Fusion Ads

Apr 10, 09:59 AM  

I was quite surprised to recieve several emails about the removal of the Fusion Ads from my website a few weeks ago. It surprised me for two reasons:

  1. I haven’t posted here for more than a year, so I was touched that folks still had me on their feedreaders at all, and
  2. that you not only still read this site, you read this site in a browser and cared enough about the ads I was running to comment on them.

Maybe I shouldn’t be surprised, because I always knew my readers were awesome people with an eye for detail. This just proves it.

But I was honestly touched that people wanted to know where the ads had gone. It speaks a lot towards the quality of Fusion’s product that folks noticed their absence.

I took the ads down out of respect for the Fusion team and the great business they’ve built. It’s honestly that simple. Nobody Wants A Stylus has always had a small readership – hundreds, not thousands – and I was very flattered to be invited to be part of their launch. Honored, even.

Unfortunately, life happened and I haven’t posted here very much. Maybe someday I’ll be free to tell the whole tale, both the good and the bad. But the bad is best forgotten, and the the good things are testaments to themselves.

I’d rather dwell on the good things. My son, who you may remember broke my phone many years ago, is now in preschool. He has a baby sister, 8 months old. My indomitable father is now a cancer survivor.

All good things. But not things to write about on an iPhone site.

Throughout the dwindling pageviews, the Fusion guys were great and supportive. Not just great business partners, but great human beings too.

But I’m in business too, and I know that farming old content is not the Fusion way. Quality matters. And since this is, even with recent posts aside, a dormant blog, I pulled the ads.

That’s it. No drama. Just mutual respect and an acceptance of the situation.

So I said this privately on Twitter, but let me say it here, publically: it was an honor running Fusion Ads on this site, and I hope we can work together again some day. The Fusion team is a class act and I’m terribly proud of their success.

And as for you, faithful reader? Thanks for sticking with me. It means more to me than you know.