Creating a Small Website to Earn Passive Income: Second Attempt

Post by raivo » Tue, Jul 12, 2011, 5:08 PM UTC

roel_v wrote: post #23

p4bl0 wrote: post #12

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This also means that you have to invest 200€ in addition to the time spent coding it and to the hosting+domain fees in order to get things started. Considering the goal you expressed (making passive money), why was this your choice compared to spend less money at first, code it and just make it functional (not beautiful), and only if it works or show signs that it will, then spend the 200€ (or even more then) on the…

Apart from having a landing page and trying to get it ranked for certain terms, I don't think you can validate an idea without being able to show/tell people what it will look like. The quality of the product will be judged upon what it looks like, if I made a 1995's style white page with just two form fields and a 'submit' button, that couldn't be used to validate the idea with. In my mostly-unqualified-to-comment-o…

Post by p4bl0 » Tue, Jul 12, 2011, 6:46 PM UTC

raivo wrote: post #31

roel_v wrote: post #23

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Apart from having a landing page and trying to get it ranked for certain terms, I don't think you can validate an idea without being able to show/tell people what it will look like. The quality of the product will be judged upon what it looks like, if I made a 1995's style white page with just two form fields and a 'submit' button, that couldn't be used to validate the idea with. In my mostly-unqualified-to-comment-o…

Yeah, that's what I did initially with my "daily exercise you can do at work email" site. I decided to spend a minimum amount of time on it to just test it out: just a form and a little description. The only decoration was that the text was centered and navy :) Results: only 4 sign ups over 3 months..mostly from friends and family. Then I made a nicer design, added content, and voila got about 30 sign ups in about 1…

Post by aaronblohowiak » Tue, Jul 12, 2011, 7:45 PM UTC

euroclydon wrote: post #24

Shenglong wrote: post #11

Passive income is a funny phrase... I've tried it before too, but always end up pouring more time and energy into it than I first intend. At first it's "I need to put time into this to get it started, then it'll be all good." When it's generating income, the question becomes "can this be scaled to make even more money?" Then we adapt, A/B test, work promotion channels, obsess over page rank, refine analytics... ugh.…

Yeah, I've spent 80 hours solid hours on my little micro-web-business, and with ~1500 monthly visitors and 15 sales over three months, I've only made $206.

Post by toumhi » Sat, Jul 16, 2011, 1:57 AM UTC

roel_v wrote: post #22

toumhi wrote: post #5

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Hey roel, I'm a software developer. I outsourced the design through Odesk (for something like 200 euros). You have to test a few designers to find one you like but it's so worth it not to spend tons of time myself to end with a crappy design anyway :-)

I was just wondering because it looks quite OK, but I saw some small graphical quirks that made me think 'professional design with modifications by a programmer' (no offense, I have the worst taste and no skills in design myself, but I've been studying design basics lately and I'm starting to notice things like the wrong color green box on the right on the 'IMC Femme' page which sticks out like a sore thumb). Also th…