A deeper dive is appreciated! But even just one or occasionally two additional posts per week may whet your readers appetites just fine. Not being an author I don’t know how to draw in a reader but more isn’t always the way, at least for me. I hate to mention Doomberg and they do write on topics that aren’t typically considered daily fodder (should be but aren’t) but I believe they offer a certain (fewer) number of fairly in depth posts per month. Because they aren’t pulling at my attention daily, when I see that they have posted an article it actually excites me and I know that I ‘must’ set aside my ‘time’ to read it as opposed to seeing the post and setting the post aside until I have time to read it. That may just be me and the fact that everything becomes a distracting ‘squirrel’ yanking my attention, but waiting for extra time to go back and read a post may never happen.
I try to read what you write every day but my screen time is limited so I rarely read the attached articles. I value your words because I think you have a grasp of what is coming. I think it’s worth paying for, even if you were to stop writing daily.
Thank you, Michelle. I appreciate hearing that, and I am leaning strongly toward making Friday's post the Deeper Dive without the headlines so I can have whole weekends off. I don't think paying subscribers would mind that much, and free subscribers will still be getting four days a week for nothing.
I'd be interested for sure in hearing how others feel about that. Maybe I'll post a survey to run that idea by everyone.
I'm also thinking about making the weekday editorials a little shorter by sticking to a single point and keeping the technical stuff more-or-less out of them saving the data-based stuff for the Deeper Dive; but we'll see because I usually can't constrain myself; however, it would probably be good discipline and might be easier for others to find the time to read them and maybe a little more entertaining or engaging while still trying to offer clear insight in each one.
A couple of reasons - there is just so much being published today that it's hard to find the time to read much beyond what's free. And even that for me is difficult. And the second is the financial situation for many grows worse almost by the day as it becomes more and more expensive to fund basic food and shelter requirements
It could be as simple as that. I'd hoped that, as we slide into the deep recession and return to rising inflation I've been predicting, people would see value in one who points out the path we're headed down as worth paying a little for; but it does appear I may be wrong about that.
I’m sorry that your paid subscriptions aren’t covering your time and efforts. Personally, at the moment, your post and Doomberg’s are two that I set time aside for. Faithfully. I dip in to others, some I even count my pennies for a monthly subscription. Some even for a year. But as you noted there are now so many excellent authors, physical time to read becomes the limiting factor. (Well, in my case, too - limited bandwidth). Might you consider reducing the number of your posts from daily plus the in-depth weekend analysis to perhaps 3 per week? Would that offer you more personal time? I would certainly continue paying the same rate for your input.
Thank you for those thoughts, Pam. I've thought about what you suggest -- about, at least, doing the Deeper Dive in lieu of a regular Friday post so there would be the one free-for everyone post on Monday, three of the regular posts were editorials can be read by all but not headlines, and then a Deeper Dive on Friday without headlines, other than those being written about, for paying subscribers only.
A deeper dive is appreciated! But even just one or occasionally two additional posts per week may whet your readers appetites just fine. Not being an author I don’t know how to draw in a reader but more isn’t always the way, at least for me. I hate to mention Doomberg and they do write on topics that aren’t typically considered daily fodder (should be but aren’t) but I believe they offer a certain (fewer) number of fairly in depth posts per month. Because they aren’t pulling at my attention daily, when I see that they have posted an article it actually excites me and I know that I ‘must’ set aside my ‘time’ to read it as opposed to seeing the post and setting the post aside until I have time to read it. That may just be me and the fact that everything becomes a distracting ‘squirrel’ yanking my attention, but waiting for extra time to go back and read a post may never happen.
I try to read what you write every day but my screen time is limited so I rarely read the attached articles. I value your words because I think you have a grasp of what is coming. I think it’s worth paying for, even if you were to stop writing daily.
Thank you, Michelle. I appreciate hearing that, and I am leaning strongly toward making Friday's post the Deeper Dive without the headlines so I can have whole weekends off. I don't think paying subscribers would mind that much, and free subscribers will still be getting four days a week for nothing.
I'd be interested for sure in hearing how others feel about that. Maybe I'll post a survey to run that idea by everyone.
I'm also thinking about making the weekday editorials a little shorter by sticking to a single point and keeping the technical stuff more-or-less out of them saving the data-based stuff for the Deeper Dive; but we'll see because I usually can't constrain myself; however, it would probably be good discipline and might be easier for others to find the time to read them and maybe a little more entertaining or engaging while still trying to offer clear insight in each one.
A couple of reasons - there is just so much being published today that it's hard to find the time to read much beyond what's free. And even that for me is difficult. And the second is the financial situation for many grows worse almost by the day as it becomes more and more expensive to fund basic food and shelter requirements
It could be as simple as that. I'd hoped that, as we slide into the deep recession and return to rising inflation I've been predicting, people would see value in one who points out the path we're headed down as worth paying a little for; but it does appear I may be wrong about that.
I’m sorry that your paid subscriptions aren’t covering your time and efforts. Personally, at the moment, your post and Doomberg’s are two that I set time aside for. Faithfully. I dip in to others, some I even count my pennies for a monthly subscription. Some even for a year. But as you noted there are now so many excellent authors, physical time to read becomes the limiting factor. (Well, in my case, too - limited bandwidth). Might you consider reducing the number of your posts from daily plus the in-depth weekend analysis to perhaps 3 per week? Would that offer you more personal time? I would certainly continue paying the same rate for your input.
Thank you for those thoughts, Pam. I've thought about what you suggest -- about, at least, doing the Deeper Dive in lieu of a regular Friday post so there would be the one free-for everyone post on Monday, three of the regular posts were editorials can be read by all but not headlines, and then a Deeper Dive on Friday without headlines, other than those being written about, for paying subscribers only.