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[maximizeyourmedicare]

Medicare Annual Election Period Soon

Medicare Annual Election Period Soon For all existing and (hopefully future clients), here is what you should do in order to retain our free Medicare guidance. We do not make outgoing phone calls because we do not want to be wrongfully accused of aggressive marketing and I am personally dismayed when I hear of tactics that have been deployed by my counterparts. Gross. Our Medicare Enrollment…

[angela-yuriko-smith]

Authortunities May 31-June 28

Discover open submissions, grants, contests, fellowships, and more.

Calling all Authortunists! Free on Substack, my Authortunities newsletter which includes two weeks of open paying submissions, grants, contests, fellowships, events+. An additional two weeks (one full month) for paid subscribers. Thank you to ALL subscribers! Happy Birthday Walter Whitman Jr., an American poet, essayist, and journalist considered to be one of the most influential poets in…

[librarycards]

photos from Craig Mod's Ridgeline newsletter entry titled "British Sandwiches and Walking 300km of Wainright's Coast to Coast."

[youkaiyume]

Alright, so I've been a fan of Shane, Ryan and even Steven since their buzzfeed days and I've been watching this whole thing with Watcher moving their content over to their own streaming service debacle.

Like most ppl, I think it's a poor business move to alienate your fans like this, but I've been thinking on it more from maybe a financial perspective. I'm wondering how many people actually signed up for it. I saw a tiktok advertising expert say that the conversion rate for ads--meaning the number of ppl to actually buy something when they see an ad is about 1-5%. Like, right now they have about 2.8 million subscribers. And even though they've lost about 50K since and counting, they probably anticipated some loss. I'm sure they've mathed that if they just get at least like 100K conservatively out of their nearly 3 million fanbase to sign up, they'd be able to make $600K a month from their streaming service at six bucks a pop each month.

Maybe that's worth it? I'm not exactly sure how much they were making before. Ppl say they had 11K subscribers on patreon before but that's just their member total. Actual paid members was about 5K. But despite the controversy, their patreon member count has actually gone up. Today it sits at 12K members total with nearly 6K members paying. So they're making at least $30K-70K+ a month currently on patreon based on their offered tiers. not sure how much they were making on ad revenue alone or sponsors cuz I'm not sure how that stuff works on youtube. But maybe by their own accounting they think the loss of followers was worth it if they can hang on to that small, loyal but paying minority.

Another youtuber has pointed out that if you have a sponsor for a video and it's a one off, it can pay more. Up to $35K. So if that is the peak and they release 1 video a week, so 4 a month would be like 140K a month on sponsor money. And youtube pays about $10 per 1000 views a video, and they average 1 mil each video. So about $40K a month on views. So we can guess that they made about $180K a month currently on youtube (patreon and merch sales not included).

Honestly, if they can reach the goal of 1-5% of their subscribers converting to their streaming platform, yeah they probably would make more money in the long run. IF they can somehow manage to retain as well as grow those number of subscribers on their new platform. And don't forget, they don't plan to delete their current videos on their youtube channel so they'll still be earning revenue from those videos. We'll have to see I guess given how much goodwill they've lost with their audience.

Tbh, I am all for them trying to get paid more for their work but I also think they could have transitioned much differently, like only putting some exclusive content on their own platform while also posting free shows to youtube. Or maybe delaying releases for a week or a month for youtubers. or cutting back your production costs if it's really killing you cuz everyone has pointed out they liked the ghoul boys when it was just a black screen with text scrolling by saying "wheeze." Only time will tell if this move paid off for them.

But I'm not super knowledgeable on how the entire youtube thing works so if someone has some insight, feel free to weigh in.

[chloeinletters]

From love likes a dare and my bottom teeth are crooked and you have mustard on your shirt

[venriliz]

imagine addressing critique abt smth (cc) but then put that post behind the patreon subscription paywall lmfao especially idiotic since a lot if not most of the critique comes from outside that nice patreon echochamber lol

[ignis--fatuus]

Ever just have your homework reading tell you Watson got shot in the left ass cheek?

Cause I have

The Longman Anthology of Detective Fiction for those interested

[osmiabee]

what the bally fuck is this "very demure very mindful" shit popping up everywhere. can we all PLEASE go back to slutting it up and farting max volume?!? I hate it here.

[mitsundere]

@benbaroweek2023 day 4 (vampire) and day 6 (reunion)

vampires are immortal, right? :)

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[maximizeyourmedicare]

Summer Reading List: A New Entry

Summer Reading List: A New Entry Check out this book by clicking on the Jae’s Corner Amazon reading list: click here. You can safely presume that the academic, theoretical principles in this book are fully considered, and incorporated into the guidance we provide. A financial plan is a portfolio of diverse components that interact, fit for a specific situation. Our challenge is, and will always…

[dendrochronologies]

three sentences attacking me with hammers, from last week's ask polly

[gmaybe666]

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[drdemonprince]

have you considered switching to substack? i know you have quite the archive on medium so it wouldn’t be easy to move. i’m not a writer person, just a reader so idk what the pros n cons are. no pressure just thought it was interesting. you’re the only person i follow and actually make an effort to read on medium. feels like substack is the new place for the Cool Kids haha but idk if there’s any actual difference or what’s up. also absolutely not saying you’re not cool! you def are not that you need a rando anons validation lmao. just making like an observation about the platforms

Substack pays six-figure advances to terfs like jesse singal and the only way to make money from it is to paywall pieces, thereby ensuring far less people can read them.

Medium has decent anti transphobe moderation and i get paid for every single read i get. at the same time, anyone can read anything without paying a fee. its also discoverable to a general audience just randomly browsing the site. substack followings dont grow organically. mediums do. fuck substack.

[4trackcassette]

listening to the one music playlist email i ever do and the first song is girls by the dare...i said to my coworkers that the dare guy was coming to my town (or near-ish) and they were like oh who is that so i played them the intro to girls and within 2 seconds my hot coworker says "this is the worst thing i've ever heard in my entire life". i still kinda like it tho

[llitchilitchi]

people always complain about a story not making sense because they refuse to read the notes and stuff found around in the world and call it bad game design, but when a story has a lot of exposition in dialogue its bad writing because its exposition dump, and when the notes and dialogue are made to be minimal so people can only learn the lore they feel like learning the story is "badly delivered" because it was not spoon-fed to us? just say you hate spending time learning the lore and go