In its third financing round, Tumblr managed to raise $5 million more from its current Venture Funders, Union Venture and Spark Capital.  Tumblr’s current funding is now around $10 million, and the microblogging platform is beginning to look for ways to start generating income after 3 years of growing both in users and impressions.

Now it seems about time for Tumblr to begin with some methods to generate income, and according to founder David Karp.  The company has started rolling out a series of paid services.

Basically after dropping the idea of a “Tumblr Plus” which would have been a premium Tumblr service with advanced features not available to free users (these new features are now available to everyone, for instance static pages).

The first of these paid services seem to be the premium themes, both created by Tumblr itself or the users (in this last case they take a %30 cut from the purchase and they go from from $9 to $49 each one).  Other income generating options include buying stickers and spots on a directory of recommended blogs.  Another potential revenue stream could be a feature that lets users order prints of images they see on tumblelogs, there has been a small experiment on this.

You can take a look at what one of  Tumblr’s investors has to say about this.

The graphic you can see below shows clearly how astonishing Tumblr’s traffic growth has been since its birth.  As with many other web 2.0 services it hast yet to be known if it can actually make money.

Source: MediaMemo.

We know that the option to add posts to the queue in Tumblr is quite useful, but we can certainly get one more functionality from it. Lets say we created a series of posts but we really don’t want to put an exact date on them and we don’t want to get them published yet either (why don’t creating a draft then you might think), just put the Tumblr queued posts on hold or Stand-By mode.

Though this requires you to enter your Tumblr before the time of the day you configured to get your queued posts published is still a good Tumblr tip in case you changed your mind and don’t want to edit post by post turning them into drafts or putting a date on them one by one.

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Among the several publishing options in Tumblr, one of them is called “add to queue”.  It basically allows you to keep your post frequency consistent over a period of time keeping your own tumblelog alive while your away, meaning is automatic (but notice this is different from tumblr publish on feature).  One of the advantages of this option is that if you are really busy during the week (or during the day) to enter your Tumblr account and post at a particular time you can just pile up several posts  or just enter daily at any time given time creating one post for the queue and then you are gone.  The important thing here is that you make sure you never run out of queued posts!.

The important thing here is that you make sure you configure one (or both) of the options in the Tumblr queue. And even though there’s the usual complaint tumblr queue is not working, or not posting, or doing it at the wrong time, it’s simply something not related to your account, but only to Tumblr’s own fault, it’s not like adding a scroll to top button to tumblr.

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