I Need Your Help

Happy day!

As some of you know, I dislike regular social media platforms, such as Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, and Tik Tok. Short form, click-bait content that lacks quality thought and context are dumbing down society at an alarming rate (in my humble opinion).

I don't want to be a part of it anymore. So I've completely deleted my Instagram and Twitter accounts the other day. I deleted Facebook and Tik Tok years ago.

I've done "fasts" or taken extended breaks from these platforms in the past, with the intention to come back, but this time, I really have zero desire to go back.

The form of content I like to create and consume is not present on those platforms and I find most social media to be a terrible distraction and time-suck. Instead of scrolling Instagram or Twitter, I could be reading books, articles, listening to podcasts, watching helpful YouTube videos, reading the email lists I'm subscribed too, enjoying conversations with friends and family, or getting to sleep earlier.

Those all seem beneficial and I could always use more of those things.

But, here's why I need your help:

While general social media blows big donkey balls, it does help get eyeballs on my content which leads to making it easier to get a few eyeballs on my blog (30minutephysique.com), my Substack/Substack email list (garagegymbro.substack.com), and my Gumroad site where I sell/give away most of my products (https://garagegymbro.gumroad.com/). You can also subscribe to my Gumroad email list at that site, or by downloading any of my products there. 

But, I'm done playing the never ending, forever changing social media game. The content and style of content and cringy influencers do me no good. I'm going to focus solely on the 3 links I shared above (blog site, Substack, Gumroad) along with making short videos on my YouTube account (https://youtube.com/@30minutephysique?si=dRJDeOxw5HT4z4DH).

I need you to help me by doing the following:

If you enjoy my content, please share it with someone. You can share it on your social media or via word of mouth. The fact is, I'm casting a smaller net. That's okay, because the majority of my followers and engagement that happened on social media never became email subscribers, blog readers, or paying customers (largely because they don't like to read anything that's not popping up on the screen in cartoon fonts). They just exchanged likes for likes, follows for follows, in the hope that those things would lead to getting more followers and eyeballs on all our content along the way (like I said, it's an exhausting, time consuming, never ending game of trying to manipulate the algorithm just for the sake of a few meaningless numbers).

So, while I focus more on writing on my own sites, in the way that I enjoy, I'd really appreciate your support by sharing with a friend. The blog is the main place where people can read without needing to sign up for any notifications or email lists, and get a boatload of information totally free. 

I want to help more people that are not solely obsessed with getting their information from one of these short form content social media platforms. But, my business and my readership only grows from current readers and subscribers sharing with others. 

As always, thanks so much for reading, and if you think what I do is worthwhile, please share it and let's help others help themselves.