16 March 2007
New Projects / Web Development Rambles
Sorry I’ve been lousy at updating this. I’ve had a pretty hectic week, but I’ve got some interesting stuff popping off.
Just had a new project go live today. I’m helping a friend monetize some pretty unique traffic. It’s going to be pretty fun to figure out what converts and what doesn’t. Right now the contextual ads are doing surprisingly well, but the CPA offers aren’t doing so hot. It’s still way early though. Once it starts working out I’ll try to post what I learned here.
In other news I’m working on developing a couple new sites for a specific financial vertical and also for a few professional service practictioners that I hope to resell (many many times).
My feelings towards selling web sites fluctuate pretty frequently. Dealing with clients can be really frustrating some times, but I’ve hired someone to deal with that so now all I have to do is sell, which I really enjoy.
If you do any web development business I strongly recommend looking for ways to reuse any code you’ve developed. Just yesterday I was able to take a lead form that I’d had developed for one of my SEO/PPC endeavors and offer a copy of it to one of my clients. It only made me $250 but it took all of 15 minutes to set up. I’d do that all day long if I could 