Sunday, June 27, 2010
Dear Site Reader
I am taking a month off. It's debatable as to whether or not I deserve it. I'll be back with a new letter on July 25th.
My site has hit a million page views in a bit over two years. That's every visit, ever goggle or bing crawl, every psychotic reload. The actual number of unique visits by real people is much lower. I'm not a statistics geek, so pretty much all I check is where the traffic is coming from and which direction it is trending.
Feel free to read through any of the letters you've missed. They're all still available. See, right over there to the left. Go ahead, click one. I'll still be here when you get back. Then I'll be asking for money! (If you've already donated ignore this plea.)
Why are you reading this site? I presume it's because you enjoy it. jackassletters.com is a one man show. Christopher L. Jorgensen is responsible for all lack of design, all lack of comedy, each and every letter, and all expenses associate with running this place. If you like what you've been reading, make a contribution to allow me to continue amusing you. If I don't amuse you, or you don't think the site is worth supporting, then I respectfully ask you to go away forever.
And now, a word from our sponsors:
Keeping this site up and running takes more time and money than one would think. I'm not going to break down the financials because it's too difficult to keep a running tally. I have hosting, domain registration, a PO Box, CMS license, paper, advertising, envelopes, drugs, and postage. Postage costs alone have now landed in the hundreds of dollars.
If you enjoy it I am asking you to consider making a donation:
Or just send a check in the mail (if you'd rather support the USPS than PayPal) to this address:
Christopher L. Jorgensen
P.O. Box 93042
Des Moines, IA 50393
I'm not making a living writing letters. Hell, I don't even turn a profit. Without support this site will become less of a priority for me.
I promise any money you send me will go toward site expenses or cat food. You do want my cat to eat, right?
Any donations of $5 or more will get a pdf of two years of unanswered letters (about 175 letters).
Advertising:
If you don’t want to donate please consider advertising on this site. I get around 2,000 page loads a day. That’s not tons of visitors, but I also don’t charge much for an ad, and my readers are more loyal than most. I get the same people returning to the site time and again. Most of these people are tech or design oriented and have sites of their own.
Create a 150x300 ad in .jpg or .png format (no animated gifs or flash) and I will put your ad into my rotation. You let me know how much you’re wanting to spend and where you want to link to, and once I approve your graphic (and the site) we’ll negotiate how long your ad will be on jackassletters.com. The more ads I accept the less often each will appear (I have a limited number of ad spots). I want to insure that you’re happy with your results and will want repeat placement. To be clear though, this is still more or less a donation, as I provide no tracking, no click through rates, no impression reports, nor guarantee results.
$50 for a year sounds fair to me, but you let me know what you think and maybe we’ll work something out.
If this sounds interesting to you, contact me at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
My reaction:
Other support:
Buy me stuff!
If you don't want to donate, and you don't want to advertise, throw me a bone. Buy something off my amazon wishlist and send the message that you appreciate what I do.
I need to figure out a way for this site to be sustainable long term. If not financially, then at least artistically and creatively. I need to get out what I put in (or I won't do it forever). Without support I will consider putting jackassletters.com into an archive only mode where the letters will stay available, but no new ones will appear. I don't want this to happen, you don't want this to happen, so consider supporting this site with one of the above methods!
Link to my site!
So there is no way in hell you'll consider dropping a dime on this site (even though you've read all the way down to here you fucking addict). Fine, then I have one last way for you to support this site. Link to me and let me know where you've linked from.
Just take the graphic below and link to the my main page. If you like you can just cut and paste the code below it onto a page and I'll even do the image hosting.
<a href="http://www.jackassletters.com"><img src="http://www.jackassletters.com/images/uploads/ads/JALad.png" style="border: 0;" alt="Link ad to jackassletters.com" width="150" height="300" /></a>
Thanks for reading.
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Posted by cjorgensen on 06/27 at 09:54 AM
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