Personally my favorite videos are the vlogs. They don’t have to be as detailed as they were before, but time lapses are cool to watch and showing off interesting/expensive parts is always what gets me to watch. Seeing how the business runs and the challenges you face make good content as well but I understand that takes a lot more time to film and explain. Also as someone who is more of a buyer on bricklink than a seller, whenever new tools come out (brick monkey, etc) to make down sorting faster, a video about how/if you use it for the business would definitely get my view.
As a fellow seller I enjoyed your older content more, watching you and your store grow over time, including the pablos, the construction projects, the part-outs, and especially the live Q&As. I enjoy the chemistry between the pair of you, and imo your videos are stronger when you're both involved because the camaraderie shines through. There are a handful of similar vlogs I follow on TH-cam, of other Lego sellers, and - perhaps Brick Tsar aside - you all seem to reach a point where you get fed up of doing those kind of vlogs that drew people to your channel in the first place, and then try and 're-invent the wheel' by trying out other ideas. That's great, and you might hit on the next big thing in the Lego community by doing so, but I'm sorry that seems to have come at the expense of what originally drew me to your channel. I still watch your videos, and I think I speak for most of us when I say that we're just happy to see your store is successful. I don't know if you are or were getting pressured by some viewers into offering more detail (finances, sales, etc.) than you're comfortable with, but I think the majority of us are just happy to see that there are others out there doing the same job, facing the same choices, the same struggles, the same slow downs, the same peaks and troughs, similar successes, frustrations and other experiences, and in some small way, sharing your journey with us helps us deal with our own.
Greetings from Germany. After i had to stay home for 4 weeks because of a broken foot, i went to the lego store to buy something for my time at home. When i saw the Pick-a-Brick Wall it hit me. This sorted boxel with same colours in it (im a bit of a monk). I loved it. So i bought 3 Cups with good parts in it and decided at this moment i wanted to a open Bricklinkstore, even if i didnt know ANYTHING. Then i found your videos! Everything i have now and learned is because of your tutorials, part out partys and sorting. I was sad seeing that you never continued your Brickstore and Brickowl Videos and was imo somewhat disappointed to see that your channel changeg quit a bit into a small business help channel. I know that we as a community cant see the problems behind the camera but i think i can speak for all of us that we see that your funny and relaxing way of running your brinklink store changed to much into a way to serious way for your yt channel. Take some time and remember why you started this. To show your joy and passion to help other people and that Bricks are a toy that connects us all. Even if we try to make money with it. Hope to see you smile more often into the camera soon =) Greetings Tobi "Celebricktion"
Back to basic. Your vlogs where awesome. It would be super interesting to see you go BIG rent( buy) werehouse, how you start with that, wins and loses, set up, how to store big, sell big to other sellers, create like little factory, etc.There you can make everything bigger and test some ideas. But do this with care and tell us your risks and how to overcome them. You can always return to garage, but now you need big challenge to do. You have achieved your goals now, and lost the spark of your doing. You are too analytics nowdays, where are all the big dreams? I'm absolutely sure that you are right guys to do this. Hire more people, use machines to help sorting, let your imagine flow, like old days. If your income is good now, it will degreece little bit first, but after that sky is the limit. You are clever with money and expences, start to sell sellers what they need and etc. Became to godfathers of Lego sellers. Well, these are my thoughts. You are cool guys, no matter what you do in the future.
I don't know, this is maybe weird (or not). But I personally just love those thousand tiny drawers shown in every video you make. I like when things get organized well. Even as a lego content creator too, I more like separating parts after make moc for a video than build moc it self. My suggestion is try make a show like America Got Talent. Subscribers send their moc in every way possible (physically or just instruction) then you guys act like judge for that moc.
Personally I loved your earlier videos when it was about setting up a Bricklink store, organization, parting out and even the chow and chats. I even supported you via patreon but lost interest in this as you never kept up you patreon commitments, IE extra content for subscribers and name at end of videos, so because of that I switched to other content creators and helped them out with patreon. When i dipped back in, it seemed the channel had changed from being about LEGO to being more of a how to tun a small business podcasty type thing, I'm not saying that just watching Paul and Evan talk about business strategies wouldn't be useful to some viewers, but personally It wasn't for me. It just seams too serious now guys, where has the fun gone ?
I haven't watched in a while. I guess I'm interested in your store organisation and optimisation progress, and in the quirky edge-cases such as how you store large or odd-shaped parts, ultra rare parts, etc. Perhaps examples of odd orders and if you've helped any builders with hard to find parts for their MOCs... Perhaps have a supermarket sweep style contest to complete a task such as finding examples of the most colours etc
Minifigure business, especially Star Wars Minifigures, really attract viewers. You should make Lego Star Wars haul videos and army buildings. People really like that
Hi! I don‘t watch your channel on a regular basis. But I love to see your development over time and the mixture of handling new sets for part out, dealing with the pronlems of everyday business and optimizing processes. also having your channel on screnn and doing part out or shop organization for my own little hobby store, is really fun - that‘s a little bit like sharing the same hobby and doing similar things. I think that it‘s a natural thing that you have to make desicions how to proceed from time to time because you‘re no longer a small shop. so the topics have to change in a way, that you don‘t have to act as someone that you no longer are. Don‘t create content where you cannot stay authentical. Think about content that you can generate that is still attractive for newbies or fans of bricks that are not into selling but just love your style. And then think about all the guys that adore what you achieved and that habe grown with you over time. Maybe there are some completely new topics like sale statistics, high level stock management, psycological aspects concerning motivation or simply keeping track of new LEGO initiatives and EOL politics. How to deal with the time gapbetween a set release and the availability of the data set on bricklink? I hope that this helps a little bit. I wish you all the best!
Survey finished! In case, you don't see my TH-cam user in the survey, I'm the one who hates the VLOGS and loves the other content ;-) Keep up the good work!
Well youtube unsubscribed me.... I can't stand that. Anyways just know when you have people unsub its youtube suppressing you, not anything you are doing.
Personally my favorite videos are the vlogs. They don’t have to be as detailed as they were before, but time lapses are cool to watch and showing off interesting/expensive parts is always what gets me to watch. Seeing how the business runs and the challenges you face make good content as well but I understand that takes a lot more time to film and explain. Also as someone who is more of a buyer on bricklink than a seller, whenever new tools come out (brick monkey, etc) to make down sorting faster, a video about how/if you use it for the business would definitely get my view.
As a fellow seller I enjoyed your older content more, watching you and your store grow over time, including the pablos, the construction projects, the part-outs, and especially the live Q&As. I enjoy the chemistry between the pair of you, and imo your videos are stronger when you're both involved because the camaraderie shines through. There are a handful of similar vlogs I follow on TH-cam, of other Lego sellers, and - perhaps Brick Tsar aside - you all seem to reach a point where you get fed up of doing those kind of vlogs that drew people to your channel in the first place, and then try and 're-invent the wheel' by trying out other ideas. That's great, and you might hit on the next big thing in the Lego community by doing so, but I'm sorry that seems to have come at the expense of what originally drew me to your channel. I still watch your videos, and I think I speak for most of us when I say that we're just happy to see your store is successful. I don't know if you are or were getting pressured by some viewers into offering more detail (finances, sales, etc.) than you're comfortable with, but I think the majority of us are just happy to see that there are others out there doing the same job, facing the same choices, the same struggles, the same slow downs, the same peaks and troughs, similar successes, frustrations and other experiences, and in some small way, sharing your journey with us helps us deal with our own.
Greetings from Germany. After i had to stay home for 4 weeks because of a broken foot, i went to the lego store to buy something for my time at home. When i saw the Pick-a-Brick Wall it hit me. This sorted boxel with same colours in it (im a bit of a monk). I loved it. So i bought 3 Cups with good parts in it and decided at this moment i wanted to a open Bricklinkstore, even if i didnt know ANYTHING. Then i found your videos! Everything i have now and learned is because of your tutorials, part out partys and sorting. I was sad seeing that you never continued your Brickstore and Brickowl Videos and was imo somewhat disappointed to see that your channel changeg quit a bit into a small business help channel. I know that we as a community cant see the problems behind the camera but i think i can speak for all of us that we see that your funny and relaxing way of running your brinklink store changed to much into a way to serious way for your yt channel. Take some time and remember why you started this. To show your joy and passion to help other people and that Bricks are a toy that connects us all. Even if we try to make money with it. Hope to see you smile more often into the camera soon =) Greetings Tobi "Celebricktion"
Back to basic. Your vlogs where awesome. It would be super interesting to see you go BIG rent( buy) werehouse, how you start with that, wins and loses, set up, how to store big, sell big to other sellers, create like little factory, etc.There you can make everything bigger and test some ideas. But do this with care and tell us your risks and how to overcome them. You can always return to garage, but now you need big challenge to do. You have achieved your goals now, and lost the spark of your doing. You are too analytics nowdays, where are all the big dreams? I'm absolutely sure that you are right guys to do this. Hire more people, use machines to help sorting, let your imagine flow, like old days. If your income is good now, it will degreece little bit first, but after that sky is the limit. You are clever with money and expences, start to sell sellers what they need and etc. Became to godfathers of Lego sellers. Well, these are my thoughts. You are cool guys, no matter what you do in the future.
I don't know, this is maybe weird (or not). But I personally just love those thousand tiny drawers shown in every video you make. I like when things get organized well. Even as a lego content creator too, I more like separating parts after make moc for a video than build moc it self.
My suggestion is try make a show like America Got Talent. Subscribers send their moc in every way possible (physically or just instruction) then you guys act like judge for that moc.
I miss the vlogs, that’s where the fun happened :)
Personally I loved your earlier videos when it was about setting up a Bricklink store, organization, parting out and even the chow and chats. I even supported you via patreon but lost interest in this as you never kept up you patreon commitments, IE extra content for subscribers and name at end of videos, so because of that I switched to other content creators and helped them out with patreon. When i dipped back in, it seemed the channel had changed from being about LEGO to being more of a how to tun a small business podcasty type thing, I'm not saying that just watching Paul and Evan talk about business strategies wouldn't be useful to some viewers, but personally It wasn't for me. It just seams too serious now guys, where has the fun gone ?
I've always enjoyed Part Out Parties, Vlogs, and BrickStore tutorials. 😊
I haven't watched in a while. I guess I'm interested in your store organisation and optimisation progress, and in the quirky edge-cases such as how you store large or odd-shaped parts, ultra rare parts, etc. Perhaps examples of odd orders and if you've helped any builders with hard to find parts for their MOCs...
Perhaps have a supermarket sweep style contest to complete a task such as finding examples of the most colours etc
The monthly sales videos are the ones which I miss the most!
Minifigure business, especially Star Wars Minifigures, really attract viewers. You should make Lego Star Wars haul videos and army buildings. People really like that
Its been 4 weeks. I take it the surveys didn't go well? :(
Hi!
I don‘t watch your channel on a regular basis.
But I love to see your development over time and the mixture of handling new sets for part out, dealing with the pronlems of everyday business and optimizing processes.
also having your channel on screnn and doing part out or shop organization for my own little hobby store, is really fun - that‘s a little bit like sharing the same hobby and doing similar things.
I think that it‘s a natural thing that you have to make desicions how to proceed from time to time because you‘re no longer a small shop. so the topics have to change in a way, that you don‘t have to act as someone that you no longer are.
Don‘t create content where you cannot stay authentical.
Think about content that you can generate that is still attractive for newbies or fans of bricks that are not into selling but just love your style.
And then think about all the guys that adore what you achieved and that habe grown with you over time. Maybe there are some completely new topics like sale statistics, high level stock management, psycological aspects concerning motivation or simply keeping track of new LEGO initiatives and EOL politics.
How to deal with the time gapbetween a set release and the availability of the data set on bricklink?
I hope that this helps a little bit. I wish you all the best!
Going on 6 weeks. Definately starting to go through withdrawal. Hope all is well!!! Thanks for what you do.
Survey finished!
In case, you don't see my TH-cam user in the survey, I'm the one who hates the VLOGS and loves the other content ;-)
Keep up the good work!
Hope everybodys alright. Your channel keeps me motivated stay awesome bwois
I would like vlogs tutorials and my favorite packing videos
I like the vlogs and part out parties.
Well youtube unsubscribed me.... I can't stand that. Anyways just know when you have people unsub its youtube suppressing you, not anything you are doing.
Everything you said should be how every TH-cam channel should be.
You could make a segment promoting subscribers who have a BL store.