Mrs Philomena Ojikutu amazes me with her growing earnings from her Telenovela Blog. I encouraged her to start a telenovela blog some seven months ago. Since then, I have been mostly off line because of my busy schedules.
A quick review of her 7-month report surprises me. Her monthly income has grown from zero to the region above $400 Dollars. Her monthly Unique visitors has grown from 200 to 33,000 while her monthly page-views has grown from 680 to over 260,000!
Though, I inspired her to take up the challenge of the gap in telenovela blogging, I never imagined that she could go this far in so short time period. Now it is my turn to be inspired with her modest accomplishment in her blogging ‘business’.
For your information, she is my wife and not just a stranger. I knew her dedication to the blog was unrivaled, what I did not know is that, she could pull such a huge crowd of fans with her talent.
Maybe the next advice I should give her is, to change the name of her blog from the gardener’s daughter (la hija del jardinero), to something more broader to encapsulate her whole niche, not just a soap opera out of the thousands in that niche.
My second advice would be to tell her to go for telenovela stories that has huge following on the internet, not just the low rated ones like Rebeca, which she is currently posting. I saw that she had started something on Betty the Ugly but stopped abruptly, may be, due to demand pressures of her readers.
Because she is a woman, she tends to be too emotionally influenced by her readers. Left to me, I would advise her to strike a good balance between what her current few readers, (I say that with all sense of responsibility, because her current 1,500 daily unique visitors can never be compared to the over monthly 120,000 new visitors that are searching for Betty the Ugly and Rebelde summaries on the net).
If she does that, she should expect her monthly earnings to quadruple to almost $2,000 Dollars!
I hope to snatch time soon again to critic or advice.
