The sixth-month anniversary of It's all (c)opyrighted is fast approaching and I haven't even started planning the celebration. I haven't picked a theme or color palette let alone a type font for the invitations. I haven't even decided what the invitations are for. So maybe I can cross them off the list that I haven't created yet. Whew! Starting to get stressed out; gotta simplify.
This shouldn't be hard for a person who could give a seminar on procrastination if I ever got around to it. Personally I believe procrastination is way underrated. One solid advantage of procrastinating is it simplifies by narrowing your choices. In fact, if you procrastinate long enough, you hardly need to make any decisions at all ....
Which isn't a bad segue for what's really on my mind: whether or not to monetize the blog. I'm not totally clear on how that works but suspect that once I click on Agree I will get a check for $10 every year in exchange for a Viagra ad Right Here.
Look, I have nothing against Viagra users as long as they are eyeballing my blog and not me. Sure, I could even try to increase readership and thereby earnings by salting the headlines with some key words like sex, porn, and ... well, sex and porn -- but I'm not desperate.
I'm mainly thinking of my readers and page aesthetics. Blinking little blue pills hopping around smack dab in the middle of a post might be distracting not to mention clashing with the green border.
Isn't that MY job?? (The distracting part.) Do I really need to pile another distraction onto the main one on the off-chance it will yield me a fistful of cash?
On the other hand I have a secret dread of suddenly becoming the flavor-of-the-day blog darling of some faraway country like China or India where there are billions of eyeballs and over half that many people. A random blog could go viral overnight and die a swift, splattery death as it slams into some final firewall before I even wake up. If I'm not monetized I will miss out on making my once-in-a-blogtime financial killing. I would truly regret that -- even though I can see the irony of a Viagra ad on a blog sensation in countries with a population growth problem.
Alternatively, maybe I could buy ads for 'It's all (c)opyrighted' for placement on Viagra's home page ....
I should probably look into this further before committing to a decision, which brings us back to the subject of procrastination ....
Anyway, consider yourselves forewarned: Don't be surprised to open up IAC(c) one day several weeks, months or years from now and see a new, commercial but not necessarily improved look. If so, I'd appreciate if you would pass along a link to all of your friends in China and India. Hopefully by the time it reaches Asia, IAC(c) will also have picked up an ad from Trojan ....
Pass it along and remember, It's all (c)opyrighted(c)2011(c)(c)
I was going to comment on this but I have procrastinated for a few daze... I like ads! Without ads you have nothing to ignore on the page... If you don't have ads - - readers will have to ignore something you have written. So go for the ads... (and you may want to go topless in your profile photo (with discreet 1959 "Black Bars" keeping the Asian readers interest...)
ReplyDeleteYou may also want to do a blog on the correct use of discreet/discrete* as it just took me 20 minutes to figure out which one was right...