Follow these tips to get 1000 subscribers on YouTube.
∆ use compeling titles
∆create a trailer
∆tell the viewer to subscribe…
∆fall in love with your fans (create what they need)
∆ interact with your audience
∆ long term consistency: keep working hard and the rest will follow through.
Freenom.com provides a number different top level domain which can be registered for free like:
siteName.ga
Site: https://my.freenom.com
The following blog article details how to make supercuts using python library called videogrep. Enjoy.
http://lav.io/2014/06/videogrep-automatic-supercuts-with-python/
The following site shows how to make a Bar Chart Race in your browser.
https://observablehq.com/@johnburnmurdoch/bar-chart-race
It uses Javascript and the D3.js library to build one using a csv file as the source.
The site below provides historical data on F1 GP’s all the way back to the 1950’s.
Site: https://ergast.com/mrd/
DB Schema:
http://ergast.com/schemas/f1db_schema.txt
The following Sub Reddit posts provide a story of how he built his blog and the success he’s had.
Social media research – gold standard is using a tool like BuzzSumo to see what’s being shared (and linked to) and using that info to inform your content. Whether that means going after similar topics, doing outreach to the people who are doing all the sharing, or just following a similar content format or headline format. But you can do much of the same stuff on the social media networks themselves directly, it’s just harder.
Competitive research – yeah what they’re doing and do it better, or different but similar, or complementary/related.
I think more important than the specific length numbers is just the general observation that more successful bloggers publish longer content. I don’t think it’s because they shoot for a specific length so much as because they try to make their content really good and thorough.
For example this study is my most successful blog post so far and it’s 4,700 words. That’s much longer than the higher-income average but I wasn’t paying attention to word count at all; I just wanted to make it really good. There’s basically no fluff to it — I even removed a section because I thought it watered the whole thing down too much.
Overall my recommendation would be that whenever you write a blog post, check how it’s been covered before and try to make yours a lot better than that. Usually that will mean making it longer and more in-depth, but not always.
One of my biggest takeaways from is the importance of knowing your customer / audience really well and delivering content for those specific people rather than trying to appeal to everyone.
We have different sub-niches and segments.
For example, people that are interested in high yield dividend investing are going to be COMPLETELY different from people interested in short term Options trades which are going to be completely different from people looking for cheap Marijuana stocks that are set to explode.
And really paying attention to open rates, CTR, and the behavior of your buyers and subscribers is paramount to changing your messaging around based on what they are reacting best to.
I’ll tell you that after a DECADE in this industry I am almost always wrong (still) in my assumptions of what content will or will not resonate.
Usually I write a few different versions of things to test.
Almost always, like clockwork, it’s the version I dislike the most that I have the least hope for that ends up doing the best.
And more often than not, it’s the most hyperbolic, most click-baity, lowest hanging fruit version — the version I imagine they’ve “seen enough of” or that “is too saturated” or “doesn’t work anymore” or that is “too salesy / cheesy.”
I have no idea why I’m still so surprised by it.
It’s the art of BS really. I’ve come across those “who reads that stuff???” people many times and they’ye been at high marketing/content marketing positions for a lot of years. Said the same thing and even got pretty offensive.
If you give people value they will read it and connect eith you (some books have 600+ pages and people still read it right?). If you give them bad content, they will notice right away it’s not worth their attention and leave. Don’t waste their time.
I guess doing things at this higher level needs a lot more understanding and knowledge of a ton of fields/skills. So when you propose something like this to people that are ignorant, you’re basically shaking their tree so they may fall down from it.
I’ve known for a while that +15 years of experience for A LOT of people means they’ve been able to gather 1 year of experience and just repeat that for 15 years.
Another solution is to find people that GET IT and work with them and never let go of them 🙂
I work with a lot of financial publishers. Some are HUGE in that they drive over $400 million or more in sales every year, some of them are tiny little operations, but they still draw in upwards of $10 to $30 million a year.
People get VERY confused when they see the websites of these companies — boring, bland.
Then they see they have ZERO social media presence and think they must be unprofitable.
And they blow a gasket when they see people like me writing 10,000 word sales pages, 2 hour long webinars, 1.5 hour long VSLs, emails that are 2,000 words long and more.
Because “Who reads that stuff?!?!”
Then they’ll accuse me of lying when I say that this same content is solely responsible for driving $125,000 in sales in just ONE day.
It comes down to…
Capture leads, nurture leads, convert leads, upsell leads.
They basically sell research, analysis, ideas, and model portfolios.
One client for example has started a “420 Millionaire’s Club” with the goal of turning $100,000 into $1 million in 3 years (that’s the goal anyway).
It’s a real money portfolio, which means he has put $100,000 of his actual money into this portfolio and subscribers can follow along, receive information about his methodology, buy and sell alerts, new companies he is looking to add or drop.
It’s doing quite well, even with the marijuana sector taking a gnarly dip at the end of 2018 he’s up a little over 30% since starting about 7 or 8 months ago (so about $30,000).
Another one would be a different guy and it’s centered on dividend investing and income stocks.
That one isn’t a real money portfolio, but it is a tracked portfolio where people can see how all recommendations are going, all currently held gains and all closed P/L going back to the inception of the service over 8 years ago.
And of course then get a monthly newsletter, buy/sell alerts, analysis reports, ideas, and more.
But I mean that’s basically the whole industry in a nutshell.
Various investment niches from day trading, to swing trading, penny stocks, growth stocks, income stocks, Options strategies, sector-specific investing, and all sorts of niches and strategies.
But it basically comes down to subscribing for analysis, ideas, alerts, and model portfolios.
Many investors subscribe to a variety of financial newsletter services that are in competition and like to see the competing analysis on specific stocks for example to help them decide on what they want to do.
I know that’s the case for Uranium right now. A lot of people have the idea that Uranium is about to go on a tear, but of you’re on the fence and you’re not sure how to expose yourself to the market, you might sign up for two or three energy investing services and see how they are handling it and what their recommendations are.
Others are looking for literal trade alerts and that’s it. Like…this guy has a good track record, he’s up 200% overall for the last 3 years, I just want to buy what he’s buying and sell what he’s selling.
The best advice I’ve typically seen is that it’s best to initially publish on your own site and just syndicate it on Medium or elsewhere. I believe Medium lets you add a rel=”canonical” tag linking back to your own site — those aren’t 100% reliable but in general it should allow you to keep the organic search rankings for yourself while still capturing some readership from Medium.
Your 80%-finished book sounds like a valuable asset for sure. If I were you I’d create a separate post to ask about it so you’ll get more answers, but if it’s really good you could try giving away part of it and selling the rest. ProductHunt may be a good promotional avenue.
Keep in mind that it will probably lose value the longer you wait to publish it, as practices and technologies evolve.
There’s currently a shift/change in platform use, a lot of people are going back to making their own (either wordpress, jamstack/static sites are gonna be big,…) for various reasons.
The main one I saw is “control” over a lot of things the platforms can’t deliver. Platforms tend to change things around so it’s not best for a content writer. Even privacy, ownership of content etc., legal things, are issues as well).
Medium for example is “one for all”, ok to start but once you grow you want to add maybe newsletter forms… and even change the layout to fit the content you make better. Any platform can easily limit you once your audience grows.
You can still use Medium though, but it’s used to fuel your own site.
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