My Ever Evolving Vocal Audience

Introduction

I recently lost a reader which sort of upset me, because although I supported that person, they just stopped reading and commenting on my work, though they still are actively commenting on others work, so I must have offended them, though I and my friends probably know the real reason.

But this is not a whiney piece, I want to let you know that I am grateful for all those who read my stories and leave comments on them and share them.

Two years back I shared these observations on how Vocal Facebook Groups evolve, and they are a wonderful way to grow your audience.

The music I have included is the wonderful "Let It Grow" by Eric Clapton

My Audience

I don't know who most of my readers are, they are not Vocal members. I probably have about ten creators who read my work regularly and I am very grateful to them for their continual encouragement, help and love.

I know there are a lot of readers out there who provide me with coffee money from my words.

I have a good number of Vocal Subscribers and maybe 5% of them read my work regularly, though it may be a different 5% every day.

I know there are readers who come and go and a few who stay, but my audience is very fluid and I constantly get new subscribers and lose some, but my subscriptions are slowly growing, and my reads are usually between fifty and a hundred a day, though recently I had just eleven reads on one particular day.

I know that if my work is good enough then people will read and maybe tell others. That is the reason I have a lot of "creeping stories" that get reads long after the initial Vocal publication.

Conclusion

I wonder if I would be disappointed if my audience never changed. I do love the ones I count as my friends and count me as theirs, and we interact away from Vocal.

I do love making new connections and helping guide others on Vocal, and seeing them succeed, and I hope this goes on for a long, long time.

Thank you so much for reading and being part of my audience.