april fools, i'm not going anywhere

In case you didn't figure it out from the rickroll, yesterday's post was an April Fools' joke. (Also because it appeared in the new "attempts at humor" category, but you wouldn't have known that without looking.) I'm not giving up blogging, and I'm definitely not becoming a spammer!

The post was only partially tongue-in-cheek, though, because the results of the survey did suggest that most people are not willing to take action to financially support a blog - at least not a personal blog like this one - even when they'd be getting something in return (e.g. a link, ad space, or a product). And I get that. I'm not giving out earth-shattering information here; I'm basically just telling you about my life, and that's just not something people feel the need to compensate a person for. I totally understand that, and it's given me some clarity as to where I need to take things in order to make confoozled.com financially self-sufficient without expecting the money to come from readers. That means less focus on tip jars and Cafepress sales, and more on sponsored posting and other flat rate advertising that doesn't rely on sales for me to be paid. I do still need non-monetary support from my readers, though, and soon I will put together a page detailing how you can help me without spending a dime. If you at all enjoy what I write, and I figure you must if you keep coming back, I would hope you'd be willing to do some of these things at the very least.

Of course, you know that my ultimate goal isn't just to have confoozled.com support itself, but to one day make enough money from home to quit my day job. I realize now that a personal blog alone isn't going to do that. So this year I will be working to build some more narrowly targeted web sites that will hopefully have more earning potential than a personal blog does.

I will talk more about all of this later, but for now here's a quick report on March and my goal for April. March's online earnings total is $44.22. My goal for March was to finish project number two for my web design client, and I did with the exception of one last step, for which I am awaiting photos from the client. Therefore I haven't billed for the project yet. Affiliate earnings are down a bit, sponsored posts are picking back up, and everything else is about the same. April's goal is to revamp the confoozled.com sidebar some more, experiment with more forms of advertising, and put together that "ways to help" page I mentioned above.

April 2, 2009 at 11:58am via confoozled.com · Share on Facebook · Share on Twitter

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