Hello 3.5 readers. Sorry if you saw this already, but I paid good money for this so I have to keep throwing it around:
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Lessons I Learned from Fiverr
Hey 3.5 readers.
Your old pal BQB here.
Fiverr. What a trip.
I was mildly curious about it last week so I checked it out and became instantly hooked.
The gist of the site is that it is a massive collection of people willing to do all sorts of things for $5. (Get your mind out of the gutter). I know hiring someone to do THAT for $5 seems like a bargain but the kind of THAT you’d get for $5 a) isn’t worth it and b) is going to leave you itchy and that’s the best case scenario. Also, the site doesn’t allow for THAT.
There are all sorts of services you can buy for your blog and it’s all very cheap. For the most part, “gigs” as they are called, start at five bucks. Usually, you can get something decent for a “fiver” but there are all sorts of add-ons to enhance your service. Adding these can get costly so it’s up to you and what you can afford.
All I know is I got four videos for a pretty cheap price. They’re cool, they help me advertise, they provide me with a little more legitimacy etc.
Unfortunately, I’ve spent all the fivers I can afford for awhile, but I’ll dip my toe back into the Fiverr water when I can afford to. Ultimately, using this site hasn’t led me to getting more than 3.5 readers, but it has been good for the soul. I’ve always wanted to work in TV. Yes, I realize this is nowhere near working in TV, but it’s a lot of fun to write a script, write some directions, and then like a day later you’ve got a fun video based on your ideas.
In conclusion, here’s the cue card girl reminding you to check out my fine website:
Bookshelf Q. Battlestats
MEMO
Statistician Jones
TO: Oh Great One, the Awe Inspiring Mighty Potentate, Who Causes All Beings to Quake in Their Boots
FROM: Your Humble Servant, Alien Jones
RE: Bookshelf Q. Battlestats
All Hail the Mighty Potentate! May your ganderflazer’s secretions be copious and frothy until time folds over on itself and the totality of universal existence starts all over again!
As requested, an update on your plan to assist Bookshelf Q. Battler become a successful writer, thus stemming the flow of reality programming that threatens your beloved scripted television.
This Friday, May 15, the Summer of Bookshelf begins. Through a carefully plan series of hypnotic mind control experiments, I have convinced our noble blog host to provide a summer’s worth of serialized stories, in the hopes that he can find more than 3.5 readers.
“The State of the Bookshelf” as of May 13, 2014:
WORDPRESS FOLLOWERS: 969 (Ha! 69! I’m sorry, Mighty Potentate. I must be spending too much time amongst the humans).
TWITTER FOLLOWERS: 4,326
GOOGLE + FOLLOWERS: 377
It is my hope that this summer will help propel Bookshelf Q. Battler’s stats exponentially. Thus, I have asked the humans to do what they can to help as once BQB manages to figure out how to make folding paper money off his drivel, I shall be able to abandon this bogus assignment.
Err…I mean this wonderful opportunity. Yes, all ideas that originate in the mind of the Mighty Potentate are joyous and splendid.
Fear not, Mighty Potentate, for I shall report post-summer stats in the Fall.
Your Humble Servant,
Alien Jones
Alien image courtesy a shutterstock.com license.
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