Daily Note - April 18, 2022

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Home

• My spouse shared these Pilates core exercises.

• Packed up a record that someone ordered from my Monfresh Recastow Discogs store.

• Read a book to my kid on the Epic iPad app: Zach Hangs In There by William Mulcahy. It resonated a lot with me and my struggles running a solo business. It’s about helping children persevere using the “Hang-In-There Rings”:

1. Start with a goal
2. Make a plan
3. Make a new plan if you need it
4. Keep trying to the end (and use positive self-talk)

Business

• 3 orders of Ruby on Mac Prime today!

• Read Not all good products make good businesses - Inside Intercom - I don’t think I learned anything new.

• Bookmarked these podcasts:

  • Mike Perham // Creator of Sidekiq | alphalist
  • Brains Podcast | Julian Shapiro, Courtland Allen
  • Alex Hillman — Earning Trust At Scale, Audience Building, and Community Leadership
  • Transistor Embed | Sales for Founders with Ben Orenstein, Co-Founder of Tuple

• Tested ConvertKit topics of interest. Found an old email I sent, and when I clicked on “update preferences”, it now shows the checkboxes for subscription preferences.

• Looked into livestreaming on YouTube. I’m pretty sure I had created a YT account a while back, and I created a playlist of my talks, but I don’t see it. When I signed in, there were 2 accounts, but neither of them had the playlist. To be able to live stream, I had to verify my phone number, and then you have to wait 24 hours before you can live stream.

• Looked up videos on livestreaming. Found these:

  • How to LIVESTREAM on YouTube - Complete Beginner Guide! - YouTube
  • Best Live Streaming Software for MAC - 2022 Review! - YouTube - his fave is Ecamm Live, but it’s monthly sub, vs one-time for Wirecast.
  • He mentioned 2 services I hadn’t noted before: Ecamm Live ($192/year for Standard, $384 for Pro for annual; $20 and $40/month) and Evmux
  • How We Make $1M+ From YouTube - Passive Income Ideas that ACTUALLY Work - YouTube (23% YT ads, 33% products, 43% affiliate!)
  • Ways to use affiliate links: mini courses, ebombs about how I use those products, dedicated page on my site with everything I recommend and use
  • Good tips here: From 0 to 1,000 Subscribers FASTER: 9 Tips to Grow a New YouTube Channel - YouTube - I need to make sure my channel is set up properly.

• Saw post by Greg Gershman about no-code and it reminded me of what I did with Paddle and CK: Post | Feed | LinkedIn

• How To Start a YouTube Channel - Beginner’s Guide to YouTube - YouTube

• Ruby on Mac revenue this month to date: $2092. Over the past month: $3791. Year to date: $7316. March revenue: $3198, why is this higher than spreadsheet? Is it before Paddle’s cut? Each individual day shows the amount after fees, so why is the total higher? To match March, I need to make $1106 between now and the end of April, $92/day average.