365 Days Of Marketing And Me: Day Twenty-Eight - 1/28/2021

One Creative Introverts Effort To Take On The Extroverted Marketing World…

Welcome to day number twenty-eight of 365 Days Of Marketing And Me… where… we’re almost a full month into this challenge… while… I’m still feeling a little rusty thanks to my two-year writing sabbatical… especially when the 365 Days Of Marketing book hits me with an assignment that doesn’t inspire an idea off of the top of my head…

Like how yesterday’s theme was Speak Up And Succeed Day… which is a topic that doesn’t “speak” to me thanks to my fear of “success”… yes… this fear is partially just an excuse to explain why none of my projects have brought in more than a couple of dimes… but it’s also partially true… because… when I have been traditionally successful in the past… I lost the freedom to do what I want to with my time… giving in to other’s schedules to network… or off celebrating the victory with friends…

To fulfill the task at hand… I figured I’d “Speak Up” today and share what “Success” would look like to me at this stage of my life… but… if I’m being honest… aside from the lack of a steady paycheck… I’m almost there… I’m not in debt… so… not one cent that I earn goes to anything that I bought in the past that’s no longer useful… every dime goes to either the present or near future…

I’m also not in a relationship and never had any kids… so I only have myself to support… making it much easier for me to lower the bar when it comes to what success looks like to me… between the pandemic and my own health issues… I’m limited as to what I can do for work… making my limited needs extra beneficial… since I can scrape by living off of food stamps and be fine… but… stopping there wouldn’t be considered successful to me…

My first sign of success will be when I can pull in at least five bucks a day through ads… this would give me an extra hundred and fifty dollars a month to play with… some of this money would go to ads… to try to get to my next benchmark of ten bucks a day from my websites… any money not getting reinvested into projects would go towards my garden… as I attempt to build a self-sufficient source of produce… this would allow me to buy higher quality proteins with my EBT…

Ultimately… I’d keep raising the benchmark and reinvest until I earned enough monthly to no longer external support at all… I think twelve-hundred bucks a month is the cut off to keep qualifying for food benefit… if I hit that amount… I could seven-hundred a month for rent and bills… and… unless I do something stupid to put me in debt… I’d then have five-hundred dollars a month to spend…

I’d also be earning the above income as my own boss… so I’d no longer have to worry about getting laid off… the way that I have with most of the “traditionally successful” positions that I’ve held… hopefully… if I were able to pull this dream off to this point… I’d use any free time to work on my fiction and art to earn even more money… but… as I type… earning a living on my own terms is what “success” looks like to me…

With that… it’s time to wrap things up and see what the book has in store for today…

It’s a good thing that I earn just enough between this blog… other sites… and gig work… to consider myself self-employed… because according to the 365 Days Of Marketing book… today is Fun At Work Day… which is never fun when you’re full-blown unemployed… a position that I’ve held a few times… and it’s never been fun… well… at least not fun after the severance packages would run dry… I look forward to sharing the work from home fun when I check in with tomorrow’s post!!!