The Journey Of A New Blog

This (TalkPrice.net) is a blog that my friends and I have started with hopes of it becoming popular. Within a week and a half, we already have about 100 unique views every single day. Blogging is something that we had just found out about a month ago. We have been reading sites like JohnChow.com, ShoeMoney.com, and MixedMarketArts.com, trying to figure out how we could make money through blogging. It is tough really, so much time goes in to it and unless you’re extremely patient, and not much comes back.

Sure we would like to sponsored by large sites or even have to the money to advertise but the truth is we don’t. We are measly 14 and 15 year olds who seemingly have to do everything ourselves. We have heard of people like Carl Ocab who is a fourteen year old making thousands per month, and Josh Buckley, a fifteen year old making even more. But the question is, can fourteen year olds, with no help from his fathers, no friends who are already in the business, and without extreme luck on their side really make it? We are going to be blogging over the next year to see if it is possible (even longer if this turns out a success).

Let’s call it an experiment if you will…

Getting Traffic and Daily Users

Thus far, this has been one of the most problematic things for us. We are lucky to be on vacation at this time and therefore we have a lot of time on my hands but still, we are spending way to much time with way too little results. W are finding ourselves commenting continuously on others blogs, writing well-written relevant comments with my sites URL at the end hoping someone will click it and visit; starting hundreds of new threads on various forums such as DigitalPoint and TalkFreeLance, hoping someone will also check it out. It’s really a challenge if you don’t have an experts help and have to do it all by yourself, you have no idea.

Make Money Online

People always say that the Internet is a portal into the good life, if you know what to do. The founders of Google, Facebook, MySpace, and even Digg are now all millionaires, set for life without a worry in the world. It’s really not as easy as it seems though, anyone who has tried knows, and the reason that there aren’t more millionaires out there is because many fail, and they give up and never try again.

Make Money Through Your Blog or Site

It has been said over and over again, when you start a site up, don’t put advertisements on it. Now the reason behind this is simple, it scares away visitors and makes them lose respect for you. Larger blogs and sites in general can do this because the visitors realize that if a site is this big, the content or service must be so extraordinarily good that they should stay anyway.

You have to be thinking in the long run then, as a new blogger or site and set your priorities. For instance say to yourself, lets get around 400 RSS subscribers and at least 1000 unique daily views and then we can spare ourself some advertisements. Then we have the respect of the visitors, and they won’t leave because they see that we have a built large community and therefore have respect for the site.

This also is unbelievably helpful because with a huge constant flow of traffic, you will have sponsors just lining up to advertise on your site, who want to get in on the action. No ones going to be wanting to pay 30 dollars a month for a site with no one visiting it. Also when you sell ads yourself, through sponsors or whatever else your methods happen to be, you are getting the most money you can possibly get. This is because you are cutting out the middle man, Google AdSense for instance, or AdBrite. If possible, you should always try to sell ads yourself.

Building A Community

This is something that we are trying to do at the moment, build a community. I mean, what’s the point of spending all the time that we are spending creating this wonderful content (or at least we think so) for readers, if there are none? Are we doing this for an empty audience? Is anyone there? Creating wonderful content is great, but there really is no purpose for it unless you have a steady supply of readers; it’s even better if they come back every day.

You really know that you have created a community when your readers love you so much that they write about you on their own blogs, digg you, stumble you, whatever it takes to help you out. This is something that we are trying to achieve, this is my priority, my goal at the moment. If we achieve this we have a safeguard, a net to catch me when I fall, a community by our side.

All of the following is what we hope to achieve in the next year, and we hope that whoever is reading this blog has it in their heart to try and help us out or at least subscribe. Look out world, we’re coming for you!