17/05/2022
If I might quote the oft misunderstood, and always difficult to grasp, 20th century philosopher Marshawn Lynch
“I’m just here so I don’t get fined”
Because not being “here,” in the Nerdaverse for a business such as this, has become economically punitive.
But I've got twenty years worth of breeding to document, that's already been documented on the website proper at
www.olympicdogs.net
Which is where anyone sincerely interested in the breeding program should go direct. I'm underway on the FB page but it's going to take awhile to build it out, document the purebreds, and the crosses that catch us up the present program.... till then
https://www.olympicdogs.net/current-litters
is the place to go, or simply subscribe to our youtube channel to forget about it, and be kept up to date automatically.
https://www.youtube.com/olympicdogs
But what I’m determined NOT TO DO “HERE,”
Is provide a handy list of past customers, for the powers that be, or the wanna be me !!
Digest that.
In Dogs, today’s buyer, is often tomorrow’s
“convenience breeder”
Today’s customer…tomorrow’s competitor.
I don’t sell dogs on un-enforceable spay/neuter contracts, or kid myself about stopping anyone else from breeding, I don’t even try. When your money becomes mine, my dog becomes yours.
But I’ll be damned if I’m going to provide a networking hub such that those who already have in-tact Olympicdogs and those who might like to have Olympicdog genetics, can find one another with a click, and go around yours truly. Or ride my marketing jock to sell half Olympic dogs, etc.
What that means, in effect, is existing owners fall into two distinctly different boxes.
Those who own in-tact, potential breeders; and those who demonstrably do not.
The latter group is encouraged to comment, or offer testimonial wherever, however, they find convenient, including on my FB business page, although I’ve got comments on lock down so you’ll have to reach out prior so I can allow it.
And though I do appreciate any sincerely selfless motivation to say a good word for the program, those with intact animals will need to send feedback via drop box, sans contact info, so I can post em myself, here or on YouTube or wherever.
It Doesn’t matter if I like you, believe you’ll never breed, or have my doubts. If your dog can breed I don’t want your input to provide contact info, intentional or otherwise. And forums like Facebook make that difficult to avoid.
I’ve turned off reviews, comments, etc. in large part to control that. Despite realizing the “algorithm” won’t approve, which will not help my greater goal here.
But I’m also not quite Zen enough to simply ignore comments, and don’t want the distraction of moderating them. If I have to decide which comment warrants viewing, addressing, or deleting… I’m in effect I’m moderating.
I’d rather treat everyone the same. Spare myself the distraction. And abort all those insights prophylactically. And if we’re keeping it real, which I intend to, I find comment sections of all sorts depressing. Readers seeking knowledge would be better off with a good book, writers espousing wisdom in comment sections…. are probably not the ones you should look to for it.
Moreover I’ve always had an innate distrust of FB and social media in general. The whole public conversation paradigm is a twisted bitch in my estimation; conceived, designed, and ultimately monetized to play on human frailty.
Before getting snagged, in pursuit of an Instagram business page ( Olympicdogsig ) in April of 2022 I had avoided FB entirely. By which time Meta, Google, and others, had so thoroughly metastasized the Marketplace it seems a mother lover must join the parade, to get paid. So here we go, but I’m determined to march to my own drummer, in doing so.
We now know the “content” of the free service was provided by the user.
And the User’s data, attention, and eyeballs are in fact… the product.
The internet may be the revenge of the nerds ( you can quote me on that ) but there’s still no free lunch on this rock. Only Change is, the I.T. nerds are shaking the public down for lunch money now.
All the social media giants, turns out, are essentially attention pimps. They compete, as such, to keep you standing on their corner, staring at “their content.” And take money from any John waiting in the wings wanting to hose you with advertising from your blind side, or sell your data down the line.
The game then for me becomes:
How to access the greater market, with as little time spent, and distraction suffered. The challenge, I dare say for us all, becomes to keep ones eyes on the prize of real life, where they belong in the real world. A life, in my case, that already demanded more time and focus than I ever seem to find, even before the perpetual distraction of the Pooter, or the smarter than me phone.
So hopefully you’ll forgive the merging of our first marketing jingle, and plan of action.
“Olympicdogs….Hold the comments…. Get the money”
And if it’s the breeding program you’re here to see, appreciate, learn more about, the best this FB page could hope to do is just send you to the
website proper: www.olympicdogs.net
Where all matters dog will be covered in much greater depth.
Or if it’s video you like
Our YouTube channel: www.youtube/olympicdogs
