What Can We Learn From the Fall of Bubblews
On Bubblews, Every Voice Was Supposed to Be ImportantThis post is now historical, since Bubblews shut down its site in mid November, 2015. We could just heave a sigh of relief that the months of agony of waiting for it to die are now over. Or we can reflect on what we might have observed earlier that might have prevented the loss of data and money earned that many experienced when the site closed.
Canada Goose Parka I was a very active member of the site from February, 2013, until it showed signs of its approaching failure in December, 2014. I thought of just deleting this hub when I heard that the site had closed. But it seems better to let you see how it looked to me during my Bubblews experience. I have left some sections in the present tense as I first wrote them. Consider that an eye witness account of why many of us joined and stayed as long as we did. As you read, consider whether you would have stayed as long as some of us did. Which signs of the failure to come were visible months before the site died? What mistakes did many make that resulted in much wasted time and effort and the loss of their posts. Canada Goose Parka
canada goose store It’s not all just water under the bridge now. We can take some of the lessons to be learned with us as we evaluated where we will continue to spend our time. canada goose store
Canada Goose Online Update: MyLot is BackMyLot is now back and paying its members again. You can connect with me as bagarad there. They no longer have an affiliate program. Those who left to canada goose store join Bubblews are now coming back and they are bringing new friends from Bubblews with them. MyLot was good enough to leave all the content of members like me who had not closed their accounts intact. It was really easy to come back and be active again without skipping a beat. Payment is low, but better than other social networking sites. most of which don’t pay anything. It is now one of the best places to connect with friends from many closed content writing sites. Canada Goose Online
Canada Goose Coats On Sale My Journey to BubblewsI heard about Bubblews from a friend at Gather. It was a social networking site for those who liked canada goose coats on sale to write. Just as on Bubblews, the quality of the posts varied. canada goose deals I was there because some Squidoo friends had mentioned it. While there, I made many new friends. Canada Goose Coats On Sale
Canada Goose Jackets One or more of those friends mentioned a site called myLot, so I decided to check it out. It was a pay to post site and I guess there was more attached to it than its forum, but I never checked out the other parts of the site. It was a site that paid pennies for posting and commenting, and I enjoyed it more than Facebook because conversations tended to have more substance. It was also filled with people from places like the Philippines who desperately needed the pennies myLot was paying them. Canada Goose Jackets
Canada Goose Outlet I didn’t visit myLot much after I had attained the highest commenter score and also had posted enough to have all the privileges possible. canada goose clearance But I had formed relationships and went there now and then to socialize. I discovered that many people I knew at myLot were also on Gather, even though the names were different. Canada Goose Outlet
It was about this time that Squidoo started making drastic changes that brought me back to it almost fulltime to try to prevent having any lenses locked. As it turned out, I never even had them flagged, but I was so busy editing and backing up lenses, just in case, that I neglected all other sites. I had stopped in at Gather for some conversation and a break when a friend mentioned Bubblews. Shortly after that, Gather seemed to go off line almost without notice.
Those who were also at myLot started spending more time there. But it seemed within days that myLot announced they were coming out with a revised and better interface for the site, and they were down for a bit. They also then announced they would no longer pay for participation. This started a furor, especially from those who really needed that $10 a week or so they worked so hard to earn. There was suddenly a mass exodus of refugees from Gather and myLot to Bubblews.
cheap Canada Goose Why Bubblews? As one person put it, the money is good while it lasts. But my own earnings at Squidoo and HubPages were down to almost nothing. I decided to check Bubblews out. I was not expecting the next best writing site. I really had no expectations except a new adventure and staying in touch with friends I had already made at other sites. The money to be made seemed too good to be true, but I confess to wanting my share of it while it lasted. Gradually, disillusioned squids whose lenses had been locked and Hubbers who had too many sleeping hubs began to appear. Judging from the words of the CEO, the real purpose of the site is to be a global voice, reflecting the mood, spirit, and thoughts of those from all over the world. cheap Canada Goose
canada goose uk outlet As far as I can tell, Bubblews is not another content site as such. It is a vast social network for anyone who can write in English and wants to be read. If buycanadagoose.biz you compare the quality of work you see on Bubblews to that on HubPages, Wizzley, or some of the freelance sites, you will be disappointed. I suggest you compare it, instead, to Facebook or Google+. canada goose uk outlet
I find Facebook rather disappointing in actually communicating important thoughts to friends and family. The best I normally get is shared photos, and most of those aren’t really personal. Some people even have nasty arguments and insult so called friends and family. Occasionally someone actually shares something that’s important to them, but those posts are few and far between. I find Google+ more professional, since many in one’s circles are relationships that exist only in the virtual world. Both appear to be sites where people feel free to drop their links to affiliate products and work on writing sites. Sometimes I feel I’m looking at a huge bulletin board.
The best things about Facebook, as far as I’m concerned, are that it helps me find friends I’ve been out of touch with and gives me the illusion that I’m staying in touch with a lot of people who have been or still are important in my life. But if most of your friends are in the virtual world, it’s one of the best social networking sites there is.
uk canada goose outlet Bubblews is trying to take the pulse of the world’s people who are literate in English. You personally will see only a fraction of that world on Bubblews but I envision that researchers will someday soon be able to see what ordinary people all over the planet are thinking and talking about. Advertisers will have a giant audience of people who wouldn’t willingly miss a day on Bubblews. Chances are Bubblews may not have to rely on Goggle ads forever. uk canada goose outlet
On Bubblews, you will find the refugees of Gather canada goose outlet and myLot people who are used to being paid to talk to each other. They have come in search of friends to canada goose clearance sale stay in touch with. They already know a great deal about those friends maybe more than they know about their own family members. They speak from their hearts about the things that are really important to them, and also about the little everyday parts of life. They reflect on what’s happening in their countries, their communities, and their families. They share interesting things they learn about the natural world. They review books and movies and other forms of entertainment. They talk about sports. They don’t just share their photos, but they also say something meaningful about them. They can also make you care about them and their pets, family members, and causes. They ask for cheap Canada Goose advice. They don’t drop affiliate links. They aren’t posting for back links. Many people would remain on Bubblews even if it did not pay just for the friendship and communication. If you drop your expectations of Bubblews as a writing site to compare with HubPages or Squidoo, and see it instead as the social network it is, you will, perhaps, be kinder in evaluating it.
Another thing I appreciate about Bubblews is that people can have only one user name. If they want to insult someone or drop spam, they will suffer the consequences. Since there is no personal messaging (at least not yet) everything is said and done in public. Unless they have your contact information from another source, canadian goose jacket they cannot harass you privately. You could write what you care about and just be yourself. You could share what you were feeling about those other sites and their changes and get a bit of sympathy or some suggestions as you learn how others dealt with them.
canada goose clearance sale You could try a new genre under a different pen name. You could get ideas as you read other posts and comments, buy canada goose jacket and you use those ideas in your other writing. You could continue to earn good money while resting from writing longer articles with more stringent specifications. You could forget maps, polls, affiliate links, videos, etc. and just write. (As I’m revising this in December, 2014, embedded videos have just been introduced with great fanfare as a new Bubblews improvement.) canada goose clearance sale
buy canada goose jacket It was a great in between site. Some days I don’t have a hub inside me wanting to be written. But I still want Canada Goose Jackets to write and earn something. So I used to bubble. Sometimes I’ve had an experience in life I just want to vent about. I knew if I posted it on Bubblews someone would care enough to read it. So what if they hoped I’ll read something they wrote, too? I chose most of them as connections because I enjoyed reading what they wrote. buy canada goose jacket
canada goose uk shop Bubblews was a great place for a blog a web log or journal. I kept my gardening record on it, complete with my photos and what has worked and what hasn’t. I found a lot of other gardeners were interested in it. Your entire world or any part of it you want to share could fit on Bubblews, and you would get paid if people read and commented on it. ( My garden journals are among the unlucky bubbles the July 15, 2014 Bubblews update butchered. The update deleted everything that was in the extra content boxes the photos and their descriptions that were vital parts of the bubbles. I think that’s why I’m now disillusioned about putting quality work on Bubblews.) canada goose uk shop
You will canada goose black friday sale notice this update is mostly in the past tense. I stopped recommending Bubblews in December, 2014. It was wonderful for the first 16 months, and then things started to go downhill. As I write this sentence on November 19. 2015, Bubblews has just gone out of business.
canada goose But Did People Really Get Paid?It all depends. Most people who follow the very buy canada goose jacket cheap easy to comply with rules got paid regularly. I was one of them. I joined on February 15. It took me 17 days and 53 posts Canada Goose online to reach my first cash out of a little over $25.00. In my first six months redeemed 20 canada goose coats more times, and during that period, I was paid through PayPal and the e checks cleared. I made $517.58 on Bubblews in those first six months. Although it took me 53 posts to get to my first redemption, it took less time to reach redemption after as I increased the number of my posts. canada goose
canada goose uk black friday On Squidoo during this same time period, with 159 featured lenses, I made less than one fifth of that, and on HubPages, with 75 of 90 hubs still featured, I have made just about one fifth of what I made on Bubblews. As you can see, I’ve found Bubblews a profitable place to relax while I’m deciding what to write next on some other site. canada goose uk black friday
uk canada goose At the present time (December 9, 2014) I have I have started deleting the posts Bubblews mutilated. I now post once in an average week. I am not sure the site is worth my time now. The time of easy earning is over. Bubblews has changed its payment policies finally to be more Canada Goose sale sustainable. Now the redemption threshold is $50, not $25. Once you redeem, you have to wait 60 days for payment if you are one of the lucky ones who still gets paid. canada goose So far, except for one redemption missing a year ago, I have been paid. But like many at Bubblews, I feel almost like redeeming is playing a lottery. You never know if you will win or not uk canada goose.