Hi Ray, I have no traffic to speak of. 7 clicks from one page, none from the 28 others for my main website (I also have another 20 pages on other websites that don't do much). I plan to redo this page (on the 5 Tibetan Rites) to make it better, but it's just one page, with no sequel. Rebuilding this one page does fit with your suggestion of making traffic more consistent.

I understand that I'm in school and I'm here to learn, so the past efforts will just get forgotten, as I hopefully build better quality materials.

My content production is very iffy. Last week, I outputted 9 articles in 9 days, including 6 on piano lessons. This week, I wasn't inspired to write even one article. I was focused on recording my piano, and I made progress, but it's harder than I expected.

As I poured efforts into producing piano materials, I realized that if that's my niche, then I'm competing within something quite big, the online music lessons market, and I feel quite unqualified for that, that it could drain all my energy with just that niche. I do have a lot of materials I could put out on piano, so it makes sense that I focus on that for now, but I'm pretty sure I'll change track completely, maybe sooner than later!

The piano materials have the advantage that I can do it on my own, while with acroyoga and figure skating, for which there is also a lot of high quality materials out there too, I need my girlfriend's time to produce the materials. But she has a full-time job, and despite her motivation, she's only been able to write 1 article per month, which I guess says a lot about the difficult reality of trying to make it online if someone also has a job.

I need to meditate on where I am going with this!

At this point some meditation would be helpful to gain insight before you make any changes.
That is always the best way. Here's to success.
Ray

thanks!

Thanks.

For the performance videos, what I'm aiming for, that I feel is most effective, is the pedagogical voice-over (and for that I'll get something like Jay's equipment), and perhaps with music in the background. The music quality can be quite poor on the original track, so I replace the music afterwards too. People with much experience are able to speak and explain well during their performance, but I think I'll need to work up to that, or the immediate result will be too poor.

My piano recordings are quite poor too, so I suppose I need everything: better lighting, wide angle lens, and mic into the iPhone/iPad. I'm ordering the stuff!

The $40 investment in the Amazon package could also be used to do a review on the product... making that purchase work two-fold. Just a thought...

Thanks, Trish, this is precisely where I have been stuck for several months in the training, product reviews. So forcing me to go through that assignment would go a long way towards completing Level 3. I'll write down my experience with the product and see if I can turn it into a product review.