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Hiveworks has a page up now for some Dumbing of Age merchandise! There’s some hand-carved Dina drink coasters and some popular prints, huzzah. Go check ‘em out.
Hi everybody! Here at the Hiveworks, we occasionally take on new affiliates, usually by referral from a current member or affiliate. This process is highly dependent on the connections between artists in the webcomic community, though, and we realize that we miss a lot of new and…
Hiveworks is a great company that I in disclosure am the Ceo of. We’re currently doing some affiliate scouting before we bunker down for the winter so if you can draw and are interested go apply~
-Note this is Jojo not Oskar typing this.
Hey all, posting this up here because some people are mad, and having all this info in a single place that I can just link people to makes this easier.
WHAT HAPPENED: Today Hiveworks added a bit of code that tells browsers viewing our site through an iframe to not load the site. This only…
Noting the iframes are no longer banned but this is a general explanation of the problems we had.
dannyseii asked:
Do you offer signed prints of your comics for sale?
The only place that sells prints of mine is Hiveworks’ store: http://hivemill.com/collections/dumbing-of-age
But the only place you can get signed prints is when you find me at a convention. The ones at Hiveworks aren’t signed.
betweenfailures asked:
This is probably not a high priority item for you, but Shortpacked!'s blog doesn't format in any mode of Internet Explorer. I mention this because I like to read the transformer posts and have to highlight them to see the text. I also hate every other browser in the world... Maybe the fine Hiveworks people will change this for you so that I will not have to bookmark your work in Chrome.
Maybe Hiveworks will see this and magic will happen.
Or maybe it won’t. We are talking about IE here, which is made out of sticks and glue.
wonderwig asked:
What are the benefits of being apart of a comics guild (network? super friends?) like Blank Label or Hiveworks? I've barely begun to notice that some of the webcomics I read seem to be apart of larger collectives. I'm not looking to join one, but I'd like to be social with other artists.
I don’t think I’m a heavily-integrated part of Hiveworks like most of the comics on their front page – they’re just putting me up. This is in exchange for a small banner of links, which does replace one of my adspaces, but that adspace does NOT give me ANY WHERE NEAR the amount of money I was blowing into Dreamhost every month. And Dreamhost didn’t even host me well, as anyone trying to get into any of my sites at midnight EST would attest. So I’m basically looking at free money to have a site that works. That’s the benefit I’m looking at.
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Several members and affiliates of Hiveworks will be present at the ECCC (Emerald City Comicon). Here’s a handy map to find them. See you all at the ECCC!
LOOK AT ME AND itswalky ON THIS WONDERFUL MAP OF SUGGESTIONS AS TO WHERE YOU SHOULD BE SPENDING YOUR ECCC TIME AND MONEY!!!!!
Case Study: Harpy Gee Increases Readership Over 650%
Artist and Animator Brianne Drouhard (known for her Amethyst: Princess of Gemworld shorts on Cartoon Network and character design work on shows like Teen Titans) and her comic Harpy Gee joined up with Hiveworks in November 2014.
Harpy Gee is an adventure webcomic starring Harpy, a sword-wielding forest elf and her magical storage cat. The story begins when both of them decide to settle temporarily in an item shop owned by a very upbeat witch and a soldier, and Harpy accidentally curses a cranky prince.
Brianne’s character design skills and magical backgrounds make her comic unique, but Harpy Gee’s readership was standing still around 1,000 max weekly readers through control months after Hiveworks starting publishing the comic.
So, how do you boost a webcomic’s readership?
You take it to the readers. To put Harpy Gee where potential readers would see it and want to start reading, we had to find where those readers already were. Part of that problem solves itself - Harpy Gee started getting new readers every day from our main site, when the comic went up on our hub where readers can sort webcomics by genre, age group, and update day.
Beyond that, as part of our focused marketing round for Harpy Gee, we distributed banner advertisements for Harpy Gee across our published webcomics and our affiliate network. Ads for Harpy Gee on sites like SMBC brought in new readers already familiar with webcomics in general, and continue to boost its traffic. We also put Harpy in priority in on our aggregated marketing campaign on larger sites and networks outside of Hiveworks.
We do marketing rounds like these quarterly or bi-annually, depending on the comic, but what exactly do they do for a comic’s readers? Let’s take a look.
Where is Harpy Gee now?
Harpy Gee just wrapped its first marketing round with Hiveworks, and we’ve tracked its readers and visitors along the way. Starting off at a max of 1,000 readers per week, Harpy Gee now has a weekly readership of around 7,000 users.
When you take a step back, the change is even more obvious. In a few months, Harpy Gee has grown from around 3,000 readers to an average of around 20,000 monthly users - an over 650% increase.
Want to join Harpy Gee on her adventure? Catch up on the comic here, and read more like it at Hiveworks.
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Several members and affiliates of Hiveworks will be present at the ECCC (Emerald City Comicon). Here’s a handy map to find them. See you all at the ECCC!
HEY LOOK! IT’S ME! (and joel) (and other people)
SEE YOU AT THE END OF THIS MONTH, EVERYONE
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