{"id":35629,"date":"2026-09-03T09:38:28","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T14:38:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=35629"},"modified":"2026-09-03T09:38:28","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T14:38:28","slug":"thousands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/03\/thousands\/","title":{"rendered":"Thousands?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kim du Toit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kimdutoit.com\/2026\/09\/03\/this-new-thing\/\" target=\"_new\">today<\/a> laments how much <strike>loudmouths<\/strike> &#8220;influencers&#8221; make compare to humble bloggers not on salary with a syndicate:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>So yes, maybe I am jealous that today\u2019s influencers make money hand over fist each week while I have made, at a rough guess, a few thousand dollars \u2014 over twenty years \u2014 from my type of influencing.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yeah, if you&#8217;re talking how much this blog has made me over the years, the gross income is something like&#8230;.  A hundred dollars?  Probably less.  A couple bucks from the Amazon Affiliates program fifteen years ago, mostly because Trey bought <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B0051OZ5SC\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=B0051OZ5SC\" target=\"_new\"><em>John Donnelly&#8217;s Gold<\/em><\/a> and then some throw pillows in the same order&#8211;and then he gave it a two-star review (hopefully he liked the pillows better).  Google ads?  A couple dollars.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s gross income.  Minus the cost of hosting and a year of GoDaddy&#8217;s &#8220;security&#8221; subscription (managing a SSL for me) at $400 (since cancelled because I can do it for free albeit at ninety days per).  So, yeah, my &#8220;influencing&#8221; has been a rather expensive hobby.  If I had kept horses, at least I could have something to eat if the need arose.<\/p>\n<p>And don&#8217;t get me started (<a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/04\/latest-exercise-in-invisibility-plus-practicing-a-rant\/\" target=\"_new\">again<\/a>) about how useless the blog and other social media have been at pimping my side projects.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kim du Toit today laments how much loudmouths &#8220;influencers&#8221; make compare to humble bloggers not on salary with a syndicate: So yes, maybe I am jealous that today\u2019s influencers make money hand over fist each week while I have made, at a rough guess, a few thousand dollars \u2014 over twenty years \u2014 from my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35629"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35632,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35629\/revisions\/35632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}