[X & note] Follower count, total views, 3 selected articles from October 2023, etc. at 31 months since start
I am releasing the operational data (for October 2023) for Shichau Ojisan's [X & note] at 31 months since starting.
For X, I have posted a screenshot of the "follower count," and for note, I have posted screenshots of the "follower count" and "total views."
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X follower count (31st month since start)
My X followers are 236 (+16 from the previous month).
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note follower count (31st month since start)
My note followers are 8,882 (+286 from the previous month).
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note total views (31st month since start)
The total views for note (2023/10/1 - 2023/10/31) were 21,485 (-24,317 from the previous month).
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3 selected articles from October 2023
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Everyone who recommended my articles in October
Everyone who introduced my articles in October
Everyone who introduced "Shichaoji" in October
Thank you as always for introducing "Shichaoji" 🐤
I was quite busy in October and could only post 4 articles, but thanks to everyone, my monthly sales on note reached an all-time high.
Every year, around the time of tax filing, my paid article { A thorough explanation of tax-saving measures for sole proprietors (freelancers) and how to file a blue return without unnecessary expenses! } sells well and the numbers go up, but I am happy to have recorded an all-time high without waiting for February or March!
As is obvious, when it comes to monetization on note, it's not the number of articles you post that matters, but rather 'who you are writing for and what you are writing about'.
Some people seem to misinterpret Robert Zajonc's 'mere-exposure effect' and argue that 'the more articles you post, the better,' but isn't it just annoying to have a timeline flooded with a massive amount of self-serving, selfish articles?
To use a salesperson as an analogy, they are like that annoying guy who just shows up without providing the information the customer wants, offering valuable proposals, or solving problems, so they end up being disliked.
Recently, I have also been receiving frequent support requests from people who are not using note as their main business platform, and when I ask, it seems they found out about 'Shichaoji' via Google search or 𝕏 (formerly Twitter).
As I always write, in order to promote monetization on note, attracting new readers from outside of note is essential, but the reason no one other than 'Shichaoji' says this is because they aren't actually attracting anyone!
Whether or not you can operate with the mindset of 'using note as an exit rather than an entrance' will lead to an irreversible gap that widens as the days and months go by.
Thanks to email exchanges with people from diverse backgrounds, not just fellow noters, I am now receiving interesting information that I didn't know before on a daily basis, and I am living very stimulating days.
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Now, one of the reasons October was so busy was the review of my life plan in conjunction with the 'New NISA' starting in January 2024.
For those of you reading this, have you already decided on your investment policy for the 'New NISA' with less than two months left until it starts?
How will I manage the 'New NISA account,' 'iDeCo account,' and 'taxable account'? What should I do with the 'old NISA account'? How do iDeCo and the old-age pension interact? How do iDeCo and the small enterprise mutual relief interact? And on a more detailed level, what about the 100,000 yen credit card accumulation for the New NISA? Reaching a conclusion was difficult.
I realized while researching various things this time that there were things I had misunderstood, or that laws had been amended without me noticing, and I realized that while asset management is good, the exit strategy is becoming difficult.
So, I will be writing articles about this in November!
'The New NISA is strongest if you invest the full 18 million yen in 5 years at the shortest' followed by a US stock market bubble burst → a long-term slump course of 5 to 10 years, I think that's quite possible 🐤=3
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Finally, I would like to introduce an article by 'Kashiwa-san,' a great senior with 8 years of note experience and a very rich drawer of topics.
I have listed the parts that were particularly impressive in the article above!
Anyway, by following a large number of people, in the tens of thousands, and having them follow you back, and then encouraging mutual follows, mutual purchases, mutual recommendations, and mutual 'likes'... even someone with no literary talent can be under the illusion that they have gained popularity.
I understand that creators who are working hard on mutual-type activities are happy with the mutual aid reactions from the mutual-type community at first, but eventually, there is a noticeable tendency for them to misunderstand that 'my note is being read, and I'm actually doing pretty well!'
As I have written several times, these people unconsciously choose 'comfortable lies over harsh reality,' but they cannot read notes that get to the essence of things like 'Shichaoji's,' and perhaps because they instinctively feel the fear of being pulled back into the real world, they feel disgust and avoid them (lol).
Since you are likely writing on note as a hobby, it is of course fine to enjoy note in your own way—following your emotions, being free and easy, doing as you please, and sticking to your own style—but if you do that, your creative activities will end up being nothing more than a way to kill time.
First, please regain the sense of going to read what you want to read, in the genres you want to read, from the people you want to read.
Shichaoji completely agrees with the above and truly thinks so as well.
If you read articles by people you aren't interested in just to maintain relationships in mutual-follow communities, click 'like' buttons, and even write comments out of a sense of obligation, and then justify it, you will eventually reach 'note burnout,' invite trouble, and be unable to focus on creating anything at all.
Instead of doing strange things on note, self-destructing, or forcing meaningless rules on others, it is fine to just 'read articles because you want to read them, comment because you feel like commenting, purchase paid notes because you want to read the articles even if you have to pay, recommend them because you want to introduce them to your own followers, follow because you want to follow, and remove because you no longer want to follow.'
The reason you cannot do these normal things normally is because there is an 'answer' inside you that you do not want to face, but because you continue to unconsciously choose 'comfortable lies over harsh reality,' you will never realize it.
By the way, Kashiwa-san is someone who writes very interesting articles and is one of the creators that Shichaoji is personally paying attention to.
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The operational data for last month is here.
The list of operational data is here.
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That is all for - [X & note] Follower count, total views, 3 selected articles from October 2023, etc. in the 31st month since starting -.
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