Long time, no see!

I just wanted to mention to the existing and interested writers here (there’s thousands of you!) that I won’t be publishing anything further on Feedium other than the odd article here and there.

I’ve let the ball drag on this project for the last year or so and I do apologize to those left waiting for acceptance or publishing, etc.

The main reason?

I’ve been helping a company full-time with their marketing efforts for the last 8 months or so, while Google’s lovely Un-’Helpful Content Update’ humorously and severely impacted my side projects’ ability to make enough income for me to justify spending a large chunk of my time on them (Feedium being one of them — but more negatively impacted by Medium’s mostly-welcome changes).

I do have a plan to combat the ridiculous (IMO) changes at Google as I spent many months deep diving into just what they’re trying to ‘fix’ with their search engine and SEO this year.

— I wrote a treatise on the subject for those interested in my answers. —

I also FINALLY finished my 2nd book!

And have a post with the entirety of it on display for anyone with an interest in funny parodies making fun of billionaires.

The Future

I do plan on still writing for fun — while I have been very lack as of late — if anything just to keep whatever skill I have in the matter a semi-well-oiled machine. Most of these posts will be on my Substack and various spots on Medium.

And lastly, I have a very large project that’s been dancing around my mind like a drunken dancing Cossack for a couple years.

You see, I started Feedium off as a way to learn the ins and outs of Medium in an extremely meticulous way. When I first ventured over here, I had no idea how to write, how to get my points across, nor how to entertain readers with silly mentions of peanut butter tuna sandwiches or random pictures of sexy frogs.

But as I slowly went along researching, discovering, trying, and sharing my learnings with all of the amazing readers here, I found I had rekindled an old passion of mine: teaching.

And in the end, that’s what I strived for Feedium to be.

A place to teach others how to get even a little bit better at Mediuming and writing and c̶l̶i̶c̶k̶b̶a̶i̶t̶i̶n̶g̶ and all the wonderful aspects of the giant community here.

So, for my main online gig, I’ll be building from scratch a website and publication to tackle that. I haven’t nailed down all the fine details — and I certainly have been procrastinating on driving in the first rung of the project — but I’ll get there.

The subject?

I’d simply like to try helping out small and medium sized businesses in the online world.

I’ve worked at dozens of companies over the years in 3 different countries and somewhere along the way finished two degrees in the subject, and, well, if I have any sort of expertise to share with the world, I suppose it would be in how to do a little bit better in the business world.

And hopefully, hopefully, I can help dig out a tiny sliver in this vast internet with advice that is actually useful, actually actionable, and actually interesting to read (Hint: I’m not done with sexy frogs!).

More importantly, I will strive to fight back against the constant clickbait, the constant lies, and the constant Potemkin Village of modern online ‘advice’ that never reveals any real advice unless you go pay the author $500,000 for a 3 hour course.

I’m sure you know what I mean — How I Made $10,000 in 3 days! — How to ABSOLUTELY DOMINATE YOUTUBE! — The ONE Secret Experts Use to Kill Their Competition! — among other styles of bullshit lying marketing.

You’ve seen the headlines.

We’ve all had our eyeballs bleed with them filling up our feeds. The anger surely must stir deeply within others, I surmise.

Because these greasy sales tactics work — otherwise we wouldn’t see it anymore.

And that, dear readers, is what I’d like to combat. Even just a little bit.

I’d like to help small and medium sized businesses get better at business, in an ethical, entertaining, and REAL way.

Big goal.

Let’s see how it goes.

But that is likely my next few years of side hustlin’.

If you’re interested, jump along for the ride.

If not, I hope you enjoyed Feedium, it was fun!

(And, I might still occasionally pop in some sexy frogs and online writing advice from time to time, too.)

In the meantime, I’ll still leave up all the old articles on here, but I’ll be removing every writer from the publication just so there’s no confusion.

Until next time, friends.

J.J. Pryor

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