Yes, that's right, this little blog of mine has reached the 1 year milestone.
When I started this little thing with this post and my NFL divisional conference preview, I'm not sure what I expected. I know I loved sports and sometimes liked writing things, but beyond that I had no idea what I was in for.
Well, it's been fun. I'm not into Journalism and I have no aspirations of being a writer (hey, I'm an Accounting and Finance major!), so I realize my actual writing sucks, but that's ok. That said, even though I'm not a writer, I will accept an offer if you make one ESPN! I never really expected to make any money with this, but I have made a little chunk of change, which is great because it's getting paid to do something I really enjoy doing.
And truly I enjoy doing this. I mean, where else could I write my list of the 50 greatest NBA players ever, or my list of the Top 10 MLB players of all-time, or unveil my hopes to create a Bill Walton Quote Library? Where else could I write nearly 100 posts about the NBA, or 88 posts about the NFL, or 83 posts about college football? Where else could I make nearly 400 posts in a year and not look like a total nerd. Well, kinda.
But as almost any blogger will tell you, the best part about this is getting comments on my posts, or getting email from someone who happens to be reading. Because as much as I do like writing this, I probably wouldn't do it if no one read it. So thank you to all my readers and commenters, most notably the writers from WBRS Sports Blog, The Big Picture, The Sports Pulse, Sweaty Men Endeavors, Zoner Sports, Insomniac's Lounge, Pacifist Viking, and many others. Without getting too sentimental, guys like you make this enjoyable.
Anyway, for the first year, if my calculations are right, I think I got somewhere around 50,000 visitors, which is many more than I ever expected. But I was always told to dream big, so my goal is 70,000 for year 2, which is about 200 a day, which, well, we'll see. But I'm optimistic.
So anyway, thanks to any readers, and it's been fun. Hopefully I can make another post like this in a year.
Tuesday, January 09, 2007
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Happy Birthday!
Happy Blog-iversary! Has it really only been one year? Wow.
But it's been a pleasure to read your stuff everyday, and share blogroll links with you. I'm looking forward to Year Two.
Congrats, Jocko!
Congrats dude--thanks for the kind words! Keep on keepin' on! And of course, GO BEARS!!
Where else can you find the Walton quotes? Only Complete Sports. And I'm right there with you--he's one guy I didn't like that I acquired a taste for.
Congrats on making it to a year. You always have great, interesting stuff and I appreciate you adding me to your blogroll. Keep up the good work.
Happy Birthday! You do great writing over here and I'm sure year 2 will be even better.
Even though you beat me in the blogger FFL, and are a Twins fan to boot, let me offer my congrats! Keep the good stuff coming!
a good year in the books! keep it up, my man! You're doing great.
and averaging 200 day will be no prob if you keep doing what you're doing.
and you've made money?!?! do tell...
Zach
The Big Picture
Yeah, you made money? I need to do this. Congrats on 1 year. Keep up the good work.
Heh, well like 3 or 4 times I've gotten emails from people wanted to advertise on the blog and just add some text links... I don't know why, and it just kinda randomly happens, but I'm not complaining about it. :)
Not a lot of money, but nice for a college guy... like not long ago I randomly got an email from someone wanting to advertise and it was enough to pay for my books for one semester. Which was nice. :)
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