Ensight – Jeremy Wright

Wow.

Can I be honest on how my feelings with this auction have gone? I initially listed this for 100$ and a Buy It Now of 5,000$. I thought somone just buying it outright’d be very cool. But, honestly, I wasn’t even sure someone would bid 100$.

I mean, blogging’s new. Who knows if anyone would ever FIND the auction, nevermind bid!

So, somebody bid. I was ecstatic. The first bid’s always the hardest. The bidding quickly went up to 250$, and I did a reality check “how much would be nice?” I asked myself. My own answer was 750$. I make 250$/month off of a couple of blogs I write, so 750$ for 3 months would be okay. I wouldn’t be losing money.

These days, though, I earn about 500$/month for blogging, so the dreamer in me said “well, 1000$ would be cool”.

I watched today as the bidding went from 650$ and flew up to 1000$. Amazing.

Obviously my next “milestone” is 1500$, as that’d be my “standard” current rate for blogging. But, I wouldn’t mind 3000$ either, as that’d be a decent 1K/month for blogging, which is a rate I could live with.

Are there companies willing to spend more money out there? Hell yeah. I’ll be posting some of my thoughts on this in the next few days, but I can easily see companies justifying blogging budgets in excess of 10,000$/month. No problem.

The question is who will create the market, who will ride the wave and who will be left standing when everyone else is sucking sand.

I keep saying this’ll be an interesting little thing to watch, but it just got even more interesting.

Thanks to every bidder who’s helped get this this high. I know several folk were figuring this’d be a steal at 100-200$. Now it’s bigger money. Several bloggers are saying this should be worth at least 5,000$. Well, find companies and let them know. What’s good for me is good for blogging in general – at least during this wave.

I have interviews today with talk radio, television, financial news outlets and internationally syndicated radio shows.