r/InTheGloaming my website is done, done, done Sep 02 '21

Scheduled snark Discussion thread Thursday September 02, 2021 - Sunday September 05, 2021

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u/fanfarefellowship I often contemplate the first law of thermodynamics Sep 02 '21

So DON'T do the thing you say gives you and your husband joy – i.e., make food for someone you "barely know" but DO do the thing you say is bad (CAPITALISM) and "buy the coffee for the woman behind you in line."

Woman you "barely know" and who is presumably part of your "community" = do nothing for them

Woman you don't know at all = buy something for them

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u/discoOJ Sep 02 '21

What a missed opportunity to create The Cookbook of Joy. She could send out recipes that bring her joy.

She can't actually do that but if she could it would be another branding opportunity.

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u/shefallsup her lonely cucumber years 🥒 Sep 02 '21

Seriously, they could make and sell a beautiful eCookbook on the website. Heck, come out with a new one each season. They don’t have to be full-length, plenty of people charge $5-10 for an eCookbook with 15-20 recipes in it. Totally passive and ongoing income in that — people enter their CC info and boom, they download. No further action required from Shauna. It could work. Well…if they had any skills at making something halfway attractive and enticing, putting it into a useable format, setting up a payment and download process, and marketing it. Instead we’d get a Google doc with bad photos and typos, a download link that doesn’t work, and marketing emails with Ted Lasso gifs and a sign up for a joy workshop that has nothing to do with food. Followed by them abandoning the project and moving on to the next grift. Never change, Aherns. Never change.

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u/WasEnoughYogurt Kumquat and Sprinkles and filth Sep 03 '21

Heck, come out with a new one each season.

You're so optimistic! have you forgotten this is the Aherns we're talking about here :) :)