A Lack of Interest
I haven’t had a newspaper subscription since the early nineties. I occasionally buy the local paper, but it is usually because I want the car or the grocery ads or because I have some time to kill in a restaurant. I certainly don’t buy the local paper looking for journalistic excellence. For [...]
The beauty of blogging as a business is that the overhead is so low. Even a robust blogging operation generally costs only a few thousand dollars a year to maintain and for those who are very strapped for cash, blogging can be done for almost nothing. All you need is access to a computer and [...]
My Retro-Hip Blog Banner
Do you see the multi-colored letters that form my name at the top of the page. I did that on purpose. I was trying to recreate the look and feel of an early nineteen sixties cocktail bar sign, the sort of thing you would find in a Rock Hudson / Doris Day [...]
You don’t have to send out query letters
Would you rather be writing articles or query letters? The process of querying publishers can take months and there is no guarantee that it will lead to a sale. With blogging, you spend your time writing actual articles (or stories or poems). You don’t spend your time trying [...]
In his article Blogging Overheads – How Much Does it Cost?, Darren Rowse discusses just how low the expenses of running a blogging business are. His overhead, thanks to being a member of B5 media, is practically non-existent, but even without them he acknowledges that he could run his business on a few thousand dollars [...]
