Feb 04 2010

This is exciting…

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My faithful 41 fans. I love each and every one of you. Well I checked the stats tonight (anything besides riding the rollers). It is looking a lot better than 41. I have a lot of people show up, but I still think I have my faithful 41 fans. A few leave comments which I love and I have become friends with some of you via email. It has been fun. I hope to find some time to create some tutorials. I am having trouble finding time to do a lot of extra activities, besides writing this blog, of course. Well check this out:

Monthly stats for the life of the blog

Looks like we have been growing every month! January was a stellar month with 1,506 unique visitors and 2,373 page loads. Now it’s not The Fat Cyclist kind of numbers, but not bad for the Adventure Monkey’s first year. It looks like 337 were entertained enough to come back last month too. Nice! And that’s the blog page, not the Facebook page.

Ok, let’s grow some more. If we get enough visitors, I will become a famous super blogger and be able to quit my “real” (real=sucky) job (yeah there’s some details missing, but dare to dream right?) I am thinking of t-shirts, hats and jerseys with the cute little Adventure Monkey on it. Who wants one besides me? After you all buy Adventure Monkey gear, some fine art for your walls, I can quit the job and make this site more useful to all my fans. I will never forget my first 41 though. You hold a special place in my heart. I am looking for a good charity to support too. Something along the lines of empowering the less fortunate, not just giving them stuff. Let me know if you have any ideas for me.

So to help out the Adventure Monkey and my quest to quit my “real job” let’s spread the word! Email a couple of friends about the site. I will publish the numbers next month to show you all how you did. I am excited, basically because it is still Winter and I have nothing to do besides look at these graphs. Now they have to come to the blog, not the facebook page, because that doesn’t count.

Thank you to Marisa for working your angle for me to get the fine art photograpy displayed in the Kansas City area. We will see. I will let you all know when I have displays set up so you can check it out. Anyone know of a commercial place that needs art on the walls? I can provide it for free if they display my info.

Ok, so I know, this post sucks. I want you to do something for the Adventure Monkey and I didn’t even post any pictures. To be honest I need the help. I promise to repay you when I get some more time to work on the Adventure Monkey. I hope we can support a great cause or start one in the future. Spread the word.

Friday’s coming and snow or cold, I’m riding.

Feed Your Monkey!
-Eric

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February 4, 2010 - 8:55 am

Jenni in KS - Those are exciting numbers!

I’m not a cyclist, but I would buy and wear one of those Adventure Monkey T-shirts. My T-shirt stash is getting low.

Have you considered Compassion International? They get good ratings from Charity Watch and I’ve been impressed with what I’ve heard about them from fellow bloggers like Pioneer Woman and Robin at Pensieve. You should really read Ladd’s (Pioneer Woman’s dh) posts from the Compassion International trip he took. Here’s the link to his first post about it: http://thepioneerwoman.com/blog/2008/11/from_marlboro_man/
When we visited them last April, he talked more about it, and the things he said really have me sold on this organization.

I also like Kiva.org and Heifer Project International.

I’m planning to do a post linking you and showing the print once it arrives. If you had an Adventure Monkey badge, I might even put it in my sidebar. I need to rearrange my layout anyway.

February 4, 2010 - 10:10 am

James Goering - Glad to see some people are coming to get a little taste of the Adventure Monkey. If you make t-shirts I will definitely get some! Not too sure about purchasing some of your artwork yet though. Its on my wish list, now I just need to spend the next year or so stashing cash in my matress. Keep up the good work!

February 5, 2010 - 12:08 am

Errin - Wow, I had never even thought to check on my blogs traffic. Thanks for this informative post.

I’ll keep an eye out for a hat or a t-shirt.

February 5, 2010 - 6:53 am

Sue - Very cool. I checked your blog out after reading another blog randomly. Love the blog so far and the art…:) Here’s a couple of interesting charities you might like:

An Angel in Queens :

http://www.anangelinqueens.org/

There are a few articles on his site…:)

Hair Flair for Hope:

An article: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/30/AR2009123000998.html

Extra information: http://hometown-columbia.com/2009/11/18/hair-flair-for-hope-translated-please-donate-yarn/

Facebook page:http://www.facebook.com/pages/Hair-Flair-for-Hope/176391009614

~Peace~

February 7, 2010 - 9:29 am

John B. - Eric,
Congrats on the visitors. As you may have seen me say of you over at my place, I think you’re doing fine work here. You’ve earned those return visits.

As to charities: Over at my blog, I have links to some charities who build and distribute and teach people how to maintain bicycles to places in Africa. Like you, I’ve been giving some thought to generating a bit of income to send some money their way; they, and (as others have mentioned here) Kiva.org and Heifer International are my candidates for this. In Wichita, we also have a fledgling bike collective that would be worthy of some money, too.

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