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threadsketchier · 4 years

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Hey Sketch! Not to be a pest, but any progress on Libero? It’s my absolute favorite fic for Star Wars or maybe just in general, and I know I’m not the only one on pins and needles!

I KNOW, I AM TOO (;´༎ຶД༎ຶ`)

On paper, so to speak, I shouldn’t really have an excuse - @alderaan-babe helped me out a ton with figuring out space battle logistics and all that less fun crud. This is becoming more like...

...ok, time for Dirty Laundry Posting™, Debbie Downer ahoy

I’m slowly mentally edging toward a Blue Screen of Death because of two primary things:

I’m kind of a full-time caregiver to my mom, who’s dying a slow, gruesome death at home and

I need to find a job.

**I’m not going to get into the personal details of how I do have money to live off of right now, but suffice to say it’s not a bottomless Scrooge McDuck pit, eventually it’ll run out.

Very very ironically, after leaving my toxic job in Sept. 2019, I planned on taking a little hiatus and then looking for work again in March. Ha. Yeah, laugh with me. We all know what happened then. So I put that off, especially when it was a struggle bus to obtain food and supplies for like 2 months straight with all the shortages everywhere. The amazing thing is, despite confining myself to my apartment for the past 7 months, the year’s gone by too fucking fast. It’s already enough to deal with helping Mom, doing household chores, ordering and then meticulously cleaning all grocery items, in addition to wanting to stay in fandom by hanging out in 2 separate chat servers and being on Tumblr and seeing my favorite YouTube channels...

It’s been too easy to put the looming Work specter aside from all that. But I can’t avoid it forever, or else we’ll wind up homeless. I also don’t want to rejoin humanity. COVID will definitely kill Mom if I brought the germ home, and I don’t want to get it either because I do not have a good track record with illnesses. I don’t want to play that game of Russian roulette and be one of those outlier statistics of young healthy people who somehow still managed to die from this shit, or wind up in extreme medical debt if I survived (because of course right now I’m uninsured). I’d really really prefer to find a remote job, especially because I’m already accustomed to it; I had to do plenty of remote work for my last job.

I don’t know what’s going to happen in the next few months. Every day is going by so quickly. I’m terrified that I’m not going to find anything and we’re going to be out on the streets. And if I DO secure a job, I may not have time for fandom anymore, or so little time that I can’t write anymore. Now, you’d think that would motivate me to hurry up and finish barfing out the story so that it could be done ahead of me needing to stop having a life, wouldn’t it? But that’s all I can think about when I try to open the draft and keep typing. I even have another WIP I foolishly started but I’ve stalled on both of them. It makes me feel the nihilistic sentiment of, “why does this stuff even matter? It’s pointless, ephemeral fan blather on the interwebz.” Fic and fandom aren’t going to rescue me when my bank account is empty and I’m hungry and shelterless.

(Sadly, this is the very point my mother tried to make to me all while I grew up, but I was the arrogant, reckless dreamer who just wanted Experiences™ and fun, fuck the consequences. Well, they’re catching up to me again now.)

Alas, I wish I was a Twitch streamer or a slime-maker on YouTube, raking in the dough, or somebody with a million Patreon supporters, but I’m not “special” enough for that. I gotta get in line with the rest of the world, as much as I don’t want to. I just want to write fic and draw again and try podficcing and yell across the internet at a bunch of nerds I’ve gotten to know all day, but I can’t. I have to face reality and stick my resume on a prettier template and spend the next several weeks desperately combing through job listings, hoping somebody out there is willing to exploit and whip me as a corporate slave again so I can keep paying the bills.

This post feels extremely relevant right now, even though I know all my readers are lovely and patient and aren’t pressuring me. The thing is, even though we’re technically not obligated to anything because this content is free...we still kind of are. Because I chose to start posting in the first place. I started stringing people along by making the story public. I do kind of owe it to everyone to either finish the story or explain the rest of the plot, at least, because it’s doing readers a disservice to leave the narrative hanging when I first made that unspoken promise by posting it. I’m never going to learn my lesson that I’m better off not posting content unless it’s complete to avoid causing this kind of disappointment, both to y’all and myself. Yeah, Darth Real Life happens, but I still feel I’m in the wrong here.

#i know this isn't what you signed up for & i didn't need to explain all this #but here it is #i don't mean to sound accusatory or anything like that #i'm just freaking out a little bit over here sorry #fic asks #decepticon17

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smosh-stuff · 6 years

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TD Halloween Headcanons

(More specifically trick-or-treating headcanons)

Because I cannot let this occasion go by unaddressed

So, the first year they’re all together, they figure “hey, let’s do something for Halloween!!” and they start trying to figure out what to do

Mar, Flitz, and Lcorn want to go to a Halloween party but parties aren’t really the others’ thing?

Joven and Damien want a horror movie marathon but the others want to actually go out and “do something, stop being such a NERD”

And then they find out that Wes and Lasercorn have never been trick-or-treating

Wes because his parents deemed it unnecessary and a waste of their time to take him

Lasercorn because his mom was too busy and there was no way he could ask his dad

So on Halloween they all get dumb costumes and go trick or treating, because fuck it if they’re 16/17, they’ll go if they want to

Mari goes as a cool cyberpunk girl, and puts streaks of neon colors in her already purple hair with spray on dye and gets a bunk of cool leather clothes and glow stick bracelets and necklaces and over the top make up and looks super rad (Also serves as a beacon in case they get separated from the others)

Flitz goes as a space wizard (duh) with a really dark purple cloak and all sorts of purple and black clothes and a staff made out of a big tree branch they found in Wes’ backyard and a big fake amethyst geode Joven got at some point as a kid

Joven wants to go as batman and the others assure him they can take care of the costume

They get him a batgirl costume instead

He wears it They make him wear it anyways

He kills it

Lasercorn goes as a zombie

Mari uses her Make Up Skills and some youtube tutorials to give him some home made SFX wounds

They dont look completely convincing but she covers him in so much fake blood and gore that it’s hardly noticeable

He doesn’t stop trying to eat Joven the entire night

Boze goes as a werewolf because she hates dogs and wanted to be something “actually scary”

They go full cliche, torn up flannel and jeans and everything

Mari gives her some sfx wounds as well

The others make fun of her and say if she was actually a werewolf she’d be a chihuahua

She actually tries to bite someone

Wes goes as Link

He gets incredibly into the costume process

He even gets the prop sword and shield and a wig

And a plush Navi which he tapes onto the pillowcase he’s using for candy

(it’s adorable)

Sohinki is a Debbie Downer who decides he doesn’t want to dress up, so he shows up in one of those “This is my costume” t-shirts

The others are Not Having It

They find a white tablecloth and make the cliche ghost costume

But then they decide to make it funny and put in a bunch of holes, so it’s Charlie’s ghost costume from It’s The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown!

Sohinki feels Rage

They make him wear it

Joven makes the “I got a rock” joke at least 3 times, probably more

Damien goes as Goku

The others call him a weeb

He doesn’t care and just makes a bunch of anime references and randomly starts speaking Japanese throughout the night

Mari and Sohinki only encourage him

They go out and have a great time

They’re laughing and yelling at each other so loud you could hear them from the other end of the block and don’t care

Wes is so unbelievably excited about everything because costumes and candy and decorations and it’s so much fun!!! and the others think it may be the cutest thing they’ve ever seen

Lasercorn is less transparent but they can all tell he’s having an amazing time too

After they get done it’s really late and they all go to crash at Joven’s house, in the basement

They bring the TV down and build a pillow fort and Joven sets up a bunch of the ‘classic’ horror movies for a marathon

They all just hang out eating popcorn and candy and watching the movies way too late

Most of them manage to stay up for an impressive amount of time, but by the end of Poltergeist they’re all knocked out in a dogpile, surrounded by candy wrappers

It’s probably the best Halloween any of them have ever had

Feel free to add on!! I love Halloween

#nerd says stuff #my headcanons #teenage disasters #teenage disasters au #smosh games

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quantumconsultingblog · 5 years

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Are You a Lead Buyer or a Lead Generator?

How to transform your roofing business with into a Lead Generation Machine that runs on auto-pilot

Have you ever chased someone or something with the hope of catching them? Chasing someone or something never works.

Have you noticed how the harder you pursue the more they run away be it horses, customers, or women am I right or am I right?

If you have ran a roofing company for any length of time, you surely must of have tried a heap of different methods to attract more leads for your business. You may have tried direct mail, cold calling, hired someone to put out door hangers, or canvassed neighborhoods.

What do all these things have in common? They work, well sort of kinda work, but are also incredibly time consuming, labor intensive and more often than not cost a good chunk of change.

In a hope to best use your time, you have resorted to buying leads from one of the myriad of different lead brokers that are chasing you down like a cheerleader without a date the night before the prom.

Buying leads can work, sort of kind of work to generate more business.

But here’s the challenge though is if they are shared leads you need to jump on them like a fat guy in a hot dog eating contest if you have any hope of getting in front of the consumer before the other five roofing companies get to them first.

If they are exclusive leads, they are incredibly expensive and frankly at the price some of these vendors charge a complete waste of your hard earned moolah. The quality is much better, but may not be the best investment.

What if there was a better way?

Well here is the dealio, there is a better way, but it requires that you turn your website into an online lead generating machine.

And there are three ways to crack this nut….

First: You can DO SEO

The first way of course is to do SEO on your website. SEO means search engine optimization. This is the intentional work that will influence or you could say manipulate Google into putting your website at the top of the search results.

When it works it is very cool.

But there is a major flaw with SEO and I will let you in on an inside truth. SEO is becoming such a bitch to do, and in all honesty there are no guarantees. When you hire a SEO contractor, you basically are putting your roofing company into a “Pay and Pray” position. No SEO can guarantee a top position in Google and even if they do there are no guarantees that anyone will call your business.

In the past several years, Google has released a boat load of Search Algorithm updates that for some reason commonly have animal names—Panda, Penguin, Pidgeon, Possum, Hummingbird, and Fred to name but a few.

I’ll spare you the over-geek sharing on what all these updates addressed, and summarize their results—they made it a total bitch to rank a website these day.

Now, not saying SEO can’t be done, but this is the long game my friends…not something that is going to immediately or with any certainty put cash into your bank account, and isn’t that whole point of marketing your business?

Content Marketing is to SEO what Robin is to Batman

In a nut shell, content Marketing is SEO’s wingman. It’s not nearly as sexy, but like a good wingman is totally going to help you meet potential clients.

Content marketing entails the creation of a boat load and by that I mean a whole bunch of material that helps your potential customers get to know you better. Now that can take many different shapes, blog posts, Facebook Story updates, tweets, and YouTube videos to name a few.

high quality, original, engaging, entertaining, educational, and for it to work you have to do it consistently. Unlike SEO, if you pick the right topics, those hundreds of blog posts and videos you create as part of your content marketing plan will rank with the same probability that your Uncle Ned will go back for a third helping of Turkey next Thanksgiving.

But unlike Ned, who only has to unbutton the top button of his pants to meet his objective, you are going to have to either get super busy creating all that content or hiring someone to do it for you.

Now, you may be saying to yourself….DUDE who has time to do all that…I’ve got a roofing company to run. Content Marketing is fairly easy, but it is incredibly time consuming and if you hire someone to do it right, it can be expensive.

Content marketing is like SEO, just because you build it there are no guarantees that they will come….

Which leads us to the third way you can turn your Roofing Company into a Lead Generation….buy your way into the party.

Pay Per Click Marketing or PPC is the slam dunk, no-brainer, fastest, and most cost effective way to instantly turn your roofing business into a lead generating bad-ass.

Wait, wait, wait are you thinking, but I’ve tried Google AdWords in the past. It cost me an arm, a leg, my first born child, and didn’t really make me any money.

Yep, I hear you buddy, and based on the thousands of AdWords accounts we audit each year I feel you too. It is actually pretty common for me to see roofing company campaigns that are spending up to a grand to generate a new roof install lead on AdWords. Now they still may have a positive ROI, but that is well, to keep this post G-Rated a (BLEEPING) rip off.

To understand how AdWords works one must have a solid understanding of the rules of the road.

Rule 1. The purpose of AdWords is to make money for Google. Now, that is not to say they don’t want you to be successful too. If you make some money then you will keep coming back to the trough for another drink.

AdWords gives you all the tools you need to totally crush it and make a lot of money. You just need to know the rules of the game, the settings to change, and the tweaks to make to a campaign so you can get the most bang for your buck.

First tip, and I am going to insist you raise your right hand and repeat after me. Ok ready?

I promise I will never use AdWords Express!

This incredibly simple tool, with it’s easy to use interface is totally set up so you will spend more than you need to. It’s totally easy, but you’ve been warned. Just know that when you use AdWords express you will get you know whated and they won’t even buy you dinner.

Now a tuned up and well-optimized AdWords campaign is a truly magical thing. Instead of paying $900 for a lead or oh heck even a $100 a lead you will pay much much less.

Since it is your AdWords campaign, the leads are exclusive to you and only you! You only spend what you want to spend, and can dial your marketing up and down depending on what is happening in your business.

The results are easy to track and measure. All in all, AdWords is pretty darn cool, but what if there was a way to make AdWords even better?

Remarketing on AdWords and Facebook is like combining chocolate and peanut butter in one big delicious lead generation treat.

Ok, before we get to your yummy candy, I need to be a bit of Debbie downer and share some cold hard reality.

Most people that visit your website never call you. SHOCKING!

In fact, research indicates that only 4% of consumers that search for a service and visit a website ever call the business. Yep, I warned you this one was going to be total suckville.

Now, professionally ran PPC campaigns can do much better on the Conversion Rate metric because they are using specifically designed and battle tested landing pages. Their numbers are better, in the 20-30% of website visitors turn into a lead.

I hope at this point you are saying to yourself, “Holy Moly that is a lot of lost opportunity!”

But here is the thing…when your website is a lead generating machine you have already considered this dark truth and unlike the other 97% of roofing companies in the United States you are not going to lose this opportunity.

That is because you my friend, are going to remarket to these people on Google and Facebook!

Since every website has this leakage in the number of visitors that don’t convert into a lead you have installed your Facebook Pixel and deployed the Google Tag Manager on your website.

Now you have the ability to maintain “Top of Mind Awareness” for everyone that has visited your website.

Remarketing is perhaps the most under-utilized and cost effective ways to turn your website into a lead generating machine!

Think about that potential customer that knows her roof is looking sad and that she going to need to replace it sometime soon. She casually did some research on local roofing companies, but she knows it is a big investment and she is not quite ready to pull the trigger and call someone for a quote.

The next time she goes on line and looks for her favorite recipe for Mongolian Chicken she sees your ad. It remind her about your business.

Next week, her kid has some weird looking skin rash on his forehead, and she does a Google search to see if it’s contagious, and she sees your ad.

A month from now she is on Facebook watching funny cat videos and she sees your ad.

Ok, I can go on like this for a while with a bunch of examples, but the bottom line is with remarketing you are maintaining contact with this lady and her sad worn out roof.

Since she has seen your ad everywhere who do you think she is going to call? (Ok if it wasn’t self-evident, point at your chest here). That’s right you are the guy she is going call!

Now this little bit makes me giggle a bit, she doesn’t even need to click on those remarketing ads for them to do their magic. She just needs to see them! They work like bill boards along the highway! And if she does click on one of the ads it is only going to cost you what a single piece of your granny’s hard candy—maybe five cents most likely less than that.

AdWords combined with Remarketing will turn your roofing business into a lead generation machine and you can then stop being a lead buyer!

Ok my friends I am going to wrap this up at this point—hope you enjoyed this and look for more awesome content coming out very soon!

from ClicksChamp.com https://clickschamp.com/are-you-a-lead-buyer-or-a-lead-generator/

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bestsocialsignal · 6 years

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6 Things To Know Before You Buy YouTube Likes

To get into the suggested videos list on YouTube and rank high on YouTube searches, your video must excel in a number of areas. YouTube factors video engagements heavily into its ranking algorithms, including likes and comments. Buying likes can be a good tactic for boosting your video, and is often used to complement bought views or drown out the ‘”Debbie Downers,” people who leave undeserving negative comments on your video.

Here is what you need to know before you buy YouTube likes:

It influences perception

Buying YouTube likes allows you to shape your viewers’ perception of your video. Normally, people’s behaviors are influenced by the behaviors of other people in the same situation. This is known as social proof. For instance, if you were walking down a busy street and suddenly everyone started running in one direction, you will do the same without thinking why they are running. It is an evolutionary trait that we developed to keep us safe in the jungle. However, the same concept applies online. When you buy likes for your video, it gains the perception of popularity. New viewers will see your video more positively and will be more likely to like it as well.

It can be risky

While it helps you boost your video, buying YouTube likes from the wrong provider can make it a risky tactic. That is because YouTube has algorithms in place looking out for this kind of activity and will eliminate any bought likes if they find them. If you buy likes from low quality-providers, you will get likes from fake accounts. These kind of likes can easily be easily detected. Instead, you should buy likes from high-quality providers who will get you likes from real and active accounts.

Don’t use with Google AdSense

If you monetize your videos with Google AdSense and are part of the YouTube partner program, you should not buy likes for your videos. It is against their terms of service and could get your videos banned, or worse, you could be expelled from the platform if they catch you. Basically, if you are part of the YouTube partner program, you should avoid any method that artificially increases the number of likes, either by using automated systems or by coercing viewers to like a video.

There are a range of services available

Not all providers of likes are made equal. You should know the difference between high-quality providers and low-quality providers. Before you choose a provider, evaluate them to ascertain that they are the right one for you. Do they sell high-quality likes that are worth buying? High-quality likes normally have a high retention rate, are delivered naturally, are sourced from real accounts and are geographically spread out from all over the world.

Check that your chosen provider is a known company with an established reputation. Do they have customer protection policies in place? These include a money back guarantee and a good privacy policy. Do they have good customer support in case you need to have some issue sorted out? You can find all this information on their websites. You should also read reviews from previous clients to make sure that the provider lives up to their word.

It works best when you buy views

If you buy a bunch of likes for a video that does not have any views yet, it will look fishy to visitors and will be a dead giveaway. People cannot like a video without having watched it. To make your bought likes look like they were gained organically, you should buy them as part of a package that includes views, subscribers and possibly comments. Fortunately, many of the YouTube service providers have packages that include all these.

It’s not guaranteed to make you go viral

Though buying likes will help boost your video, it is not a magic bullet that will deliver you instant success on YouTube. Not every video you buy likes for will go viral. There is more that goes into creating a viral video. In addition to buying likes, views, comments and subscribers, there’s more you can do to increase your video’s chances of success.

Include calls to action in your videos. These are words that encourage your viewers to take certain actions on your video, for instance, liking your video, commenting or subscribing. This will increase your video’s engagement rate. Respond to your viewers’ comments on your video. This will help you build a loyal audience around your channel. Upload your videos at strategic times when most of your target audience is likely to be online. Include keywords in your title and include thorough descriptions to increase the chances of people finding your video through searches. Promote your video using social media and on your blog or website. Take advantage of influencers in your niche to widen your reach.

Conclusion

Making videos that go viral takes a lot of time and effort, but by buying likes for your video and combining this with the other techniques shared above, you will increase your chances of achieving success on YouTube.

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