Tragic Blogs or
Year One...

Well it's been a year now since my little nook of the internet opened up. Time to do the obligitory navel gazing and number crunching.

The Comics
Number of new comics: Seven (31 if you consider each installment of The Drawing Board/Bunny & the Cantelope a seperate comic)
Total number of panels: 304
Number of entries in the blog: 60

In all, I produced much more than I expected, averaging almost six panels of art a week. But still far under what I know I can produce. If I had nothing but the comics to work on, I would have an output of six panels a day or more. That's the difference between a comic a day versus a comic every other week or so. Overall, I like the quality of the work I've been putting out - it's more the rate of delivery that I want to work on.

The blog is what surprised me the most. I didn't think I'd made nearly half that many entries. And while I was more prolific with the blog than I thought, I'm not as happy with the quality. Read it as a whole and it's disjointed and unfocused. I'll have to work on that.

Visitors
Number of visits to the site over a year:

Webalizer shows 16,625 visits
Extreme Tracking shows 4,508 unique visitors

While both those numbers seem pretty good for my little hyped and barely promoted site, I guestimate that I really only have about 30 regular visitors. That number's impossible to verify, but it's what my gut feeling is. What I'd really like is for there to be an audience of a thousand or more - but at this point I'm at a loss to figure out how to achieve that other than getting my stuff out more regularly.

Money Money Money
Of the 40+ comic strips on my site, 20 require payment via BitPass.

Sales made via BitPass:

77 The Letter O
15 LoL :P - There were these two nuns...
15 Just an Ordinary Day - Peanuts
10 I used to Draw
3 The Drawing Board (16 strips exclusive to subscribers)
Total Sales: $6.30

Donations via BitPass: 31 for a total of $12.82
Donations via PayPal: 2 for a total of $11.00
Amazon.ca Revenue: $36.65^*
Google Ads Revenue: $6.07
Total Revenue: $72.84

^* To be fair, though, 90% of the orders through Amazon were my own.

When we take my own orders through Amazon out of the equation, the clear source of income for this site is BitPass donations. Paypal is a close second. Sales via BitPass are practically neck n' neck with ad revenue from Google. The revenue doesn't covers maybe half the expenses, so this is still hobby more than business. My eventual goal is to be able to make a living from the site, or through freelance jobs gained as a result of the site, but I'm a long long way from achieving that goal.

So that was Year One. On to Year Two.