{"id":42463,"date":"2014-06-07T04:19:17","date_gmt":"2014-06-07T08:19:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/improvisedlife.com\/?p=42463"},"modified":"2014-06-06T22:46:48","modified_gmt":"2014-06-07T02:46:48","slug":"paywall-updatethank-pyramids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/improvisedlife.com\/2014\/06\/07\/paywall-updatethank-pyramids\/","title":{"rendered":"Friends with Benefits, 10 Days In&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">We&#8217;re ten days into\u00a0our <a href=\"https:\/\/improvisedlife.com\/become-friend-benefits\/\" target=\"_blank\">Friends with Benefits subscription program<\/a>\u00a0and heartened by\u00a0the response. \u00a0After an initial surge, subscriptions have leveled off, with an unexpected\u00a0increase\u00a0in readers. What is most surprising is that about a third of our subscribers gave MORE than the base price.\u00a0Each subsription is like a gift.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">It was WONDERFUL\u00a0to receive\u00a0some revenue just as the programmer&#8217;s invoice came in. Whew and yay! We feel like the guy being helped up the pyramid.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">But best of all has been the support and affirmations of the new program. Here are a few (we couldn&#8217;t have made them up!) We also got an invitation to dinner!<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em>&#8220;I am more than willing to pay for your great source of inspiration, motivation, creation and kick in the butt! I need that from time to time as I live in Shanghai! Thank you!<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em>\u00a0&#8220;I read IL every day, it&#8217;s the only one of the multitude of daily blogs, digital newsletters etc that I open without fail. <strong>It nurtures me instead of overwhelming or draining me.<\/strong>&#8220;<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em>&#8220;I just want you to know that I have enjoyed the website for many years; t<strong>he connections all of you make are invaluable to me<\/strong> as an artist often living a rather solitary life!&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em>&#8221; I look forward to your posts every day. So often they contain just what I need and <strong>your archives are often a first resort for me as wel<\/strong>l. In fact, as recently as yesterday, they gave me the answer&#8230;&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<div style=\"color: #000000;\"><em>&#8220;I love the little life enhancing sayings and poems and stuff you can live by. 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She LOVES it for all the cool DIY stuff, and the quirky text and funny attitude.&#8221;<\/em><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Funny attitude, eh?? \u00a0 \u00a0Yep, that&#8217;d be us!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">We&#8217;re not covering our whole nut yet, but figure <strong>this is a process AND a risk we have to take: to SEE<\/strong> if the many\u00a0readers who visit us frequently will join us in making Improvised Life keep resonating in the world, without ads.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>It might not work, but then again&#8230;it just might&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><br style=\"color: #212f40;\" \/><em><span style=\"color: #212f40;\">via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.retronaut.com\/2014\/05\/climbing-the-pyramids\/\" target=\"_blank\">Retronaut<\/a> LINK; source <a href=\"http:\/\/www.loc.gov\/pictures\/item\/2004681322\/\" target=\"_blank\">Library of Congress<\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/em><br style=\"color: #212f40;\" \/><br style=\"color: #212f40;\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re ten days into\u00a0our Friends with Benefits subscription program\u00a0and heartened by\u00a0the response. \u00a0After an initial surge, subscriptions have leveled off, with an unexpected\u00a0increase\u00a0in readers. 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