I haven't been doing much work lately since I sold WMF, I think everyone is the same, when you know you have money available you don't work as hard.
The first payment of WMF came through from escrow and the second has just been sent by escrow again, for some reason the buyer's bank couldn't send the money.
Just sending the payment now for the new DeuceAce forum design ($800).
It is def going to be done in the first week of April, really looking forward to getting it online, I think it will really help the forum with a nice design.
Once the design is up its time to get serious with DeuceAce!
I have been selling off my sites but haven't been getting anything to replace them, I will be putting a lot into DeuceAce now anyway.
I finally got the $600 from a new advertiser on DeuceAce, IslandPoker.com
The $600 is for 3 months of advertising, it will take up the last space for an advertiser on the site.
My poker experiment is going well, I am just about to change to the next level, I have $9.91 right now and I move up a limit when I get to $10, I will be glad of it because I have been playing a lot and it took over a week to get up $5!
Wa hay...there we go, $10.05!
Time to play $0.05/$0.10 limit now!
Tuesday, March 28, 2006
Wednesday, March 22, 2006
Netrepreneur - The Life of a Netrepreneur
Hey all
The webmasterforums sale is almost complete now, escrow has released the funds ($2000) but they take up to 5 days to go into my account.
Tim also sent $3000 today (Just sent him a message to see if he got it sent off) and then I am sending him the files/content, once he has that the other $3000 is being sent.
I don’t know how long it will take for the money from Tim to come through, got a lot of money from the states but sometimes it comes the same day (Quicker than UK-UK bank transfer!) and other times it can take up to a week.
I don’t have any real rush for this anyway, don’t have anything I need to spent money on and I have everything covered that I do.
Talked to Malbar today, he’s the logo designer.
He wanted me to pay by Western Union but the fees were ~$50 and that was only payment one out of two, so that would be around $100 in fees!
No chance am I paying that much in fees. Offered to split the fees but he didn’t want to.
I have to setup an account with moneybookers now, waiting for them to verify my card.
I have to use them to buy a poker domain anyway so it doesn’t matter.
Got a chance to talk to Sheldon at last about doing the design for DeuceAce, its going to be started in the first week of April.
The cost is going to be ~$850 for a base rate, any extra graphics etc. will be extra, its well worth it though.
I wasn’t impressed with the design from WebRhino for roughly the same price, I think it would be been a LOT better to go with Sheldon for WebmasterForums too.
For anyone into poker, I decided to try out a small experiment to see how high I could get starting with just $5, you can find more information on it here.
Getting your money up on the first level is really hard, I’m thinking of skipping up to the next stages because I have been doing it for two days and I’m up about $2….
Also on poker, I played a tournament on Monday night with other poker affiliates, I think some are good players and play a lot, I don’t get a chance to play as much as I would like.
I ended up 4/27 – Not too bad and I also put out the organiser and got a $25 prize plus ~$7 I think for coming 4th hehe.
Just heard from Tim, $3k has been sent ;)
The webmasterforums sale is almost complete now, escrow has released the funds ($2000) but they take up to 5 days to go into my account.
Tim also sent $3000 today (Just sent him a message to see if he got it sent off) and then I am sending him the files/content, once he has that the other $3000 is being sent.
I don’t know how long it will take for the money from Tim to come through, got a lot of money from the states but sometimes it comes the same day (Quicker than UK-UK bank transfer!) and other times it can take up to a week.
I don’t have any real rush for this anyway, don’t have anything I need to spent money on and I have everything covered that I do.
Talked to Malbar today, he’s the logo designer.
He wanted me to pay by Western Union but the fees were ~$50 and that was only payment one out of two, so that would be around $100 in fees!
No chance am I paying that much in fees. Offered to split the fees but he didn’t want to.
I have to setup an account with moneybookers now, waiting for them to verify my card.
I have to use them to buy a poker domain anyway so it doesn’t matter.
Got a chance to talk to Sheldon at last about doing the design for DeuceAce, its going to be started in the first week of April.
The cost is going to be ~$850 for a base rate, any extra graphics etc. will be extra, its well worth it though.
I wasn’t impressed with the design from WebRhino for roughly the same price, I think it would be been a LOT better to go with Sheldon for WebmasterForums too.
For anyone into poker, I decided to try out a small experiment to see how high I could get starting with just $5, you can find more information on it here.
Getting your money up on the first level is really hard, I’m thinking of skipping up to the next stages because I have been doing it for two days and I’m up about $2….
Also on poker, I played a tournament on Monday night with other poker affiliates, I think some are good players and play a lot, I don’t get a chance to play as much as I would like.
I ended up 4/27 – Not too bad and I also put out the organiser and got a $25 prize plus ~$7 I think for coming 4th hehe.
Just heard from Tim, $3k has been sent ;)
Monday, March 20, 2006
Busy, busy busy!
Hey,
Been really busy with the WebmasterForums.net sale.
An offer was made at the BIN ($8000) and I am expecting payment today, $2000 is going through escrow and the remainder is going by wire transfer direct to my bank.
Don't like using escrow but not too worried since its a minority of the payment.
I will be glad once the sale is complete, its taken a lot of time selling it, I spent over an hour just on the paypal screenshots for revenue proof - I think paypal really need to sort out their reports.
If there's any new advertisers starting before the site is transferred I will just be asking them to wait and send the payment to the new owner.
The winning bid was on NamePros! That's the first ever sale I have got on NamePros!(Apart from a few $10 text links ;))
I was considering just leaving it off NamePros because I thought there wasn't any serious buyers there.
My Plans
I would say at least $6500 from the sale is going into DeuceAce and some new poker sites, not sure if I will buy any that already have revenue or just start from scratch...Been looking for some good poker domains and I got offers from at least 50 people on NamePros, most really overvalued their domains.
Got another one today, $2500-$3000 for winatplayingpoker.com - That's just a joke...
The designer of DeuceAce told me to email him around now to get started on the design for me, sent him an email on Friday I think and he said he didn't even know he was meant to work on one for me...
Been planning for this new design coming online for a few months now and I'm going to have to wait again for it to go into his queue.....................
Anyone have any poker domains for sale?
Post a comment here or email tmzmod [ at ] hotmail.com and include prices.
Been really busy with the WebmasterForums.net sale.
An offer was made at the BIN ($8000) and I am expecting payment today, $2000 is going through escrow and the remainder is going by wire transfer direct to my bank.
Don't like using escrow but not too worried since its a minority of the payment.
I will be glad once the sale is complete, its taken a lot of time selling it, I spent over an hour just on the paypal screenshots for revenue proof - I think paypal really need to sort out their reports.
If there's any new advertisers starting before the site is transferred I will just be asking them to wait and send the payment to the new owner.
The winning bid was on NamePros! That's the first ever sale I have got on NamePros!(Apart from a few $10 text links ;))
I was considering just leaving it off NamePros because I thought there wasn't any serious buyers there.
My Plans
I would say at least $6500 from the sale is going into DeuceAce and some new poker sites, not sure if I will buy any that already have revenue or just start from scratch...Been looking for some good poker domains and I got offers from at least 50 people on NamePros, most really overvalued their domains.
Got another one today, $2500-$3000 for winatplayingpoker.com - That's just a joke...
The designer of DeuceAce told me to email him around now to get started on the design for me, sent him an email on Friday I think and he said he didn't even know he was meant to work on one for me...
Been planning for this new design coming online for a few months now and I'm going to have to wait again for it to go into his queue.....................
Anyone have any poker domains for sale?
Post a comment here or email tmzmod [ at ] hotmail.com and include prices.
Thursday, March 09, 2006
Don't be afraid to contact advertisers!
A lot of people, including myself, don't like to contact advertisers because they might see it as spam, the reality is if you contact advertisers that you think would benefit from your site, they will be more than happy to look over what you propose.
I have been doing this for WebmasterForums.net and DeuceAce.com and its working amazingly well! My ad revenue is up a lot more than normal and most of it is from the companies I have contacted.
I selected companies that would be targeting the demographic of visitors that would be on the sites and send an email telling them a bit about the site, how they could benefit being a sponsor and the cost.
I got a great response from most companies and only one replied asking not to contact them, I know some don't like it but think about it, would you be annoyed if someone sent you an email if you own a large site/company and offered a great deal? I know I wouldn't and everyone else I contacted didn't.
I offered package deals so they got as much exposure as I could give, one space for their ad wherever I already have advertising on the site plus including their company/site info in the community newsletters.
I did it because my earnings were down a bit in Feb over Jan because I didn't go out and try get advertisers really, that's a big mistake.
Getting advertisers is just as important as improving your site I think, they pay for anything that needs done, and you can't live off money you don't earn.
I will post my earnings at the end of this month and I am hoping it will be a nice increase :)
Go contact people you think would be interested in what you have to offer!
I have been doing this for WebmasterForums.net and DeuceAce.com and its working amazingly well! My ad revenue is up a lot more than normal and most of it is from the companies I have contacted.
I selected companies that would be targeting the demographic of visitors that would be on the sites and send an email telling them a bit about the site, how they could benefit being a sponsor and the cost.
I got a great response from most companies and only one replied asking not to contact them, I know some don't like it but think about it, would you be annoyed if someone sent you an email if you own a large site/company and offered a great deal? I know I wouldn't and everyone else I contacted didn't.
I offered package deals so they got as much exposure as I could give, one space for their ad wherever I already have advertising on the site plus including their company/site info in the community newsletters.
I did it because my earnings were down a bit in Feb over Jan because I didn't go out and try get advertisers really, that's a big mistake.
Getting advertisers is just as important as improving your site I think, they pay for anything that needs done, and you can't live off money you don't earn.
I will post my earnings at the end of this month and I am hoping it will be a nice increase :)
Go contact people you think would be interested in what you have to offer!
The slow progress on my new site
Anthony got started on my design last night and I was very happy, it was meant to be last week but he forgot he said to me and then it was meant to be earlier this week, but he was busy with other work.
I didn't mind waiting because I knew it would be good, but when I got up this morning I was happy to see he started and sent a preview of the design....then I saw another email.
Thought maybe he did more but had a look and he said he doesn't have time to work on my project.
Like I said before, the site was meant to be open last week and I told a lot of customers it would be and kept stalling them to get the design online first.
I feel really let down because I waited so long and then when it was started he said he couldn't do it.
It would have saved me a lot of hassle if I knew that last week..I could have got another designer to do a custom design and coding by now.
I was going to go and get someone else but its going to take at least a week so I am buying a premade skin and paying someone else to do a logo for it.
I don't think this was very good business after I was loyal enough to wait so long when I could have got another designer and had the site up and running now but....these things happen.
I still like Anthony and he is still a moderator at WebmasterForums ;)
Hopefully he can get himself sorted out and take a break, I think he took on too many jobs at once.
He's an amazing designer but just has to change his scheduling.
Anyway...I was getting a new logo done for WebmasterForums.net by Mugurel at www.Ypson.com already so I decided to ask him to do another for the new site.
Now that I'm just going with the premade design I should have it online very soon...I will post the address when I have it complete and up and running :)
I didn't mind waiting because I knew it would be good, but when I got up this morning I was happy to see he started and sent a preview of the design....then I saw another email.
Thought maybe he did more but had a look and he said he doesn't have time to work on my project.
Like I said before, the site was meant to be open last week and I told a lot of customers it would be and kept stalling them to get the design online first.
I feel really let down because I waited so long and then when it was started he said he couldn't do it.
It would have saved me a lot of hassle if I knew that last week..I could have got another designer to do a custom design and coding by now.
I was going to go and get someone else but its going to take at least a week so I am buying a premade skin and paying someone else to do a logo for it.
I don't think this was very good business after I was loyal enough to wait so long when I could have got another designer and had the site up and running now but....these things happen.
I still like Anthony and he is still a moderator at WebmasterForums ;)
Hopefully he can get himself sorted out and take a break, I think he took on too many jobs at once.
He's an amazing designer but just has to change his scheduling.
Anyway...I was getting a new logo done for WebmasterForums.net by Mugurel at www.Ypson.com already so I decided to ask him to do another for the new site.
Now that I'm just going with the premade design I should have it online very soon...I will post the address when I have it complete and up and running :)
Sunday, March 05, 2006
WebmasterForums - New moderator but considering selling
Just got a new moderator on WebmasterForums.net - Hes only the second moderator.
I'm hoping my having some great people on the moderator team it will really help improve the community.
The new moderator is Anthony, he did the design for AllDotNet and I have a few other jobs on his to-do list.
Although I'm working on developing WebmasterForums and improving it, I am considering selling it...
Like I said in my last post, I might go with poker and see how that works out.
DeuceAce is starting to pick up and I think it can do well, I think if I get a network of related poker sites they can feed off each other.
I have a few threads up at forums to see what people think the site is worth, I think it could be worth a nice little sum because of the domain and size of the community.
Anyone out there interested in buying it ;)
I'm hoping my having some great people on the moderator team it will really help improve the community.
The new moderator is Anthony, he did the design for AllDotNet and I have a few other jobs on his to-do list.
Although I'm working on developing WebmasterForums and improving it, I am considering selling it...
Like I said in my last post, I might go with poker and see how that works out.
DeuceAce is starting to pick up and I think it can do well, I think if I get a network of related poker sites they can feed off each other.
I have a few threads up at forums to see what people think the site is worth, I think it could be worth a nice little sum because of the domain and size of the community.
Anyone out there interested in buying it ;)
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