#1782 - Q&A: “I stopped writing on my blog. Should I delete it or just leave it up?”
Side Hustle School
Chris Guillebeau
4.7 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 17 November 2021
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Today’s caller started a blog with enthusiasm but then it fell into decline. What happens now?
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| 0:34.9 | If a blog falls in the forest, does anyone read the old posts? |
| 0:39.2 | Today's caller started a blog with enthusiasm. They wrote a lot of posts, created a lot of content, |
| 0:44.4 | but then it fell into decline. |
| 0:46.6 | Hey, it happens to most of them. Most blogs, most online projects. |
| 0:50.0 | You're all excited, you work on them for a while, but then you start doing something else. |
| 0:54.3 | Totally normal. But now our caller is wondering, what if anything should she do with that project? |
| 1:00.4 | So if you have ever started something, only to stop doing it after a while, |
| 1:03.7 | you too would be a terrible person. Just kidding. Actually, you'd be human. |
| 1:07.8 | So in this situation where you have some kind of creative work out in the world, |
| 1:11.6 | should you close it down, or in this case, delete the blog entirely, |
| 1:16.0 | or let it live on just without any further updates or attention from you? |
| 1:20.1 | Of course, this is a side hustle school. We're looking at money-making projects. |
| 1:24.8 | Is the answer different if this project is still producing a small amount of income? |
| 1:28.9 | Do you want to just keep it up and earning some passive income, which is usually a good thing, |
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