Tons of Traffic, Infant Site....
Hi,
I built a site a while ago on opportunity rather than passion, solely for the purpose of creating an ebook/product of my own.
Well, I got caught up in other projects since then and have basically left the site alone to collect dust for months.
Today I checked its traffic and, heh, its getting about 60k unique visitors per month. I really thought it would have been getting <10k tbh.
So due to the large amount of traffic its getting, I feel its really nagging at me to start working on it by actually starting that product I originally intended when I created the site.
Now I gotta say, I am not particularly fond of this topic. It is not something I practice nor preach about in my real life. So everything will have to be heavily researched with a theory-based approach with $ as my motivation to curb the boredom.
And therefore I really do not want to write any more articles for the site until I have a product completed and know that the site actually has a purpose and a plan to make money.
So what I am wondering is what I should do in the short term? Good things in my life never last and I want to capitlize on this traffic while I can. Basically I wanted to collect as many emails as possible and just hold onto them until later on when I can actually do something with them.
I actually dont even have an email responder either, and do not want to pay 20$/mnth for one until, again, I actually plan to use it.However, I was thinking of maybe using a plugin or php script to capture emails to a text file and then later import them into aweber in the future.
The problem is I really have no incentive to give to people to get their email. The blog is never updated and any time I spend I want to be in product creation.
So basically I am just wondering what you would do in this situation with 60k unique visitors per month, a boring but profitable topic, a site that needs a complete makeover, reluctancy to write articles until a product is complete or well underway, and of course, currently, no product to sell (yet).
P.S: I do not want to promote other offers besides my own. I have looked and none are congruent with my site and imo worthy of being promoted.
I built a site a while ago on opportunity rather than passion, solely for the purpose of creating an ebook/product of my own.
Well, I got caught up in other projects since then and have basically left the site alone to collect dust for months.
Today I checked its traffic and, heh, its getting about 60k unique visitors per month. I really thought it would have been getting <10k tbh.
So due to the large amount of traffic its getting, I feel its really nagging at me to start working on it by actually starting that product I originally intended when I created the site.
Now I gotta say, I am not particularly fond of this topic. It is not something I practice nor preach about in my real life. So everything will have to be heavily researched with a theory-based approach with $ as my motivation to curb the boredom.
And therefore I really do not want to write any more articles for the site until I have a product completed and know that the site actually has a purpose and a plan to make money.
So what I am wondering is what I should do in the short term? Good things in my life never last and I want to capitlize on this traffic while I can. Basically I wanted to collect as many emails as possible and just hold onto them until later on when I can actually do something with them.
I actually dont even have an email responder either, and do not want to pay 20$/mnth for one until, again, I actually plan to use it.However, I was thinking of maybe using a plugin or php script to capture emails to a text file and then later import them into aweber in the future.
The problem is I really have no incentive to give to people to get their email. The blog is never updated and any time I spend I want to be in product creation.
So basically I am just wondering what you would do in this situation with 60k unique visitors per month, a boring but profitable topic, a site that needs a complete makeover, reluctancy to write articles until a product is complete or well underway, and of course, currently, no product to sell (yet).
P.S: I do not want to promote other offers besides my own. I have looked and none are congruent with my site and imo worthy of being promoted.
FREE Upgrades! IMPROVED Email Deliverability!!
~ Rach