{"id":4597,"date":"2015-04-22T19:07:48","date_gmt":"2015-04-22T19:07:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adam-jackson.net\/blog\/?p=4597"},"modified":"2015-03-30T20:18:47","modified_gmt":"2015-03-30T20:18:47","slug":"linked-i-for-one-welcome-our-new-newsletter-and-podcast-overlords","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2015\/04\/22\/linked-i-for-one-welcome-our-new-newsletter-and-podcast-overlords\/","title":{"rendered":"Linked: “I, for one, welcome our new newsletter and podcast overlords”"},"content":{"rendered":"

via Glenn Fleishman for Six Colors:<\/a><\/p>\n

A new interest in newsletters has emerged as banner-ad rates and Google AdSense rates declined. Several cartoonists I know have $20-per-year newsletters that have attracted hundreds of subscribers or more who get early access to cartoons, some original content, and the exclusive thoughts of the creator. Patreon has also been a way to pay per something, whether unique writing, videos, songs, or even a monthly stipend for a creator.<\/em><\/p>\n

Subscription blogs are also of interest. They\u2019re nothing new, but the scale of success is. Andrew Sullivan famously two years ago took his blog, The Dish, which had had a few different homes over its long run, and went indie, raising enough money from subscriptions, and offering a bit of content through a \u201cleaky\u201d paywall to attract new readers, that he could pay himself and a modest staff. (He recently decided to shut down his site due to what sounds like exhaustion after many years of writing online continuously.)<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The podcast aspect of this article aside, I\u2019ve debated transitioning over to a newsletter format for this blog. People can subscribe to a monthly digest of thoughts, ideas and essentially what I deem to be \u201cbest of\u201d the last 30 days. For $5 a year, those that really enjoy the blog can get a newsletter that has some exclusive content but maybe less curated.like a \u201cfirehose\u201d of my blog. It would include a linked list, longer stories, some persona life updates, etc.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t want to monetize this blog but I wouldn\u2019t mind monetizing a newsletter and seeing how it goes. For starters, newsletters cost money if you are going to use a site like MailChimp for sending these out, crunching metrics, managing unsubscribes.<\/p>\n

The main issue with charging money is now I have a customer who is expecting a product that has value to them and is delivered on-time. it\u2019s the main thing holding me back but worth pondering.<\/p>\n

On the subject of podcasts, I used to do these quite often from 2005-2010 but it takes a lot of work to run a show once a week and a lot of people were talking about the same things. I\u2019d be interested in doing it again but I\u2019d need a reliable partner who was in the same room as me to discuss things with and a subject that would fill up at least 15 minutes a week and finally, the equipment to achieve decent sound-quality. I\u2019d revisit this at some point but I simply prefer writing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"via Glenn Fleishman for Six Colors: A new interest in newsletters has emerged as banner-ad rates and Google…\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","apple_news_api_created_at":"2016-03-17T02:32:47Z","apple_news_api_id":"5314f232-ea03-4aea-8340-76ebfbbff42e","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2016-03-17T02:32:47Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AUxTyMuoDSuqDQHbr-7_0Lg","apple_news_cover_media_provider":"image","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_cover_video_id":0,"apple_news_cover_video_url":"","apple_news_cover_embedwebvideo_url":"","apple_news_is_hidden":"","apple_news_is_paid":"","apple_news_is_preview":"","apple_news_is_sponsored":"","apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":[],"apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_custom_appearance":"","csco_disable_excerpt_posts_layout":false,"csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_location_hash":"","csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-linked","cs-entry","cs-video-wrap"],"apple_news_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pb3IC4-1c9","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6529,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2017\/01\/01\/linked-we-tracked-down-a-fake-news-creator-in-the-suburbs-heres-what-we-learned\/","url_meta":{"origin":4597,"position":0},"title":"Linked: “We Tracked Down A Fake-News Creator In The Suburbs. 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