reflection

what’s my secret?

There’s no doubt these past few weeks, i’ve really cranked it up a notch. Looking at my domain names, i’ve bought 10 within the last week. These past two weeks;

I’ve also sold 5 sites;

• imagehostme.com
• stupidrivers.net
• ajaximagehost.com
• sawurl.com
• urldwarf.com

Have two currently up for sale;

• socialwtf.com
• turthdream.com

Failed to sell two:

• snapbone.com
• petprison.com

Plus i’ve developed;

• bannedtvad.com

On the design front, i’ve created 11 logos (+1 paid logo which someone requested). I’ve also created 3 unique wordpress themes and several modified templates for all the above sites.

So how can i go from seemingly doing nothing, to becoming a ‘machine gun developer’ (i like that term, just came up with it there!) literally overnight? The answer is i was always working, you guys just never seen it or seen the results of it… you can’t just become a seller, designer, developer etc.. overnight - it takes months and years to build up enough knowledge to pass yourself off as all of those things, i’d still class myself as a novice.

But what has changed is my attitude and work rate. A ‘trick’ i’m using against myself is to ‘pretend’ that each and every site i’m making is a long term project for myself - i’m not selling them. That way, i’ll put the work in. I’ll do things myself. If i do things myself, they’ll be done right.

It’s incredibly difficult to motivate yourself to make 25+ blog posts on a brand new blog in a few hours - especially when you know it’s gonna take time and it’s going to be pretty boring. But that’s exactly what i did today… Now, looking back, it probably means bannedtvad.com will sell for more or get more traffic, links etc… because of those posts (still don’t intend on selling it yet though).

And for the past few weeks - that’s the sort of frame of mind i’ve gotten in to. I do chill out the odd day; as i keep saying it’s absolutely essential i don’t get ‘fed up’ of working online, but most of the time i’m happy building sites or designing if i know they’re for me - or if i think they’re for me.

There IS money to be made online and it IS easy, but it’s only easy if (a) you know what you’re doing (b) you’re willing to work for it.

Ironically the more you earn, the less you work as you can start outsourcing things but in order to get to that point, you need to put in the initial workrate… if that means becoming server admin, designer, coder, content creator, seller, PR man all in one - so be it.

I’ve no intentions of backing off now, if anything i’m only going to increase my workrate more… (if that’s even possible) - my next step will be to start outsourcing content, coming up with designs myself and flipping sites at a faster speed.

The problem with all of this is that it takes money to make money… so in order to get that start up money, i’ll need to keep doing everything myself for my next few sites. I can’t afford to be outsourcing stuff if i’ve no money

But i’m full of confidence and optimism. I just need to keep pushing myself. Once i’m working hard, nobody, including myself, can complain or question anything.

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