Your blog will always have one loyal reader, that’s you.
People have turned away from blogs due to different content consumption.
Now everyone is reading the AI answers which are supplied from blogs, nobody is going to search the web for some bullshit blog.
But for you – your blog is the most precious thing online, and sometimes you wonder – why there are no views on your blog…
So, as some of you know I’m a blogger and ex vlogger.
I’ve been making money from donations, and I used to get this question: what’s the biggest donation you got in a single transfer.
So my biggest donation ever was 100€ in one transfer, and that guy gave me x2 of them in a matter of couple of days.
As I have this opportunity to speak with all of you, I want to thank all the donors who have supported me over the years that makes my work somewhat valuable.
Although I make not much from donations and book sales – it’s honest money. I don’t steal or something, also I’m not selling some bullshit course for 1000€.
My books were 0.99$ per piece, but now I decided to become a premium author and I charge 9.99$ per piece. I know it might be too high, but bear with me – I do a lot of free work, that 9.99$ is justified.
If I could get free kebabs and everything free, I would also make my work free, in fact most of it is free even when I have to pay for everything, but I am forced to sell something and ask for donations.
So if you value my work, grab a book or make a donation. Thanks again!
Everybody would want to have fun and make money but that rarely happens.
Most people work in jobs they hate just to pay the bills.
I never worked, well maybe 3 months with my friend, I found out that jobs I was offered were such bullshit. So instead I decided to work for myself.
Instead of doing what people expect, I do what I want. I rarely get paid for doing what I like. Because there’s a mismatch of demands, people really don’t need what I do, if they had a need, they would support me, but most of what I do has no support.
You know the harsh reality of modern life.
If fun activities would translate into money, nobody would hate their job, but most jobs are just bullshit. Who has the desire to do them? They’re doing it just to get da money to pay da bills.
So I started blogging maybe 17 years ago, I blogged everywhere and sought money, but no platform did pay me for views that I got and whatnot, so now I realized that there is no money in blogging, although I made over 2000€ over that time from donations. That’s shit money.
Money from blogging is just the dream that keeps most bloggers writing. You won’t make any money from blogging, maybe that sounds harsh, sorry. Although there is a small minority of bloggers who make money, but most do not. Ask ChatGPT, if you don’t believe me.
Blogging is more of a creative outlet, than money printing machine.
Blog is a platform to publish, but not make money. Even when you put your writing to sites like KDP, you earn little to no money and it doesn’t matter how much you publish.
I have 100+ titles on Kindle and they get me just 1-2€ per month, totally passive income.
You see, everybody would want a life where you just sit on the computer and do bullshit work and get paid. Blogging is bullshit work.
Many people believe that they can achieve their goals just by working hard or harder than everybody else, but in reality you don’t need hard work – you need clients, donors, buyers.
If nobody is willing to pay for your work, then you can work as hard as you want – you won’t earn anything.
That’s why work is bullshit.
Vygintas Varnas 