Matt: Honestly, I havent done much with that. I had this expectation that I would [inaudible 21:48] and I think had a couple hundred of these books to sell, and that Id get all this traffic and selling them would be super easy. So I dont have much to speak on that, other than free shipping tends to sell well. Make something interesting. Inman has produced a series of Oatmeal books with content from the webcomic and previously unpublished material, related board games, and other merchandise. But I feel like it didnt really get into its stride until now with things like Twitter and Facebook and social sites where you can make one little thing and explode it out there. I think when I launched How to Use an Apostrophe, I put out another grammar comic right away after that. Burning Cat was to feature appearances from guest speakers alongside a series of gaming and networking activities. Matt: I used to think it as useful, but I actually found its just more poisonous than anything. And Ive found lately, that if I submit my own comic, it gets more negative feedback than if I just leave it alone and if they want to get it on the Reddit homepage, they can. And not just Reddit. But, as I consistently put out comics that they liked, eventually, I found that the positive feedback started to outweigh the negative. Why do that? So thats sort of the process. . And they may be right, but it happens. Matt: Ive been trying put some comics there lately. Heres a comic. Its nice reading them and seeing all these fans talking. Andrew: And Digg. If people really want to say something, let them reblog it and say something on their own blog. Andrew: Did you have shares of the business? So they did really well. Matt: Just because the success of my comics doesnt bank on people searching for keywords. But I only did donations, that was not a long-term goal. Send me five or ten bucks, buy me a beer. And that actually was able to pay for the hosting costs until I had posters and all that stuff in hand that I could actually sell things on the website. Matt: Adobe Fireworks actually used to be a Macromedia product. I think most of my book is visually oriented anyway and maybe a lot of writers, the only visual is the cover, so they focus on that like its this big thing. So from that you could connect, like, how long could I survive inside of my own washing machine. ( 1,339 ) $4.99. Matt: I think, with donations, youre not getting product and youre giving somebody money. They know that theres something better that theyre meant to do, but they dont know how to get started and how to build up something like what you have with The Oatmeal. [2], Inman said that when he started the comic, he felt that drawing was a chore. Find Matthew Inman's phone number, address, and email on Spokeo, the leading people search directory for contact information and public records. If he got a haircut and dressed nicely, it wouldnt be any funnier. If I can do two to three, thats amazing, but usually its about one. I didnt sleep. It just worked as a comic. . Twilio Twilio provides a web-service API for businesses to build scalable, reliable communication apps. LIke a drunk 15 year old, I think, is the best way to put it. Andrew: And you were spending thousands of months on bandwidth costs? At that point, werent you nervous? Do you, on a typical day, bring in $1,000 in revenue and on Black Friday last year, did you bring in $70,000 in revenue? And to talk to me about it. I particularly dont want to put them on a lot of my bigger comics, just because, more for the readers sake too. Im actually kind of on the fence as to whether or not Ill keep them. So thats usually how I respond to it. If You Still Think That Success Online Is About Building The Best How Russell Brunson solved the biggest challenge of online sales, How a list nerd grew Ranker.com to 27,000,000 monthly visitors, Physical Product Case Study: How two guys are competing with Yeti, How to persuade potential customers into becoming customers, How Dollar Beard Club is hitting $8M in its first 8 months. But I do them in that order because I need to be the one to submit it to Digg because I have my Oatmeal account and I try to submit all my comics from there. Matt: I dont think shell Have you read about her? Andrew: What about optimizing sales pages, landing pages, the way you present what youre selling? Troll Lawyer Sues The Charities The Oatmeal Supports, "Lawyer Charles Carreon Suing The Oatmeal, American Cancer Society and National Wildlife Federation". And one of the questions I asked him was what kind of feedback did you have on your work and did it change your work. I need to hurry. In the beginning, when you were getting feedback, what was that feedback like? So I started doing client work again. I just drank coffee all the time. Bon Wier, TX (1) Bryan-College Station (TX) (2) Corpus Christi, TX (2) Dallas-Fort Worth (TX) (7) Houston-Galveston-Brazoria (TX) (6) Killeen-Temple (TX) (2) Lubbock, TX (1 . Its got a years worth of comics and a bunch of new comics in it. Matt: I think it was just getting enough visibility and exposure that a couple publishing houses took notice and then the grammar comics obviously put my comics on the desk of every editor in America. So I feel like doing something where I can draw, where I can be funny and creative was much, much better. [63][4] The campaign raised $220,024 at completion. How much more productive can you be if you use TeamworkPM.net? Matt: When I used to work for people I had this sense of diplomacy. If you read my Twitter account, it is like Hitlers port-a-potty. Andrew: Just the grammar ones. . I didnt decide, oh, Im going to rank for semicolons and build a business on it. 23 while the Dobson family, owner of Whataburger, ranked No. Right now, I'm busy making an animated TV series at Netflix. "[21], As of 2019, Inman had released ten books, which collect material from the website and feature new material. I made a self-published book and I wanted to be able to at least generate some secondary income from it. The creator of that comic is popular, so Im going to get traffic for it. Rather than getting on there and saying, Hey everybody, Im The Oatmeal. I know there are going to be some people who are listening to this interview who are in a situation that you were in a year or two ago, where they just dont like their jobs, theyre not inspired by it. Matt: At first, it was the grammar ones because everyone that read them would e-mail me and say, Hey, you should make this into a poster. Matt: Pretty much zero. But I only did that once. I feel more whole as a person. You dont. Matt: I didnt have any problem with that. Matt: They did well. The two-day event was to take place in May 2020 in Portland, Oregon, U.S. Andrew: Aside from money, what makes for a better deal in the publishing world? When people know that there are going to be more frequent posts, theyre more likely to come back more frequently and then that just builds on itself. Sounds like you had the same experience? Login or become a premium member. I wasnt paying attention to the costs because I had never run into this issue before. But that is, hopefully the one that stands alone. Andrew: So at first it was a book and it was ads. Andrew: Including the woman who you call, The most retarded e-mail, or something like that, whos having some kid of legal trouble with her kids? Andrew: And this was in July 2009 when you launched? Matt: Actually, I havent talked about SEOmoz in a long time, so its kind of . Why didnt you just say, Im going to abandon this website and go find other projects? Seed it on Facebook. Matt: For one, Ive heard some statistic, I dont remember exactly what it is, that when you read a website, you have to visit it 10 or 12 or 30 times, I dont remember, in order to remember what website it was. I dont actually meet that many people in person. [2], At least one of The Oatmeal books was a New York Times Bestseller. Books - Best Sellers - Oct. 28, 2012 - The New York Times", "Paperback Advice & Misc. Im Oatmeal at Gmail, Twitter and Facebook, all that. How does a web comic earn $1,000 a day in revenue? Matt: I think it was when I was comparing the words then and than. Or actually, no, sorry, thats from a completely different comic. I dont want to operate off of these little trolls. Didnt you trick her? I dont know. Would you check out TeamworkPM.net? I had to respond like, Well, Im sorry you feel that way. Matt: I started when I was a kid, and I wanted to be some sort of artist when I grew up. Of its 1,531 customer accounts, 76% belong to high-net-worth investors who have at least $1 million in investable assets. Matt: [Laughs] Ive actually never told anybody why I did that. So I started running that on all the images to help cut down on the costs. There were seven or eight comics that I didnt release on the web, so there was that. I sent it to her. Some are personal. Im not sure where that comes from. (Use this code a big discount: MIXERGY). In the beginning, that was sort of the goal. It got more traffic than anything Id ever done, so that was when I kind of decided I clearly have some kind of knack for this sort of creative stuff and I think its a better fit for me than making little marketing gimmicks for SEO. Andrew: What I mean is, when I talked to Seth Godin and asked him why, even though he has a very popular blog, he refuses to allow comments on his site, he said when he accepted comments, his started to think, What will my commenters like? It would just be to create comics themselves. Are you working with a co-founder? The more comics I put up, the more people are reading my site, the more I was able to see it as a real job rather than just a side job. Andrew: Thats kind of a tough question for me to ask because it feels like Im confronting you with that information, but it just occurred to me, and I figured Id bring it up. Andrew: Ben Huh told me thats one of the things that he did when he acquired Lolcats or I Can Has Cheezburger. Digg I see as outside traffic, new users. Make something funny. Matt: In the beginning, I wanted it to be. Its Five Very Good Reasons to Punch a Dolphin in the Mouth. It was 17 comics that I drew and I actually had it printed overseas. Other names that Matthew uses includes Matthew D Inman, Matthew D Inman, Mathew Inman and Matthew David Inman. I dont know offhand, but Im guessing, usually the average is between three million and five million uniques. [19], The website was awarded the Eisner Award in the Best Digital/Webcomic category in 2014. It wasnt that big a deal. You have to be constantly making things they like rather than just a one-off. What You'll Learn: How Inman "Brain-Farms" his content Why "SEO has no bearing on The Oatmeal" How The Oatmeal attracts email subscribers without an opt-in box I'm a cartoonist. That and combined with the usual sharing it on Facebook, having it spread there, things like that. Andrew: Do you have any goal for yourself or number that you need to get out of a week or a month? And when Im making a comic and its like today, its a Tuesday and Ive got the rest of the day to draw, for some reason I feel like I have to get this comic out as quick as possible. And then Twitter and Facebook, it doesnt matter if I submit it first, I just prefer to. Things that were all feeling, were all doing, were all seeing, but no ones articulating in the right way. We should just throw it away and go back to doing what I used to do.. I see that thats often an issue for writers. I was in the comments a lot responding to users, being like an actual real part of the community rather than just going in there and trying to leach off of Diggs traffic. Andrew: Lately Ive been thinking the Tumblr system is probably best. But what I found was that, in the beginning, it was not super easy to sell something like that. Ive got notebooks all over my house. Well, thanks for doing the interview. I feel like with The Oatmeal, the further I can distance myself from that industry, the better. From one guy. What I did was I found this cool script that you can run on a 24-bit PNG that will actually make it look exactly the same as it had before, it just is a lower file size. Andrew: Im sitting here thinking, Should I ask this next question or not. I think Ill just go for it. Andrew: In that lull, when you werent getting a lot of traffic and it didnt seem like it was going to be a business, why did you continue with it? Andrew: On your blog you have a section where you call out, I think its called retarded e-mails. Redd it if you like it. The first time I had it printed in Seattle and the second time overseas. Its like this Christmas tree of lights aglow inside my head and I start writing things down in my notebook. We also talked about SEO. Andrew: By the way, if youre seeing me, or if anyone in the audience is seeing me adjust the mic a lot and adjust the computer, Im trying to somehow get the mic to not pick up on the fan on my laptop thats just going nuts for some reason. So even with my brief foray into link-building, a lot of people still regard me as this slimy, greasy SEO because I used to do aggressive link building. Would you mind if I post it on my site along with your name and your e-mail. [2] In a 2010 interview, he said that when thinking of a subject to write about, he simply picks something he is interested in. Finally, are you still coordinating projects by e-mail and wondering why youre not productive? Matthew Inman is the creator of The Oatmeal, a web comic with millions of fans. He writes about just about anything that's on his mind, from his dog to his grammar pet peeves to. Matt: I dont know. I used the same tool to draw comics that I drew websites with. Is that what you launched with? Andrew: I should ask you . [1] Other themes are zombies, horse care, English grammar,[5] dolphin brutality, and sexual congress between koalas and goats. I just started to see it as a real brittle business model and I just was never that passionate about it. What got you to create the How to Use a Semicolon comic? Since then. Okay. Some arent. While I was doing client work, it was a sharp reminder that I dont like doing client work. Im surprised that you went in this direction, because youre a guy who knew SEO really well. Hes a total jackass and blah blah blah. On one occasion, only one occasion, I actually pulled a comic from my site. Andrew: Why do you think the donation didnt do as well as merchandise? So it actually took me like two or three months to sell a couple hundred copies. Or I removed all the links to it. Andrew: Why? And then, I think it was October, is when I just finally kicked it into high gear and started making way more comics and working harder, basically. #1 New York Times best-selling author Matthew Inman, aka The Oatmeal, delivers the goods with this purrfect mix of feline facts and cat-loving humor illustrated in his irresistible style. Andrew: How well did the book do when you first launched it? Matt: It wasnt a mistake. I hate that theyre adding WiFi to planes now. Even though Im on a plane and the ticket was $600 and the Starbucks before I got on the plane was $7. [31][32], Revenue from The Oatmeal includes the sale of wall posters, greeting cards, calendars, clothing, coffee cups, signed prints, stickers, magnets, and badges. And the more you leave out, the more the reader will project his own humor into it and theyll see their own humor in that character, which is why comics are kind of a nice medium, because you can draw as simply as you want. So its sort of an issue of then and than and what the context means. The Oatmeal was kind of in that new, up and rising phase, so it was real exciting for me to work on it. Inman said that he loved The Oatmeal but "Im just tired and its been a decade of writing comics for strangers from my basement, and I want to try something different for a while. What about How did you get a book deal after you self-published your own book? Now I work for myself and really no one can control what I say. And seeing the success of the comics that I did before, I realized that I could probably make a comic website and have it do okay. With The Oatmeal, I was impatient. Why not show that off? Homepage . Trying to just identify those and put in the right words. The website is theoatmeal.com and Matt, thanks again. And now, I just do it based on if I think its poster-worthy and how much feedback I get. [4], Inman lives on Bainbridge Island in the Seattle area, . With Twitter and Facebook, those are my own fans who have committed to following me. Well, in my opinion, those are kind of two different things. Im The Oatmeal on Digg. Andrew: Whats the story behind you Rickrolling the people at Reddit? But I look at them alter and theyre genius. Like, as a designer, I was great at making things that were pretty, but I wasnt great at the other part of it, which is communication, feedback, iterating. Because I didnt want comics on my major comics, but on the blog I sort of looked at it as little cutesy comics that arent good enough for the main section. Matt: I think I was clear enough. Every few years, I compile these comics into books, such as How to tell if your cat is plotting to kill you. Matt: Last month? The Oatmeal is a webcomic and humor website created in 2009 by cartoonist Matthew Inman. Right now, I try to do one comic a week. The last time I did an interview with you, lots of people ended up e-mailing me through that saying, Oh, I didnt know you lived in Seattle. [3][1], Exploding Kittens is being made into a Netflix series by Mike Judge and Greg Daniels. yubasys.blogspot.com: 0: Top Keywords % of search traffic. It was more of . I know that doesnt go a long way if you look at the music industry, but it did for me. TeamworkPM.net is trusted by Universal Studios, University of Texas at Austin, the U.S. Army and many other organizations. Its actually much funnier than a drunk 15 year old. [57][58][59], Inman is featured in Tower to the People, a 2015 documentary on Wardenclyffe by Joseph Sikorski.[60]. Andrew: So when anyone clicked from Reddit to theoatmeal.com, they saw one of those three videos instead of The Oatmeal? I feel like right now the Internet is a wonderful place to be because its so easy to make something small and just explode it out there. Ive kind of got a really good stride with that community. Andrew: Gotcha. Matt: Yeah, sometimes I do. Andrew: So, how many people came to your website, to TheOatmeal.com, last month? 10 Things Worth Knowing about Your Cat is as funny as it is factual. So if one guy can generate that much traffic, I feel like the Internet has kind of come to fruition. I send it to her just to make sure and she comes back with all these little minor things that might be wrong. What did you learn about selling in the early days? You had the book and you had AdSense. I dont know when the last time was that you saw a YouTube video and you scrolled through the comments and you were like, Ah, I feel better now that I read those. I wait six months and I do a huge sale. So the noun formula is probably the simplest thing that Ive ever done to generate ideas. So I just called it The Oatmeal because thats a name that Id been using for so long. So I learned that in order for someone to commit to buy something because theyre a fan, you actually have to repeatedly do well. With something even like animation, you have things like movement and voice narration, things that can actually change what people project into that character. How effective or how successful was the poster when you first launched that? I think it was four or five months after I launched. A fundraiser to develop and produce a card game called Exploding Kittens raised $8.8 million,[15] and a game company co-founded by Inman received a $30 million investment in 2019. It banks on the humor and the insight in those comics and the utility of them. Keep iterating. Any Internet commentary can be pretty negative and that can be pretty poisonous to the creative process. Ive been meaning to do some kind of split test or something to figure out what will make the posters sell better or whatever, but I put most of my energy just into making better comics. "[8][4], In reaction to Tumblr's regular downtimes, Inman created the TumbleBeasts in 2010 as a parody of the Twitter Fail Whale, and urged Tumblr to use them. Youre a good looking guy. [38] In 2020, the event was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but a "virtual race" was organized instead. Matt: I think having more creative control of your work. Andrew: Why didnt you degrade the quality of the images? Matt: Since becoming a comic artist, Ive started paying a lot more attention to whats going on around me. Its kind of old and I actually wouldnt recommend that people draw comics with it. I liked it. That probably wouldnt go over so well. But mostly just because the price difference is not that great at this point, so Im okay with leaving it PNG. My Dog: The Paradox: A Lovable Discourse about Man's Best Friend (The Oatmeal Book 3) May 7, 2013. by The Oatmeal , Matthew Inman. Its more just like kind of a vacant lack of ideas and a sense of being uninspired. [39], In June 2019, Exploding Kittens Inc. announced the planning of a live gaming convention. I actually had a book deal on the table and a few interested people and I actually went to an agent and got one and then had her go negotiate and help me because it was just a totally different animal and some publishers wont even talk to you unless you have an agent. Comics that were already on the site or new comics? Andrew: I find that too for me. Being caffeinated generally seems to help. As of Dec. 31, Fannie Mae's net worth the amount by which the company's total assets exceed its liabilities was $60.3 billion, up 27 percent from a year ago. [75][76] On August 28, 2013, a Stipulation of Dismissal with prejudice was filed by Excelsior Printing Company, the litigants in the lawsuit, meaning that the two parties had settled the dispute. And when you do meet me, Im actually kind of a nice guy. It was an inspiring story too. I was making comics and I felt like Reddit would take my comics, get them on the front page, I wouldnt even submit them and then what would follow was like 20 pages of hate about The Oatmeal. I actually am the most creative at night after the caffeine glow fades theres sort of a strung out, weird creative burst that always comes around 10:00 p.m. and thats when I usually get the most ideas. Matt: Well, for one, the book is something tangible that you can give as a gift. I submit my stuff and it goes straight to the homepage every single time. You used to be a consultant who showed other companies how to do search engine optimization. Here Ive got someone who has mastered it and has intentionally pushed it aside to focus on other things. We became SEOmoz, I think a year later, and then I was appointed as Chief Technology Officer. I think its artifacted garbage. Andrew: And so was it always going to be a business? On one hand, Inman sees himself as a comedian, an artist who has to answer to nobody, a guy who works for himself and is thus finally free to mock people who dislike his work. Matt: It was called Hungover Aliens and it just was the most horribly received comic Ive ever done. [4], His first viral comic was "How to Tell if Your Cat is Plotting to Kill You",[2] and other comics have titles such as "How to Use a Semicolon",[2] "What it's Like to Own an Apple Product", "How the Male Angler Fish Gets Completely Screwed", "15-ish Things Worth Knowing About Coffee" and "How a Web Design Goes Straight to Hell. Im one of the oldest accounts on there. "[6], One comic, "Why Nikola Tesla Was the Greatest Geek Who Ever Lived", was heavily critiqued by a writer for Forbes. When youre working for yourself and a mistake can cost you personally money and cost you the business that you love, wouldnt you be more cautious? With my posters, the things that we sell the most of are the grammar posters. And youre right. Thats his main form of communication with them. Andrew: I think this is encouraging for a lot of us who dont know much about search engine optimization, dont have much interest in it, but we keep hearing that we need to learn it, that we need to master it, that our businesses will fail unless were good at it. "[2][11] Around the same time, Inman signed a deal to develop an animated feature for Illumination Entertainment, though at that time the film did not appear to have been greenlit and no details were announced. Andrew: And stick with it. Alexandria Inman, Sandra Matthews, Teresa Inman, Holly Inman and Kristen Keyser, and many others are family members and associates of Matthew. Andrew: Aside from getting on a plane, what can you do if you want to generate creativity? Matt: It didnt hurt it that much in the beginning, just because I dont feel like I was producing worse comics. Oatmeal Studios holds the trademark for their name and after The Oatmeal worked with another company to make greeting cards based on the comic, Oatmeal Studios argued that this was too similar and likely to cause confusion. Andrew: I see. I didnt actually take it down, but I removed all the links because I was so ashamed of how awful it was. Matthew Inman's birthday is 09/24/1982 and is 40 years old. That was a big part of it. Andrew: I think last time you and I talked, we talked about Mingle2, the dating site that you launched. Inman said that the funds will be used to mount a live gaming convention, Burning Cat; and to hire more artists and produce three to five new games a year. So most people that say, Oatmeal should go kill himself, or whatever, they usually get Dugg down and the people who compliment my comics get Dugg up. [52][53], In May 2014, Inman produced a comic on The Oatmeal titled "What it's like to own a Tesla Model S - A cartoonist's review of his magical space car",[54] and a follow-up comic titled "Part Two: Man Vs. Motor"[55] in which he talked about Nikola Tesla, and Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla Motors. Picture of a dolphin. Stay co-ordinated and productive with Teamwork PM. But, if youre just trying to coordinate with a small company of just two people, it will help make your team more productive. But as far was why he didnt mention me, I have no idea. So the traffic from the two kind of fed off each other. Speak on that, other than free shipping tends to sell well little.! 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