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|2010 in Review
December 31st, 2010
Looking back it turns out that 2010 was dominated by the day job way more than I had anticipated.
I’m very proud of the work I did at the day job, but lots of long hours at work left little time to spend tinkering in the Garage.
This years most significant work ended up being a relaunch rather than a launch. The rebuild of Episode List, took something that I originally built in 2001 and let fall into disrepair, with declining visitors, and turned into something that has continued to grow, in both visitors and revenue month over month.
I hope 2011 brings much more garage time.
I plan to refresh and relaunch a number of existing projects, as well add some new projects. I’m focusing on projects (web applications) that help get more done during the day. I’ll be documenting my plans for 2011 in another post.
For now I hope everyone had a great 2010, and wish everyone continued success for 2011.
Posted in Business, My-Launches, Sitenews
Making Money Online
October 11th, 2009
I’ve been thinking about writing this post for a long time, but I keep putting it off, why would I write something so obvious? However, I’ve seen so many people ignore this point, so here goes…
Forget everything you’ve read about making money online and remember this, there are only 2 ways of making money online: Sell something; or help someone sell something!
There! Obvious isn’t it. But I think people get caught up in page-views, visitors, RSS subscribers, Twitter followers and everything else that they forget the fundamental things. You’re in business to make money, to make money you have sell something to someone.
If you’re not selling something directly you’ll be helping someone else to sell something, either thru some form of advertising or affiliate marketing.
As someone running their business in their spare time, it is even more important to remember the fundamentals. You often don’t have the luxury of figuring out how you’ll make money after you have lots of visitors, because you probably won’t be around if you don’t figure out how to make money NOW.
If you don’t plan on selling something directly on your website, think carefully about the types of visitors you’ll be getting and start making relationships with people that want to reach that type of person.
Posted in Business
Do I need a .com
October 6th, 2008
Must a website for your business be a .com, or can a .net, .org or one of the other tlds be sufficient?
When you are starting out, the majority visitor will come to your site either via a search engine or a link from another website, and once they know your site will probably use a bookmark in their browser rather than typing in the name in the browsers address bar. So your .com, .org, .net will have little impact on your traffic.
Once your business becomes a huge success you may start advertising more on radio, television and in print. The .com issue may now become relevant, as a matter of branding and the level of type in traffic grows.
Posted in Business