Considering Monetizing Moves

byTitaWorks

1.9K followers

4 years ago

Okay. I am getting really close to starting in on monetizing my "LIFE-BUILT POEMS: Living Out Loud" site.

• I've been developing a sustainable way of producing quality posts and it looks like I can at least produce a couple of posts each month that meet the quality control standards I've set.
• I've continued to gain an audience of sorts.
• I have a nice inventory of evergreen posts that I have been working my way through, asking for comments from all you grand WA folks.
  • Doing that has allowed me to rework some not-so-great posts and get them to better.
  • I am also reminded of various aspects of a topic that I've already covered that could be expanded or taken off into some other, also interesting direction.
  • This is the funnest part of this thing I'm doing.
• I've been putting up a post featuring one from my site once a week on Linked-In.
• I keep telling myself that I'm going to try to get better at doing the Pinterest dance as well. Working on it.
• I am developing a distinctive voice and presence that I am liking.
• I have a much better idea of the direction I want to take this thing.
• I have been working out how to make room and time for doing the next phase of this thing -- clearing up a lot of old needlessly time-consuming stuff, renegotiating previous obligations and completing assorted past commitments and re-thinking how to be more efficient in meeting my day-job obligations while continuing to build this baby blog.
• I am learning more and more about interacting with all the little 'bots that run around in here and learning how to "suck up" to algorythms and all that -- something I really sucked at way back when I first started.
• Offering feedback on the WA Feedback platform has allowed me to study other people's efforts and given me a way better idea of the kinds of things they are doing with their stuff. I am amazed at the creativity I am seeing.

It's been three years now since I started this. I've learned a great deal and am mostly happy with what I've produced so far.

With my site, I have tried to develop a place that is a kind of a breathing-space and oasis, where my users have to slow themselves down so they can enjoy what I have to offer.

So now comes the monetizing part, which is likely to introduce a whole other energy to this endeavor.

I'll probably go with affiliate marketing moves first while working on building books and other products that are mine.

I think I am needing to develop a second Gravatar persona for the money-part of this thing, keeping it totally separate from the magazine-like format I've been building. I definitely want to keep the blog as an oasis and breathing space.

That's what I'm working on now.

Hope things are going good for you guys.