I did a video blog. Yay me!
Well, I’m not quite sure what to do with this blog. I may be turning this into more of a personal blog, I may turn it more into the test tricks topic, I’m just not sure right now. See, with the MicroBlogging that I talked about the other day, I no longer have to try and fit things I want to talk about into a given category. If it doesn’t fit into one of the ones I’ve currently got, I can just launch a new blog and let it make money for me.
That means this needs to have a clear, concise topic, something I can stick with. I’m not entirely sure what thats going to be. Do the handful of people who read this on a regular basis have an opinion on it? I’d love to hear what you guys have to say about it.
I’m not going to walk you through signing up for NearlyFreeSpeech.net, I’m pretty sure you can do that on your own; it’s not difficult at all. Actually, I will; Go to NearlyFreeSpeech.net, click “Sign Up Now” and follow their 5 simple steps. The most complicated part of the whole process is pumping some money into your account, but I’m sure if you’ve been on the internet a while you can use Paypal well enough to do that. Personally, I put $2.50 into my account, after fees it came out to be 2.33, which seems like more than enough for quite a while.
So, let’s get down to the complicated part of it: actually moving a blog. For my example, I’m moving www.theothermmo.com, a blog that I own, and am currently moving. This is the exact process, and I did it exactly this way.
No, I’m not taking a break from posting. I’m just taking a break from that topic, mainly because I’ve got something new I want to talk about.
I’ve had my finger on the good old blog-o-sphere for a while now. One of the big things thats going around right now, or at least was a little while ago, was the micro-blogs/micro-sites. Simple, little blogs that you update a few times a month, and are expected to make $5 a day/week. Now, I’ve thought about this, but it seems a little hard to me.
Lets take a look at the math: If the blog is making $5 a week (which is a good bit, don’t get me wrong), then you make around $260 a year. Not bad at all, especially if you’re running a number of these. There’s only one problem: you’re not looking at the costs. First, you registered the domain, thats $15, then you’re paying for hosting, the most reasonable of which is usually around $4 a month. So that means you’re down almost 20% of your profits in operating costs. Something seems a little wrong with that equation to me.
If you go to the main NBTD website right now, you won’t see much. I’ve been talking with our hosts for a while now, trying to get it set up so I can do my database editing in Dream Weaver, since I have a huge aversion to writing connect scripts on my own. Nothing has come of it, so as of right now, we have no main page, except for some links to the blogs and forum, which I have gotten running just fine.
Since I’ve spent the past week talking about how to plan a website, its time to describe a practical example, how the NBTD website has been planned out, from start to its current state, with a little about the future plans. Since the website currently doesn’t have much actual content, my focus will be on my blog and the forum, the two parts that are working and I’ve worked on promoting/monetizing.