Beau M. Davidson

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Beau Micah Davidson is a permaculturist and natural builder, lo-tech mycologist, herb farmer, acoustical and audio engineer, homesteader, tradesman, artist, husband, and dad. Prior to homesteading and permaculture, his experience included a successful career in the Nashville music industry, a painters and fine finishers apprenticeship in Melbourne, Australia, and an analog recording studio in the urban core of Kansas City.  This is where he met his wife, Kristen, and together, they fell in love with soil & microbes, started a family, and moved to Beau's 6-generation farm in South Central Kansas, where they now specialize in growing and wildcrafting culinary and medicinal herbs, mushrooms, and woodland goods.  Beau and Kristen serve on the Leadership Team for Estuaries, a ministry seeking to incite a cultural ecology that fosters spiritually holistic, emotionally healthy, and intellectually rich believers who are capable of engaging meaningfully with culture.  He holds a B.S. in Recording Industry Management: Production & Technology, with minors in Mass Communications and Film.
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Weird, I can see it just fine.

I'll try again later from my laptop and see if anything looks weird there.  In the meantime, Thekla, I can't see most of the screen in your screenshot.  Are you on a mobile device?  I wonder what it would look like if you tried to access it from a computer?
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Stephen B. Thomas wrote:Related question: Is there a way to choose to add-on the thread features at a later date, or are these available only when you first post the thread?



Like maybe an option in the normal "thread boost" area to see basic or advanced options - where the basic options show you the new quickie stuff?
Yeah, I like that a lot.  

It would be cool to have some automated hand-holding.  Maybe that could be kind of baked into the "your thread boost stuff is about to expire!" email, optimizing for directing the test-driver to their results, highlighting impressions, clicks, cost-per click in very clear visuals.
I guess the big question is, who is this feature for?

If it's for only people running businesses or selling property, then it's built right.  But the fact that it's shown to every person who posts about anything (on these forums) means the audience is quite a bit broader than that. normal folks posting about normal stuff.

And considering the forums you've put this on so far - maybe it's perfect.

I would think if you roll it out to the less adsy forums, you would have 98% of posts being normies posting normy stuff, and we might wanna tweak it for that audience.  

paul wheaton wrote:Suppose somebody is trying to advertise that their permaculture paradise is for sale.  I would think that the $20 thing is pretty excellent, and cheap.  ??



I agree!  That person is a good fit for this pricing structure.  Also, folks like to kick the tires of a new feature to know how it works and build trust.  Also, lots of people might throw a fiver at a singles ad with less friction than a 20.

You could even call it a "test drive" and call it a trust-building feature.
Took it for a test-drive.

It looks awesome!  I think it will help - especially with folks used to forking over money to promote stuff.

However, I do think a lot of normies will balk at the $20 entry point.  

What about a smaller bit below those four options called "testing the waters" or something, where people get a lower dollar options, maybe with some training wheels to point them toward assessing impact?  Maybe even a bit of a discount for first-timers.