Freedom! Network and My YouTube Channel

It has been over two and a half months since I was approached by Freedom! to partner with their network. It has been very interesting to see what networks do for small channels. So far I have not really earned any money, actually they took money from my account that was accumulated on my channel prior to partnership. I have gained three... three viewers. The more the time goes and the more I read about Freedom! and those that are partners on the forums, it is sad to see how small channels get offered these "amazing" things from a network that doesn't care about them unless you have over one-hundred thousand viewers. I have fifty-five viewers and very little views on my videos.

 I know I don't have the most expensive camera or the proper lighting but the quality of my videos are rather pretty decent. It is disheartening that small channels are preyed on just so that this network can write themselves another check while my channel sits and festers. Even within Freedom! there are hidden marks. They have forums set up for the community to chat but you cannot talk about your new videos or even your channel unless you have posted some hundred or more forum posts.... which in my case, the forum doesn't even operate at a rate of any other webpage. How can you grow a channel through a network if that network essentially gags you from asking people to simply watch a video or two. Heck, it is seriously wrong to ask for subscribers.

With all that I have learned, through my own research, and that of those in the forums that I have read, joining a network as a small channel was the worst idea I could have ever made with my channel.

I hope that since I have disconnected from Freedom! and DropBackTV hopefully, hopefully, I will have my original simple YouTube partnership and my channel will start to grow more as I stay away from networks who prey on small channels.

What do you think? What are your views on partnering with networks?

Is This A Beauty Blog

I came upon blogger when Xanga shut down. I still do not know what I want this blog to be. I do not know if I want to focus on beauty and fashion or if I rather it be more personal, much like my Xanga blog.

I do know now that when you follow the "trend" your blog or youtube channel flourishes which is quite annoying. How can you promote your own channel when it doesn't follow trends?? How can you reach the people that are stuck in their habits and neglect smaller channels or blogs because they aren't strictly one thing?

We all create our own content but how much of that content is a trend of beauty style for the month, or the top challenges out now??

Being original these days seems to be a trend on if you work outside of the internet world. 

If you aren't smart enough or beautiful enough to have a great blog that has equal content that doesn't always follow the trend how do you maintain that?? 

I want my blog and my YouTube channel to come together as one but here at ceruleansparkles I want to make my content the way I want without being limited to trends. 

There is a x button at the top of every page on the internet and one big red one to close the whole. If you don't like what you see or read, why not comment? Why not consider for just a moment that maybe if there were conversations going content would be created faster with more fluidity that before.

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