Skiology... What's your take?
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Low Angle Life
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Main character syndrome is a helluva drug. Go touch grass, remember real life happens off the internet.
Doesn't phase me at all. You get used to the peanut gallery. Some due here even accused me of "main character syndrome" because I replied to a 15 page thread created about me and my businessTough crowd. Sorry I just had to
Still waiting on some honest questions if anyone wants to step up.
Adirondack Johnny
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Are these thousands of followers and stalkers in the room with you now?Doesn't phase me at all. You get used to the peanut gallery. Some due here even accused me of "main character syndrome" because I replied to a 15 page thread created about me and my business
Low Angle Life
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What exactly is Skiology and do you have a mission statement? This is not a facetious question, I am not an internet native and my last post was my first in this thread. I'm sure having 15 page threads about yourself on a niche regional ski forum and cyberstalkers could have a great impact on ones mental health as it seems to have had for you suggesting that you've had to curtail your social media usage due to trolling attacks and said stalkers. Again I do not know anything about Skiology, I just find it odd that what I assume to be a regional weather and condition reporting page on social media would cause such extreme responses and personal attacks. I guess I just wonder what your drive is to keep whatever Skiology is going if it is clearly having such a negative impact on your personal life? Is this your sole source of income? If not it might be worth leaving this whole thing behind, your health and sanity is far more important and it sure would suck to have your entire passion for skiing and riding killed by the internet.
Skiology covers weather for ski areas across the East and ski industry news with a current focus on the Northeast. People are most interested in the storm forecasting, and besides the obvious things like snowfall and precipitation types, I forecast unique things like wind holds with high accuracy (we do probabilistic forecasts for winds). It's been over 200 days of riding since I ended up in a wind hold situation that removed access to more than 1/4 of terrain. Variety from covering news or even just stoke helps keep people engaged and rounds out the offering, but we aren't charging for news and we're giving away some weather for free using a freemium model. My goal and my requirement, is that Skiology is the most accurate source of ski weather forecasting. You won't find much forecasting on the site currently because it launched in June whereas I used to post long-form content to Facebook. I wrote a nice story about Burke this morning if you want to check that out, but full forecasting will wait until skiing starts. https://skiology.com/sleeper-of-the-year/
I'm not giving up a business because 6 trolls with dozens of aliases. It's the 99.99% that drives me. I've made a ton of good friends all over the Northeast, and love getting together with them to crush some pow.
Skiology was about half my income last year. This season with the subscription model It will likely pull in six figures. We sold over 1,000 subscriptions during our launch in July, the slowest month for engagement with ski content. Subscriptions are $29.99/year. I have a following of 60,000 unique individuals and over 3,000 have voluntarily supported us in the past (the only way to monetize on Facebook), and at most just a quarter of them have already subscribed. I can hit 6 figures on just that, but likely we'll have 2 to 3 times the number of subscribers as we had in annual voluntary contributors (about 1,400 last season). Paywalls work and I already built an audience and people knew it was coming for years so I think I have seen 1 single person so far become upset about storm forecasting being paywalled. My estimates are conservative and we doubled my estimate for the launch. We'll have additional income from sponsorships and merch on top of this. When we become an app we'll pull a lot more people in from outside of my existing following and social media will become unnecessary for marketing. The Facebook Group I run is a goldmine for crowdsourcing and Skiology has always been a group effort, a very friendly place, and a true community. I'll make sure the group prospers even if I don't need it to grow my business. That will likely be the only place besides the comment section on our website that I will participate in after this next season. I have zero interest in being an internet personality, and if we are selling an app, I don't need to even play the role of spokesperson when that happens.
I have two other people working with me who also have over 25 years of internet design and programming experience. It's not their full time job though so we'll continue to inch forward, but we're making definite progress.
Benny Profane
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Do you have a degree in meteorology, since that's what you tell us you're selling?
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Not sure why exactly Matt chose this moment to post. In any case, the net effect is a mini membership drive, the internet is ready to mingle.
To me it seems pointless. It's all been litigated elsewhere and anyone could easily find it.
Matt you already said you have no intention of contributing beyond this thread. I call that disrespect.
I'm locking this thread. It's the easiest way to eliminate content from people who only care about this thread.
I'll open it again for the regulars when the interest dies down.
To me it seems pointless. It's all been litigated elsewhere and anyone could easily find it.
Matt you already said you have no intention of contributing beyond this thread. I call that disrespect.
I'm locking this thread. It's the easiest way to eliminate content from people who only care about this thread.
I'll open it again for the regulars when the interest dies down.
Campgottagopee
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The rules are posted, in fact, one of the rules is to fight your own battles and not run to the admin like a lil whiny bitch.
They appear to technically be guidelines.
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