Happy Friday, Oh the irony. It’s April 1. April Fools. I was going to write about some of the best April Fools pranks, but it occurred to me the joke might be on me. Here, let me make some sense… If you know the people I’m going to refer to, please don’t say names. “Who” isn’t the point. It’s about something I realized that surprised me.
I think it’s new writers engaging with whatever they can to attract followers, especially now when they have to reach 100 before they can make any money.
The website seller...I know who you're referring to and her posts are so bogus. She also says she builds TikTok accounts to several thousand followers in a week.
I've flipped a few top level domains in my day - for VERY good money - but selling sites? I tried to sell a website with 10 YEARS worth of content and the first thing ALL potential buyers want to know is how much revenue the site brings in.
I think you're on the right track. I write, and I play guitar. Once I found the lessons available online for both of those activities I read, or watched everything I could get my hands on. To get right to the point, I felt so good about all the "learning" except when the light build went on. I never made any real progress. Now my strategy is different. I find one or two resources and focus only on those two. I also read and watch less and write or play more.
Not familiar with that author, but the concept of Web Site build outs is viable, if done correctly. Purchase a domain name from NameCheap, have a reseller hosting account., create content through Jasper.ai, or write it yourself and you can have a Wordpress Site up in a few hours. Selling it is another issue, but it can be done. A better use of her time would be to build out affiliate Sites for herself, using the Site as a referral point for YouTube videos about the product. These are tough times for many people and even a few bucks a day can help. Often, as I'm staring at the ceiling at 4AM, wondering how I'm going to pay the mortgage after my SEO agency inevitably dies, while firmly acknowledging I'll never support myself as a writer, I calm myself by remembering this business model-and pray to the ancient Egyptian God Thoth that my life never reaches that point.
Apr 1, 2022·edited Apr 1, 2022Liked by Linda Caroll
As someone who has paid more attention to Kpop in the past half-year than I want to admit... this is clearly a large part of the appeal of Kpop, especially among hardcore fans. Many fans like to imagine themselves as going through the brutal trainee system, debuting, and then belonging to a top Kpop group.
Furthermore, fans can directly participate in the success of their favored groups (who many see as avatars of themselves). The ones with disposable income can buy multiple albums to put their favorite group to the top of the music charts and help them win music shows (album sales are a large part of the criteria for winning music shows in South Korea). Fans without disposable money but time and an internet connection (which includes a lot of tweens) can constantly stream their favorite groups' MVs on YouTube, which also counts towards music show wins (though not as much as album sales). If their favorite group wins a music show, they can pat themselves on the pat and tell themselves that they are successful... just because they constantly streamed a YouTube video. Low-hanging fruit.
And because these Kpop fans constantly stream these YouTube videos, they rank high on YouTube's algorithms, which means that YouTube shows them to more people, creating new Kpop fans...
People conflate the success of their favorite pop music group with their own personal success.
I think it’s new writers engaging with whatever they can to attract followers, especially now when they have to reach 100 before they can make any money.
The website seller...I know who you're referring to and her posts are so bogus. She also says she builds TikTok accounts to several thousand followers in a week.
I've flipped a few top level domains in my day - for VERY good money - but selling sites? I tried to sell a website with 10 YEARS worth of content and the first thing ALL potential buyers want to know is how much revenue the site brings in.
She's full of shit.
I think you're on the right track. I write, and I play guitar. Once I found the lessons available online for both of those activities I read, or watched everything I could get my hands on. To get right to the point, I felt so good about all the "learning" except when the light build went on. I never made any real progress. Now my strategy is different. I find one or two resources and focus only on those two. I also read and watch less and write or play more.
Still not making money, but I am making progress.
Not familiar with that author, but the concept of Web Site build outs is viable, if done correctly. Purchase a domain name from NameCheap, have a reseller hosting account., create content through Jasper.ai, or write it yourself and you can have a Wordpress Site up in a few hours. Selling it is another issue, but it can be done. A better use of her time would be to build out affiliate Sites for herself, using the Site as a referral point for YouTube videos about the product. These are tough times for many people and even a few bucks a day can help. Often, as I'm staring at the ceiling at 4AM, wondering how I'm going to pay the mortgage after my SEO agency inevitably dies, while firmly acknowledging I'll never support myself as a writer, I calm myself by remembering this business model-and pray to the ancient Egyptian God Thoth that my life never reaches that point.
As someone who has paid more attention to Kpop in the past half-year than I want to admit... this is clearly a large part of the appeal of Kpop, especially among hardcore fans. Many fans like to imagine themselves as going through the brutal trainee system, debuting, and then belonging to a top Kpop group.
Furthermore, fans can directly participate in the success of their favored groups (who many see as avatars of themselves). The ones with disposable income can buy multiple albums to put their favorite group to the top of the music charts and help them win music shows (album sales are a large part of the criteria for winning music shows in South Korea). Fans without disposable money but time and an internet connection (which includes a lot of tweens) can constantly stream their favorite groups' MVs on YouTube, which also counts towards music show wins (though not as much as album sales). If their favorite group wins a music show, they can pat themselves on the pat and tell themselves that they are successful... just because they constantly streamed a YouTube video. Low-hanging fruit.
And because these Kpop fans constantly stream these YouTube videos, they rank high on YouTube's algorithms, which means that YouTube shows them to more people, creating new Kpop fans...
People conflate the success of their favorite pop music group with their own personal success.
I agree with Denise!