James Hume - Entrepreneur Blog

Well Editorialize can be listed as a failure. I’m not quite sure I was ready to get into the service industry again (previously I was a freelance web designer). I had a quality product, however I believe I was getting involved in a saturated niche dominated by people willing to write for a lot less. The site had a great design, and in my opinion wonderful copy, but marketing the product proved difficult.

My plan is to take the domain and design, and try some affiliate marketing with it. I’m going to create a wordpress blog out of the design, and possibly market some sort of product that deals with writing/publishing/work at home. I’m going to try as hard as possible to stay away from webmasters because that niche is way to competitive. I will use a combination of PPC and SEO for traffic.

As of now I’ve quickly glanced over what Copeac and Azoogle have to offer that could relate to the turn Editorialize, and I haven’t found anything that stood out. I’m going to sign up for CJ and possibly ClickBooth (or is it ClickBank? One of the two is a major scam, and I can’t seem to remember which one it is right now) and see what they may have. Worse comes to worse, I’ll just make an EPN site out of it and target magazines and stuff for sale.

As far as other happenings go, I wasn’t able to get much done today. I did some link building for BuyShotGlasses.com, but other than that all I did was check my email, stats, and wrote this post. At work I managed to slice open my index finger while cutting french bread, so its been pretty hard to type things with all of the bandaging required to keep my finger from bleeding again. Along with the fact that I’m dead tired after only sleeping 3 hours along with working a double shift at the restaurant today. In case you’re wondering, I’m a server at a cajun restaurant that is popular with both the locals and tourists (located in Louisiana).  

I’ll have some updates on my other projects soon. Check out NissanGT-R.org, I just put up a temporary framework design and some content. By framework I mean that its a premium wordpress theme that has some neat features, however I’ll be customizing it to make it look unique (much like what I did with my blog design). I’ll go into detail about what I’m doing as far as link building goes for BuyShotGlasses.com.

My next plan is to start a case study about LexusLF-A.net. I’m excited about that project because it seems as if there isn’t a lot of competition for the car as Lexus isn’t interested in releasing it any time soon. I’ll be showing you guys what I do when it comes to building these mini sites, and we can both learn from the experience because as you know, I’m not an internet millionaire, hundred-thousand-aire, or even a hundredaire. Buy hey, it could be interesting, right?