Today I share my input on why I´ve decided to do more writing / blogging and share more meaningful content. It gives me the power to express my mind and putting my thoughts into words. Through my experience as a Vlogger on YouTube and posting on facebook for many years, I notice how much control these platforms have over what I wish to convey. One day on my YouTube channel with over 125 thousand subscribers I decided to share my truth on what was happening in the world regarding the Sandy hook incident. I expressed my opinion. The next day I receive 1, 2 and then finally three strikes and before you know it my channel was taken down just like that! I tried to appeal several times only to receive emails from youtube that my channel had been deleted for not abiding by their community guidelines. I was shocked and realised that all of my time and energy that was put into Youtube since 2008 was eliminated. Suddenly my traffic stopped and I had to begin from zero starting a brand new channel right away but that time with much less views than I ever had.
I felt defeated! Also the revenue I was receiving from Youtube as a creator of $4000 a month stopped. I was no longer being paid for my content. This happened back in 2018. So for the next four years my family and I struggled just to make ends meet. We had to sell our yachts, and live in a smaller house just to survive. I never thought in my life I would experience such a horrible set back. But through out those stormy times, we never gave up. I never said once, ¨It´s over, so lets pack our bags and head back to the states so I can get a JOB (Just over broke). Hell No! We have been living in Mexico for ten years by the Caribbean water and although my traffic came to a hault such as the revenue, I kept on going no matter what.
What I´ve learned from this frightening experience is how to truly market and gain control of my own content using wordpress which gave me the freedom to add as many keywords as I wished and gained my own subscribers and leads without having to rely on a third party such as Youtube. The worst mistake I ever made was relying on this company and never taking the appropriate action to get my subscribers to sub to my own website. No, instead I relied on Youtube for all of these years and then becoming a slave to their rules and regulations on how I should act, what I can say that doesn´t cross the line of their community guidelines.
A week ago I decided to create my own two blogs https://securedcreditor.blog and this blog. I´ve finally took my power back after realising that what I´ve been doing for so long in sharing my content wasn´t the right way of going about it. I was making Facebook and Youtube lots of money through my videos and my posts. This is why each time I post on Facebook or Youtube I now post my weekly blogs. No more will I be a sucker for these companies ever again. I share this experience with you my readers so you don´t make the same mistakes I have. Don´t be a sucker no more!!! Take back your power as the creator of powerful content and don´t ever put your eggs in one basket. Instead, diversify!
Since the middle of 2022 I´ve been taking courses to upgrade my skills as a web designer, in marketing, and blogging. As a creator of courses myself, I truly find the value in them which cuts out all of the mistakes, errors that can cost me thousands of dollars and learn from someone whose more experienced than me in this field. I want the short cut and thats why investing in courses is so important. I´ve created many courses for others to take back their power as secured creditors which you can find on my https://securedcreditor.blog page.
I wish to explain to my readers the reason why I am cutting my time on Youtube, FB, (TikTok as well which just recently gave me an account warning), and putting more emphasis and my creative energy into writing. This gives me more time to really engage with my readers and connect with them. I have to say, Youtube was the answer to my prayers so many years ago until the censorship kicked in. I remember so clearly a web designer whom I hired warned me that these platforms were going to start censoring everything we talk about very soon and it would be advisable to have a back up plan. I was so naive then and didn´t want to believe for a second that this would happen. He was right and I regret not listening to him in the beginning. So here I am again luckily after building up my youtube channel with over 30k views, yet hardly getting any traffic still, I decided to be much smarter and took my web designers advice. So I created my two blogs and now l no longer rely on wix. Wix also gave me the finger preventing me from sending out email blasts to my subscribers. More red tape I had to deal with.
So for those of you who´ve been following me for years on Youtube and not seeing much of my videos, now you know why. I now use rumble and ugetube and add them onto my blog. I am still careful on what I put out there on the public even on this blog. That is why it is vital to join my free mailing lists where I can truly speak my mind and create private meetings. This is how big marketers do it and by modeling them I´m seeing a complete turn around and oh what a great feeling it is to finally be able to take control of my own content and connect with my subscribers, viewers on my own terms. If Youtube, Tiktok, Facebook shut me down again, it wouldn´t even phase me.
It´s amazing how many of us are still giving our power away to these tyrannical companies which are turning our vloggers into fake commercial marketers now. You might as well go back to watching the TV again with their hypnotic mind programming commercials. It´s no different.
I have to share this which is super funny. There was a Medium Tarot reader I use to follow a lot and she was super accurate and gave great readings. Now when I see her, she cares more about how she looks on camera than how she reads, she even changed her name. Like she completely lost her mind due to the competition and she has hundreds of thousands of subscribers on Youtube. Obviously she isn´t doing too good making a living because she is constantly having to put out content every week or even daily for fear that the algorithms will pass her by. As a Vlogger I can see the enslavement going on with these creators and I was in their shoes for a few years trying to keep up with the new Vloggers appearing, trying to work my arse off for the algorithms, and trying not to make an absolute ass of myself. It just wasn´t in me. If I can´t be my authentic self and can´t express whats on my mind and connect with my viewers, being on these platforms is meaningless.
Yes sure I´ve made a quarter of a million a year for many years as a youtuber and traveled to many parts of the world. Life was good then, especially before the covid pandemic hit. We had so much freedom until now. What these events taught me more than anything is to not allow these other platforms to suck me dry ever again.
Here I am now early in the cool morning sipping on some coffee in my soft slippers, comfy robe and pajama bottoms in the mountains of Puebla Mexico next to an active volcano poofing every now and then, wearing no make up, and freely blogging away to my hearts content. I hope you´ve learned a lot from this experience if you are a content creator. I weathered out the storm and came back stronger than ever before, not only as a blogger, but as a published author on Amazon where I´ve written four books and now working on a fictional Novella on Kindle Vella. One thing is for sure, the pen is more mightier than the sword!
May you all have a blessed Happy New Years and think enormous!
Until next time!
With lots of Love and hugs, Dr Druanna Johnston