Hello. Welcome to DailyShift for Wednesday, May 11. It's five degrees outside. Feels like five, feels like rain. This isn't a weather podcast.
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Speaker 1:Hasn't been much movement since last actually the last episode which was quite a while ago now. Think I I recorded the last one April 20, so it's been a little while. But as of this recording, the course has 46 sales for a total of $267 and that was there's a mix of like free giveaways in there and to Patreon supporters and some I forget how they don't know how the accounting works exactly when it accounts for like Justin Jackson tweet or sent it out to a bunch of his followers and supporters and his mega maker podcast group. And so he got I had given him an affiliate code and so then there's a little bit less money that I get because he gets a cut of it or whatever, which is awesome obviously. So check him out megamaker.co.co.
Speaker 1:And he's got a great fun podcast if you're listening and interested in this sort of creator interested maker space kind of stuff. He's been doing a lot of fun stuff with that. So I recently raised the price to $9 per for the course because well, why not First, I guess if someone's paying $7 for it, why not 9? It's not very scientific and I I need to put a little more thought into it but, I'm also in kind of like the lull, the downward spiral of like, well, that was fun, now what of it. And, but I I I don't think I priced it too low for pre orders and stuff, but I do think maybe I've had it priced too low for people ongoing to think it was a serious, you know, bit of training they're gonna buy.
Speaker 1:Because it is, you know, I I think about it like an hour long course with video and the amount of time I put into preparing for it and all that it covers. You know, it's a free app, Snapchat is, so it's free to use. And that's where I was trying to like balance like what someone would wanna pay for something versus what it's worth to them because it feels like, just go try out the app. Why would you buy a course for it? That's kind of some of the negative feedback I got from folks.
Speaker 1:But obviously, people do buy training or want training for things even if they are free. It saves them time having to figure it out. So I figured a $9 course or $7 course or whatever should be helpful. So we'll see. I've had a couple sales since the price went up just from random stuff.
Speaker 1:I did a Facebook ad that got I spent put about $19 into Facebook ads and targeted a bit of like, you know, over 25 I think I did and excluded people who specifically mentioned Snapchat as an interest. Just because I figured by if they're already interested in it and worth and at the end, they'd gotten to the point of actually putting it on their Facebook profile, they definitely would be aware of what it is. But anyways, about $20 worth of ads and got zero sales out of that actually. I think it was I forgot the number of Obviously, a few like it was pretty cheap advertising but zero sales. So I'm gonna try again in a little while maybe with a little bit more targeted demographic and change the ad photo and stuff on it and and just try something different in a bit but, just gonna let it sit for a little while right now anyways.
Speaker 1:And so we'll see see where it goes. Link is in the show notes if you're curious about the Snapchat course and happy to I'd love to hear if you do buy it and and what you think of it. Send me a comment or leave a comment in our subreddit. So Aaron Goodwin, one of the hosts of the three Guys, three Questions podcast here on Good Stuff, who by the way, recently launched season seven of their podcast. Just play a quick little sample here.
Speaker 2:If you're new to the show, here's how it works. Each host asks a question, then each host gives their answer. Hilarity hopefully ensues, and we move to the next question. Andrew has today's first question, so take it away, Andrew. Oh, man.
Speaker 2:You must be really excited. You sound you have humor in your voice as you read that. Yes. You nailed it. So here's the question.
Speaker 2:What would be the most inconvenient thing to have a 100 of? Well
Speaker 1:so, there. Gives you a little bit of the premise. Three guys, three questions each bring a question to the show. Everybody else answers every else's question. Bada bing bada boom, you got a podcast.
Speaker 1:So very cool show, very fun show, and, happy to have it here on good stuff. Good stuff that FM slash three g three q. Link will be in the show notes of course. But anyways, back in February, Aaron had sent me, in our stuffy Slack had sent me a list of questions for Daily(ish) topic ideas which is awesome because sometimes you're just like, I am anyways stumped for what I should talk about. That's part of the reason why I haven't done an episode in a few weeks.
Speaker 1:And the question he sent me one of the questions anyways was, what do you find interesting that nobody else seems to? And I mean there's there's things that are like, whatever stuff in a lot of my friends say are really into YouTube or whatever the way I am or something like that. But I was thinking a little deeper maybe about that and and I think I've I've discussed this previously on the show but probably way back when. Now this is a 170 episodes in, but I think one of the things or things that I find interesting that nobody else around me seems to is actually stuff on the web. The things the web allows us to do more specifically.
Speaker 1:You know, I'm a tech nerd a bit. I'm I'm largely interested in new hardware and only in so much as it opens up new possibilities of what you can do, faster computers, bigger screens, whatever isn't all that interesting to me. It's it's fun stuff like I definitely can appreciate that but it's not something I want to spend my time talking about as how slim the iMac is or whatever. It's more of the stuff that the tech allows you to do there and and actually specific like even more specific connecting with people through the tech and so like things like that come along like Facebook live doing and Periscope and Blab and Twitch podcasting even back a few years ago that allow us to connect over this tech. I kind of get giddy with excitement about the possibilities and trying to use that both personally as well as trying to get clients in my business to make use of it.
Speaker 1:But as with many things, a lot of things, most things developed in the Silicon Valley bubble, regular business owners aren't all that interested in sharing what's going on behind the scenes and they just want to get a PDF PDF up on their website. And even you know friends and stuff, I'm I'm kind of in I guess maybe the demographic or just the people I'm around are very like generally kind of wary of internet stuff and not all that interested in trying out new things on the web. And don't really think that it's cool that like your this device in your phone, in your pocket can stream video HD video for that matter out to the world and anybody can tune in like that's, you know, just see the freaky side of it. Which it is kinda like weird and freaky but it's also pretty amazing and powerful and my mind instantly goes to like the possibilities that it can allow you either personally, a business, a non profit, anything like that to do that previously took an army of people and array of computers and technology and hardware and whatever cameras and stuff to be able to do.
Speaker 1:And so I've always loved working in video. Things even like simple stuff like sharing what's on your screen, your computer screen with the world like through Twitch where you share gaming stuff or or doing screencasts showing how stuff works on a computer and a bit of the education side. That kind of stuff is super fascinating, super interesting to me and I have yet to figure out a way to make other than doing enough screencasts on Minecraft to pay for my copy of Minecraft. Figure out a way that that kind of enthusiasm and excitement for this kind of stuff translates into some sort of meaningful income job thing. And I guess the Snapchat course is kind of like a bit of that idea too where it's like this I know you're all freaked out about Snapchat and that somehow pictures of your naked body are gonna end up on the Internet just because you use Snapchat, but here's what's kind of cool about this and why it's kind of fun and that's kind of what started the whole idea of doing that course in the first place.
Speaker 1:So I guess maybe that's where that's something anyways that I'm interested in and and that I find people around me not really interested in. Obviously on the web, on Twitter, etcetera, it's not that hard to find people who are super into this kind of stuff and but I just don't have a lot of friends who who are interested in that. Friends like that I see in day to day life I guess. And I like on our stuffy Slack and with the Good Stuff folks, Kyle, etcetera and others that I'm involved with and projects on online, no problem there. It's more just like real life like getting together and trying this thing out because you you do need to be well, for a lot of it anyways, you need to be in person.
Speaker 1:So anyways, that's part of part of that is also needing to do a bit of a redesign in my business. My my business website has been the same for like three or four years which is typical for a lot of, especially solo or small businesses, and where the whole like the cobblers kids have terrible shoes kind of idea. And, my wife has been pushing me recently on the need to redesign my business site for a while, which you know when I when we do get around to that I know I need to highlight some of the stuff that does make me different and unique compared to all the other you know build a WordPress website for you web studios locally around the world. It's just a way of differentiating what kind of stuff that I might help somebody with because then that helps me find those kind of people, those kind of clients anyways. Whereas right now my website doesn't show any of that so why would anybody even think that I would do that.
Speaker 1:So anyways, that's a bit of a tangent and ramble, hope that hopefully that answers your question, Aaron. And, thank you for sending those in and I'll, chip away at the other forgot nine maybe. Nine questions. One guy, nine questions coming up here on Daily. Thank you for listening.
Speaker 1:Visit the three guys, three questions podcast. Link in the show notes to subscribe and listen to their show. Pay the, Snapchat course is linked in the show notes. I'm I Chris on Twitter. Leave a comment in the subreddit.
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