November 17th, 2015 at 6:52 PM ^
Just wait until the NCAA, NBA, NHL, and NFL come to their senses and realize they should be advertising here. Then Brian's going to be pulling in really big coin.
November 17th, 2015 at 4:25 PM ^
IMHO Brian has become one of the more influential figures in Michigan athletics. Maybe on the level of Hackett.
Hackett can hire and fire people. Brian can't do that. You could maybe compare him to a donor though.
November 17th, 2015 at 5:16 PM ^
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November 17th, 2015 at 2:59 PM ^
At the end of the semester, perhaps you could post the UFR of the class for us so that we may all at least get the gist of the discussion you are currently having. You could do "Syllabus Watch" as well as you move throughout the discussion and required reading. There is no reason that any class cannot be made into a living embodiment of this place.
November 17th, 2015 at 3:32 PM ^
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November 17th, 2015 at 3:09 PM ^
November 17th, 2015 at 3:15 PM ^
Still can't believe I missed classes at UM taught by John Bacon.
Kinda pisses me off...
November 17th, 2015 at 3:20 PM ^
When did Bacon start teaching? As a history undergrad, I would also hate to think that I missed his class...
November 17th, 2015 at 3:49 PM ^
The first History of College Sports was in '06, IIRC, and has been taught on and off ever since. The sports writing class may have only been offered once, during the winter semester of '08.
November 17th, 2015 at 3:19 PM ^
He's a very naughty boy!
November 17th, 2015 at 3:35 PM ^
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November 17th, 2015 at 5:41 PM ^
We have a class on turnovers? Can we get our defense to sign up for that class?
November 17th, 2015 at 3:45 PM ^
"Don't mind me, professor, just UFRing your lecture.
-1 for unnecessary tangent..."
November 17th, 2015 at 4:21 PM ^
please please post some info about what you learned.
I've been dying to know the site's financials for a while...
November 17th, 2015 at 4:50 PM ^
this was not sarcastic - i am actually quite interested in this info.
(i know, it's hard to sound earnest on the internet sometimes)
November 17th, 2015 at 5:54 PM ^
I'm also very curious about the Blog's finances. Normally, I'd say it's his site so it's none of our business, but there is that little Beveled Guilt, "Make A Donation" button. I think if you ask for donations you should be a little more transparent than the average blog that doesn't.
Andrew Sullivan discussed the Daily Dish's finances quite a bit when he went out on his own. They were pulling down close to $1M using a subscriber based system and no advertising.
Brian is getting over 8M page views in the last 30 days. 94M in the last 365 days.
https://www.quantcast.com/mgoblog.com#trafficCard
I could be way off on this, but I'm going to guess MGo gets about $1 for 1K page views. That puts his ad revenue around $94K. I have no idea how much beveled guilt is, but he's probably not getting filthy rich off of advertising. No, MGoBlog is not going to take over the world, not yet, at any rate.
http://www.marginhound.com/revenue-model-study-for-small-websites/
P.S. MGoBlog is ranked 7196th in the US in monthly visitors just trailing "lookdamngood.com" and just two spots ahead of "erectiledysfunctionprotocol.com".
November 17th, 2015 at 5:54 PM ^
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November 17th, 2015 at 7:11 PM ^
He also has to pay income taxes on that $94,000,000 (or however much it is).
Of course, there are other paid advertisements, the Beveled Guilt button, HTTV, etc., so there are more avenues of income than just ad revenue.
If he were running the site alone, he would be making a pretty good income. And maybe he still is. But yeah, with multiple employees, he's probably not making a killing.
November 17th, 2015 at 8:05 PM ^
November 17th, 2015 at 8:29 PM ^
Dude! Your donation was going to be the difference between a site redesign and dealing with this same look for the next four years. Thanks a lot, you selfish bastard.
November 17th, 2015 at 5:57 PM ^
Five of the top 50 websites are listed as, "Hidden profile," so basically, they're porn sites. (16 out of the top 100)
November 17th, 2015 at 10:56 PM ^
Your name and avatar are very hard not to autoneg. I resisted, though.
November 17th, 2015 at 5:18 PM ^
Is this at the undergrad or graduate level? (My guess would be undergrad...I may have to creep in amongst them for this class...)
November 17th, 2015 at 5:58 PM ^
This HAS to be meta, not OT. Amirite?
November 17th, 2015 at 7:44 PM ^
Ah well... I am the instructor for the class - TO300 Business Information Systems is a core class in Ross undergraduate curriculum.. We discuss the Kickstarter campaign for the Hail to the Victors book as part of class discussion on how small businesses are leveraging social media.
The fact that OP started the thread while the class was in progress is a little disturbing though :-)
November 17th, 2015 at 9:09 PM ^
At least he didn't say "My maroon professor thinks MGoBlog is worthy of discussing in this class for which I'm paying $6000."
Substitute the god awful Benihana HBS case and $800 and I flashback to my MBA in '88. Money and time I'll never get back.
Kidding of course.