{"id":7362,"date":"2010-11-09T12:24:41","date_gmt":"2010-11-09T12:24:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/publicityhound.com\/blog\/?p=7362"},"modified":"2010-11-09T12:24:41","modified_gmt":"2010-11-09T12:24:41","slug":"writing-expert-needs-ideas-for-marketing-online-classes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/marketing\/online-marketing\/writing-expert-needs-ideas-for-marketing-online-classes\/","title":{"rendered":"Writing expert needs ideas for marketing online classes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2010\/11\/McKenna-Donovan.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-7364\" style=\"float: left;margin-left: 10px;margin-right: 10px\" title=\"McKenna Donovan\" src=\"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2010\/11\/McKenna-Donovan.jpg\" alt=\"McKenna Donovan\" width=\"150\" height=\"198\" \/><\/a>This week&#8217;s &#8220;Help This Hound&#8221; question is from\u00a0McKenna Donovan of Asheville, N.C.:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m the founder and executive director of To Write Well, which offers a wide variety of writing courses online.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Typically, the market includes professionals (journalists, lawyers, corporate communications officers), who need to improve their voice and style; and hobbyists, who are seeking higher level skills in genre writing and poetry.\u00a0 My faculty offers courses on fiction, non-fiction, creative non-fiction, and poetry.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My infrastructure is in place, but while it would be easy to blame the economy, it&#8217;s more accurate to say I&#8217;m missing an essential promotion ingredient.\u00a0 I use Facebook, including Facebook ads.\u00a0 I have a an active blog that automatically tweets, and I have run promotional courses (for free) to select writers to gain word-of-mouth.\u00a0 And yet the seats remain empty.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In my site trial, I had students from India, Switzerland, Australia and China.\u00a0 The site is designed asynchronously, so all students have access based on their schedules, but interaction is kept moving along on a daily basis.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What am I doing wrong?&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week&#8217;s &#8220;Help This Hound&#8221; question is from\u00a0McKenna Donovan of Asheville, N.C.: &#8220;I&#8217;m the founder and executive director of To Write Well, which offers a wide variety of writing courses online. &#8220;Typically, the market includes professionals (journalists, lawyers, corporate communications officers), who need to improve their voice and style; and hobbyists, who are seeking higher\u2026&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/marketing\/online-marketing\/writing-expert-needs-ideas-for-marketing-online-classes\/\" class=\"rmlink\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","iawp_total_views":1,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[612],"tags":[605],"class_list":{"0":"post-7362","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-online-marketing","7":"tag-news-events","8":"entry"},"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Joan Stewart","author_link":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/author\/jstewart\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7362\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}