it's so simpo' why not everyone does it? and I mean it in the most sarcastic way.
Because $1000 a month is less than a developer's salary?
Need I point out that (your salary + $1000/month) > your salary?
Is it hard to build a web app that makes at least $1000 a month?
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#112Earlier quoted context omitted.
...to just leave the main site in place to preserve the URLs for pages that have been around a while. Google shows about 4 links pointing to healthgazelle.com ( http://www.google.com/search?hl=&q=link%3Ahealthgazelle.... ) ... all from healthgazelle.com. There is nothing to preserve, and if there was the way to do it and preserve search engine rank is by using a 301 redirect ( http://www.webconfs.com/how-to-redirect-…
You seem to be holding on to your established site, almost with nostalgia, and I can understand that, but that's not the way to be effective when it comes to building traffic. You have to be prepared to start out on the right course, even if it's new. Try "inertia" and "lack of time/energy". I don't think nostalgia has any significant positive part of this. (I have lots of negative feelings about the kind of negative…
Inertia and lack of time/energy are understandable, but unfortunately that's a sure fire way to have another 7 years of non-results.
You mentioned not having great web skills, but you don't need to in order to make money online. You just need to first find out what you should be doing, then stay the course actually doing it. Good luck!
Re: Is it hard to build a web app that makes at least $1000 a month?
#113Earlier quoted context omitted.
You seem to be holding on to your established site, almost with nostalgia, and I can understand that, but that's not the way to be effective when it comes to building traffic. You have to be prepared to start out on the right course, even if it's new. Try "inertia" and "lack of time/energy". I don't think nostalgia has any significant positive part of this. (I have lots of negative feelings about the kind of negative…
Inertia and lack of time/energy are understandable, but unfortunately that's a sure fire way to have another 7 years of non-results. You mentioned not having great web skills, but you don't need to in order to make money online. You just need to first find out what you should be doing, then stay the course actually doing it. Good luck!
Sorry, all I meant was "I am not intentionally holding on to something". It wasn't intended to "defend" doing it this way.
Thanks for all the bits!
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#114Earlier quoted context omitted.
Except that web development is more akin to microwaving Eggo waffles.
From what I've seen, it's very easy to do poorly, but not so easy to do well. One might say graphic design is easy because you are simply drawing colored shapes, yet many of us suck at this easy job.
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#115A mobile web app mashup having a social layer+LBS on top could be quite good to earn revenue which you are looking for.
Re: Is it hard to build a web app that makes at least $1000 a month?
#116It's not hard at all. Here's what you need to do: 1. Pick a tool you can build which will make money for people. 2. Build it for people who will pay. 3. Market to them. 4. Build it. 5. Ship it. 6. Market to them. (Over and over. It's not a one-time thing.) I've done it, and I teach other people to do it. (But the thing is - once you reach $1000, you might as well go further since the first $100 is the hardest, once y…
If it's that easy, why haven't you done it 10 or 100 times by now?
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#117Earlier quoted context omitted.
Some thoughts: It's a health site where I talk about getting myself well when doctors claim it cannot be done. Besides your Mom, no one cares about getting you well. Since I am also working on getting myself well... Supposing I were sick, I'd care mainly about getting myself well. It sounds like you don't have the answers, so why am I bothering? It sounds like you aren't selling solutions. So your best bet is to sell…
Besides your Mom, no one cares about getting you well. As noted elsewhere: The site exists because there are people who are interested in what I did to get well, not because I had any plans to create such a site. It gives them clues as to how to get themselves healthier when all else has failed. I talk about what worked for me in large part because I have zero interest in giving advice per se. I think that is part of…
You didn't ask about getting traffic, you asked about getting "quality traffic". Since you didn't define "quality", I assumed you were going with the standard definition of quality - traffic that earns you money. Hence, a discussion of monetization.
Anyway, I was going to list the ways your site is an SEO and navigation disaster.
But then I saw that your content is a deceptive mix of good advice, snake oil, and stuff I don't know enough to evaluate. It would be unethical of me to give you any tips on directing more people to it. You should take your site down. You are clearly unable to evaluate scientific evidence, and your anecdotes of how the placebo effect helped you are not providing any benefit to others.
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#118Earlier quoted context omitted.
Break down exactly why you think that that isn't sustainable, then engineer those worries away. Do you think your project will need new features regularly? Pick a project whose problem domain changes rarely, and get out of the features = value mindset because it is outrageously false. Do you think you will have to be constantly selling? Don't pick something with high touch sales processes for a side project. Do you t…
Patrick, yes it's a regular selling problem as my membership peaked a couple of months ago and I'm trying to keep current members during this plateau. Perhaps I have fallen for the features mistake to make more value for those members, but I've not implemented much to start with. Doing email marketing, email replies to customers, adding testimonials, adding features, creating new info products... this one project tak…
Maybe email marketing isn't the right choice? I know personally I never purchase products emailed to me, if I spend 3 seconds scanning the email you're lucky. Granted I may not be your target audience.
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#119Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Why must it be a web app? Because that was the original question asked, as well as the topic here. Stay on topic, stay on topic.
I might be wrong but you might be splitting hair here. What I read was: "Is it hard to write a small piece of software and sell it over the web so I can make 1k per month to pay my bills"
I don't know where you read that. Here is the question:
"Is it hard to build, market and maintain a web app that makes at least $1000 a month? For a single, skilled web developer."
You might consider that splitting hairs, but I think the question was quite clear, and very precise. Basically, he's interested in capitalizing on an existing skill set and wondering about the business side of things.
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#120It's not hard at all. Here's what you need to do: 1. Pick a tool you can build which will make money for people. 2. Build it for people who will pay. 3. Market to them. 4. Build it. 5. Ship it. 6. Market to them. (Over and over. It's not a one-time thing.) I've done it, and I teach other people to do it. (But the thing is - once you reach $1000, you might as well go further since the first $100 is the hardest, once y…
If it's that easy, why haven't you done it 10 or 100 times by now?
Here are the products I've planned & designed, which sell well:
1. Freckle
2. JavaScript Performance Rocks
3. Various JavaScript workshops
4. my entrepreneurship class (30x500)
And, by the end of June, we'll be launching our 2nd SaaS, Charm, which is much larger & took a longer time to develop (while I was fighting undiagnosed chronic fatigue syndrome), and we've already got people chomping at the bit to sign up and pay us for it. After that, we're creating self-study versions of our JS workshops.
If you're going to employ snarky skepticism, you might as well do your research first!