Tag: indie business

  • My newly ad-free online platform, almost five months in

    [click_to_tweet tweet=”You can get ad revenue from a viral blog post, but that money means nothing tomorrow. It doesn’t predict who will return to your site, sign up for your email list, or buy your next book. All it tells you is you wrote one good headline. #authorplatform” quote=”You can get ad revenue from a…

  • Business Diaries #3: Taking The ADHD Homestead Ad-Free

    At the beginning of 2019 I mentioned wanting to take The ADHD Homestead ad-free. Since then I’ve done a lot of thinking about how ads fit into my business, both financially and philosophically. And I’ve concluded that they don’t. It’s easy for bloggers to think we should or even have to include ads. We don’t.…

  • Business Diaries #1: where I’m at in January 2019

    This post is part of Business Diaries, where I document my journey to grow a business around my blog The ADHD Homestead. You can read the full series here. I’ll get into the nitty-gritty of my writing business in future posts, but first an introduction: I founded The ADHD Homestead in 2014 with a dedicated…