hi there there's a few things about the
channel we need to talk about now I have
been away for a couple of weeks
I took some holiday which is a good
thing it's something I kind of forgot
how to do in the process of starting a
business and I'm slowly relearning which
has been a lot of fun so I am in theory
well rested went back to more important
business which is this channel and a
couple of it and things I want to talk
about firstly I am drowning under ideas
and is starting to drive me a little bit
of crazy so I'm gonna be working towards
updating both consistency and frequency
for a little bit there's a bunch of
videos I just needed to make to get out
there some are much more ambitious than
others some are kind of simple just
talking to you about something others
will be a little bit more work on my
part now there'll be everything from
instructional videos how to's to some
product reviews to just stuff that I
think is interesting and worth making a
little video about that's something I do
have to talk about is product reviews
there are a little bit of a difficult
thing and something I need to make a
decision about going forwards that maybe
needs your help or certainly your input
now if I want to do something simple as
a video let's say I want to do a
comparison of the five most common hand
grinders now I need to go buy those
grinders and a simple video like that
ends up costing easily two or three
hundred pounds for me in just acquiring
this stuff even if I'm paying kind of
wholesale prices for it I don't make two
or three hundred pounds of video you
know no one's shocked by that this is
not a big channel now I can choose to
simply review products that people will
send me but I'll constantly be facing
the Battle of cannae really be negative
when someone has sent me something for
free to be truthful is very important
but actually if you're too truthful well
I would imagine the amount of stuff you
get sent dries up pretty quickly
so I guess that I have some choices
either I can kind of do pretty
infrequent or rare product reviews which
would be kind of a shame or I can find a
way to fund Senate product reviews now
obviously this stuff like live-streaming
and super chat on YouTube is a way for
people to sort of contribute towards a
channel I don't want super effective
right now the best idea I have is this I
would start a patreon and all money from
the patreon would go toward purchasing
equipment at wholesale price to review
so the best prices I can get and the end
of the review those products would be
given away to patreon backers right so
it's kind of like a a little bit of a
raffle at the same time so I wouldn't
keep anything that I reviewed that was
paid for from the patreon it would all
be given back to the audience people who
support the channel
II think this is a good idea and worth
doing well let me know in the comments
down below I would really appreciate
your feedback on this one ideas anything
like that you know maybe the answer is
just do less product reviews and that's
fair that's a pretty reasonable answer
but it seems something worth exploring I
don't really expect to profit from this
channel I really enjoy making videos I'm
enjoying the process of learning how to
do it of communicating in a new way
after years and years of writing and I'm
not gonna stop making videos but you
know this is a question that kind of at
some point I have to face an answer so I
kind of had that one over to you so in
the next few weeks expect to see more
videos a little bit more often they'll
range in all sorts of different stuff
and I hope you enjoy them please give me
a feedback please continue to contribute
to comment give me thoughts ideas I
really appreciate all of that we'll get
some more live streams going very soon
as well all right that's it that's the
update that's all I wanted to say thank
you so much for watching and I hope you
have a great day