I’ve been looking at prepping my reader pipeline for a campaign, and I’d like some help interpreting the reader pipeline. Each prospect added has an icon in this column - all of mine seem to have an "i" followed by a person outline. I can’t find a key or a tooltip to explain what the icon means. 

Or you’ll come to the conclusion that most of us know already: Only about 1% of your followers will actually read your updates. Inkshares is pretty spammy. They notify you of EVERYTHING via email. Someone likes something, you get an email, someone looks in your direction, they send you an email. 

I remember people in the first Nerdist contest emailing Inkshares telling them to stop, until they finally installed a "opt out feature". Even still, that’s not the default setting. 

Basically, don’t expect your followers to read, or comment, or even do anything more than maybe press "Like".  Heck, even getting followers is awesome enough. 

The people that go out of their way to review, or highlight excerpts are really taking some extra, above and beyond time for a book that may not even get published. So thank them profusely. Otherwise, be happy with followers and: let people do things at their own pace. They will come in time. 

Don’t rely entirely on Inkshares as your sole marketing platform. Their intent, is to be there eventually, but they aren’t yet. There still needs to be a larger amount of readers who are coming to support upcoming works. As the author, you have to draw new blood to the site. Get some loyal fans of yours to leave a review, and then others, and more will come. 

At least... all of this is my opinion anyway. So, take it or leave it. I tend to be a bit harsher on the reality of crowd funding than others. If you want to get a sale, it’s not going to be by releasing chapter contents through the updates. You are pitching a book concept that may be 1 year out from being in print. I would try other hooks. 

Imho, you should only release enough of your book to draw people into your world, show off your writing and initial ideas, then do other things. Look at @John Robin and his Maps, or @Joseph Asphahani and his updates, or @Janna Grace with her crazy bone auction. 

We have some baby skunks living under our barn - problematic but they are so cute.  I took this video last night.