I recently responded to an e-mail from an advertising bureau, asking if I was offering advertising opportunities on this blog right here.
I sent this reply, suspecting this might well be thinly veiled spam, but offering the benefit of the doubt that it might actually have been hand-typed and hand-sent.
This may or may not apply to the direction this blog will take in the future; it certainly applies to the way I’ve been posting to this blog over most of the past year. Of course, by the time some of you see this in the archives, it’ll no longer be at shawnkquinn.com but at some other domain name I’m still deciding on.
The original text portion of my reply follows. I simply felt it too good not to post and share. Comments are welcome, as always.
Most of the brutal honesty in my blog comes from the fact I do not have to worry about annoying sponsors. Were I to consider monetizing this blog, it would be done in other ways such as merchandise sales.
I also have serious doubts that advertising will “enhance [my] online users experience” as you put it. The people I have talked to seem to indicate they are more annoyed than attracted by ads.
Thanks for your interest, but I simply don’t see selling ads on shawnkquinn.com as viable.