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Old guy needs guidance

by Jason Gregg
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Hello all. I'm 50yrs old. I am probably much older than most on here.
I was a web designer 20-30yrs ago (back when we hand coded html pages), but moved to IT operations management as my career path.

I an am American, but currently live in the Philippines. Long story short, but I got robbed of my life savings investment.
I'm getting back into Wordpress web design, since I was given a Godaddy catalog of 40+ domain names as part of my severance package from an IT sales & service company I helped rebuild.
It's time I do something with all these domains. Most are not great names, but they are keyword rich, and would work very well for affiliate marketing. There are a few fairly valuable ones in there though.

The first site I finished is a site about Philippines Expats living in the Philippines, or westerners looking to visit the Philippines.
The site is built like a portal to build a community. It has articles about the Philippines, a classified ads section, and a forum.

I have a few dating site affiliates and a Visa assistance program affiliate set up. I also have a Google Adsense account set up, but for some reason they are not showing yet. Adsense says it could take a week or so.

My question is what other affiliates or monetization channels would you add to the Philippines site? As it sits now, what additions or changes would you make if this was your site.
I have 40+ domain names. I have a decent hosting package, I've got development started on 6 other sites.
I'm very familiar with the fundamentals, but lack real world experience. My goal is to make $500 per month off this blog.

I'd appreciate anyone's help, as I really need to start generating an income online.


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  • Profile picture of the author Jason Kanigan
    Incoming Message from the Jason Federation...

    You're probably typical forum participant age. 10 years ago I was advised to increase the font size in my WSOs (special offers) because the average age was in the 50s.

    Every business needs two things to make money:

    Traffic

    and

    Conversion.

    Your website needs traffic. Interested viewers need to find out that it exists, and hop over there from somewhere else.

    WHO would be interested in your site? WHERE are they now, so you can get in front of them...with an ad, a joint venture, a forum signature link? A short Kindle book?


    If I was in your shoes, I would not be dependent on your one project. I would make an offer, maybe for web design, pick a target market, and start approaching them. You're looking for people who are already unhappy with their current site, and want it updated.

    Income is rarely passive and if you want to make money you have to take a lot of action.

    If you have more specific questions about getting customers I'd ask them in the Offline subforum.
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    • Profile picture of the author Internet Trillionaire
      Originally Posted by Jason Kanigan View Post

      Income is rarely passive and if you want to make money you have to take a lot of action.
      You definitely right there Jason from the Jason federation, "Income is rarely passive ", especially in online marketing.

      There's an initial input of work to set up your online business, and the daily tweaking to ensure it's converting traffic into sales at an optimum level. It's going to take hard work and "know how" in the beginning to generate passive income.
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      • Profile picture of the author Jason Kanigan
        Originally Posted by Internet Trillionaire View Post

        You definitely right there Jason from the Jason federation, "Income is rarely passive ", especially in online marketing.

        There's an initial input of work to set up your online business, and the daily tweaking to ensure it's converting traffic into sales at an optimum level. It's going to take hard work and "know how" in the beginning to generate passive income.
        Well, see, the OP is a Jason and I'm a Jason, and the Jasons have to stick together because the world is tough.
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        • Profile picture of the author Jason Gregg
          Thanks for the reply. I'm definitely not looking for anything passive. I can contribute building and growing my sites full time.
          It's a long story, but I was essentially robbed on my life saving by my ex wife, and now I am stuck in her home country, with no income, and no way to get back to the states. I have several dozen domains, and hosting paid till December... Other than that, I have time. I'm living off a few gold coins I had rat-holed away.
          I wish there was a way to share my domain list, to get feedback on them.
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          • Profile picture of the author GordonJ
            Originally Posted by Jason Gregg View Post

            Thanks for the reply. I'm definitely not looking for anything passive. I can contribute building and growing my sites full time.
            It's a long story, but I was essentially robbed on my life saving by my ex wife, and now I am stuck in her home country, with no income, and no way to get back to the states. I have several dozen domains, and hosting paid till December... Other than that, I have time. I'm living off a few gold coins I had rat-holed away.
            I wish there was a way to share my domain list, to get feedback on them.
            Good news is you have time, and are in a low cost living country...so you aren't desperate YET, right?

            Use existing tools, like webfx dot com to see what they think your domains may be worth, then use godaddy or any of a dozen such domain value sites, better than someone's opinion.

            And since you have TIME, why not build the sites strategically to sell them off later in the year, since hosting is taken care of, and you have time to work on them, make some sites and add content to increase value. Build out a few sites, and maybe even use one or two for adding some transactions.

            A domain does have value, but the trick is finding the one person willing to pay for it.

            Since you are stuck there anyhow, take pics, as many as you can and ramp up your ex-pats site, and your experience may be of value to others who are seeking to marry someone from there, so you have a cautionary tale too.

            You have to use what you have, where you are at, and execute a plan of action to get you to where you want to go.

            Assets: Location. A destination for many expats, etc.
            Web sites or domains. Develop further, enhance.
            TIME, make the most of it.

            Good luck. It might serve you well to sell fully fleshed out content rich web sites over just domains.

            GordonJ
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    Sorry to know about your loss. Its definitely a tough time for you.

    You can learn basic SEO and start building sites on advanced rules. Do some proper keyword research using free tools and google suggest. Than analyze your top competitors if they have covered enough? Find the gap and then craft content that covers the gap.

    Post regularly.

    Step 2 is to find opportunity to build links. Try guest posting on our relevant blogs.

    Keep writing content and keep building quality links.

    Hope that helps.
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