So I put up a donation page saying, Hey, do you guys want to support The Oatmeal? Would you mind if I post it on my site along with your name and your e-mail. So I tried to just pick a bunch of different things that I knew I could make work. And then that sort of evolved into, I actually do better with posters than anything else. He used Shopify. Find Matthew Inman's phone number, address, and email on Spokeo, the leading people search directory for contact information and public records. They Digg up my stuff. So I was actually spending three or four grand a month on hosting costs for all the images I was serving up, and I wasnt getting that back in. "[6], One comic, "Why Nikola Tesla Was the Greatest Geek Who Ever Lived", was heavily critiqued by a writer for Forbes. Estimated net worth of $2.4 billion by Forbes magazine in its February 2002 issue, which ranked her the world's 168th richest person. Andrew: I see. Andrew: I thought when you launched TheOatmeal.com that what I saw was a series of quizzes. How will you use Twilio to build voice and SMS apps? Andrew: Why? Andrew: Thats one of the benefits of video. Lets make my own website that can generate, be sufficient and not have to work for anybody. So thats what was the real decision for me. Andrew: Why do you think the donation didnt do as well as merchandise? So, I see that youre in the community. 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. Digg I see as outside traffic, new users. [39], In June 2019, Exploding Kittens Inc. announced the planning of a live gaming convention. Matt: She doesnt look spry. [1] Inman said in 2010 that The Oatmeal received more than 20 million page views per month;[13] as of 2012 the site received 4 million visitors a month. 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. It just worked as a comic. Andrew: And then how did the agent reshape your deal? So I started running that on all the images to help cut down on the costs. 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 Inman net worth is $200,000 Matt Inman Wiki: Salary, Married, Wedding, Spouse, Family Matt Inman is a writer and art director, known for Death Couch (2010), Chopstick Drummer (2016) and The Machine (2010). The new book has the same title, its just way bigger. He sold Mingle2 but stayed on with the new company, and wrote comics and quizzes to attract readers. Posters seem to sell the best. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. Andrew: On your blog you have a section where you call out, I think its called retarded e-mails. Its somebody elses website. I started using Tumblr for the first time like a month ago and I love the software. Matt: I think the real strength that I had with SEO wasnt really the technical aspects of SEO itself. According to CNN, the company raised $9 million in funding and is now believed to be worth $30 million. Like, oh, I need to make a comic. Matt: Oh, I was terrified. GitHub uses Shopify to sell t-shirts and mugs to its fans. 23 while the Dobson family, owner of Whataburger, ranked No. But when I learned how to code, I kind of just put it on a back burner for a while. This creative process was under this umbrella of control. Teachers buy them in bulk and hang them in the classroom. [2], At least one of The Oatmeal books was a New York Times Bestseller. I think with vector graphics, the best way for me to cut the costs down would be to switch everything to be a JPEG. By the way, is the information in The Economist magazine that I used in the intro right? It was a great story. So its sort of an issue of then and than and what the context means. Because you imagine making a comic saying, This is how to use a semicolon, and the Internet is not shy to correct you when youre wrong especially when you kind of build up an image as a grammar guy. Matt: Yeah. Matt: Not really. Thanks for liking this post. Theres all kinds of threads that pop up about me on Reddit saying, The Oatmeals a spammer. I didnt realize you made that many. [63][4] The campaign raised $220,024 at completion. That way, if people want to give you some feedback, they can. And shes like, Well of course! People loved it. This is going to sound super cheesy, but embrace social media. Wouldnt you worry more that youd lose this whole thing that you love so much? Now I work for myself and really no one can control what I say. How many grammar ones do you make? Why not do simple things like that? 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? On a plane with no distractions I get so much more done. On one occasion, only one occasion, I actually pulled a comic from my site. At that point, werent you nervous? Comics that were already on the site or new comics? Didnt you trick her? But when she gets out, Im sure shell probably ask me to take to down. These are feelings that are universal, that we all share. Im actually kind of on the fence as to whether or not Ill keep them. Rather than getting on there and saying, Hey everybody, Im The Oatmeal. How do you fit in there? Or with a virtual assistant? Matthew Inman in Texas. 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. Andrew: Are you worried that she might come after you right after she comes out of prison? Its a website designing package. Andrew: I see. "Carreon claims victory, drops his lawsuit against The Oatmeal et al", "FunnyJunk Attorney Charles Carreon Drops Lawsuit Against Oatmeal Creator", "Funny Junk Drops Frivolous Lawsuit Against The Oatmeal", "The Oatmeal sued over trademark by 'Oatmeal Studios', "Oatmeal Studios Responds to The Oatmeal Lawsuit: 'We Are Simply Trying to Protect Our Name', "Excelsior Printing Company v. Inman et al Filing 33 STIPULATION of Dismissal with prejudice by Excelsior Printing Company. Also, I am horrible with clients. Burning Cat was to feature appearances from guest speakers alongside a series of gaming and networking activities. I didnt decide, oh, Im going to rank for semicolons and build a business on it. I also make card games, such as Exploding Kittens and Throw Throw Burrito. And because I only do sales really rarely and usually big, like 40 or 50 percent, people respond really well to them, rather than the weekly 10 percent off this week, 5 percent off next week. 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. So, what about this though? In 2010, Inman said The Oatmeal received more than four million unique visitors per month. First of all, I got to tell your story forever and I said, This is the kind of story that I want to find for Mixergy. And second, I remember getting traffic even back in the early days, back when hardly anybody knew me, the few people who did ended up sharing your story with their friends. Did it move you in a direction? I try to make things that I think are funny and that I enjoy. And they may be right, but it happens. And not just Reddit. I dont know. Andrew: I see. 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. Andrew: I find that too for me. Say something someone hasnt said. What changed as you learned and as you were selling? And what ended up happening was that we were ranking for keywords and then Google kept burning down our sites because they dont like you to be aggressive about that kind of thing. Matt: Originally, it was mostly StumbleUpon, and I think I might have gotten on Digg once or twice. Senior Mechanical Engineer with a focus in mechanical and aerodynamic design, heater development, CFD, and experimentation for both fixed and . So I decided to tackle the problem and figure out how to use it, and then I documented that experience and turned it into a comic. Matt: I started when I was a kid, and I wanted to be some sort of artist when I grew up. First, do you want to build a web app that interacts with phones? 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? Because it sounds like the business was there before you, and then you came on . So with Mingle2 in particular, that was what really pushed me over the edge, because basically my responsibility every day was to build quizzes, comics, little viral attractions, but the goal was to build links. Inman said that he found it is much easier to gain exposure for his work through the internet than it would have been two decades earlier. Andrew: Howd you decide on the comic to make into a poster? It offers original comics, quizzes, and occasional articles. In this Blogger Profile of Matthew Inman, we tell the story of how he started The Oatmeal, and how he's turned it into a $500,000 per year online business. Reputation & Background She gave you permission? I dont go to conferences. And then from there, I slice them up and I put them on the website. 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. Matthew Inman, creator of the geek-famous internet comic The Oatmeal, has a pretty great gig. Why are things different there? [38] In 2020, the event was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but a "virtual race" was organized instead. So I feel like doing something where I can draw, where I can be funny and creative was much, much better. Andrew: So let me ask you this. [20] In 2016, Inman received the Bob Clampett Humanitarian Award from San Diego Comic-Con, an award given "to people in comics and the popular arts who have worked to help others. It was a quarter of a billion almost. I just have to let it go and then trust that eventually Ill get better and better as I do my interviews. Andrew: I also have here on my list, I wanted to ask you about e-mail. I get to add it to my website and thats what my sites about. 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: Yeah, a lot of writers have told me that they have no control over the cover. What was the next product after the book? . I just started churning out way more content, and when I did that, it sort of pushed over this edge and The Oatmeal just sort of exploded. And please dont Google that comic because its awful. What about How did you get a book deal after you self-published your own book? So I just called it The Oatmeal because thats a name that Id been using for so long. Seed it wherever you want to seed it and just see what happens. Matt: I didnt know how to use one. The creator of that comic is popular, so Im going to get traffic for it. Picture of a dolphin. I mean, honestly, it was a little contract we wrote up together. I love the format and the way it works. Matt: Those people, I have their permission to do it. [9][10], In June 2019, just after the release of The Secret Life of Pets 2 a feature animated film in which Inman was credited as creative consultant Inman told the Washington Post that he "wont be regularly creating the Oatmeal much longer" and was planning a hiatus of around two years. Andrew: You did. Any Internet commentary can be pretty negative and that can be pretty poisonous to the creative process. As far as traffic. Ping me if you think its taking me too long to post it. The firm has a number of services, such as portfolio management for individuals . I dont know what it is about being locked in a cabin with crappy food and pressurized environment. 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. One thing youll find is that if you ever make a post about grammar, suddenly every pedantic person from across the Internet will find you and point out every little thing that you spell wrong or do wrong. No comments on blog posts. Troll Lawyer Sues The Charities The Oatmeal Supports, "Lawyer Charles Carreon Suing The Oatmeal, American Cancer Society and National Wildlife Federation". Inman created The Oatmeal website in 2009. Its nice reading them and seeing all these fans talking. I want to put it in my classroom. That was in the beginning. Matt: Actually, I havent talked about SEOmoz in a long time, so its kind of . I wouldnt be in an office or anything like that. [35] There is also merchandise of characters from the games. Its actually much funnier than a drunk 15 year old. Its like this Christmas tree of lights aglow inside my head and I start writing things down in my notebook. [2], Inman said that when he started the comic, he felt that drawing was a chore. So basically I was this giant image hosting machine. Usually, Ill submit to Digg first and then everything else, Ill do Digg, Twitter, Facebook and then Ill just leave it alone and watch the traffic. Matt: Im not sure, really. I see that thats often an issue for writers. I just drank coffee all the time. I read an article about how Matthew Inmans web comic, The Oatmeal, generated sales of $70,000 in a single day last year (on Black Friday) and $1,000 on a typical day. You had the book and you had AdSense. So, eventually, I started using the name Oatmeal on the Internet when I signed up for things. Andrew: Right. Matt: Not really. If I can do two to three, thats amazing, but usually its about one. I dont actually meet that many people in person. ", often at #1. Andrew: Lately Ive been thinking the Tumblr system is probably best. Matt: I started making quizzes at first. Is that what you launched with? How much SEO do you use to bring traffic to your site? Matt: I didnt have any problem with that. So I kind of went back to where I had started. Check Background Get Contact Info This Is Me - Edit. While I was doing client work, it was a sharp reminder that I dont like doing client work. Matt: Oh, OK. Ive got a newsletter set up and its got a following on it, but it is a fart in the wind compared to Facebook fan pages as far as a way to communicate with people. As you can tell from The Oatmeal, Im a very creative person, very visually oriented, and at SEOmoz my tasks were mostly code, dev, system admin. Ive kind of got a really good stride with that community. Andrew: SEOmoz is a search engine optimization website that you co-founded. It offers original comics, quizzes, and occasional articles. So they did really well. Matt: It didnt hurt it that much in the beginning, just because I dont feel like I was producing worse comics. Every few years, I compile these comics into books, such as How to tell if your cat is plotting to kill you. I'm a cartoonist. What they were not expecting is Matthew Inman, the boyish 33-year-old author from Seattle wearing a clean, collared shirt; the polite, reserved artist with the runner's physique and the. I think it was four or five months after I launched. I was a developer and a designer and I built a lot of SEO tools, but, as far as what SEOmoz offers now is such a different animal, its probably just wasnt that relevant. The website is theoatmeal.com and Matt, thanks again. But I only did donations, that was not a long-term goal. And then, about two months in, I actually decided it probably couldnt be a business. Matt: Its actually the same title as the new book. So Ive only been drawing comics for, I think, a little over two years. 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 . Andrew: What about in the beginning when you were going into Digg and you knew that if you won this group of people over, theyd send you massive traffic and if you turned them into haters, theyd bury you and you wouldnt get anything from them. She doesnt look very fast, so well see. Andrew: OK. Andrew: I think last time you and I talked, we talked about Mingle2, the dating site that you launched. I was just working a lot harder. What did you learn about selling in the early days? 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. I know I got a lot out of that interview too. Ive been on Digg since the site was founded, pretty much. Matt: I dont know really. And youre right. Matt: I believe it was posters. I found that certain themes, that if I attack, will actually drive traffic like crazy and that other things wont. You said you were thinking of Reddit as you were creating your comics. But I would think the opposite would happen. Yeah, at first I did it myself. A lot of people who try to get on Digg find a power user, submit it, try to make it look like it wasnt a marketing company, try to make it look like it wasnt an actual social media guy and they try to make it look natural. So usually I tell them that I slept with their mom or I say the most vile, awful thing I can think of. In the beginning, when you were getting feedback, what was that feedback like? Cool. Matt: I want to do a second book. 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 was using a local hosting company in Seattle and I switched away from that and started using Amazon S3 and I was able to cut the price down too, because S3 is cheaper. Its the stand-up routine where someone gets up there and says, Whats the deal with airline food? You take that and you apply it to a comic. Twitter or Facebook? Matthew Inman is a certified financial planner who works out of Chapel Hill, North Carolina, who has 18 years of professional experience. Well, in my opinion, those are kind of two different things. Structural Info Filmography Known for movies Death Couch (2010) as Writer Chopstick Drummer (2016) as Writer The Machine (2010) But, if youre just trying to coordinate with a small company of just two people, it will help make your team more productive. Id throw a fit and that would be the end of the client. Andrew: What about optimizing sales pages, landing pages, the way you present what youre selling? Its Andrew Warner. Matt: I dont think shell Have you read about her? Matt: It was that same magical month. So when you did start to publish them more frequently, how did it affect your work? So I dont have much to speak on that, other than free shipping tends to sell well. 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? Illustrator is much better or just pen and paper mixed with a pad and Photoshop. The website won the Eisner Award for Best Digital/Webcomic in 2014. 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 We became SEOmoz, I think a year later, and then I was appointed as Chief Technology Officer. In the beginning, that was sort of the goal. I dont speak publicly much. Matthew Inman Instructional Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering at University of Mississippi Memphis Metropolitan Area NSI-MI Technologies, +1 more University of Mississippi Matthew. So I found that if I can just get the warehousing and the distribution out of the way and deal with that, then I can actually make real money with it, rather than just chump change. So with The Oatmeal, I do get traffic through SEO, but it wasnt intentional. I didnt actually take it down, but I removed all the links because I was so ashamed of how awful it was. I wait six months and I do a huge sale. Andrew: So 80 percent was coming in from the book in the first few months? Why do that? 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. Andrew: I mean going back. Matt: I used to think it as useful, but I actually found its just more poisonous than anything. So, in the beginning, youre absolutely right, probably insulting my critics wouldnt have gone over so well. Whats number two? I feel more whole as a person. You dont. 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. Matt: Honestly, I havent done much with that. Andrew: How does it effect you to put something out there thats not perfect? He said that while the act would have afforded him more rights, he disliked like the way that SOPA would have put the onus on sites to prove their innocence. Stay co-ordinated and productive with Teamwork PM. I dont want to operate off of these little trolls. With The Oatmeal, I was impatient. That and combined with the usual sharing it on Facebook, having it spread there, things like that. What about some simple search engine optimization tactics, like with Mingle2, you created quizzes that people could embed the results of on their websites and right underneath it, youd have text that linked back to your site with the right anchor text. [31][32], Revenue from The Oatmeal includes the sale of wall posters, greeting cards, calendars, clothing, coffee cups, signed prints, stickers, magnets, and badges. Matt: I really like Tumblr. Have you tried e-mail? I know what Im getting out of this interview. She e-mailed me that spectacle that you see and I wrote her back and I said, You know, Kimberly, this is a really insightful comment youve got on dyslexia and how Americans interpret that. Matt: [Laughs] Ive actually never told anybody why I did that. Matt: I figured, close enough, same month. How much more productive can you be if you use TeamworkPM.net? For example, I was on a plane and my girlfriend and I were talking about apps and there was an app that was $1.99 or $1.00 and I was stressing about, oh, its $2.00, I dont know. It would be mine. It was an inspiring story too. But that is, hopefully the one that stands alone. So I realized that a lot of people in our generation, we stress about app purchases at $1.00 even though we buy things like iPhones and cars and houses and $8.00 mochas. If not, fine with me. So thats sort of why I draw myself and all my characters as these kind of bloated, blank babies. You just publish more frequently, he said. In a matter of hours you launched this online dating site, you showed the sketch of it online, you came here to talk about how you built it, how you grew it, how you got traffic for it. Most people, they go get an agent, the agent negotiates the book deal and then you get your book. Im a one man operation and I just calculated the number of pageviews I got in 2010. Of its 1,531 customer accounts, 76% belong to high-net-worth investors who have at least $1 million in investable assets. 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. But yeah, definitely posting more frequently in the beginning helped a lot. I read online, Im looking here at my notes, where you said that you were miserable there for a few years. Thats huge. Matt: I used to play a game called Quake when I was a teenager, and when I played online and I always used the name Quaker Oatmeal. Matt: I didnt know that. Like, Things That You Shouldnt Do In E-Mail, How to Suck at Facebook, Words You Should Stop Misspelling, these are all gripes. Charles Carreon Drops Bogus Lawsuit Against The Oatmeal Creator. I carry them in my pocket and I write things down all the time when I get an idea. [14], Campaigns for related products have also been successful. But I only did that once. 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. Andrew: Digg is number one. Andrew: And so was it always going to be a business? In the last panel of that comic, I think theres something that not perfect, but it could be better. I dont do sales very often. And also, I try not to put a lot of detail into them either, simply because, when you look at a comic character, Ive found the more detail you put into that character, the less funny they become. Matt: Just because the success of my comics doesnt bank on people searching for keywords. It was a Rickroll and I did Chers Do You Believe In Life After Love and the song Informer by Snow. He just wrote what he liked and what he thought was funny and that humor coincided with his fans. I particularly dont want to put them on a lot of my bigger comics, just because, more for the readers sake too. Matt: I usually can tell right away if my fans dont like a certain comic. Matt: Yeah, sometimes I do. But as far was why he didnt mention me, I have no idea. [40][41][42][43], In August 2012, Inman launched a fundraising campaign on the crowdfunding website Indiegogo to support a nonprofit organization offering to purchase Wardenclyffe Tower in Shoreham on Long Island, New York. 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. It technically wasnt a Rickroll. Login or become a premium member. Matt: She was able to put together, its called a literary plan or something like that. Metadata Updates Get more 0at.org metadata updates. Why did you give the site the name The Oatmeal? Andrew: How do you go from having no idea, to suddenly getting the idea, to drawing it, to putting it on the computer and getting it out? "[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. When I worked there, we were actually under a different name, and it was just me, Rand, and his mom. . After publishing the comic, he tweeted Musk, inviting Elon to donate to the Tesla Museum. Andrew: How interesting. With me, I took an opposite route. I think in comments about this Economist article on Hacker News, people were talking about the comments that were said about you and search engine optimization on Reddit. I mean, the difference is that I cant afford to post four, five to ten times a day, and I try not to limit myself on a schedule now, just because I find that if I make comics when I can, its better. Do you know what I mean? Theyre usually pretty responsive. Andrew: What about cover design? Yeah. View the profiles of people named Matthew Inman. If I create a new comic, whats going to make it successful isnt going to be if someone Googles the word dinosaur or bear with indigestion and finds it. After some jobs for other companies, he created a dating website called "Mingle2", which became popular. Andrew: And as a co-founder, did you invest money into the business? I used the same tool to draw comics that I drew websites with. Andrew: So when anyone clicked from Reddit to theoatmeal.com, they saw one of those three videos instead of The Oatmeal? This eponymous comic became an instant hit when it went live on The Oatmeal.com and was liked on Facebook by 700,000 fans. Andrew: And this was in July 2009 when you launched? And sometimes I do put out things that arent perfect, even if Id actually worked on it a bit, I would have been better. I've been publishing comics on this website since 2009. From what? Im not sure where that comes from. I want to operate off of what I think is funny because that seems to be what works best most of the time. Previously city included Bergholz OH. And part of my writing style and the persona that I have online is sort of this crass, bloated, obese, drunk monster. matthew inman: 75.80%: matt inman: 8.46%: 0at: 8.13%: matthew inman net worth: 3.36%: the oatmeal . Other names that Matthew uses includes Matthew D Inman, Matthew D Inman, Mathew Inman and Matthew David Inman. (Use this code a big discount: MIXERGY). Well, thanks for doing the interview. Inman embodies a generation of online publishing entrepreneurs who came up as independent figures, with a touch of the outlaw. 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