Yesterday would have been my 11th blog post in a row for my 30 days of blog posts.
Blogging
This is my 200th blog post.
It is October 29, 2013.
When I hit my 100th blog post on November 11, 2012 I did a post covering how many views my blog was getting. I really liked that idea and it eventually spawned nichesitejournal.com.
In this post I want to show how much has changed in the last 100 posts.
Some Cool Facts About my Blog:
- I published my first post on February 15, 2010 (3 years, 8 months, and 14 days ago).
- It took me almost 3 years to publish my first 100 articles and I published the last 100 articles in less than 1 year (approximately 2 per week).
- I started the Jason Loves Life Podcast on April 11, 2013 (about 6 months ago).
My Blog Visitors Statistics:
- In September of 2013, I had 1048 unique visitors come to my site.
- Of those unique visitors, I received 1142 visits. This is 220.79% more than the year before.
- While the number of visitors has gone up dramatically, the number of pages they visit and the length of time they spend on my site has gone down 70%.
Where does my traffic come from?
Every day I wake up with more twitter followers.
I have 5 twitter accounts and each of them with over 500 followers (@jasonloveslife has close to 6500). Each account is used for a different part of my business. One for this site, one for my Niche Site experiments, one for my comic character, etc.
My Twitter Tricks to Get Followers
It is very simple and takes only two steps
There are certain blogs that I check religiously.
At least once a week I go and see what’s going on with the author, maybe checkout the comments, and always get a lot of valuable information from them.
This is my goal for this blog. I want to be that for the webcomic creators, digital story tellers, and independent artists looking to make a living utilizing the internet. For those that are in any of those categories, I feel I have let you down.
My summer posts:
- June 06 – My Interview with And He Drew (podcast)
- June 12 – Talking about adding more videos
- June 18 – Superhero Info Graph
- June 19 – How to Choose What Project To Work On and Tips to Finishing that Project (podcast)
- July 08 – The Perfect Morning
- July 26 – Trying to get my act together
These are all the posts I published this summer.
Besides the two podcasts episodes (8 & 9), the other posts were not really written to help you (my readers). Instead they were self indulgent.
For that I apologize.
Why
The reason for my sudden drop off in blogging is for two important reasons.
- I make my living as a balloon twister and magician. The summer months are very busy for my industry.
- I am experimenting with Niche Sites as a way to fund my comic books and film projects. Doing this takes up a lot of my time now, but should give me a lot of freedom in the near future.
Conclusion
This is my promise to start writing regularly.
Another Website I am Working On.
This is an update on where I am personally in the progress of my various projects. I stayed up all night with the goal of wrapping my head around my future, plans for this website, and if I am happy with where I am in my life.
The end result has become a feeling of clarity and exhaustion (due to staying up all night).
The reality is that I have accomplished a lot in my life time. I am not famous or rich (or even financial comfortable). I do, however, have the pleasure of saying I have done some fun, crazy, exciting things with my life and hope to continue with that trend.
The future
My goal this year is to find a way to fund my future adventures, art projects, and family life.
My plan is to create a website in a specific topic that seems as though I should be able to build up a constant stream of visitors and make money with ads. At the same time I am creating a separate website chronicling this business experiment.
You can visit this website at www.nichesitejournal.com.
What this means for Jason Loves Life
While I plan to share sporadically what is going on with this money making venture on this site, but my main focus for this site will remain to be on the business side of web comics with some articles on film making, animation, and my personal life.
My goal for the next few months is to post a minimum of once per week on this site. The new sites I am working on will take up a large chunk of my daily schedule, but I have finished up all my freelance work and my performance schedule will be slowing down after the month of August leaving me more time to write, create comics, and enjoy life.
Hello Friends!
I want to thank everyone for the great feedback, suggestions, and encouragement around the new podcast. The response has been AMAZING!
A podcast on the business side of WebComics
How you can help us with i-tunes ranking
If you go to the podcast section of i-tunes and search “Jason Loves Life”, click on the podcast, and then subscribe, rate (5 stars is always great), and leave a text review, it will help us get ranked really high in i-tunes.
I figure many of you didn’t realize how i-tunes works or that doing this would help our ranking. Instead of leaving it up to chance, we decided to reach out to you.
We want to thank you again for the help and if you need anything from us, feel free to ask.
If you can’t find the podcast, you can try this link:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/
then click on “view in itunes”.
Thanks for the help and all the support!
Your friends,
Leah, Jason, Everett, and Yada Love
I’m at a point with this blog where I have reached a cross roads.
As I see it, I have only 3 options for the future of the jasonloveslife.com website.
Option 1: I can quit posting regularly and specifically make this into a behind the scenes blog about my webcomic with the possibilities of losing you and the hundreds of other regular readers I have. This would allow me to pick up more freelance jobs.
Option 2: I can continue on with my current posting schedule and see what happens while keeping the same number of freelance clients.
Option 3: I can give up some of my freelance work and put more energy into posting more often, create some amazing resources, and provide some in-depth how-to articles (eventually adding audio and video).
It also needs to be said that I have a wife and a 3 month old son to provide for.
Goals
To find the best answer I need to really focus on my personal goals and the goals of this website.
