Throwback Thursday: Behind the Screens

Good Morning, Prosers,

It’s another week and another Throwback Thursday. You may have noticed we have ditched the edition number and we’ll level with you, it’s because we often forget which edition number it is and don’t want to look like idiots. But for those of you who were wondering, it’s meant to be week twenty-seven. Sniggers

This week we have decided to let you know about all of the content we curate and create week on week for your eyes to gorge upon. This includes all of the social media statuses that link to cool content, and the design content we place on Instagram and YouTube.

Before we do so, it has been a while since we have mentioned Collections and the Prose Bookstore so we will touch upon that. It has taken us longer than we expected to get the iOS app and Bookstore ship-shape and with a lick of paint, but we can assure you that we are almost ready to roll it out! Please bear with the small, yet humble tech team who are busting lines of code like a gaggle of Nintendo R&D geeks! We are super excited to show you the bookstore and further the freedom and flexibility we have provided thus far with this super cool platform.

Now, onto the content curation and creation bit.

We spend a lot of time as a team finding cool content online (the curation bit of our job) to share with you all. We also spend time scouring Prose for content you share to, in turn, share with our social followers. But this part is the tip of the iceberg.

We are found over all major social media platforms and share content daily on those channels.

Facebook Page – One post per day. Seven days per week.

G+ - One post per day. Seven days per week.

LinkedIn - One post per day. Seven days per week.

Letters from Prison Facebook Page - One post per day. Seven days per week.

Instagram - One post per day. Seven days per week.

YouTube – 1 video per month

Pinterest – constant pinning

Twitter – 8 tweets per day. 7 days per week. 224 Tweets per month

Blog – 4 pieces per week

In-app – 4 pieces per week separate to the aforementioned blog pieces.

Between all platforms that’s a whopping 294 updates across all platforms, and this doesn’t include the ad-hoc updates we post, which by our calculations would take the updates up to nearly 400 per month.

Whilst doing all of this, we have an inbox that often explodes with lovely communications from you, in-app messages, phone calls, meetings, 5 hours per week in prison followed by up to 12 hours of typing, posting and commenting on that content, networking with agents, publishers, authors, and public figures, growth, financial projections and board level work. Suffice to say for a small team we kick ass on the work productivity front.

You might ask yourself why we are sharing this information with you all. Well, firstly we have taken a vow of transparency and like to keep you in the loop from behind the screens, and secondly, we want to assure you that we are invested in making this the best damn social media app for writers the world has ever seen.

We’re going to leave that there for this week and continue doing what we do best… Prose.

Until next time, Prosers,

Prose.