#ig i’ll also start watermarking my stuff :):)

[gyukwons]

i feel good today because it’s my birth month yay anyway!!! will overshare in the tags (:

[meddows-taylor]

“I don’t want to stir the pot…”

That’s what I told one of my friends the other day. I was talking about things I saw here and there especially regarding content creators, and I said I didn’t want to cause any trouble by bringing up some issues. But I feel like we had this conversation before and sadly it needs to happen again.

I think that if people knew the effort, time, and energy that goes behind creating content, then maybe they wouldn’t be so careless about posting uncredited stuff. And it’s not necessarily actively going to a creator’s blog and taking one of their posts and reposting it - no, sometimes the cycle goes like this: someone from instagram or twitter takes content from tumblr and they post it to their account, uncredited: if it’s an edit, the url is cropped out; if it’s a gif is simply uploaded as their own. Of course, the original creator was not asked about this. Then, another instagram account takes it and at best “credits” the first Instagram account that reposted in the first place. Meanwhile, the actual creator’s effort goes unnoticed.

(There’s not much we can do to stop that from happening, I’m afraid. And I won’t even get to mention Pinterest, which is another mess when it comes to crediting edits.)

But what happens next sometimes is that someone from tumblr sees this reposted content on instagram/twitter and just takes it and uploads it to their blog here, maybe only sourcing the instagram account or sometimes not even that. That’s one of my main issues with the “credit to: (ig account)”. Sometimes we don’t even know if they are the creators of said content - and if they are, writing “credit to” without checking with them to see if they are okay with their stuff being uploaded here is wrong too. I’ve seen a lot of amazing artwork posted here and credited to the artists on instagram or twitter, but I don’t really know if they are aware their art is circulating here. I know sometimes the position is thinking “well, instagram/twitter takes our content we might as well do the same”: I personally am not completely on board with that way of thinking. Same thing goes for accounts on other social media: writing “credit to meddows-taylor on tumblr” is not entirely okay either without checking. But what we can only control is what happens here, I guess.

The thing is tumblr is a sharing platform: we post stuff, people share it through reblogs, that gives creators the possibility of reaching more people that might not know us, and in return, our community grows. We can’t reach them if what other users solely do is liking posts, because “the sharing chain” gets cut. And what’s the consequence of that? That fewer and fewer creators are motivated to make content, to make edits, to gif stuff, to look for pictures, and make moldboards. And so we chip away the fandom base, day by day. Full disclosure: I personally also use likes as “bookmarks” and sometimes say to myself “oh I’ll reblog it later because I’m in a rush and I want to say something nice in the tags” or I forget later on. I vow to be better about it too. You have no idea what a nice comment in the tags, an ask giving us feedback, a new follower means for creators: it makes us happy, it motivates us, it fuels our creativity. And rebloging, in turns, makes us see what content is well-liked, helps us with feedback, and also allows us to get to know the people interacting with our content: that way the community grows, which is the main benefit of tumblr (that’s why events like @dtfrogertaylor‘s ones are so great, because it fuels us to create content but also makes us come together and meet new people we might haven’t interacted with yet)

I remember once someone saying it was “selfish” and “rude” to ask for credit or call out blogs that repost content systematically. I understand anyone can make an honest mistake without realizing, but if that happens, asking for credit where credit is due is not mean spirited. I don’t know something less selfish than creating content for others to enjoy, only asking that the effort behind it doesn’t go unnoticed. Just today I saw three “clearing out my camera roll” posts including gifs and edits by people I recognized instantly, and two new posts with gifs that even had a watermark on them. All of it without a single nod to the people who spent time and love making that happen.

I’m not one to start drama, anyone that knows me knows I try to reason with people and don’t mean to spread out hate: but I can’t really stay put solely to not “stir the pot” when I see friends get discouraged and unmotivated, when I see their work getting taken and dread to think we might not be able to enjoy their creations in the future because of it.

[3gremlins]

Since these are going around again and I removed my old tumblrs where these were originally posted, posting again with proper tags/watermarks (these are from way back in 2015 and maybe i’ll revisit them/redraw them larger for prints if there’s interest? i kind of want to go through and do some more masculine/gender neutral style bunny suit designs like my newer stuff has, but there are a *lot* of these so maybe not). ✨ Cosplay is welcome with a credit link/tag  (when people don’t do this it bums me the fuck out and makes me not want to do anymore and y’all don’t want that do you? Also I like to see/share your work when people do them!), I’m @ manicgremlin on twitter/ig/fb and obviously @ manicgremlinart here.  ✨Please do not repost/crop/alter! If you need a single character, please shoot me a dm on twitter/fb/ig (i lose messages on tumblr a lot) and i can get you one w/proper watermarks. ✨the art for my solas bunny is mia atm, i’ll add it when i find it (i initially left it out of these because i designed & cosplayed it for myself which is why i started drawing these all in the first place to try and get people to do a group with me)

[johnmuffus]

Drop Ship Drop Out Academy Review

Drop Ship Drop Out Academy Review (Kyle Russell Course)

If you’ve spent enough time watching dropshipping videos on YouTube, then it’s likely you’ve stumbled into eCommerce Kyle, also known as Kyle Russell. He’s the author of the course we’re going to review today: Drop Ship Drop Out Academy.

Now, don’t mistake him for the YouTube channel of the same (almost) name, for he’s not really affiliated to them in any way, and this is an individual course only associated to Kyle. He aims to teach you the necessary steps you want to take if you desire to run a successful eCommerce business.

I got it for $358, and as usual, you can buy and access it through Teachables, which is always a nice thing to know.

So, let’s go into the guy behind the content and the content itself. I’ll summarize my thoughts on whether it’s a good course or not at the end, so feel free to head there if you’re in a hurry.

Who’s the author?

Kyle Russell a young entrepreneur with a YouTube channel, which goes by the name eCommerce Kyle. He’s from the US and 19 years old.

His channel’s main focus is dropshipping through the Shopify platform, but he offers a bit of content on other topics now and then. He’s also covered social media marketing, with a central focus on Facebook, as usual, given the importance of the platform.

His own website mentions he’s been dropshipping for about a couple of years now, presumably since he was 17 or just a little bit older.

His channel was created a bit over a year ago, back in August 2018. His channel is fairly small, still going through the 1,000’s. His average views per video are about 300.

However, his Instagram is quite larger, and he surpassed the 17,000 followers mark a good while ago. He uploads the same pictures you’d expect from other eCommerce gurus (traveling and screenshots), always with his own watermark.

It’s easy to see he’s focused on selling you the dreamy lifestyle that you can get with dropshipping to promote his course as the path towards it.

Reviewing Drop Ship Drop Out Academy

You have 61 videos spread over 8 different modules. Every module goes through its own topic, and the most important sections are the ones focused on store setup, marketing, and scaling.

Social media is the marketing focus here as well, so don’t expect to learn about Google or email marketing, SEO, or any particularly “obscure” social media channel like Snapchat.

Intro

The course opens up with a general welcome and exposition of the course, and he tells you how to access the community and contact him in case you need support.

Module 1

The content itself starts out overviewing the course and outlining the pre-requisites you want to meet before starting the course. I don’t know about you, but I think this is something that belongs on the sales page.

There’s another video explaining what’s dropshipping, but I’m sure you already know that since you bought a course on it. There’s a video on the required mindset, but I’ll give props to the video on expected costs.

Module 2

The 2nd module guides you through creating a business plan. However, it’s more about how to find the products your store will focus on. It’s not planning your entire business but more about setting the foundations of your store. Lessons focus on product research and validating with Facebook.

Module 3

The 3rd module is about creating your store. It’s your basic content on store creation, coming up with a logo, and getting images.

The latter videos dive into setting up your footer and header, how to use Oberlo for importing products, some other apps recommended by the author, and finally how to set up your payments and shipping.

Module 4

This module is all about social media marketing. You learn how to set up your page on Facebook and Instagram, and after that, it goes into how to grow your accounts and some integrations.

There’s a pretty good overview towards the end about testing, which is definitely one of the highlights of the course.

Module 5

Oddly enough, the module after social media marketing is the introduction to social media marketing. I’m sure this is some kind of mistake, but it’s nothing important. Here, you’ll learn about the basic terms in the industry, an intro to ads on FB and IG, and how to set up your pixel.

After that, you learn how to create engagement on Facebook, and it closes with how to leverage organizational structures and filtering your ad comments.

Module 5 (part 2)

This is just a continuation of the previous 2 modules. While it’s named “Module 5”, it’s actually a continuation of module 4.

Anyways, you learn about conversion ads, alternative targeting, ad scheduling, video ads, and a GIF maker called EZGIF, which you can employ to improve your content variety.

Module 6

In the 6th module, you learn how to read your ads results and how to scale them. You’ll learn about what makes a viable product, how to keep track of your ads for different periods (1, 2, and 3 days), and what type of results you should expect at each period.

There’s another lesson about scaling with your usual techniques: optimizing your campaign bidding as well as custom and lookalike audiences to improve your targeting.

The module closes with what you can use to breakdown your ads and optimize them better, lifetime budgets, the commonplace manual bidding lesson, and how to scale without interest adsets.

Module 7

This module goes into the knowledge you’ll need once your orders start coming in.

The videos cover what you should do if your supplier’s stock runs out, how to use Oberlo for order fulfillment, handling high risk orders, a tip to get 6% on AliExpress cashback, and some finance management stuff.

Module 8

The last module in the course goes into how to grow your Instagram and a few marketing strategies you can employ for free.

The lessons in this module go through how to take advantage of the Instagram algorithm to increase your likes, other free marketing like Quora, and some automation.

Bonuses

The bonus is just the chance to work as an affiliate marketer for the course. I guess it’s a way to get some money, but why would you train dropshippers and offer them affiliate marketing?

Final Verdict

Is It Worth It? Final Verdict

This is a mostly average course with a pretty solid section on Facebook ads. The only issue is the lack of other approaches like SEO, email marketing, Google Ads, etc. Besides, they’re very beginner-friendly.

However, it’s not a bad course, but for $100 less you can get eCom Elites, which offers three or four times the amount of content here.

I hope you found this review useful and if you have any questions, please comment down below. I’ll be more than happy to assist you.

Once again, thanks for reading my No Bullshit Road to Remote Work Review and I wish you the best of luck.

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