{"id":29623,"date":"2023-04-01T17:47:55","date_gmt":"2023-04-01T21:47:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/?p=29623"},"modified":"2023-04-01T20:03:51","modified_gmt":"2023-04-02T00:03:51","slug":"39-dollars-and-42-cents-later","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/2023\/04\/39-dollars-and-42-cents-later\/","title":{"rendered":"39 Dollars (and 42 Cents) Later…"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n

In July 2021, I made the Momentous Decision to display Google Ads on selected posts on this site (see The 100 Billionth Person Sells Out<\/a><\/em>).\u00a0 This was meant to capitalize on the fact that my various posts on hanging picture frames<\/a> get a thousand-plus views a month.\u00a0 Well, that experiment is coming to an end.<\/p>\r\n

Google says that my ads “earned” a total of $39.42 in the 20-month span they appeared.\u00a0 But Google won’t send me one cent of it until the total reaches $100, which in my case will take another two-and-a-half years, or somewhere around President Biden’s 83rd birthday.\u00a0 Put that way, it’s clearly time for me to break up with Google and wash them right out of my website’s hair, I mean, code.<\/p>\r\n

To replace the ads on my picture framing posts, I now display a “Buy Me a Coffee<\/a>” appeal.\u00a0 You have probably seen these on other sites — they are essentially micro-donations of coffee-cup size.\u00a0 I will give the proceeds to charity, as I planned to do with my ad income, but I don’t have to wait for the total to reach x dollars.\u00a0 One generous reader, an artist from the Midwest I believe, already tipped $10.\u00a0 (I mention this not to go all Jerry Lewis on you, but to point out the effectiveness of this approach vs. the ads.)<\/p>\r\n

You might ask, why bother with this at all?\u00a0 I guess it’s mainly a way for people to express (and for me to receive) a tangible sign of appreciation that goes beyond a thanks.\u00a0 It says that some people see enough value in what I wrote to actually pay something for it, which is affirming.<\/p>\r\n

Now I can look forward to each and every one of President Biden’s birthdays this decade without thinking about Google, worrying about selling out, or being reminded of my poor entrepreneurial skills.\u00a0 May Joe live 100 years.<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In July 2021, I made the Momentous Decision to display Google Ads on selected posts on this site (see The 100 Billionth Person Sells Out).\u00a0 This was meant to capitalize on the fact that my various posts on hanging picture … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29623"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29652,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29623\/revisions\/29652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}