Don’t Mention Auckland Colour Copying, Online Video Marketing or Pirates
Just read an article on Music Think Tank from Derek Sivers who reckons:
Tests done since 1933 show that people who talk about their intentions are less likely to make them happen.
Announcing your plans to others satisfies your self-identity just enough that you’re less motivated to do the hard work needed.
Which is a bit of a worry since I use my blog to really shake out all my new ideas, in fact I’ve kind of been in the habit of just writing articles everyday about what I’m planning and why as a focus exercise, but I guess maybe that’s different, because it’s part of strategising from here to there rather than gratifying myself by announcing grand plans.
The whole idea is to stretch into new territory.
I’m not sure if I posted this but anyway, yes new territory all very good. We’re a;ways coming up with new ideas, especially in winter!
Last year it was the newmusicmarketing forum which had some ideas going for it, in fact revisiting it, their really was some strong ideas exceptit was operating at a much larger scale then I could reasonably prepare for.
I’ve learnt a lot more in terms of my entrepreneurial approach these days, I’ve bee talking about it a lot on my music marketing blog because music is a very competitive arena to be working in.
I also got the idea back then of flipping sites, affiliate marketing and also the potential for adsense earnings that is, the ads you see on your right hand side.
Flipping sites, well I have over a hundred domains registered now and only about 20 are core to my business and another 20 are feeders, aside from client websites their is probably about 20 sites I could sell.
Some of the prime ones would probably be
and
All these urls represent businesses modeled on businesses that I am running successfully that could be sold as a business bundled with my marketing services.
These would be the most lucrative and I think it represents a good chance to sell locally to a fellow new zealander who coul dbe educated about their opportunities to make money online.
These are some MMO or “make money online” blogs but these really need to be developed before they can be sold in fact it’s probably more likely I would develop them seriously to see if I could rope in a whole lot of these young money hingry MMO kids that follow these blogs and do something with it but that’s for the future. I’m thinking of what I can sell now!
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I also have a bunch of sites for adsense just general travel, home improvement and health and fitness blogs. Adsense has really been struggling thoug hI’m lucky to make $20 p/week just from my regular blogs. I will keep on with the adsense as I’ve nothing to loose but still.
Last is affiliate marketing which I just didn;t want to go near because it just feels like a dead end for total suckers.
I was only encouraged because I read so many of these stupid MMO kids claiming to make money but in many cases they were just regurgitating the same BS that some guru further up the chain had spouted and that’s often what it’s about.
So yeah
That brings me to the links for what I am doing or was doing when I first wrote this draft.
In fact I went away from pirates and came back to it simply because of the mangaeability to profitability ratio, I can make good money there without needing too many resources or requirements
Again demand in a large market . . . with few suppliers in the Pirate Birthday stakes.
With Auckland Colour Copying, the results have been great in that I have immediately assumed a strong position in the google ranks for local searches due to my strong domain. This is a very competitive market but also, high demand.
Low margins, but low intensity as I outsource the whole job.
The main problem is the same as what I have with my new video marketing sites which also include video editing and video production - before I can even get serious about delivering services and developing the propositions behind the business, I must bring the presentation on the sites up to an acceptable level.
