Web Hosting vs Affiliate Store vs Blog

Discussion in 'General Business' started by lolage, Dec 14, 2008.

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    I'm wanting to start a big project, everything ive done in the past has been on a small scale. They have mostly been proxies which have earnt $5/day. I'm now aiming higher wanting to achieve $10+/day and not just on weekdays like proxies. ;)

    Web hosting, I know everybody says web hosting is "over saturated" but i feel with a bit of time, patience and work i can easily be on $10/day if not more?

    Affiliate store, im a bit confused about really. Wouldnt really know what to promote, feel as if i would rather sell my own product and get 100% (web hosting), rather than selling somone else's product for a small %.

    Adsense blog, i have a good idea, just i feel you need ALOT of traffic to be able to get more than even $5 with the given niche im thinking.

    Just to give you some information about me, id rather not be adding lots of content although i know with affiliate and blogs this is neccasary. I like the idea of having the site, the site doing what it does so long you promote it, which i like.

    I can design pretty well, so id do the design - would just need a coder.

    In my situation, with $200 to spare, which would you choose to do?

    Thanks very much, Ben. :)
     
    lolage, Dec 14, 2008 IP
  2. mentos

    mentos Prominent Member

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    I will go for blog that self updated coz i only need to promote it and don't need to worry about content.
    And $200 can make me more than 10 blog,so if i earn $2/day from each blog,so total $20/day from all the blog.
    Affiliate store is hard to generate sales coz its too saturated.
    While webhosting is to hassle coz need to maintain the server while entertain customer problem.
     
    mentos, Dec 14, 2008 IP
  3. lolage

    lolage Active Member

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    I thought auto-update blogs were bad to seo etc?

    Any other opinions?
     
    lolage, Dec 14, 2008 IP
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    kiteguy123 Well-Known Member

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    Why don't you do affiliate for a web hosting company (or any other), and then when you start to get good at selling, launch your own company. Then you have the assurance you will make a profit.
     
    kiteguy123, Dec 15, 2008 IP
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    venturefox Notable Member

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    I've never seen a long term, unmanaged and self updating blog that has been successful. Please provide some examples if you have. It's easy to make up numbers, that doesn't help at all.

    True there is quite a bit of competition in affiliate marketing but if you seek out new products, services and ways to advertise them then you can always make money. It's about perserverence and testing but it usually pays off in the end.

    A valid point, if you are going into the web hosting field you should know a fair bit about the systems you're using and be able to manage them effectively. You will probably have customers contacting you 24/7 with their problems so be prepared for this.

    I would recommend affiliate marketing personally, there's plenty of money to be made there.
     
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    wounded1987 Well-Known Member

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    Save your money! $200 to spare? not enough for your "big project"!
     
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    lolage Active Member

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    How much would you reccomend for a "big project".
     
    lolage, Dec 15, 2008 IP
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    lightless Notable Member

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    My recommendation - Adsense blog where you promote appropriate affiliate products.
     
    lightless, Dec 15, 2008 IP
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    sonthaya Peon

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    What about great traffics site with manual quality articles and thousand of subscribers, it's better and generate $$ from Contextual Ads
     
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    justinlorder Peon

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    How about seo a site for a high payout nicke /keywords ?
     
    justinlorder, Dec 15, 2008 IP