In my last post I wrote about my blogging “career” and how that wasn’t really what I wanted to do for a job. I wrote it and I meant it, but then I thought about it some more and I realized how stupid I sounded. Basically what I was saying was “I am good at this, but I don’t want to make money doing it because it’s not my career goal.” And I am good at it too. I’ve completely self-marketed the website and so far this month I have around 10,000 unique visitors. That’s pretty good and for me not to want to monetize that is pretty stupid, even for me. So I decided to take the jump and join a blog network.
So as of… now I guess, Miller Park Drunk is a member of the Yardbarker Network. They will handle all of my advertising, leave me alone to do my own thing and when I write something good that hits on a popular topic it could be carried on the front page of MSN or FoxSports. So, yeah, pretty sweet deal. If I want to have a hit article that’s featured on the main page of one of those sites I might have to change my ways a little bit, maybe stop making so many rape jokes, but that’s okay and I think it will be worth it in the long run. It’s always better to be funny without that stuff (so they say) so why not give it a try?
If it doesn’t work out, no big deal. If it does, let’s see what else we can do. I’ve been thinking about starting a Milwaukee Bucks blog for next season, I could do that too. Maybe a Seahawks blog as well? How about a wrestling blog? Actually, no on that one because I’d have to start watching it again to do that. (Yes, I am already over that phase.) Maybe I should take Phil Ivey Rules, start updating it again and add it to the network. Anything is possible, really. I am good at this and I should embrace it. So that’s what I am going to start doing.
