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RE: Trinidad, Cuba: Two faces of a city. A photo documentary.
I was very lucky to have this post supported up by @curie. I put about 6 hours of work into it, not including the time I needed for editing the photos in the first place. It would really not pay off to spend so much time for a 2$ post that is viewed by 10 people. Since @curie won't support me for every post I make (if for any other than this one!) I also have to think about doing post that take less time to create, but still offer a certain amount of quality; Your Real Life Captured series seems like a great way to do this. Building up a base of regular readers and upvoters like you have is also my goal and your support is a great start!
Exactly. That was my issue. Several months ago, now I do some post on occasion that take several hours and they usually pay me more too. Getting started is the absolute hardest part. I played around with a lot strategies, then came to a conclusion of about 3-6 paragraphs with 10-20 photos, and several different numbered themes. It has really worked well for me. Feel free to take do a similar thing of your own if you feel that is right for you. My average post takes about 30 minutes to an hour to put together from start to finish now. The absolute worst was doing a a 4 hour post for 37 cents. That happened to me more than once, several months ago.
This sounds like a great plan. I have already published two posts about Cuba, so I might just name the third post Two faces of a city #3. Numbered themes also seem like a great way to bring consistency into the Blog and attract regular readers. Thanks for the tip!
You are welcome. Also I've found no need to blast out too much material at once, break one big post into two or three and get paid twice or tripple for the same amount of time spent. Also expands your visibility on the platform, and increased your chances that one of them could go a little viral. Just my opinion, some will argue against that. Saying do one super post like you did here and you'll get paid more....in this very case, that philosophy would be right. So it's you're call and something to consider.
I am about to finish my next post about Cuba and it has 13 photos and about 1.300 words. Also, the post is pretty much about New Year's Eve, so it might not work to publish a second part at a later date.
Would you still recommend splitting it into two posts?
So I decided to publish the full post now, I just hope I didn't just waste New Year on a post worth only a few cents in the end! Well, at least it is shorter than this post about Trinidad..
Since I have started my theme Two Faces of a City with a lot of information and photos on my first two posts, I will keep doing this for this theme, but I will try splitting my next post in two parts anyways.
Also, I will soon be starting with other numbered themes that will take less time to create.