Support The Shoe Snob Blog

This year marked my 11th year doing the blog and this post will mark the 2,282nd post I wrote. Imagine that?! Sometimes I cannot believe it. 11 years is a long time and more than 2000 posts are a whole lot of words typed out. But here I am, still going strong and doing my best to keep up with the times, incorporating video as well as different styles of posts. My ultimate goal is to make the blog like a real online periodical that allows you to access all of the archives easily and for free (naturally). It is a lofty and costly goal and will most likely take me another few years to be complete how I would love for it to be, but nonetheless, it is a goal I intend to finish and we all need goals to strive towards.

My father was a serial salesman who, in the beginning, always told me that I had to monetize the blog. We used to argue about it, and I told him that was not why I started it. What I wanted was to help the industry, and my reward would be the blog readers who bought my shoes. And that truly has been my reward, as the blog helped to build and continues to help build my shoe brand.

Naturally, you can see that I do have supporters in the form of brands that either pay me or exchange products for advertising space/content and that is great and definitely helps. I never realized before, that as blogs get bigger they get more expensive, mainly in upkeep and being able to function daily. Not to mention if you want to upgrade the look of it, which I did this year and am very happy with. It was way overdue! And it was the first step towards that lofty goal. Believe me, I have way more things in the works 😉

That being, with great companies like Patreon helping to allow people to support their favorite creative artists, I had been thinking about a way to incorporate the same sort of structure on my own site as many of my fellow bloggers have gone that route and as our sites get bigger, financial support is always appreciated and helps to keep the stress at bay. Not that I am in financial strain so do not read this as a plea for help.

To Support The Shoe Snob Blog is by no means obligatory and of course, is at your discretion but if you are one of those who likes to reward in the form of a tip, you can do so in the form of a small monthly donation.

For all of those that decide to support, I thank you in advance, and for those that do not, no worries at all. This post is simply to let you all know what this new bar is there for and why.

I write this site out of passion and will continue to put as much as I can into the blog, no matter what, in the hopes to continue seeing men wearing better shoes and becoming consistently more knowledgeable on the subject of shoes.

Visit my Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/theshoesnob

I wish everyone a wonderful weekend.

—Justin FitzPatrick, The Shoe Snob

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