(Image: Two people toasting with glasses of wine)I just hit 300 subscribers on my mini pc youtube channel. It's getting around 200 views a day and slowly increasing. Most of my sales are coming from this niche so this is encouraging.I am learning what my viewers like. One of my product reviews just hit 5000 views, so I am going to make another about a related product. At the same time, I make some of my videos about more technical things because I think it helps establish me as an expert. And

(Image: Pumpkins, representing October)TLDR, I am still only making about $30/mo from my minipc blog. The other two not monetized yet, but I have ideas...My mini pc blog is still really driven by YouTube. And that's getting a little better. up to around 7K views this month, which is up from mid 5's. And 180+ hours up from 120. So there is some hope! And 150+ clicks on Bing (remember what Vitality said about multiple traffic sources??)My cyber blog is doing better as well. Well not according to

(image: fanciful image of search GPT with an AI head above the title)OpenAI's SearchGPT is a prototype search engine that combines traditional search functionalities with advanced AI capabilities. Launched in July 2024, SearchGPT integrates real-time web browsing into ChatGPT, enabling users to receive timely, AI-generated responses with clear and relevant sources. This development positions OpenAI as a direct competitor to established search engines like Google and Bing.It achieved GA on Octob

I have been pinning for about the last 15 days with a cobbled together workflow. I am just getting my new workflow in place. It will start to take effect 11/1 when the current workflow is done.But I think I am seeing some effect.These are the pinterest stats for the last 30 days vs the previous 30 days. I just started pinning again a few weeks ago. So is it a natural progression? Maybe. But I also looked at the stats for just the pins I created in the last 30 days, and they contributed over 30

(Image: a spaceship outputting posts to linkedin, facebook and pinterest, with the title "Post Automation")I am doing an experiment with some tools:Zimmwriter for generating a planchatGPT to generate hashtags for the postssociamonials for scheduling the postsgoogle sheets to organize everythingThis is NOT for the faint of heart. But in 3 days I now have 3 posts a day to pinterest and facebook for the next 10 months (about 900 posts each).Here is what I did.1. ZimmWriter is a swiss army knife, b