Yes, blogging does make me money.As I'm fond of saying, the more people who make money via bogging, the happier I am.Hugh MacLeod’s been privately urging me to say whether my blog based business model works. It’s time to come clean.
* Yes, I do make money directly from blogging activities. It comes in a variety of forms but I’m not revealing what those forms are or how it works.
* Yes, the amounts I’m earning and the frequency with which they are generated is preferable to the feast and famine of freelance journalism.
* Yes, I do worry about whether the model is sustainable and now I can develop it.
* Yes I do get other, indirect work from my blogging activities and these are more financially rewarding than the direct income.
* No, it’s not a fortune but it’s enough to allow me to live the life I want for myself and my partner Jude. And it’s better than what I was trying to do before because now I’m engaged in conversations throughout the world with people I might never otherwise find.
* Yes, it is a lot of fun, even if at times it can be very tiring and stressful.
* And finally, yes, I regret I didn’t get into this medium a lot earlier.
This commercial agenda makes some people squeamish, but... nobody cares.
Posted by hugh macleod at March 29, 2006 12:30 PM | TrackBack