Saturday, December 24, 2011

Sponsors | Four gifts, and four holiday notes

In today's snail mail:
  1. A reader in Tennessee sent $5 with a Christmas card that included a note: "Thanks for keeping us in the loop while Gannett keeps us in the dark."
  2. From Northern Virginia: "Thanks for all you do. Happy holidays!" and $20.
  3. "Thanks for keeping us informed," said an Oregon reader, who included $20.
  4. And from a second reader in Tennessee, $25 -- with this message: "Wishes for a bright and happy holiday. Thanks for your work on the blog!"
Thank you all.

With advertising sales, these new contributions bring me to 86% of my goal. But there are now just eight days left in the quarter for me to earn another $569. The breakdown to date:
  • Reader donations: $1,005
  • Advertising: $2,436
I'm trying to earn $4,000 quarterly, through donations of $5 per reader, plus advertising sales. Please use the PayPal "Donate" or "Subscribe" tools in the green rail, upper right. Or mail cash and checks payable to: Jim Hopkins, 584 Castro St. #823, San Francisco, Calif., 94114-2594.

5 comments:

  1. Stand up and applaud people. Reader support has now exceeded $10 a day!!!! Now THAT us a business model! David Payne eat your heart out.

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  2. Bah, humbug to 3:47. Keep up the great work, Jim.

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  3. Don't worry, 3:47. At the end of every quarter, Jim magically bumps up the advertising revenue so it looks like he came close to meeting the goal.

    So he might approach the $11/day model.

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  4. 5:08 I'd show you my Google AdSense report. But then you'd extend your conspiracy theory to my manufacturing fake documents.

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  5. Just tell us how much you plan to increase the "revenue" by this quarter.

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