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yet another site

You guys are probably getting sick of all these new sites - imagehosti.com is my latest one.

Designed, set up and up for sale already. I already have two sites up for sale on sitepoint, both have bids which total up $135, hopefully that’ll go up to ~$200.

This third site has a BIN of $105. Not sure it will get that but we’ll see - it looks good and people seem to like the ‘webmaster tool’ type sites more so than blogs or forums etc…

I’m on course to beat last weeks $183 profit… if i could average $200/week every week i’d be delighted

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content sells

I’ve noticed most of the sites that sell on sitepoint, are sites full with content. I’m talking about huge databases with thousands of entries… the buyers also have a 4 or 5 page copied pasted sales pitch and set a price of about $297 or something spammy like that (yes - even a price can be spammy e.g. $47, $97 generally anything ending in a ‘7′). Probably took 30 minutes to create - stock template, no web 2.0 effect, poor domains hyped up as ‘premium’ domains

Anyway, i thought i’d get in to the content buying a bit, so i’ve bought a database with over 3000 entries on ‘dreams’ I’ve *almost* got it working with wordpress, there’s a problem with the tags that i just can’t sort out… i had to manually edit tables to get the categories working, but the tags thing is a nuisance…

So that’s what i’ll spend my day doing. You can see how the site develops at truthdream.com - i’ll be selling that for over $200. By the time i’m finished with it, it will probably have over 3000 indexed pages in google

Bannedtvad.com is also looking VERY slick (not live yet)… hopefully i’ll be able to get that up by this evening too. It too will be running wordpress and will come with a hefty price tag over over $300 i’d imagine.

So i’ve ’slowed down’ a bit, but that’s because i’m working on larger scale stuff now hoping to sell them for a bit more… selling a site for $100 is great, but really, i’d need to be doing that daily to make a living online.

That’s quite demanding and not quite the cushy life you’d expect from working online But 2 or 3 sites per week selling at $2/300 - that’s much easier to do as you’re not in a rush and you’ve some sort of flexibility.

I’m already seeing the benefits of blogging so openly about my new sites - i’ve had my first request to design a logo for someone my portfolio is here for all to see on this blog so it’s juts another advantage of blogging… i am planning on setting up a ‘portfolio’ page though or perhaps on a subdomain.

At this stage i’ve created dozens of logos and a few unique template designs. I’ve also sold several sites and know a thing or two about SEO so rather than let those facts get burried in this blog, i’ll have to make sure you all know about them

Not so much to get more business, but to help people ‘trust’ me when it comes to buying a site from me or wanting to find out past info on me…

Holiday Ratings dot com

This was a domain name i bought back in 2006 - one my oldest domain names. I’ve rarely spoken about it as for the first year or so i simply forgot about it, until i got an email telling me it was about to expire I also had an offer for it which i rejected

I’ve let a few domains expire deliberately (not many) and this one certainly wasn’t going to leave my hands. It is an excellent domain name. I’m still not entirely sure what to do with it, i’m trying to come up with some sort of unique idea / simple idea and get a custom script drafted up…

But i’ve come up with this classy/generic logo which will do nicely for whatever the site is about

Rather than just try and sell the domain name, i thought that’s wasted potential. It IS a good domain name, so if i can put together a 100% custom built site to match, it will be worth 4 figures easily. Might take a few hundred to get off the ground though

Holiday can mean ‘vacation’ or holidays as in Christmas, Easter etc… So it could double as a TV /radio type ratings site or a vacation ratings site and you can see from the logo what i’ve gone for

It’s definitely a site i’d be willing to hold on to, it would look great on my portfolio of sites. All i have to do now is try to come up with a simple idea, put together a detailed plan of action and outsource the coding of a custom script

logo wars

I was browsing Tyler Cruz’s blog yesterday (regular reader) and came across his new logo.. (here).

It seems everyone who’s anyone is changing their image these days.. in the past couple of months, JohnChow, Shoemoney and Problogger have all dipped into their pockets and paid for new designs and identity.

Tyler has mentioned several times before he wanted to update his blog design, i remember him saying that like a year ago Anyway, his new logo certainly looks the part..

Very professional, custom made… a solid investment. He’s gotten in to a bit of a mess though over it..

He got the logo for $250, but tried to sell the services of the logo designers for $500, pocketing around $150 for acting as a ’sales rep’. The brown envelope deal was spotted by John Cow who became the whistle-blower…

Whilst Tyler is no doubt angry, potential clients are no doubt grateful to John Cow who might well have saved them $250 per logo. At the end of the day, the reason services/sales are so successful online is because they cut out the middle man.

By taking middle men into internet services, you raise prices, which in turn means only the wealthy can survive… without the little guys like me and you investing our pennies, we’d have another dot com collapse. That is of course an OTT, pessimistic view of things, blown out of all porportions, but it’s a little example as to what we don’t need on the net.

The best solution would have been for an affiliate system. Prices at $500, with a 20% cut per referral. If the service is good enough (which it is, in this case), then you’ll have no problem getting referrals and generating business. So this is an example of how not to do referrals