Speakers: Rian van der Merwe

  • Rian van der Merwe: How to build an audience in 743 difficult steps

    WordCamp Cape Town 2013Speaker: Rian van der Merwe

    October 1, 2014 — The biggest question every writer asks when they start publishing online is, “How do I get people to read my stuff?” There are many answers to this question, and these answers are usually now referred to as “content marketing”.

    In this talk Rian van der Merwe shares why it is better to stay away from the easy ways and choose the difficult ways instead, and how a struggling blog with an insignificant number of readers can become not only a source of great joy and expression, but also a source of non-insignificant income.