Anyone can have an Internet Media Empire. Look at me, I have one. And if I have one, you can have one. You just have to want it.
Mine sprang from several things:
- I’m a writer and I’m endlessly writing.
- I have a lot of interests.
- One of my interests and passions is putting together websites.
Mix those three and what you get is what you see here. I created a website for everything I have a passionate interest in, and so when I suddenly feel inspiration to write about one of these interests, I have a place to publish it.
Each domain name costs less than $10 a year. The website hosting, through Zz Hosting, costs $8.50 a month and houses all the domains, all the websites, and gives me gobs of bandwidth. Google Adsense ads on some of the websites generates enough income that it covers the expenses and then some.
That’s all there is to it.
What are these website under GroovyMojo Media? Well, I’m glad you asked. Here’s a break down of the main sites:
JerryJDavis.com, formally JJDavis.net (both will work) is basically my marketing website. Marketing, well, me … or at least my writing, and also my photography. I have all sorts of short stories and flash fiction posted there. Free! And if you like it, please go buy my novel.
WriterCam.com is a webcam where you can occasionally watch me writing when I’m not feeling antisocial. This has been in continuous operation in various forms since 1997, and was once featured in a Sunday section of the Dallas Morning News. The only reason I set it up is because I’d read about JenniCam (anyone remember her and her website?) and I had a very early version of a webcam that I got as a beta tester for Intel.
MojoWriter.com is my blog about writing.
GroovyMojo.com is about creativity, battling fear mongering, finance, health, humor, psychology, romance, technology, weird stuff, and yummy food. The site’s motto is: “Life isn’t about finding yourself, it’s about creating yourself.”
GroovyBrew.com is about beer and coffee. Someday it may be about tea as well. (That someday has arrived, though I must admit I haven’t been keeping it updated as my partner in crime just doesn’t have the sustained interest required to keep it updated, and I’m not enough of a tea expert to go it alone.)
GroovyGizmo.com is about gadgets and gizmos, which I always find fascinating.
MojoLizard.com is about lizards and herpetology in general. I have always thought lizards are the coolest creatures. They’re the closest we have to dinosaurs and dragons - and I love dinosaurs and dragons, too.
Dark Energy Speculative Fiction (DarkEnergySF.com) - this site is actually dormant, but it’s still currently available as an archive of a lot of wonderful stories by very talented writers. I started it mainly to learn the editing side of the business, and it was also an experiment to see if context sensative ads would work to support a fiction magazine that actually paid its authors. Alas, this part of the experiment failed. I never even broke even with this one. UPDATE: This site may be brought back, but I’m not 100% sure yet.
QuantumKiss.com - Partnered with my friend Bill, this is one of the best places online to find romantic speculative fiction. I merely publish, and Bill and Mary Jo edit.
PodGroovy.com - Still in the experimental stage, this is where I plan to host podcasts.
FoneFiction.com (also FoneFic.com) - My brand new site dedicated to delivering short stories via mobile device. No Kindle required!
FonePoems.com - A companion to FoneFiction, this one is for poetry.
It Came From the Living Horror of Zombie Beach! (DotZom.com) - A podcast that, as yet, hasn’t left the ground. But I sure had fun putting the website together.
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