Greed Is Good?
A good friend of mine who runs his own successful blog, advised me to include ads on my blog as soon as possible, if I planned to do so at all. The theory is that your audience will accuse you of 'selling out' if you try to make money on your site after it is launched and has a following. Like I do often, I agreed with his assessment, but failed to execute on time. I will be adding paid ads on BackingIn.com soon.
I am a capitalist. Based on my bank account, I'm not a very good capitalist, but a capitalist just the same. I have no qualms about wanting to make a profit on BackingIn.com. I look forward to the challenge of balancing the integrity of the content without being influenced by advertisers and sponsors. I pledge to always be honest in my writing (at least until I can sell the site to Gawker and move to Reno to open my frogurt shop).
December 26th, 2009 - 10:36
Some encouraging words from Gordon Gekko: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7upG01-XWbY
December 26th, 2009 - 17:08
Lol. what’s frogurt?
December 26th, 2009 - 21:19
Speaking as a sellout myself, you don’t become a sellout until you allow your sponsors to dictate and editorialize content. Say whatever you damn well please.