Episode 4 is now uploaded, and there are a lot of random posters posted around my school. We ran around the school filming and being strange, and I admit it was really fun. But the best part about this project? There’s only one episode left after this! That means I can finally concentrate on the book part of the project! Awesome.

Ignore the Next Post

I’m just going to post this and pretend it’s part of my Promotion  chapter preparation.

Hope no one minds, but my Etsy account isn’t getting much traffic lately, and apparently it gets some from tumblr. (Though whose tumblr accounts, I have no idea.) So I’m gonna attempt to promote my fine product on my own tumblr account, because I just made back my investment and it would be nice to make some real money now. This doesn’t actually have anything to do with RachelNation otherwise.

This Email …

Well, I’m hard at work for the next episode. Unlike the previous ones, this one actually requires me to go outside. »shudder« so I’m doing it when I can. Thank God for DST. But more on that in a minute. I want to share something. It doesn’t turn out to be anything important, so you can hang your suspense for something worthwhile. 

The day after I uploaded the fourth(third) episode to YouTube, I woke up to my alarm clock, which is just my phone strategically placed under my pillow. (This way I hear it but my roommate does not.) Also on my phone is my email, and I usually see right away in the morning that I have 4 or 5 new emails. Generally, these are from social networking sites or spam, but sometimes I will wake to good news, like I have a new follower on Pinterest or I just made 15 bucks on Fireshield earrings. This was a bit different.

As I sleepily read my email, I saw that I had a message from someone on youtube. Here it is:

It says:hey there 

you have some very interesting videos uploaded but small views. i think they are not really getting noticed. 
have you ever tried to buy subscribers or views to make your channel bigger. 
subgrow . com 
i used that site before with one of my channal and their subscriber packages made my views rise big over a few weeks. 
they are the best on the net 

Since I am new to uploading YouTube, I had never gotten spam before, and wasn’t entirely sure this WAS spam. Actually, it reminded me of a message I received from fanfiction.net not too long ago, asking if I was considering putting a piece I never finished up for “adoption.”

Now, I was sure this person was promoting their company, but I was excited that they had written to me, personally. I went through the day thinking on how to reply. I did not want to buy subscribers, as that would defeat the purpose of this project, and I hadn’t done much promotion, as I was »spoiler« saving it for the next episode. But I was curious on how this person (I assume it was a “she” for some reason) found me in the first place.

I didn’t get to a computer until the next day, where I sat at work and hastily opened my channel mail to reply. And that was where I saw that the mail had not only gone out to me, but to at least eight other channels. This was disheartening, though not entirely. I wrote back anyway with the same plan, careful to use the weird language that was bouncing around my brain.

Heh, very interesting indeed! I did not know there was such a thing as buying subscribers. How does that work? Is that just to build hype?

Tell me, I am curious, how did you happen to come across my channel? Maybe in that way, I can figure out a way to …hm, lure others.

And I sent it. It has been nearly a week, and I have not heard back. But it makes a good story to put in my book, so there!