on in the upcoming posts? Leave a comment. Don’t forget to subscribe via email or Bloglovin’ to never miss a post!