DocAndersen
Why is it that every time I cut 100 dollars from our family budget, a new bill for 110 dollars appears.
Rant off, sorry about that, just doing the monthly bill pay binge. One of the value propositions of the modern world is that ability to do electronic bill pay. Security note, if you use online banking change your password as often as you can. Every 45 days is recommended. The reason for that is it decreases your risk a little bit. I’ve been doing online banking for the past few years. It is a great time saver. I remember opening the bills, checking the amounts, writing the checks and then getting stamps. Oh, crap the stamp bowl is empty. Run to store, get stamps to come back, crap missed the postperson. Drive to the post office, put all bills in the container, so they have the correct time and date on them. Go home and exhausted take a nap.
That was the old system. Now it is so much easier. That got me thinking today about the famous time savings of the modern world. Not to complain but I don’t save anywhere near the amount of time I would expect to. Taxes take me 4 to 5 days of effort normally starting the end of December and finishing once I have my information, the last week of January. I suspect because all my financial records are digital that my taxes take less time now than they used to. I remember when we bought our first house, I didn’t file taxes until the end of February. In theory, the good news is it takes less time. The bad news is it still takes time. But there are things that do save time.
DVR’s allow me to cut the 13 or so minutes of commercials out of a TV show. One hour becomes 47 minutes.
I’ll end with the concept that Albert brought up, relating to the time of day posting and views. I’ve kept track of my posts this week. Six days and 12 posts, please note that this does not include today’s three posts. I find in the first 24 hours of a post I get between 30 and 35 views. Some posts less some posts more, but I took the total and divided that by 6 to be fair. I’ve also noticed that I get more views between 24 and 48 hours after the original post than I get in the first 24. Don’t ask me why that I have no idea about. More stats will come; it just takes time to gather them!
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Do your views grow equally in the first two days of sharing?
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Yes
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No
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Do you sometimes see lower views?
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Yes
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No
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Do you sometimes see higher views?
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Yes
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No
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Do you see lots of comments?
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I track the stat of my posts and the only conclusion I can make is that I actually do not know which one will hit. I have a poem that when I first post it, it got a decent reaction but not something that will wow. Then more than a year later, I repost the same poem with a different write-up and it got over 1000 shares. The only articles I wrote that got between 1000 to 5000 shares were the ones featured in Berlin ArtParasites which has a huge following compared to my page and therefore the chance of getting shared there was greater.
Yeah it is interesting, reality is the funny limit to all things. What you post. When you post it and sometimes just the day of the week makes a difference.
True and so I do not attach myself to my post or my page as everything in this world is impermanent. Even my jail time is impermanent. Lol!
I am honestly still shocked that you’ve been put in FB jail. I can’t image anything you’ve posted that was worthy of “hard time.”
Apparently, if I post a suicide threat or a sexy photo soliciting for likes, FB will find it “safer” than those posts under my niche or Carol’s ???
It is frustrating at times but I agree it isn’t a horrible problem.
I didn’t create post for quite a long time, will do so soon.
Glad to hear that! Hopefully, all is well with you!
hmmm good observation… so what do you do with these findings?
I am just collecting platform usage data. Not sure there is anything to do with it. Unless people are going to modify the times they use Virily. 🙂
I should probably track my views, but I don’t…
Now that is an interesting statement, I suspect honestly you could, but why? The only reason I even started checking was to see if one person influenced my posts. They don’t, which made me feel a lot better.
why would I? to be more efficient. it would be nice to know which of my posts generates the most hits so I could focus there
Now you’ve reached the value equation for knowing your views!
yep, but I don’t actually know what the ROI would be…
When the question was first posed to me, I didn’t either. I do now, in the sense that the time I spend is the same now, as it was before but the rate I am earning Virils has increased radically. Ergo I am paid more for doing the things I was already doing!
you gave yourself a raise!
Ends up being less than a penny an hour :=(
so then not much of a ROI…
At this point yes, a very low ROI. But I am still working and tweaking how I present things here on Virily.
I’ve learned a new set of influencers and how to move forward. I have realized that some of the more negative posters are simply best to stay away from. While they increase your post a little, they reap two, three and four times the Virils for their own posts.
I am mostly just trying to promote my work, but the gplus demise makes that kinda iffy…
Well, then it may be time for you to try Patreon! It is a site made for artists like you!
I want to do that, but I should have some sort of business model first…
I use online banking. This is a wonderful “invention”, if I can say so. I save a lot of time and money. In my posts, I notice the same as you. I do not even know the cause.
Thanks – I don’t know the cause either nor do I think I could find it on my own.
I’m not burdened by this, because we can not really find the cause.
It is frustrating at times but I agree it isn’t a horrible problem.