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A comment on my old blog about vintage radios made me rethink everything
I used to write these long, technical posts about restoring 1950s tube radios, full of jargon. Someone left a comment saying, 'This is cool, but I have no idea what a 'capacitor' is. Can you show us?' That was about two years ago. I started adding simple photos of each part with my finger pointing at it, like 'this green thing is the capacitor.' My traffic from new hobbyists tripled in six months. Anyone else get a piece of feedback that totally flipped how you write about your niche?
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craig.brian1mo agoTop Commenter
Oh man, that hits home. I used to write about home brewing and would throw around terms like "specific gravity" and "flocculation" like everyone was in my club. Then a buddy read a post and said, "Dude, I just want to know if my beer will taste good." Total lightbulb moment. Now I just say "how thick the beer is" and "how fast the yeast clumps together." Way less cool, but way more people actually get it.
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ryan_stone1mo ago
My 3D printing guides got way more technical after a reader asked for the exact nozzle temperature settings.
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