A weekly blog on my DIY journey into conquering the blogosphere.
My first week of part-time blogging has ended. An introduction link is at the bottom of the page.
I have put aside 2-6 am five days a week to begin my blogging upgrade and starting a potential part-time career and move into semi-retirement. Simple. But not so. I am now cramming my work into 4 and 6 am starts as my online business has been really busy. The good news is the time I put aside I have managed to honour. The bad news is 6 to 9 hours quick pace work during a long morning leaves your mind fatigued. If I did the four hours a day first thing it would be perfect but I am trying to semi retire to start writing, not ruin my livelihood. It just means my productiveness and thinking is down a few notches, so not insurmountable and something to grapple with and overcome.
But as my counsellor is for ever telling me life is a marathon, not s sprint. I have potentially decades to enjoy my writing and expand the blog. Most important to me is to break away from what in fairness has generally been a business I have loved running, but that is something I can run very well now but with less involvement. I’ll selling vintage online until I drop.
Besides, I’m old enough to know things are never simple, so no disappointment. I soldiered through and worked on content. I wrote the first drafts of a dozen blogs as well as looked around at other blogs and general research. The most important thing is although not a perfect working environment I really enjoyed the writing and researching.
I did post a couple of blogs one was a PDF of our last paper fanzine, The Rights of Fans the Lewes FC fanzine and another blog on the club which was a spoof account of the end of the Lewes FC football season and a club in disarray, seen through the prism of a circus falling apart. By the end of the week my stats for the previous month showed 1200 reads which is not too bad.
I generally get a couple of hundred reads for my Lewes FC blogs which I promote on our twitter feed and the club supporters Facebook site, although a recent blog post hit the heady heights of 2000 reads. Blogs outside the realm of Lewes FC register from 2-20. I know how to fix that over the next few months by writing about more mainstream themes and posting them on relevant enthusiasts Facebook sites.
I’ve never really taken any notice of the stats, I just blog because I enjoy it, but out of interest I researched how many views you needed a month to monetize your blog and it’s 10,000.
As some months I get 2000 reads and others just a couple of hundred my ambition is going to be to get up to the 10,000. I don’t doubt for one moment it’s going to take a few years and a lot of learning but that’s what I have my heart set on and that’s the ambition for this blog. A hell of a long way to go but I don’t think it’s unachievable, although you may well very differently! It is always good to have a target. Frankly any monetary income at that level would be very small but if I received money for writing blogs I would just find it one of the funniest things of all time.
So, delighted to stick to my allotted times for blogging and if you knew how I operate you would commend me on my willpower.
Obviously, I have begun researching more and more into the task ahead. It has excited me even more that I imagined jumping into a new world. The more I research, the more difficult it looks I have to say, But hey, I love a challenge and I am just so enthralled at the prospect of becoming a proper blogger.
If you are a blogger, reading this and tutting, he hasn’t got a clue, well I know that but hopefully in time I will. Monday is a bank holiday and I am putting it aside for YouTube videos and some learning.
The Rights of Fans. 