I’m not posting this on the TCM Blog yet because this is just public musing.

I wanted to do something with Top Web Comics, but I don’t think it’s necessary. I’m not going to get enough out of it compared to the effort that I put into it. I’m not going to get visits from that site unless I’m way up at the tippy-top. However, if I’m already at the top, then I’ve already got enough fans, and I’ll be happy with that. Perhaps later on, I could shoot for something, and maybe increase my base through that venue, but I just don’t think it’s useful now. I’m not going to put my effort into encouraging people to vote. However, I’m probably going to continue with the voting incentive because it’s good to have at least a tiny buffer.

I had this idea to put the latest post of the blog on my comic. I guess the idea was to get more people to read the TCM Blog. I’m not sure what purpose this will serve. In fact, it seems to me that the TCM Blog just isn’t that important overall when it comes to the comic.

What are my goals? Well, the main goal is to produce a great comic. Yes, this is first and foremost. Second, the goal is to make money. While this has always been a possibility for me, it’s never been a priority for me. But I’m about to graduate, and I don’t have a job yet, so I’m thinking about money. Another goal may be to increase the readership, but I don’t think that’s a great goal in and of itself.

So back to the money thing. I put ads, but they’re not making much money. This isn’t very surprising. I mean, the ads that are up there aren’t things that my readers are probably looking for.

Merchandising is the real thing I need to work on if I want to make money. All my other tiny projects are fun, but they aren’t going to help me make progress towards my goal. In fact, it seems like I work on all these projects in order to avoid working on this harder, unfamiliar project.

The other project that looks exciting is adding “tags” to the comic. I think this is worthwhile. Sometimes I enjoy hitting the random button to look at old comics. I want a different way to go through my archive. If there’s a way to browse by theme, I think people will use that.

I want to use the social networking to build some type of community, but I just don’t really know how to use facebook or myspace. One thing I will continue to do is spam my friends to get them to join my fan page on facebook.

Facebook is changing the way pages look, so that they’re more like profiles. This just confuses me more. I’m not sure what to think of the change. I have a feeling I may abuse it, e.g. changing my status every 5 seconds. We’ll see.