A New Stronger Blog
Hello you amazing people who have followed me. I am making this solely for you, as I doubt it will get served to anyone outside of my followers. Part of why I left Medium in the first place.
I had two publications on Medium, one for my personal brand (PolyInnovator), and the other my old company based endeavor (United Living Construct).
Both of these were content hubs for innovation, self-development/self-education, as well as making a change in the world.
A world of content
My ethos for PolyInnovator is to take the polymathic approach to everything I do, and with my content to me that seemed to be going omnichannel. Being what is essentially omnipresent on all mediums and channels, including ecommerce (which I’m working on), and more importantly mastering content repurposing.
I have built many versions of my websites, and after my 2nd one I had moved to Medium, when it was still pretty early on. It was a nice home for both pubs, and I was able to gain a handful of followers at the time. Thank you! ;)
However I started growing tired of the ever increasing need to make PAID only posts here on Medium. They made it abundantly clear that they only cared about the income they could make off of our paid posts, and that if you didn’t make a paid post then it wouldn’t get shared.
I felt like it was a scummy thing to do, especially since they started locking big publications in from exporting their content. To prevent another HackerNoon move equivalent.
To a new home
Despite my original distaste for wordpress, I decided to move back there, and this time it was the .org version. In my years on there I had to deal with a ton of metawork, updating, crashes, and even my page builder completely breaking down. Stupid visual composer/wp bakery haha! Elementor came in clutch however, and essentially saved the site. Late last year however it came to my attention that I was spending not only too much money on hosting/CDN/plugins/etc, but also time on the platform.
I always had to update this, or update that, and on top of that it was built ages ago on an archaic programming language. #php
I tried out substack, airtext.xyz, and more. However I had always been looking at Ghost CMS. Recent months I made the jump to move ALL of my blogging history to the new site. Both publications (now just a tag), all four of my blogs, so including the 100 or so I had on here. All to the new site, and I had to manually move over 170 blog posts over to the CMS.
It was all worth it though, and I think the new experience is far better than Medium or Wordpress could have ever offered.
