jazzdrive3
09-07-2007, 05:31 PM
My first muse so far (selling framed sports photos and collectibles (http://www.eyeontheballimages.com)) has been a bust. No sales in 2 months of being up. I have a conversion of 0%, with nothing obvious that is scaring people away.
The only bright spot is that I learned a lot while doing SEO and my site currently ranks on the first page of google for many of my keywords. And I'm told that the holiday season is where the market really picks up for sports collectibles, so I'll leave it up for at least that long.
But it did give me motivation to create two more muses. One is still in production, but the first one is a blog about Christianity and Economics (http://www.newlibertycreation.com).
I was inspired to create the blog by John Chow's free e-book on how to make money on blogging. And since I'm interested in Christianity, government, and economics, and the relationships between the three, it seemed natural to base the blog on them. You have to be passionate about what you write about.
It's been up for a little over two weeks, and I've been pleased by the growth so far. I have an average of 10 RSS subscribers reading it every day, which is great starting off. My pie-in-the-sky goal is to reach 1,000 RSS subscribers in just two months.
Ambitious, yes. Impossible, maybe. But we'll see. Please check it out and let me know what you think. And if you find any value, please consider subscribing to the full RSS feed, or through email. I'd love to have you as a reader.
The ultimate goal, of course, is to sell ad space. And I hope to be making $1000 per month off of it with another month or so of work in building traffic and selling direct ads.
So far I've made a whopping $1.02 off of Adsense!
The only bright spot is that I learned a lot while doing SEO and my site currently ranks on the first page of google for many of my keywords. And I'm told that the holiday season is where the market really picks up for sports collectibles, so I'll leave it up for at least that long.
But it did give me motivation to create two more muses. One is still in production, but the first one is a blog about Christianity and Economics (http://www.newlibertycreation.com).
I was inspired to create the blog by John Chow's free e-book on how to make money on blogging. And since I'm interested in Christianity, government, and economics, and the relationships between the three, it seemed natural to base the blog on them. You have to be passionate about what you write about.
It's been up for a little over two weeks, and I've been pleased by the growth so far. I have an average of 10 RSS subscribers reading it every day, which is great starting off. My pie-in-the-sky goal is to reach 1,000 RSS subscribers in just two months.
Ambitious, yes. Impossible, maybe. But we'll see. Please check it out and let me know what you think. And if you find any value, please consider subscribing to the full RSS feed, or through email. I'd love to have you as a reader.
The ultimate goal, of course, is to sell ad space. And I hope to be making $1000 per month off of it with another month or so of work in building traffic and selling direct ads.
So far I've made a whopping $1.02 off of Adsense!