I think I’ve been unconsciously negatively prioritizing traffic growth on ribbonfarm. The marginal cost of traffic (overages on my hosting plan) is not worth the marginal value of new readers. It’s a kind of stock buyback. Growth without a good idea driving it is a net liability.
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Seems like for your content a better target than pure reader growth would be like, getting assigned in college courses. or finding untapped readership internationally.
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You also have dedicated readers so some kind of subscription model could work, even while keeping all the content free. Maybe subs get to comment on a forum or get like anthologies.
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I don't see the point of trying to make money that way. It's not a big enough pile to be interesting.
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$25 / year x 10,000 subscribers would be decent passive income. I dunno. Easy to set up, you get what you get. Some folks making bank just off newsletters.
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I would definitely not expect to convert at a rate that would get me 10k subscribers... that presumes next tier of traffic even assuming the likely conversion rate of the current level would stay the same. Ie, your model begs my question.
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Used to have one, as well as annual donation drives. Stopped it when it became clear that was creating a burden of relationships/expectations I didn't want.
Like I said, this is NOT about solving for money. Money is simply a way to avoid vanity in publishing.
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