God this is fucking incredible. Please take my word for it and read

https://modem.io/blog/blog-monetization/

How to Monetize a Blog

A guide on turning your diary into dollars.

@phil

Reminds me of a stunt I pulled in an all-hands at MP3•com in 1999, with the evil CEO there and everything. The execs wanted more and more monetization. I headed up the Web Design team and we were going to introduce the new homepage and site design and as a secret I instead showed this hideous homepage with the MP3•com logo and every imaginable banner ad and animated crap and more ads and more upsells--the whole homepage was crap. Whole company broke out laughing. CEO wasn't pleased 🤷‍♂️

@brianstorms that absolutely rocks