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Rather than constant donation drives, I'd suggest you try to raise all the money for a year at once. Also, if you're going to survive on donations---then publi

Rather than constant donation drives, I'd suggest you try to raise all the money for a year at once. Also, if you're going to survive on donations---then publish a newsletter as well as a way to get peoples emails, and thus have them when you need to run your donation drive. Target cost + your expenses + expenses to spruce up the site. I'd also suggest recruiting other people to blog with you (not for you), in order to slowly give it a more of a community feel. A feeling of community is 100% necessary for donation drives. -- Otherwise, if you'd like people to pay for product because the above feels too much like turning your page into a charity, then publish an ebook of your writings and place that on Amazon. ---- How do you currently get visitors? 800 page views a month is a pretty small amount. With greater traffic even a small margin can be profitable.

Mz 15y ago
I get some traffic from email lists, the link in my HN profile and things like that but I also get a lot of apparently non-sticky traffic from searches for things like "mild CF" or "saline solution". If I can get traffic, I can make enough money to feel it is worth keeping. I have other things I also want to work on. But this is the site that has the most traffic currently, in spite of severe neglect, and this is the site that keeps inspiring other people to gift me enough money to stay online in spite of making no effort to raise money previously. This is also the site for which I would like to develop a simulation if I can figure out how. I am healthier/more functional than I have been in years and unemployed, thus I have some time on my hands in spite of standing in long lines at soup kitchens and the like. Being homeless might actually be a good opportunity for me to finally develop my sites so I can stay healthy and not need a "normal" job, which was helping me stay sick. Not ideal, of course, but ideal would have probably involved being born without a genetic disorder. I hope that makes sense as an assessment of where some things stand and does not merely sound like whining. Thanks.

Mz 15y ago

I get some traffic from email lists, the link in my HN profile and things like that but I also get a lot of apparently non-sticky traffic from searches for things like "mild CF" or "saline solution". If I can get traffic, I can make enough money to feel it is worth keeping. I have other things I also want to work on. But this is the site that has the most traffic currently, in spite of severe neglect, and this is the site that keeps inspiring other people to gift me enough money to stay online in spite of making no effort to raise money previously. This is also the site for which I would like to develop a simulation if I can figure out how. I am healthier/more functional than I have been in years and unemployed, thus I have some time on my hands in spite of standing in long lines at soup kitchens and the like. Being homeless might actually be a good opportunity for me to finally develop my sites so I can stay healthy and not need a "normal" job, which was helping me stay sick. Not ideal, of course, but ideal would have probably involved being born without a genetic disorder. I hope that makes sense as an assessment of where some things stand and does not merely sound like whining. Thanks.