Another Day, Another Dollar

For the past three months I have been wadding through all the information on the Internet on how to open a website and make money.  And after three months I've come to the conclusion that 95% of those that are making money on the Internet are doing so trying to sell me something on how to do it. J  It reminds me of a shoe salesman pushing me to buy socks after I've found my shoes.

You would think that with thirty plus years of running my own company and working for myself I would have an "edge" on how to market a product or service on the Internet.  So would I.  But, for some reason or another I've been unable to zero in on that one niche that makes me have that warm fuzzy feeling.

I have set up my first site recently. A dating service referral site.  Reason being that should it become successful the profit potential is strong.  Add to that, I have some experience in the field from my younger years working for a dating service as a counselor. The romantic in me would actually get a big bang out of helping people find that special someone in their lives. You see, I’ve been very fortunate to be married to the same woman for over coming up on forty two years now.

However, as I knew going into it, it is going to take a long time to work my way to the top of the search engines in this heavy competition category.  My mind set was that if I’m going to pay the price to learn to be a webmaster, I may as well learn while working on something that should pay off well in the end.  We shall see. At this point, although the site is up and running it isn’t completely built and I have yet to do any SEO work on it either. And, may I add, no one has yet Stumble Upon itJ

My next site has to be something that will turn some profit rather quickly.  I’ve opted for a retail / review site.  At present I am doing research for an actual product which I will then do a review on and set a web site up just for that product.  I have registered with Amazon as an Affiliate and will be looking at products I can market of theirs.

I have several other “ideas” that I am working on also. The two “major” sites I hope to have up and running strongly within two years are a exlusive products site and to enter into the “show you how to do it on the Internet” field.  Seems that anyone that is successful and learns how to make a buck on the Internet ends up selling that information or at least trying to.

Hopefully, one day, I too will be able to point to this blog as the record of my tremendously successful starting point……we shall see.