Being a Mutt at a Dog Show
Stephan Millers post caught my eye today. He asked the basic question, “What Makes You Money”?
I didn’t create this blog to make money. It was more because my friends and family (and girlfriend) was tired of hearing me rant and rave about the days news. I needed another outlet before I drove everybody nuts.
However, I do have websites that I use to make money (or at least try, if you call $0.12 a day money…) I know exactly what Stephan is talking about here because I have become obsessed with traffic stats and hits. You think that traffic will equal money. Well Twitter and Facebook have a shitload of traffic and are they making any money? Not really.
So the end result of reading Stephan’s post today is, I have a modifier, something that makes this blog stand out from the pack…and that is “it’s mine, for me”. If someone else finds it interesting…great! If not, I’ll still be posting stupid shit and clips because it saves my families sanity.
Go read the rest of his blog:
# I started confusing traffic with income.
# I started counting comments and feedback.
# I started trying to be the first to new stories.
# I became a blogger without a modifier. And that’s like being a mutt at a dog show.
And if you want to write a post, do so and stop blocking your words before they are on the page. There is a fine balance between writing like no one will read the result and writing for audience. And I am not sure where that line really is, so you are better off to ignore it.
March 5th, 2009 at 12:31 pm
Great post and I am glad you got the jist of mine. It was a result of backing my blog into a corner and being unsure of what to write because I really wasn’t sure what my blog was about. Plus I applied the Pareto Principle, 20% of the traffic to my sites is responsible for 80% of my income from them. And I had been trying to increase the other 80% that was dead traffic for the most part.
March 5th, 2009 at 3:03 pm
I LOVE the Pareto Principle and have lived by that for most of my adult life.
Ultimately, I think that when you find your voice, you’ll find an audience because as I found out on one of my other posts, in China, if I’m one in a million, that means there are 1300 others just like me.
Thank you so much for commenting.