August Wrap Up

Hello. Oh, jeez. Try it again. Hello. Welcome to Daily(ish) for Monday, August 31.

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Definitely worth checking out if you're at all needing any sort of hosting and, analytics for your feed. And also brought to you by Patreon supporters such as yourself, patreon.com/ichris is where you can check out how you can support my podcasting stuffs a little more directly, a little more on that in the show, as we get going here. This is the final day of August, the last day of the month where I said I was gonna try and podcast. Initially, said I was gonna podcast every day, every Monday to Friday in August. And then I'd at some point in there, added in doing a video version for the Patreon supporters.

So if you're a Patreon supporter, you've been able to view that as well. And I thank you for the folks who've given me some feedback to the extra video, I put up there recently on Patreon. If you haven't yet, I'd love it if you could. You should be able to see it. Think patreon.com/ichris if you just log in there and see it.

And, and so the yeah. The Patreon supporters are getting video versions and and this will be they'll get this video version as well and, it'll be the last, video version of every episode that I'm doing. It's just likely not sustainable. Yeah. It's not really sustainable at the at the current support level, but really fun to do.

I love the idea of video. I I love getting to see a little picture, a little window inside the world of the people I'm listening to and podcasts and and video casts and, stuff online. Kinda helps to humanize this whole thing a bit more, I think. And, but, yeah, it's just not something that's I can keep up doing, every time. And I don't like the Patreon supporters definitely don't aren't just like wanting and demanding or anything, video every day or whatever of especially of Daily(ish).

It's it's something I'd probably do once a week. Daily(ish) itself will probably go back to being more ish than Daily. As much as I'd love to keep doing it every day, it is also just a thing. And and I mean, I'll probably do it more than less. It's been a good experience, definitely on the audio side, just, you know, pushing myself to chat every day and then also being okay with it being just a three to five minute thing if it needs to be and not always having to have a a real strong long ten minutes or whatever purpose to it.

So I don't know. Ending August, I felt like I we kind of well, I don't I didn't feel like we have, as a family barely scraped by in terms of money and, and for family. And as much as I could, you know, sort of blame some vacation stuff and family time and things like that, holidays or whatever, I know it's because when I have a choice, I'll let my business website business stuff slide and won't really sacrifice the podcasting. And as much as that's good for the whole ethos and work ethic of podcasting, it's not so good for the bottom line of, running a business that actually pays your bills. And so, my wife and I, Sue, actually had a good chat last night by the fire, with just where about where things are at.

And while, you know, we're definitely optimistic about podcasting, I also need to be we really need to be realistic about about it and take a hard look in the, you know, in the month or so ahead here, maybe this as we end off 2015, and just to sort of decide what's gonna happen and what's gonna where we're gonna put our focus and what I should be focusing on. Because I know I I can't ask for more support from existing patrons, that's for sure, to help me get to that next level. It's a long ways away from that next level right now. And as much as I'd appreciate appreciate it, I know that, like, if if there's right now, it's 22, 23 people supporting me, I don't wanna be so supported by a small number of people because that just doesn't work very well for my stability if people decide to stop supporting for whatever reason or need to stop for supporting for whatever reason. It needs to be a wider base of people with a few bucks each kind of thing rather than a bunch a smaller number paying you know $10.20 bucks.

And so it has to come in the form of new supporters. So that's definitely something that, is a factor in sort of deciding what to do next and maybe we double down on that and focus really hard on gaining supporters and and doing things that can attract new supporters, membership kind of stuff. Not membership, but like, perks and and things that would attract members, people to be Patreon supporters. I keep saying members, but I don't mean members. Patrons.

And, and so the the video that I've mentioned I'm gonna do for the Patreon, homepage, landing page, whatever for my account is something I'll be working on. I've gotten some great feedback from existing supporters that are there as to why they support me and and give a couple bucks or a few bucks a month. If you're out there and you have a thought on why you don't particularly feel interested in supporting either me directly like on Patreon or just in general that idea of like paying for the stuff that other people are giving away for free and why would you support one person, and that idea. I'd love to hear it. You don't I really won't take it personally.

Mean, if you do have personal thoughts about why you wouldn't support me directly, I'd like to hear those as well. I have a fairly thick skin, I think, but, but, yeah, if you have thoughts as to why in general you don't really like that this whole idea that it's quite a movement of crowdfunding and, crowd supported kind of creative ventures that people are doing these days and, Kickstarter stuff. And so, yeah, maybe that's just not your thing and that's that's fine. I really do believe it's the way that it's the way of the future and the way things are gonna go more and more, because we're you're already seeing like the big top tier celebrity type folks, musicians and artists and creative types turning to that model, video game creators who typically would have tried to get like Electronic Arts or some big publishing house to publish their game or just turning to their fans to Kickstarter and raising like $3,000,000 to create a video game that they wanna do. Then they can do it on their own terms and don't have to deal with the publisher.

And similarly on down, filters on down to the rest of us. Think where just like with Netflix and things where you pay for what you want instead of just getting force fed a whole bunch of choices, or not choices, but, you pay for what you want. That's sort of where I feel this industry is headed. As much as sponsors are great, they also are limited. There isn't a limitless bottomless supply of sponsors, especially to sort of push, as there's more and more podcasters and and creative folks on the web to that next level of being able to be sustainable at doing this.

And so it's not if you're just listening to Daily ish, Daily ish isn't the only podcast that I do. I do, we run a network of podcasts, goodstuff.fm. And so there's other podcasts that we do there like transmission is one, a morning show, show me your mic is a podcast. Another one I do that's a, podcast that talks to other podcasters. There's the at YouTube podcast that obviously talks about YouTube podcasts.

YouTube, the band in a podcast form. And, and so collectively, all these things are the stuff that you're supporting me doing with Patreon and new shows and things that will come out as well. So anyways, whenever I do this stuff, like the podcast right now that I'm recording or other podcasts and and things like that, creative, you know, screencasts and stuff related to podcast related to good stuff, dot f m, I'm really positive, excited, and I come away really happy. But then the reality of like a few days later after I realized, shoot, I spent three hours putting together that video or putting out the podcast or whatever when I should have been spending two hours with a client and making some real money, and it kinda gets, like a little churny, depressiony, anger, frustration, and and, feeling like I'm cheating my family out of food or whatever. Toys, holidays, and, new shoes for school, etcetera.

And so, that's the part where it's we're realizing it's just I don't know. At that current space, current level, it's not sustainable in the long run. But, this isn't I'm not intending it to be all doom and gloom. It's just a reality of, like, trying to figure out what to do now, what to do next. So I thank you for listening.

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