I’ll have that, thx 
@edzd I might take you up on this offer.
I’ve been saying I’d do content for a while now, and that I’d do it myself… but I’ve apparently not been doing it lol…
Although, just typing that… yeah I’m gonna do it!.. soon! 
Just fyi, we got somewhat close to a first podcast episode with a mysterious guest (
)… but schedule synchronization issues (let’s say the Universe ) prevented it last minute.
Ok fine… you guys strike a hard bargain… I’ll do a travel vlog of that business class trip to Australia… with kangaroos in the background, House Boat™ footage, and… stuff.
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Oooo exciting 
I think using the money to produce videos and podcasts could be a great idea, it’s 1 avenue that’s somewhat missing at the moment. I’ll put my hand up to take part in podcasts too, I think it could be a lot of fun. Just not the editing part as I have 0 skill there.
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As far as I know, Google is clear about that you can’t pay to rank higher. An alternative are ads, but do not seem to correspond well with the Actual Freedom “product”.
As it is very difficult for a forum to rank high due to the relative heterogeneity of its content and structure compared to the SEO of blogs (even video channels, podcasts, etc.,) I think what is left is to grow the blog part (https://actualism.online/) by writing more articles that will tend to have a higher coherence in their contents; more homogeneity/repetition of words with respect to the total number of words written; internal links between them; organic inclusion of external links to the AFT site and other actualist sites, videos, podcasts, etc.; organic inclusion of external links to NON-actualist but popular sites; eventually backlinks (incoming links) from those actualists and non-actualist sites/videos/podcasts to articles of the blog, etc.
This is a good use of Alan’s money.
I’d love to chat sometime to see what issues you’re running into or what might be preventing you from doing it. If it’s technical ability then I can likely help. And if you get a good recording of a ‘podcast’ with a ‘special guest’ it’s likely I could edit that together pretty quick and we could collaborate on how you may like to present it.
I want to stress that making content in 2022 requires little to no money. Especially if it’s more informative than creative. But it’s an extremely tedious process that gets way less tedious once a skillset is developed.
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Guys, about the plane tickets. Even on the cheap it’s quite a sum.
If you don’t stop talking like it’s a good idea, I’m gonna start really considering it lol.
It’s not technical ability which is the issue (easy to say, as I have none hahaha), it’s rather that I’m not quite sure about precisely what I want to do. I haven’t been satisfied with my various attempts so far.
I’ll be sure to require your help though. Thx!
Why did I buy this gear…
Why does it look like I need more…
But… surely, one cannot capture the glory of kangaroos randomly jumping in the vast red landscape with a portrait lens?
Look, I’ll say this. You bought the gear in the hopes that you’d enjoy it enough to use it. It’s a hobby and you’d like to learn how to use all those neat little adult toys 
It’s fun to have nice stuff.
But what I want to say to anyone out there is that you likely own an iphone or android. That one device can allow you to create phenomenal content. If creating content is your passion, gear should never be an impediment - to a degree. There are techniques you can learn to get the most from a little. So don’t wait until you have good gear to start.
Also, good gear can be an impediment. It’s heavy, clumsy, not spontaneous, and has a learning curve. It’s great when you have a vision and know what it is you want to do but it sometimes can weigh down a novice IMO. It pays to be fluid in the equipment and that takes repetition.
I’d really love to talk sometime and hear where you think things have been falling short or perhaps what sort of vague vision you have.
Well if you’re suggesting you’d like to fly down to AUS to do a podcast with a special guest, I’m sure we could at least do a go-fund-me. 
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@edzd Cool. Yes, let’s have a chat one of these days.
I can’t agree more about the gear lol.
The main reason I want to go to Australia… is not that hard to guess.
Although I must say I’m currently smiling at the absurd amount of fun I’d have with the travel vlog hahaha. (… I would need a wide angle though… with stab… )
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Australia is the pilot episode of an actualist themed travel vlog.
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The Actualism Traveling Podcast, soon coming near you!
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It would honestly be fantastic to have more R+V video/audio, if they would go for it
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Maybe we can open a new thread in here to talk about various ideas that might be helpful !
Portugal is a lot closer to France! It’s very pretty here. But there is not any fully free people on these lands … … … yet ;D
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I was wondering if it would make sense to use part of this money to compensate AFT to make the
AFT Video’s that are only in DVD format into other format ( e.g. downloadable ) or even public ?
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The videos belong to Richard & Vineeto, so you’d have to have permission from them to do anything with the videos. You can email Vineeto to ask and I can give you that email address if you’d like.
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It might be more sensible if other people on this forum think that is a good idea, and then, we can
approach Vineeto with this idea as a group .
Thanks henry 
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Lovely to see Alan’s wishes being discussed.
There is obviously the expenses that Richard and Vinetto have running the AFT to consider.
We could also ask them if re- publishing there media ( on demand individual book publishing is a thing now) is a possibility.
We have also discussed having a wiki with extensive topic linking. A “choose your own adventure” matrix of actualism juiciness.
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