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Blog #41 Starting a Business: 1 Year In— 5 Things I Did WRONG
Why do we fall?
So we can pick ourselves up.
Each mistake is a chance to grow and learn something new. Without the mistake, one can’t improve.
A year in to starting the business, it’s fair to say mistakes were made. In this post, we’re going to be taking a critical look at the steps I should’ve taken, and ones I shouldn’t have taken at all. You can take away your own knowledge from this post, to make sure you don’t repeat my errors.
Let’s reflect on those errors and find solutions to the problems.
Blog #40 Starting a Business: 1 Year In— 5 Things I Did RIGHT
From the day this is published, it will be one year exactly since Newtown Productions was born.
Starting a business was a challenge, but one I’m glad I undertook. It has been rewarding in ways I couldn’t have imagined.
In this post, we’re going to focus on the success stories—decisions I made that paid dividends. Celebrating the wins is an important policy for any business operator, a policy that gets lost sometimes in the never-ending search for success. So let’s celebrate the 5 things I did right in my first year.
Blog #39 The Art of Scheduling
How to get more likes/shares/followers on social media: consistency.
The truth is in, folks—consistent posting on social media is the key to better engagement.
Are you consistent?
Let’s look at the data first (found here: https://buffer.com/resources/consistent-posting-study/):
“We arrived at three groups of users ranging from inconsistent posting habits to consistent posting habits:
Inconsistent users posted 4 weeks or less out of the last 26 weeks
Consistent users posted 5-19 weeks out of the last 26 weeks
Highly consistent users posted 20+ weeks out of the last 26 weeks“
Blog #38 Bias in A.I. and Search Results—Where is the “World” exactly?
Here’s a fact that people often forget: A.I. is not always correct.
Gasp.
It’s true, sometimes you ask Chat GPT a question and you give it an answer it knows not to be true.
So you tell it, and…it says: “Yes, you’re correct.“
Then you ask again, providing new information, and once more it gives you the wrong answer.
At this point, you feel like you’ve wasted your own time and find the answer yourself. So you do that, but in the back of your mind, you think: There’s something not quite right here.
That’s how I felt recently. I was doing some research on a possible video topic—The biggest shows you’ve never heard of! In the video, I was going to put together a list of shows—mostly from Asia—that people would not have heard of before. That’s when the problems began…
You see, when you search the Internet for “the world“, it doesn’t search the world. It searches through one country—the U.S. You read that correctly. When you search the world, search results come back with results from one country only. How is that not a huge problem?
Blog #37 If Cinema is Dying, What will Replace it? These 5 things.
Cinema is dying, according to some, which begs the question: what/who will replace it?
First, a statistic: “Cinema ticket sales decreased by 8.8 percent globally in 2024 compared to the previous year, marking the first annual decline since the COVID-19 pandemic, as reported by the European Audiovisual Observatory (EAO) in Cannes on May 15.“ (seen here: https://www.torontofilmmagazine.com/post/global-cinema-attendance)
You’re reading this in 2026 or later, which means the number is going to have fallen further, given the latest trends.
Time to panic?
If you are the owner of a cinematic theatre…more than most.