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Maybe frequency of posting is also affecting your audience, posting every day does look a bit needy and gives your audience a daily decision as to whether to unfollow you.

I’d try posting less, so they look forward to and value your posts. 🤓

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That's a fair point Kate. The understanding I have is that a very small amount of "followers" actually see the posts organically (less than 5%) so they can't really grow fatigued by it.

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Yes, but your subscribers can get fatigued by over-posting. Or is your theory to post to your website, not email, and then send a Note to your followers, publicising it? That could work.

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As a fellow "funny" person trying to do "authentic actually help people and not make them fight" content I feel your pain and the collective silence of social posts.

One piece of advice I got is to do the social media YOU enjoy doing-be it videos, writing, etc

Another piece of advice comes from the musical poets 311 in their song "Jackpot" that I've been repeating to myself between yelling into a void virtually and a pillow IRL about trying to reach people:

"We only enter in one contest

That we made up ourselves

That's to be the 311'est"

Are they as big as the angry bands of the 90's like Limp Bizkit et al? No, they in fact did not do it all for the Nookie.

But they have a loyal fanbase, share a message of positivity, and have been together as a band, making a living making music to people that love them for 30+ years.

They won by being the best version of themselves and having a rabid, large, but not monumentally huge, fan base.

It's a lesson I have been trying to take to heart: my contest is not to compare myself to others (say people with 12,000 subscribers versus 221 but who's counting), but to keep creating writing, speaking, and jokes that I have fun with, help others, and will support the life I want to live.

Define your OWN success, and be the most Drew Tarvin-iest you can. Because it's pretty darn great.

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I love this Cory, and appreciate the analogy with 311.

You are right, of course. I need to get better at reminding myself of this - possibly tattoo it on my forehead.

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May 24Liked by (an)drew tarvin

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Thank you Cathy! I appreciate you and your positivity and support.

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Loved your commentary, but you do know that you are an enviable position in having some 700 subscribers to lose!! But I am with you in my discomfort with algorithms and I try to stay entirely ignorant of them to keep my writing from being contaminated.

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