365 Days Of Marketing And Me: Day Six - 1/6/2021

One Creative Introverts Effort To Take On The Extroverted Marketing World…

Welcome to day number six of 365 Days Of Marketing And Me… I think I’m getting close to figuring out the analytics issues that are causing my traffic statistics to be so low… for the past month… I’ve been getting two different sets of statistic numbers depending on which analytics tool I use… I find it promising that the Google Analytics stats reflect the higher of the two… now that I’ve resolved my DNS and SSL Cert issues… now I just have to figure out what needs to be tweaked to get the Ezoic stats to match the higher visitor counts to reflect the traffic that I used to get before this issue came up…

I hope this doesn’t sound like I’m complaining about Ezoic’s service… these errors did not start with them… and their support team has been great at working with me to resolve the issues that seem to come up every year when it comes time to update my domain… just in the past… my domain name went straight through my host and not through a Content Delivery Networks… and other third-party marketing services that I’ve been experimenting with…

I can’t wait to work through all of the bugs… which I was hoping to do before I started this challenge… but now I don’t mind… because… this challenge is also to help people like me… who have no idea what they are doing… but aren’t afraid to dig in to figure things out… maybe this will show up in someone search results… and thought I may not provide a step by step guide to show how to resolve the issues… I may provide new areas to investigate…

I’m trying to provide the same sort of information in The Daily Breaker posts this year… only there I’m sharing my trials and errors as I attempt to really work on my mental and physical health… the first part of my plan was to actively stop writing fiction after realizing that my surreal style of blending reality with fiction started to affect my outlook on the real world… especially after this countries reality started to become such a shit show… making my surreal thoughts seem more logical than whatever narrative I’d try to follow…

Even though I stopped writing… it took months for me to stop trying to find story elements to steal from all that I observed… I found that it helped to narrow my podcast listening to only one or two shows… because I used to have about 20 shows that I’d listen to within the week that they dropped… and then listen to the archives… since my interests are so eclectic that I was getting too many conflicting points of view… which was fine before the time that hard lines were drawn in the sand…

Back when you could disagree with someone but still get along… it was nice to experience all the different outlooks… especially since I mainly listen to shows that use humor to lighten their message… this allowed me to feel like I could fit in with anyone… since I knew how every side joked… so that I could stay who I am while communicating with those who I might disagree with…

I now agree with bits and pieces of every philosophy that I can’t commit to hating others just because I don’t fully agree with all or their beliefs… that’s not to say that I’m open to accepting everyone… if the sum of one’s parts is horrible… I’m not afraid to shut them out as if they don’t exist at all… thanks to the way that my stepfather and I both treated each other like ghosts because we didn’t get along…

Sometimes I think this is why I literally do feel like a ghost from time to time… hell… my most successful works (financially) have been projects I’ve been hired on to ghostwrite… my depersonalization/derealization often makes me uncertain about the existence or reality all together… which might sound terrible… but I have a lot of fun the more that I feel detached… or the less I think about my id… ego… and super-ego… who all continually broadcast their own podcasts in my head…

Alright… enough with … it’s time to move on to today’s assignment…

According to the book 365 Days Of Marketing… today is Cuddle Up Day…

What does that have to do with all of the rambling above… well… as a ghost… I don’t really like to touch anyone or being touched… to where cuddling always feels awkward and/or forced… this is why I started to develop the idea that I may be on the autistic spectrum somewhere… especially after taking a break from my obsessive thoughts about story structure… and how to turn even the most mundane experience into a scene…

With my thoughts now more grounded in reality… I’m starting to see how much my sensory issues affect my mental health… like how the vibrating in my back… that in my fictional mind had me convinced that I was either having anxiety attacks when the sensation was strong… or that the universe was healing me when the vibrating was subtle enough to feel like an electric massage… since it feels kind of cool when it’s weak…. and when I’m not trying to sleep… when good or bad.. the sensation would lead to racing thoughts…

This might be why I started to experiment with Electric Muscle Stimulation… I now have magical socks that shock my feet and ease the pain of the plantar fasciitis… I also have a few electric pads that I use to massage my back and shoulders… and though it doesn’t replace the feeling of being comfortable enough to accept the touch of another human… it does seem to relieve some of the physical touch needs that one might feel from a non-romantic massage…

Who knows… maybe getting used to this massaging sensation will ease my nerves if I ever end up in a situation where consensual/mutual human touch is involved… until then… the cuddle time required to fulfill this assignment was spent with my goofy ass dog…

With That… Here Are The Numbers For The Past Seven Days!!!

(note… I’m just a fan of Ezoic with an affiliate link… they are not an official sponsor…)

I like using the old school machine for the areas where the pain is chronic because you can set it to run without a time… you can also fine-tune the wavelength and frequency to be very specific… which is good for me… because it allows me to find the inverse frequency of the vibrating from the compressed nerve in my lower back to cancels out the sensation… which now seems kind of pointless since I’m now constantly vibrating from one of these machines…

The socks are great for the plantar fasciitis pain… but it also seems to be helping the blood flow in the foot on my good leg… I also like having a preprogrammed EMS machine to use their programs more as a relaxing massage… finally… I recommend the above set of four ab pads… first… they are cheap…. but… you can also use the big one on your thigh while the smaller one works your calves… or you can run the who set down your back… they’re supposed to be replacements for a battery pack machine… but you can they’ll also work with any machine…

To add more marketing to this challenge… and better fit the spirit of the book 365 Days Of Marketing… that’s always suggesting sales that follow their daily themes… for here on… I will include recommendations at the bottom of each page… and I’ll try to keep it like this… where I have something to say about each suggestion… and not just trying to hock whatever random crap I can find…