Escaping from industrial health care was a leap of faith. Having income again will induce me to spread the wealth. Till then, you just get weedom. 😎 The Creator provides. I anticipate ginormous growth for Brunette Gardens, because you have the skills. It'll take a few years in the case of weedom, because nerd power travels slowly, and that's how long it took the last time I worked to get something worthwhile noticed online.
Pay per click is expensive stuff. And payment per views amounts to pretty high costs per click, and super high costs per sale.
Thinking about this new feature allowing us to connect the contact list with SubStack, I have an instinct Not to disgorge my phone contact list to any kind of app or online thing. It's sort of like breaking a trust with my contacts , since giving me their info doesn't automatically mean I should get to release it to multitudes of other people.. (It's also why I don't use the free email providers. )
At the moment I am unemployed after decades of teaching. My Substack writing doesn’t pay a cent and I don’t have many subscribers. So I am on a moratorium from paying for subs until someone decides to hire me. The downside of having a PhD in teaching and learning is the very narrow realm of opportunities. I’m on the short list for online tutoring, but can’t get my foot in the door editing, writing, proofing, or consulting. I’m not complaining; my income isn’t necessary to our family budget, but it does limit my non-essential spending.
Lisa & Anthony, I'm so sorry about your business loss! What a seriously crappy year for you all. I hope you're able to make it worthwhile to stay on Substack-- the Stacks would be less vibrant without you in it.
I want to thank all our readers for a fantastic first year on Substack. You made a tough time much brighter with your encouragement and good company.
Escaping from industrial health care was a leap of faith. Having income again will induce me to spread the wealth. Till then, you just get weedom. 😎 The Creator provides. I anticipate ginormous growth for Brunette Gardens, because you have the skills. It'll take a few years in the case of weedom, because nerd power travels slowly, and that's how long it took the last time I worked to get something worthwhile noticed online.
Thanks for the compliment. I’m always striving to get better. None of the work of being a writer today is easy, but it’s what gets me up each morning.
👍The writing is hard work, but it's easier than the job of getting more eyes on it.
I think the writing is satisfying work. The promotion is just frustrating and largely out of our own control.
Promotion is a hemorrhoid. Twit, Facebook, Instagram is not what I depend on. I have profiles and help on various start-up social media.
Big social isn't good for innovative or free thinkers, (leftie, rightie, or any kind) because big corpo-gov doesn't want that.
I'm a veteran of journalism and witnessed first-hand the problems with pay-per-click advertising. Social media was the nail in the coffin.
Pay per click is expensive stuff. And payment per views amounts to pretty high costs per click, and super high costs per sale.
Thinking about this new feature allowing us to connect the contact list with SubStack, I have an instinct Not to disgorge my phone contact list to any kind of app or online thing. It's sort of like breaking a trust with my contacts , since giving me their info doesn't automatically mean I should get to release it to multitudes of other people.. (It's also why I don't use the free email providers. )
Thanks for the shoutout, Lisa!
Thank you for the great posts!
At the moment I am unemployed after decades of teaching. My Substack writing doesn’t pay a cent and I don’t have many subscribers. So I am on a moratorium from paying for subs until someone decides to hire me. The downside of having a PhD in teaching and learning is the very narrow realm of opportunities. I’m on the short list for online tutoring, but can’t get my foot in the door editing, writing, proofing, or consulting. I’m not complaining; my income isn’t necessary to our family budget, but it does limit my non-essential spending.
Stephanie, I’m so sorry to hear that. I’m away from my computer right now, but when I get back to it on Monday, I will comp you a paid sub.
Thank you so much! I feel blessed!!
Done! Enjoy.
Thank you
Lisa & Anthony, I'm so sorry about your business loss! What a seriously crappy year for you all. I hope you're able to make it worthwhile to stay on Substack-- the Stacks would be less vibrant without you in it.
Thanks, Erin! We’re enjoying it too much to stop now.