Saturday, October 01, 2011

Sponsors | With a $5 donation, I'm off and running

I just got that gift from a long-time supporter who's always the first to contribute each quarter.

Meanwhile, here's the final tally from the third quarter, which ended yesterday: I took in $3,807, or 95% of my goal. (And that's well above the $2,215 from last year's third quarter.) The breakdown:
  • Reader donations: $1,223
  • Advertising: $2,584
I'm trying to earn $4,000 quarterly, through donations of $5 per reader, plus advertising sales. Please use the PayPal "Donate" tool in the green rail, upper right. Or mail cash and checks payable to: Jim Hopkins, 584 Castro St. #823, San Francisco, Calif., 94114-2594.

6 comments:

  1. Jim, if you keep charging only $5 for those hand jobs on the first day of a quarter, you'll never get anywhere. Raise your aspirations.

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  2. Let the quarterly begging begin! Let's keep that $10 a day average going!!!! Tell us again hiw you survive in the mist expensive city in the USA on $16,000 a year? Oh that's right "investments" Please share your investment strategy. Now that's a story I'd like to read!!!

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  3. 11:21 - Something tells me Jim will be laughing all the way to the bank when the corporate corruption hits the public fan.

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  4. 12:17 the real story is how does a former low paid journalist live in the most expensive city in America on less than $16,000 a year. Stop deflecting.

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  5. 12:17 This question comes up periodically. The answer appears in this post, under the heading, "How do you support yourself?"

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  6. Jim oh please????? If you interviewed someone and they gave you that answer you'd investigate them within an inch of their life. You once said you made around a hundred k when you left. That is like 60 k n Delaware, barely paid the bills. So please don't insult our intelligence with that lame story.

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Jim says: "Proceed with caution; this is a free-for-all comment zone. I try to correct or clarify incorrect information. But I can't catch everything. Please keep your posts focused on Gannett and media-related subjects. Note that I occasionally review comments in advance, to reject inappropriate ones. And I ignore hostile posters, and recommend you do, too."

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