Tuesday, March 06, 2007
Got to get over the hump
I've been doing a lot of reading lately that I hope will help me make this website successful. Previously all my reading was related to house styles and design. I have a nice stack of beautiful looking books (the words are actually pretty good too) about domestic architecture home renovation, and bungalows . The truth is that I have been pretty heavy on the bungalow part; to the point where my neighbours call me Bungalow Man.
However, lately my reading has been more about the business end of a website like this. The truth is that I started this as an outlet for my interest in domestic architecture, but lately I have been enthusiastic about trying to make this a source of income. I've been reading things like the Millionaire Next Door and the Tipping Point and my hope is that I can get some sort of feedback on this site in the form of some Adsense revenue in order to spurn me on to try and do some online retailing. I'm reading a book on Adsense and so far it has affirmed a lot of the things I am building into the website and given me some ideas on what types of things I should do when I launch. One thing is to pull out my old Marketing text books and actually do a marketing proper plan (revolutionary).
As the title of this entry would indicate, I have had difficulty in the past taking my websites to the point of being a commercial venture. On some of them like pooladdict.com I came quite close but never finished it off. I really hope to at least get this site finished to the point where I can setup Adsense, but I would really like to go further and sell products related to the content of the site.
Anyway, kind of a stream of conscience entry with a repeated theme. Things I have complete lately is to make the questionnaire look like its finished. I still need to fill in all the business logic for the different responses to the questionnaire. Once that is finished and I fill in the details for the style descriptions I will setup Adsense and register for the search engines.
Take it ez,
Brian
However, lately my reading has been more about the business end of a website like this. The truth is that I started this as an outlet for my interest in domestic architecture, but lately I have been enthusiastic about trying to make this a source of income. I've been reading things like the Millionaire Next Door and the Tipping Point and my hope is that I can get some sort of feedback on this site in the form of some Adsense revenue in order to spurn me on to try and do some online retailing. I'm reading a book on Adsense and so far it has affirmed a lot of the things I am building into the website and given me some ideas on what types of things I should do when I launch. One thing is to pull out my old Marketing text books and actually do a marketing proper plan (revolutionary).
As the title of this entry would indicate, I have had difficulty in the past taking my websites to the point of being a commercial venture. On some of them like pooladdict.com I came quite close but never finished it off. I really hope to at least get this site finished to the point where I can setup Adsense, but I would really like to go further and sell products related to the content of the site.
Anyway, kind of a stream of conscience entry with a repeated theme. Things I have complete lately is to make the questionnaire look like its finished. I still need to fill in all the business logic for the different responses to the questionnaire. Once that is finished and I fill in the details for the style descriptions I will setup Adsense and register for the search engines.
Take it ez,
Brian
