We make simply one appeal for 10 Cent Challenge subscriptions each year, and for 2022, this is it:
As a lot of SurvivalBlog readers understand, we severed all ties with Amazon, in January of 2021. With their outright censorship and unconscionable company practices, we just couldn’t continue any partnership with them. Giving Up the Amazon Associates program has cost us more than $30,000 per year in commissions.
We had actually hoped that the variety of Ten Cent Difficulty memberships would significantly increase, however unfortunately, they only went up by about 10%– not nearly enough to offset what we lost in leaving Amazon.
We’re Not Making Much Profit
Let me sum up where things stand with SurvivalBlog’s financial resources:
Our expenses to run the blog site are around $37,000 each year. That consists of around $21,000 to pay our Managing Editor Hugh Latimer, $9,000 for Pat Cascio’s short articles, $1,480 for our combined phone and Internet bill, $1,188 for our backup Web connection, and $3,948 annually for our overseas server.
On the income side, we make about $13,500 per year for hosting paid banner ads and text advertisements, $4,500 each year in profit from archive USB stick sales, and $2,500 each year from affiliate advertising. Our other primary income for running the blog site comes from voluntary memberships, dubbed The 10 Cent Difficulty. Those voluntary memberships generate about $31,000 per year. I ask readers to pony up simply 10 cents a day ($36.50 each year.) I’ve asked that same quantity because the blog started, in 2005. So, in all, the blog’s gross income has to do with $51,500. After costs, that leaves me a net annual blog site earnings of $14,500. That is not a lot to show for me putting in about 35 hours weekly, composing and modifying the blog site. It relates to making $8.63 per hour.
For those of you who are already customers, I wish to express my genuine thanks for your faithful assistance.
Evaluating 10 Cent Obstacle Assistance
Here are the data on 10 Cent Obstacle memberships:
Gross earnings: $31,000 each year.
Just about 840 blog readers subscribe, with an average donation of $39 per year.
We have a readership of about 120,000 routine readers, primarily in the U.S. and Canada.
So, based upon 840 subscribers, that suggests that only 7/10ths of one percent of readers really subscribe. A great deal of you have actually been faithfully subscribing for more than a decade. I considerably value your generosity! But humanity being what it is, the other 99.3% of readers have actually chosen that they’ll let “someone else” subscribe.
So, here is my appeal in a nutshell: If you find that you get more than 10 cents worth of worth per day in reading SurvivalBlog, then please contribute 10 cents a day ($36.50 annually) to help cover the blog’s costs.
Unless our 10 Cent Difficulty income increases considerably, I will most likely be forced to return to working 30+ hours a week as a contract technical author and/or freelance publication author. Hence, the volume of what I publish in SurvivalBlog will need to significantly decrease. I might discontinue composing most of my routine columns and I may switch to posting just a couple of feature articles per week– rather of the typical 7 features.
The bottom line is that we require about two times as numerous subscribers, to make up for the loss of the Amazon Associates profits.
How to Subscribe
There are several payment choices for memberships including PayPal, cash, checks, money orders, booklets of “Forever” U.S. postage stamps, and even mailing us a few silver dimes or quarters taped to a piece of cardboard.
Your contributions are needed and greatly valued.
If sending your membership by mail, then please utilize this address for a check or money order payable either to “James Rawles” or “SurvivalBlog.com”:
James Rawles
P.O. Box 303
Moyie Springs, Idaho 83845
Keep in mind that this will be my just ask for 10 Cent Obstacle memberships in 2022. I will not pester you. I do not do PBS-style begging marathons.
Other Ways to Help
Please consider other ways that you can assist support SurvivalBlog. Consider investing in an antique weapon or two, through my side organization, Elk Creek Business.
Even just positioning a few links assists a lot, to grow our readership.
And if you offer food storage, communications, night vision, body armor, water filtering, alternative energy, shooting, or other preparedness-related products or services, then please consider either advertising your service or products in SurvivalBlog or ending up being a writing contest reward donor. You’ll discover the publicity really advantageous to your organization.
Many Thanks!,– JWR