Monday, January 5, 2009

Goals for 2009

In the midst of graduating from Virginia Tech and finding a job, I want to extend my presence online and increase the revenue of the sites that I currently have.

Goals by site:

BorisSaid.net - Update regularly with Boris Said news and submit a google site map

Tyrod-Taylor.com - Create jQuery main page that links to various sections

VeggieHub - Complete the redesign started last year, perhaps model it after younggogetter.com

Create Invertersofpower clone

Complete real life mmo site that I've been planning

Monetary Goal: $300/month by the end of the year
Right now: probably making about $50/month

So it begins...

I'll start off by mentioning that I don't expect anyone to actually read this blog. My intended audience is mostly myself. I plan to use this space to track the progress of my entrepreneurial pursuits online. I've been making money online since the beginning of 2007.

My first website, The Unofficial Boris Said Fan Site, is dedicated to the Nascar driver Boris Said and continues to be the premier site of information on Boris Said even though I neglect it horribly for months at a time. The site generated most of its revenue from a t-shirt store that I setup through Spreadshirt.com, but also earns through Google Adsense and another source that has been pretty strong (I'll leave it unnamed for now).

The next pursuit was a quick string of several other websites. These included a Geico Cavemen fan site, invertersofpower.com, the veggie hub, and maybe one or two more...Inverters of power is strangely profitable even though I haven't ever updated it. I abandoned the geico cavemen site once the television show came out and was terrible but it is still live and gets occasional hits. The veggie hub did okay to start with, then i redesigned it and ruined any good traffic that it had in an effort to move it to wordpress...its still looking to be completed.

My next website is a Tyrod Taylor fan site. He is of course the quarterback at Virginia Tech. I hesistate to monitize the site with anything other than adsense or link sales for fear of copyright nonsense. I'm sure its borderline as it is...