My avowed goal here is to net a dollar a day in ad revenue alone by the end of 2013. My motivations are economic ($1 a day is the same as $42k in the bank at current interest rates), social (a chance to network and interact with like-minded people), and creative:
- Economic
- Earning one dollar a day or $365 a year offers the same yield as having $41,954.02 in the bank in the US savings account with the highest annual interest rate of 0.87% [
$365/0.0087=$41,954.02
]). It should be much easier to get up to a dollar a day than to put aside $42k. - Social
- This is a chance to socialize and interact with other like-minded and congenial people, including translators, entrepreneurs, and writers. It's now easier than ever to link up online.
- Creative outlet
- It's good for people in the translation and publishing industry to give their writing skills a weekend workout, especially after working on other people's texts all week. Don't want a case of the shoemaker's children having no shoes.
How I'm Going to Get Up to $1 a Day
- Post once per week, using Sunday to write each broadcast. Sunday usually offers a long enough break from translating to allow me to step back and reflect a bit.
- Put up ten incoming links per day - this goal may be too ambitious and require modification. The idea is to share quality comments with blogs in my field, and have the signature link back to this website.
- Make friends and influence people on social networks and industry forums. Let's all enrich each other's blogs with meaningful comments.
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