Everyone’s counting their costs these days. The financial issues that our economy faces prevents any sane character from not giving their financial accounting a one-over.
Dot com owners, especially, are taking notice and we’ve seen recent cutbacks and layoffs unlike anything since the bust back in the late 90′s early 2000′s.
A recent article about how Digg.com, a social aggregator of content, is eating itself alive at a nice and healthy cost of 5 million a year made my head snap back.
Really?
Wow. That’s a lot. But at least they’re making something. For many of us, blogging comes straight out of our pocket, and hosting fees are just the tip of the iceberg.
This coming year I’m going to start opening up slots for sponsorship and advertising. I have to or it won’t be financially possible to continue some of the projects that I’m doing online. I’m going to have to take a good, hard look at the numbers, facts, and traffic. I’m going to have to make some tough decisions.
How much does your blog “cost” you to run?
Since I own my own web servers as part of my business, it doesn't cost me anything for the actual hosting of http://www.walton.com. You can get cheap web hosting for less than $10 a month. What other actual costs that you have to spend money on do you have?
I think that "relevant, contextual" advertising could be helpful to people at the same time you're making some money. I can give you tips on advertising with AdSense. I own http://www.survivor.comwhich makes enough to pay my mortgage each month. You have great content, so I bet your traffic is growing.
The huge cost for me is time.
that's the point that i was going to add but didn't… TIME. rock on.
Well, right now it doesn't cost much, but since I am posting and working on a new project that will cost more money, I am going to need some kind of sponsoring too, but since the traffic isn't all that well, that's going to be tough. I managed to get some people to really bless me with my blog and new project and having God's people doing that is something that I won't take for granted.
i know, it's sweet. god always provides… and i know he's going to do it all again…
I think the biggest problem is to have a good hosting and domain… But this is about 40 swiss francs, about 38 dollars…
p.s. sorry for this "bad" english ; )
all good! is that per month?
oh no it's per year ; )
sweet!
My two sites cost me $20 a year for domains and $5 a month for hosting… not that bad at all!
dreamhost? where?
I build and host my sites on Weebly – which is a little limiting because you have to use their layouts, but their Pro version is pretty full featured and the layouts are flexible enough that I can easily accomplish what I want to.
Hmm, my follow-up is as such – cost of hosting and domain name fees or cost of time spent writing. One is probably slightly easier to figure than the other.
i’m with you on the cost. hosting and domain name
and time? post?
… yes. defiintely.
ahhh. yes. weebly. not bad!