My online blog at the WF. Here, I take the time to muse about making money online. Currently, I am creating niche blogs and I am also into blog flipping for profit.
Blog Flipping Progress - Part 2
Posted 3rd October 2008 at 02:19 PM by tommygadget
OK, time for an update. As has been noted above, the 24 hour mark has passed without the blog having been listed for sale. As of now, I have 5 unique articles on the site and in a few hours, I will have another 5. By late evening, I should have all the articles finished. To complete the challenge, I will list the site for sale and post the results. So why didn't I finish up in 24 hours? Here's what ate up the time:
1) Setting up a new hosting account instead of using an existing one. You might be wondering why I did this. I had several reasons. First, I did not want to expose all the other niches I was currently in. Don't ask how. Second, I wanted a reseller account so that I could setup each website with its own cPanel and separate email addresses and passwords. I also did not have experience with the domain manager. This ate up hours of work, but now I can do it much faster. I also wanted to offer free hosting for a year to the winning bidder if they choose the BIN price.
2) Finding an appropriate blog theme and installing all the plug-ins for SEO, etc. I got help with the theme by a poster here, thanks. Since website generation is my main experience, I was slow to get these tasks done.
3) Writing all the content myself. I actually know a lot about fitness, weight loss, weight training, etc., so that was not an issue. The real issue was that since I have a family and the kids don't care about keeping quiet, I had a real hard time writing with all the usual chaos.
I hope that this thread is illuminating. I will write it all up in a free report for those who are not actively following the thread. My next steps will be to complete the challenge and sell the site. Then I will write up the process and create the .pdf for those who are interested. Maybe I will do it again, maybe one per day for an entire week. Then we'll see if it is possible in the constraints of an 8 hour day! That's all for now.
TomG.
1) Setting up a new hosting account instead of using an existing one. You might be wondering why I did this. I had several reasons. First, I did not want to expose all the other niches I was currently in. Don't ask how. Second, I wanted a reseller account so that I could setup each website with its own cPanel and separate email addresses and passwords. I also did not have experience with the domain manager. This ate up hours of work, but now I can do it much faster. I also wanted to offer free hosting for a year to the winning bidder if they choose the BIN price.
2) Finding an appropriate blog theme and installing all the plug-ins for SEO, etc. I got help with the theme by a poster here, thanks. Since website generation is my main experience, I was slow to get these tasks done.
3) Writing all the content myself. I actually know a lot about fitness, weight loss, weight training, etc., so that was not an issue. The real issue was that since I have a family and the kids don't care about keeping quiet, I had a real hard time writing with all the usual chaos.
I hope that this thread is illuminating. I will write it all up in a free report for those who are not actively following the thread. My next steps will be to complete the challenge and sell the site. Then I will write up the process and create the .pdf for those who are interested. Maybe I will do it again, maybe one per day for an entire week. Then we'll see if it is possible in the constraints of an 8 hour day! That's all for now.
TomG.
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Tommy, You are one of the reasons I started flipping. For me it's more of a fun thing to do. And I like the flipper community because they are basically insane.
Paul
flipBOTSPosted 18th January 2009 at 05:50 AM by Paul Coleman



