Welcome to Episode 87 of my podcast The view from the crow's nest, and it is 11pm on the 31st Monday the 31st of August 2020. And I'm coming to you from my bedroom, which is also my office. So it's not gonna be a long one because I'm tired tired tired, but suffice it to say that this again I'll start with some positive this morning had a personal training session. And the last exercise of the session. The instructor, my coach said okay now we're going to do 200 Press ups, and I was like what he's obviously joking but he wasn't 10 sets of 20, and by God I bloody did them. So I was, I was very pleased and surprised. But obviously, you know, I'm improving, at least in my strength and stamina so that was very positive. And then I tried to get back into work Monday mornings always kind of financial admin. And then that leads me through into the afternoons. Having had Saturday and Sunday, off. I was kind of both raring to go because there's so much to do. And also, in a slow lethargic kind of car get my head in gear, kind of thing. So that was at odds with each other. But principally, I can say I feeling blue, while I have feeling low because on Saturday as you may well know, I launched the grip this guy experience. And as you also probably know there's a lot resting on it, both from a personal point of view I want it to work. Obviously, and from a professional point of view, I wanted it to be the, The kind of the blueprint for future releases also for clients and to help other musicians, and the feedback I've gotten from it has been very positive, which is great. But the actual use of it has been basically no one's used it in the way that I was hoping they would. So I spent an inordinate amount of time and hours configuring cool interactive elements to it from sort of games where you can win prizes, through to, you know, simple comments section through to bonus content and all sorts. I don't want to give too much away if you haven't seen it but if you've been through it then you know exactly what I mean. And I was really disappointed that not one person or one singular person has, you know, has participated in any of those elements and they're about five or six interactive elements. And they took me so long to configure like God so long so many hours and hours and hours and hours days and into the weeks to get that stuff. Obviously, you know, the easiest part of the whole thing was recorded in a sense was recording the story behind the song videos and putting the music up. And actually, those are the only two things that seems that anybody's actually been consuming, so I could have saved myself, basically the entire work on the surface right now and just put those up. But, you know, I want to do something more interesting and I want to do something more in depth and this is an experiment. So, you know, experiments, you have a hypothesis. And you see if it gets proved right or not. and at the moment is getting proved wrong. So, it's still early days are still not had that many people go through it. So, you know, I always say that until you've had at least, you know, the minimum 100 people do a particular thing or go through a particular part of a funnel is you can't really conclude anything about it. And so, they haven't been hundred people go through it yet. And they haven't been certainly haven't been 100 people get to the end of it yet. So really until that kind of those kind of numbers happen. I can't really conclude anything too much because, you know, it can be anomalous it can be all sorts. But nonetheless, egotistically, I'm very disappointed that no one's actually interacted with these elements. So, yeah that's that's a shame. That said, the focus of it is, as a marketing tool is as the first introduction for the second introduction actually for people to buy music, who have never heard me before and find those people will be Facebook ads campaign, which I'm yet to do. So, the people who have seen it thus far, are people wh
