I guess it depends on your definitions of "success" and "better".
It took a long time of not updating Lunch Break (as in about three months) before I saw a noticable drop in sales or donations. At the same time, my traffic did go down signifigantly. Which is an interesting but unintended experiment — in my opinion it means I dropped a lot of casual readers that were only there for "Hey free comic!" but never gave anything back. The dedicated readers stuck around, were and are still willing to contribute to help me get back to work. Except for a slight loss of ad revenue, I can't say I really care about losing fickle people like the first group. They'll come and go as they please. If I haven't turned them into dedicated readers by 300+ comics, I'm not going to.
If you care signifigantly about sheer readership numbers, then it probably does make a difference. But what really matters to me is being able to meet bills and it's my dedicated readers that do that. They seem to be very forgiving of a sporadic and undefined update schedule. If I have 1000 readers or 10,000 but the same group of people are the only ones contributing, it's really not that big of a deal to me.
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Date: 2006-11-07 05:51 am (UTC)It took a long time of not updating Lunch Break (as in about three months) before I saw a noticable drop in sales or donations. At the same time, my traffic did go down signifigantly. Which is an interesting but unintended experiment — in my opinion it means I dropped a lot of casual readers that were only there for "Hey free comic!" but never gave anything back. The dedicated readers stuck around, were and are still willing to contribute to help me get back to work. Except for a slight loss of ad revenue, I can't say I really care about losing fickle people like the first group. They'll come and go as they please. If I haven't turned them into dedicated readers by 300+ comics, I'm not going to.
If you care signifigantly about sheer readership numbers, then it probably does make a difference. But what really matters to me is being able to meet bills and it's my dedicated readers that do that. They seem to be very forgiving of a sporadic and undefined update schedule. If I have 1000 readers or 10,000 but the same group of people are the only ones contributing, it's really not that big of a deal to me.