March to August 2021
Link to full report
https://verticaltemplate.com/blogs/news/income-report
https://starttrades.com/pages/performance
Digital Assets' Income Report Review Mar to Aug 2021
Had a busy life with lots of life event with someone passing away
Off-topic, my wife and I had been finding lots of charity,
donating money to F&B stall to give free food for anyone who wants,
donating bathtub, high chair, cots, and the daily necessity to Safe Place (supporting woman with unsupported pregnancy),
donating money for the meals of monks and monastery effort
Anyway, the blog's revenue had increased steadily to hit around $200/month in the last few months
Didn't know my job opening in Glints was closed and had to re-open to get some new writers.
Overall, $131 was raised (from 131 articles written by freelancers) in the fund to do good. Not much but glad it is growing.
Recently read how TOMS failed and got sold off. The company started the 1-for-1 shoe and end up selling it to creditors as it just gets copied and had no edge. It just reinforced my point that non-profit should be sustainable.
Overall, running 8 blogs has not lost money since Dec 2020 though all it takes is an algorithm hit for no good reasons to break it.
I am seeing progress in 2 more blogs that I hope to monetize at least 1 by year-end (I prefer at least 2k views/month before doing it).
I definitely not hitting my target of 1k revenue this year. I got to work harder myself (writing more myself or even posting in more job sites)
My blogs focused on ranking naturally and selling ads. 99.9% of articles written lose money but sometimes that 0.1% can make up the rest.
Overall, writers didn't do much good in terms of revenue (i.e. lose money per article). I do like them refreshing the blog with their views and researches. (might not be good for blogs since Google like to see the authority of writers but I think it is a good experience for these writers and myself)
Still early stage but to scale up, I need a content manager to find writers, review, and post the articles.
Investing Performance for March to August 2021
Only had 2 new positions in Tesla Call Sep16'22 420 at $220 .1 and naked put of Square Dec17'21 250 at $16.55 for some income.
Also sold away my $GE option as I find little information advantage I can find
I have been "investing" in NFT with a long-term view that it will attract millennium as a fun way to use crypto (instead of Defi)
Overall Position similar
3.4% $NET
3.7% $WLL
3.2% $HKG:0700 (Tencent)
3.5% $SPCE
3.3% $SQ
2.1% $U
47.1% $SE
33.7% $TSLA