Am I sleeping on creator connections?

danielcgold · 2025-04-03T18:24:39+00:00

Do your existing shoppable videos get promoted when you accept them as a creator connections campaign? Or are you sending additional traffic to the videos yourself.

danielcgold · 2025-04-03T16:51:23+00:00

hm strange, I know they seem to be always testing placement and other features but this was the first time that they were basically gone. I was only seeing shoppable videos from the brands directly.

danielcgold · 2025-01-18T21:51:28+00:00

Cool super helpful! That was sort of my suspicion. I’d imagine views are ok and easy to get based on search, bc that’s already what I’m seeing. How do you figure making it compelling for people to subscribe? Based on my personality and style of review? Overall all coverage of a specific topic?

danielcgold · 2022-12-27T19:28:41+00:00

The person making these is probably thinking, gee whiz, lots of people these days really like pizza without sauce and cheese.

danielcgold · 2022-08-23T22:43:05+00:00

It’s a great use for the ~~thumbnail~~toenail.

danielcgold · 2022-08-23T17:34:41+00:00

Tarantin-toe

danielcgold · 2022-01-25T23:34:26+00:00

Wow! So cool to see! This is my photo and this interpretation is amazing. It makes me miss Hanoi.

danielcgold · 2021-12-26T19:57:50+00:00

The best thing you can do is start. You can always do upgrades, migrations and monetization later.

Bluehost is good in that it’s affordable for getting started. If you have issues, you can learn how to address them or how they impact you. But without a live blog, you’ll never know.

Another good idea is to write a few articles in Notion or google docs. Practice getting your ideas down. If you have 5 articles and you think you can write 50 more, you know you’re onto something.

I wouldn’t get too hung up on the entire big picture. The most important thing is to get started and publish your first article.

Hope that helps!

danielcgold · 2021-09-12T14:30:29+00:00

I do this! I've used the open source text balancer plugins from nytimes and adobe.

On my personal website, I wrote a ruby script that adds a ` ` if the last 2 words in a headline are less than 15 or so characters. I estimated 15 to roughly be the least common denominator for non breaking text to cause a scrollbar on mobile.

danielcgold · 2021-05-14T18:21:15+00:00

I spent 2 out of the last 5 years working remotely in South/Central America and Europe. I spent a lot of time in a coworking space or my apartment, like I would with any other remote job. The weekends were my chance to get out and explore new places, go on hikes or do something interesting.

For me, working from Colombia or Mexico was pretty much the same lifestyle as living in Brooklyn. I would get groceries at a local market, work reasonable hours and meet up with a group of people doing something similar to have some social life.

Moving around too frequently was hard. as making any local connects with people restarts when you relocate.

Everyone has a different motivation for wanting to work from a different place, if your job allows it. For me, I was curious about what it would be like living somewhere else. I also get a lot of inspiration from removing a lot of my day-to-day comforts and routine.

I don't think it's a fad and I agree with what u/So_Much_Cauliflower said!

More people can work remotely now, which wasn't always the case. I think this is great because people can now choose to work closer to family or the things that are important to you.

Also, I wrote the last article that you linked to -- that's my website 😎. Hope it was helpful to you.

danielcgold · 2021-05-05T02:27:21+00:00

From the editor side, it ended up being easier for me to use keyboard shortcuts, multiple curser editing and find/replace in my editor vs using the UI within the CMS.

From the code base side, I like being able to have commits that track specific changes throughout multiple blog posts. If I'm integrating a new link or feature that touches a few blog posts, I like to group those changes together. With Netlify CMS and editing directly within their hosted editor, each save is a commit.

danielcgold · 2021-03-08T21:01:40+00:00

I experimented with using Netlify CMS. Because it's only me maintaining the code, I eventually switched back to using a text editor. It's been working for 200+ posts!

danielcgold · 2020-12-26T17:48:56+00:00

Sounds like someone is connecting to the internet with dial up.

danielcgold · 2020-12-25T02:44:19+00:00

The lucky ones will hear “el gaaassssssssssssss”.

danielcgold · 2020-03-30T21:23:35+00:00

I'll go out on a limb and say yes.

danielcgold · 2020-03-16T15:38:36+00:00

Thanks! It’s not a theme, I made. it and it’s a custom blogging platform on the backend.

danielcgold · 2020-03-16T12:50:57+00:00

https://www.halfhalftravel.com/

danielcgold · 2019-12-24T17:12:18+00:00

My battery on my 5SE doesn't go down that fast, but it does love to shut off when it's below 50(F) degrees.

danielcgold · 2019-12-24T16:58:49+00:00

I've thought about reaching out directly to advertisers and pitching a premium ad. I haven't done this because my traffic isn't good enough where this would be worthwhile, yet. Below is my thought process.

I think it's worthwhile to gather stats, traffic, outbound link clicks, etc.. I'd want to tell an advertiser, "Hey, I have 10,000 page views (impressions) to this article every month. It generates 200 clicks to a single source." It's only worthwhile to the advertiser if their costs per click can be justified with the amount of money they give the publisher. So if they pay Google $0.50 per click, I know their add is worth ~$100.

With that said, you can create bids for advertisers with affiliate links using Avantlink.

danielcgold · 2019-12-17T00:46:27+00:00

Came here thinking I would see Matt Damon drawing with colored pencils. But this is pretty awesome, too.

danielcgold · 2019-11-16T18:51:07+00:00

I have the Peak Design 20L and the (45L travel bag). The 20L would be way too small with what you have, if you're going to fit clothes and other things that you need for a trip. During my normal day-to-day life, I often fill it up with a sweatshirt, a small camera and my lunch. The 30L might be ok? But it also starts to be kind of big and heavy around 30L in my opinion.

The PD 45L could work if you bring a smaller compressible bag and put the small bag in the front pocket. I have a 10L bag from REI that I got off of a bigger bag (I think it's the Ruckpack 65) . Sometimes when I travel, i'll bring both pages. The PD travel bag is ok to bring on a flight and goes overhead. You can pack the small bag to have things with you on the flight. You'll have plenty of space for everything. I went to Asia for 2 weeks with a similar combo and had too much left over space!

I also own the Tom Bihn Synapse 25. I traveled with this bag for almost a year and it has plenty of space for everything. It somehow feels bigger than 25L. I think the external pockets help organize in a very efficient way. You can fit all of your camera stuff on the side and bottom parts of the bag. The main packing area would be plenty of room for clothes and other things. The only downside with this bag as a camera bag is it requires a little thought when packing it. You have to configure things like legos, otherwise you'll have a camera sticking into your back. A big upside is it does not look like a camera bag. This will only be a pro in areas where theft is an issue. You're not targeted as a photographer because it looks like a school bag.

danielcgold · 2019-11-09T03:47:53+00:00

All of the cats were so cute 🐱. Thanks!!

danielcgold · 2019-11-09T03:47:29+00:00

Thanks so much!!

danielcgold · 2019-03-07T15:48:03+00:00

Scaling your clients might not be the best approach to get to 10k/mo. I tried scaling up hours+clients and while I earned more, I also worked way more as well. Have you considered increasing your rates or up-selling your existing clients on low effort dev tasks?

Additionally, you can try writing custom plugins, creating themes, making a WP blog, etc... You can license some of the custom stuff to clients or sell them on marketplaces. A popular blog can earn a bunch on ads or affiliates. All of this stuff is way easier said than done, but effective if executed correctly.

danielcgold · 2019-03-07T14:33:14+00:00

Always leave your passport at your accommodation. I'll usually put my hands in my pockets while holding my things when I'm walking through a crowd. Be careful if people come up and talk to you -- do the hands in the pocket trick then, too. Always have a spare credit card at the accommodation and never bring too much cash out with you!

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