James Hume - Entrepreneur Blog

Don’t you hate it when people start off an entry by saying, “Sorry I haven’t blogged in awhile” or “So it’s been awhile since I’ve last updated”. I’ve started a few posts like that, and I’m not sure why. What am I sorry for? Blah, lets save that for another day.

College is here, and it’s fucking badass. I love it 10 times more than high school. I’m attending LSU for those of you that didn’t know. School is currently consuming 22 documentable hours; 17 hours in my curriculum and 5 hours of math lab every week and then when you add studying, its way to much time. So that means less time to work and play.

LG Venus is now ranking #14 for the term LG Venus in Google. It’s really not that big of an accomplishment considering the competition, but I’m proud of it so far. I think the site has Top 5 potential, so only time will tell. At the rate it’s been going, it should earn around $150-$200 this month with the low amount of traffic it’s getting. Coupon and Sandals have dropped down in traffic and earnings. I might be able to resurrect them and bring the earnings back up.

A buddy of mine, Conrad (well I think that’s his blog now) just launched a new forum. You can find it here, it’s pretty cool looking. The place is brand new, and there aren’t any super techniques being dropped right now, but if you’re from the Talkfreelance crowd I suggest you check it out.

That is all. Hurricane Gustav hit my house pretty hard and I still don’t have power. Ike is dropping a deuce on me right now as we speak so I hope he doesn’t mess up my power situation any more than it already is. If any of you guys pray or whatever, make one for the Texans (and some Louisiana people like myself) who’ve been affected by Gustav and will be affected by Ike. They (us) (we) need all of the help we (us) (they) can get.

My first semester of college starts in about 1 hour. That means less time to work on my sites, and more time getting swamped with bullshit school work. Oh well, I should meet a lot of new people so it will be worth it. I’ll post again tonight about how everything went and how my sites are going.

I recently picked up a few domains, and I’m going to start a new mini network of mini niche websites (mini-mini, haha). I picked up 3 cell phone related domains and another car related domain to add to my car network. The main reason I’m posting about this is to get it ranked, but some of you may find it interesting. As far as estimated earnings, I’m hoping the site makes $1 a day (along with the other 2 sites). It’d be cool to earn $100/month from just a few hours of work (thus passive income).

It took me a few hours to get it up, but I have the ‘template’ completed, and it should only take an hour to get the other two sites up (uploading and writing content). I still have more content to write, and I have to start getting backlinks for the site. But other than that, it’s pretty much complete.

Here’s the URL: LG Venus

I realize that I haven’t updated in awhile, but there really isn’t anything to write about. My sites are running smoothly, and most of them are seeing gains in all categories of running a website (traffic, backlinks, content, revenue, costs, etc).

I recently found an interesting trend in my network: the sites I spend the least amount of time working on are doing the best. I wish I could post an example, but I’m getting ready to start some heavy work on one of the sites and don’t want to spoil the niche. But the site that I spent the least amount of time on is on an aged domain, while the sites that I spend a lot of time working on are on fresh domains. 

Everybody already knows this, but I didn’t realize the power of it: aged domains are the way to go. I started BSG on a fresh domain and put a lot of work into it. It isn’t doing that well. On the flip side I paid $3 for a year-old domain that a webmaster was just going to let expire, and right now it’s doing great, easily kicking BSG’s ass. I’ll never build a site on a new domain again.

That’s all for today, remember folks: buy aged domains!

Just finished perfecting my desktop setup - for now. Ideally I’d like to have my MBP hooked up to a 30″ Cinema display, but its hard to justify the price for it. So for now, I’ll stick with what I have:

• Macbook Pro 2.4 Ghz Penyrn base model
• Custom Built PC - 2.16 Ghz C2D, 2GB ram, 8800GTS 640mb, 150gb Raptor
• Monitor on the left is 19″ Gateway widescreen hooked up to PC
• Monitor on the right is HP 17″ square hooked up to Mac
• Synergy is used so that I only need 1 mouse/keyboard to control both machines

So I use the MBP for everything but gaming, and I use the PC for gaming. It also serves as another screen for web browsing, so when I’m multitasking I usually browse on the PC. Its a great setup, and I’m sure it’ll last a while.

Oh yea, sorry about the picture, it didn’t turn out to nice. I can never get a good shot of my desktop; it has poor lighting conditions for photography.