How Selling a Site is Like Getting a Divorce
December 12, 2007 - Written by Gyutae Park
In the United States today, 45.8% of all marriages end in divorce. Marriage has become something that is treated casually and is done without proper thought or planning. It’s really no wonder why the divorce rate is so high. In the same way, webmasters are now selling their sites at a faster pace than ever before. Reasons for selling a site and cashing in vary but I’ve found that there are many parallels to the reasons why couples get divorced.
Gold diggers
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And the First Letter is… (John Chow Review Results)
December 6, 2007 - Written by Gyutae Park
…you’ll just have to subscribe to the feed to find out!
For those of you that don’t know, I launched a huge contest yesterday giving away a free $400 John Chow review. If you haven’t checked out the contest description, be sure to do so here. This is a big winning opportunity for your site that you can’t afford miss out on.
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Is Your Site Worthy of Black Friday-like Crowds?
November 23, 2007 - Written by Gyutae Park
First of all, I’d like to wish everyone a wonderful and happy Thanksgiving holiday. I hope you all had a great time celebrating and giving thanks - maybe even stuffing yourself with a huge dinner of turkey, corn, and mashed potatoes. I know I did. Anyway, I think it’s quite ironic that the day after giving thanks for what we have, we go out shopping for deals trying to horde new things that we don’t have. To me, Black Friday is an oxymoron and a contradiction to the Thanksgiving spirit. If we’re really thankful and content, why do we need more? But hey, that’s America for you and as an Internet entrepreneur and publisher there are many ways to profit from it. Is your site worthy of Black Friday-like crowds? Some people wait up to 12 hours in the blistering cold so they can give their money away to retailers for hot deals. In this post, we’ll go into how you can replicate this model for your own site and have customers begging to do business with you.
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Affiliate Income is Most Stable
November 8, 2007 - Written by Gyutae Park
As an Internet marketer or publisher, you should have many streams of income on your sites to diversify earnings and reach maximum potential for monetary gain. There’s contextual ads, there’s direct sales of products, services, and advertisements, there’s sales of links and reviews, and then there’s affiliate marketing income. All of these are viable methods for making money online. However, affiliate income is the most efficient and most stable in the long run. We’ll go into why below.
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Thirst is Nothing, Image is Everything
October 30, 2007 - Written by Gyutae Park
Remember that old Sprite commercial where the big sweaty basketball player runs around and does a few slam dunks, then grabs a nice cold bottle of Sprite and proudly proclaims the obviously scripted line, “Image is nothing, thirst is everything. Obey your thirst”? Well I’m going to come out right now and say that Sprite is full of crap. Thirst is nothing and image is everything. No matter how thirsty you are to accomplish your goals, no matter how hard you try, and no matter what you do to succeed in the online world, you will be spinning your wheels in futile efforts unless you portray the right IMAGE. Yeah, that’s right Sprite. Take that! Nothing but carbonated sugar water anyway.
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Micro Sites = Mega Mistake, Why You Should Focus on One Site
October 27, 2007 - Written by Gyutae Park
When making money online, people think that they can create small niche sites that generate $1 a day, and replicate this 1,000 times in order to make $1,000 a day. Although this sounds great in theory, it is definitely not the best approach to take. The business model is not sustainable, scalable, nor feasible in many cases.
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Content is King But You’ve Got No Kingdom!
October 25, 2007 - Written by Gyutae Park
You know what they say. Content is king. But where does a king reign if he has no throne? Heck, what’s the use of a king if he’s got no kingdom? And now you may be asking what the heck I’m talking about. What exactly is a kingdom? Well in the Internet website world, the kingdom is the audience of users and visitors, the throne is the website design and navigational structure, and the king is well, the content. Each of these different elements depends on the others and needs them in order to function properly. A king would not be a king without a throne and a kingdom. A kingdom would come to anarchy without a proper king. And a throne would be kind of lonely without a king to sit on it. In the same way, a web site’s content, structure, and audience are all interdependent. If you want to create an effective website that will make money online, you need to make sure that all of these elements are up to par and are working together flawlessly. Let’s go deeper into the individual components to see what each requires.
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Use Your Interests to Feed Your Sites
October 24, 2007 - Written by Gyutae Park
Close your eyes and think back 10 or more years ago when you didn’t have a website or dreams of success in Internet business. Hard to imagine, huh? Well try to remember what your main interests were. What were your favorite hobbies? Areas of expertise? A lot of times, thoughts of starting a business cloud your judgment about what you like and are good at doing. These days Internet publishers seem to be flocking to the more lucrative industries, simply because they think that there’s more money to be earned. However, this couldn’t be farther from the truth and it is actually much more profitable to go after a topic or niche that might not have as much money involved but is something that you are both interested in and are good at. Here’s why:
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Leaders are Readers
October 22, 2007 - Written by Gyutae Park
So you want to be an authority, eh? In order to be a leader in your desired field, you need to offer expertise and fresh ideas that cannot be found anywhere else. You need to be at the forefront of your industry and develop some sort of a following. Leaders don’t exist without followers. Below we’ll go deeper into how to become a leader, the importance of reading and staying up to date, and steps of action you can take to read and lead.
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The Call to Action - READ THIS NOW!
October 19, 2007 - Written by Gyutae Park
Did the title of this post spur you to continue reading? For most people, the answer is yes. The “read this now!” portion of the title stands out and catches the reader’s eye. It provides actionable instructions for the user and gives off the impression that the content is important and should be read immediately. When used appropriately and effectively, a call to action such as this can lead to much higher conversions for your site. This can mean a higher click-through rate, more sales, more page views, etc. So how do you implement these calls to action on your site? Continue reading to find out how. (Hey look, a call to action!)
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