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# Experiments Check-In 2
- URL: https://www.cjchilvers.com/blog/experiments-check-in-2/
- Published: 2021-06-02T14:18:53.000Z
- Updated: 2021-06-02T14:18:53.000Z
- Author: CJ Chilvers
- Tags: publishing, blogging, newsletters

I have a few updates since [my last 2021 experiments update](https://www.cjchilvers.com/experiments-check-in/). I do these mostly for myself, but I figure they may help others on similar journeys.

### The Good

- Readership and follows are still going up across all platforms, but especially [the newsletter](https://www.cjchilvers.com/subscribe).
- Engagement is way up.
- I’ve gotten way more experience behind the scenes that I hope to bring to the site in the next 6 months.
- I wrote a massive amount for others, and I’ll be re-purposing some of it for the public soon.

### The Bad

- My mom passed away, leaving so much to be done. In these situations, business is never a priority. I’ve let a lot of things go for a while.
- Daily writing is actually up for others, but writing in public for my own stuff is way down.
- I’m really not loving my newsletter service. When a service is built for e-commerce and newsletters, chances are the newsletter part is an afterthought.
- Books sales have dropped since winter.

### What’s Next

1. Build a better personal newslettering process.
2. Switch to a better newsletter service.
3. Try a new newsletter I’ve been sitting on for a while.
4. Turn my [Twitter](https://twitter.com/cjchilvers?ref=cjchilvers.com) feed into something more useful to others, rather than just a time sync for my reading (this may turn some people off, but it’s an experiment I’ve wanted to try for a long time).