Update:
I am back. Literally from the ashes. 
Whoo! 2020 is such a roller-coaster. Year’s just starting and the challenges kept piling up. Got sick, volcano about to bury our city in ashes, it’s still not erupting yet which may happen soon. We’re 56km away and I’m panicking a little bit. 
While on bedrest, I’ve been studying making websites using Elementor Pro. I can’t count how many campaigns I had to ditch because of not being able to make the landing pages for them. And I’m too much of an old man to talk to developers who keep on disappointing.
Now, I can whip one up and do extensive tests. Pretty cool~
I already have the layout in mind for the shoutouts website and about to finish my Elementor follow-alongs (from Youtube tutorials). Then create the website which is the first part.
On the background, I’m still very much confused about pricing.
Looking at the whole shoutouts economy, there are various pricing models from different vendors. I began reaching out to prospective clients and I found various super helpful information:
1.) Some will offer you to be an affiliate instead of paying you for the shoutouts. I’m 100% no-go for that.
2.) There are some accounts which needs to follow SOPs on posting in social media which also prevents them from buying shoutouts or risk getting banned.
3.) There are some who really knows what they’re doing. They know more about shoutouts than me, the vendor. Some even coached me.
#3 leads are really insightful. They gave me a lot of information about other vendors…
- Those that they work with all have some kind of intro email with the stats of their posts (this is per account). Which wouldn’t be applicable to me but gave me an idea to create some sort of intro email with a payment button, featuring accounts in that specific niche, with stats, pricing, etc.
- Vendors have various selling points but most of them utilize what’s in the post insights to sell. I have to begin paying attention to insights. Which means each of the accounts I hold should be logged in to a phone and turned into a business account, if I’m going to go this route.
There’s much more but my headache is here and we’re about to get busy.
I’ll put in more update in an hour or two.