Big Numbersss
Tiny author. Big feelings. The first seven-day sprint is over, the strangers have started arriving, and somehow the rebel is still running.
Before anyone calls these numbers microscopic…
Rebels… just kidding.
Many of you guys might look at these numbers and say:
I know. 😭
But for me, rebels, they are gigantic.
You need to know that in the first days of September, we already surpassed the numbers for the whole month of August.
So for me, this is huge. And you cannot imagine how grateful I am for this.
All of you reading me right now are contributing to these numbers that, for me, are enormous.
Thank you. 🌻 A little sunflower to each and every one of you.
Seriously. Thank you for reading the chaos, clicking the posts, coming back, listening to me ramble and watching this microscopic indie author publicly attempt to understand how the internet works.
Sooooo…
You can probably see that today’s post is coming very late. Apologies for that.
As many of you know, I am also a technical ghostwriter. Yes. That is the job that pays for the Coke Zero.
And today, rebels, this rebel worked hard and fast, with a deadline so close I could practically feel it breathing on my neck.
It was not pleasant.
At all.
I finally started working on this post at around 10 p.m. Rome time.
But hey. The important thing is that the post is here.
And ready to show you exactly what happened during the first seven days of this experiment.
Ready, rebels?
Here we go. 🏁
Seven days. Let’s see what moved.
The strangers have arrived.
The number that interests me most isn’t actually 10,120%.
It’s these two.
67.9% of my Instagram views came from non-followers.
People who were not already following me saw the content.
61% of LinkedIn impressions came from outside my network.
Again: people outside the existing Lupe bubble.
Instagram delivered 3,700 content views in seven days to 2,062 viewers.
But again: the part I’m watching most closely is that 67.9% came from non-followers.
LupeFarkas.com
Latest 7 days
Total website views.
Previous 7 days
Total website views.
On September 7 alone, the website recorded 73 views and 42 visitors.
A week ago I was trying to convince Google that I existed. Apparently Google has at least stopped pretending not to hear me.
LinkedIn apparently had somewhere to be.
Ten thousand one hundred and twenty percent.
I would like it formally recorded that I also stared at that number for a while.
Imperfect Rebel escaped containment too.
Search and Home are doing almost all of the discovery work.
Which means people aren’t only arriving because the podcast is already sitting in their library.
And yes, one episode showed a 100% completion rate.
Somebody apparently consumed the entire Lupe.
I hope they’re okay. 😂
The lesson from Lap One
Visibility comes before familiarity. Familiarity comes before trust. Trust comes before somebody eventually pressing Buy.
Eight days in, I am not looking for proof that I’ve magically become a bestselling author overnight.
I’m looking for evidence that the circle is getting wider.
Today, it is.
The KDP desert report
Now, for anyone wondering whether all this beautiful movement resulted in readers dramatically stampeding toward my books…
The desert remains committed to being a desert. 🏜️
However…
Something else happened.
I received the appreciation of the authors whose books I ARC read.
And my technical ghostwriting clients apparently also appreciated my existence, because they sent me another five books to write.
Five.
More.
Books.
So at this point, rebels, I am forced to consider the possibility that perhaps I am not destined to exist exclusively as an indie author.
Perhaps my natural form is simply:
technical ghostwriter with Wi-Fi and an alarming Coke Zero dependency.
