Welcome to The Successful Site Experiment
Rather than come up with a cool code name for the site that is now at the top of my to-do list, I decided to instead name the ongoing series of posts that will come from it.
In this series of posts, I will take you guys through exactly what I’m thinking, exactly what I’m doing, exactly how I’m doing it, exactly why I’m doing it, and of course everything that happens as a result of it all.
I’m calling it The Successful Site Experiment.
And it starts… now.
I figure the very best way to kick this off is with a little description of what the site/my idea for it actually is. As I mentioned a couple of posts ago, I’m not really comfortable with discussing the really specific specifics, but here’s what I can and will tell you about it.
What The Site ISN’T
For starters, it’s not a blog or an article site. It will definitely have a blog, and that blog will definitely be where all of this site’s article-like content (which there will definitely be a lot of) will go and be managed. But the big picture of the site is not at all about blog posts or articles.
It’s not a membership site either, as there is no reason or need whatsoever to have members or users… at least not in the short term. Long term may be a different story.
It’s also not a community/social site, or a site built around user generated content, or really even a web app.
In terms of my role, I will not be the expert/teacher. On the blog you’re reading now, that’s pretty much the side I’m on. On this other site, there’s really nothing to teach, so there’s really nothing to be an expert in. I’ll therefore be on the same level as every visitor to the site. Just another dude interested in the same thing they are, only I just so happened to create a badass site about it that they will love.
What The Site IS
The best way I can explain it is by calling it a compilation of information. And that rhymes, so hell yeah that’s how I’m going to explain it!
I’m the Dr. Seuss of internet marketing.
Basically, there is information that exists, and it changes on both a daily and weekly basis. This information is freely available online and any idiot can find it and use it if they wanted to (and MANY people do).
What I’m going to do is take all of this information from all of the various sources that are putting it out there, and compile it all in one super pretty, perfectly usable, ultra convenient format.
And as this information continues to change on the daily/weekly basis that it will infinitely change on, my site will update accordingly. My very early guess is that this site will require about 1-2 hours of work per week to maintain. While obviously FAR from a lot, it’s actually 1-2 hours more than any of my current sites require. Should be worth it, though.
In addition, I’m going to be doing something else with it all that will make the entire thing a little extra special. This will also be the thing that sets my site apart from (and makes it way better than) anyone else doing anything similar.
That is, of course, if anyone else actually is doing anything similar. Speaking of which…
What’s Next?
In a word, research. There are certain things I want to learn more about before I actually start working on the site itself.
Specifically, I want to get to know all of my potential competitors (and begin planning how to pwn all their asses), and learn a little more about this niche as a whole, its audience, and my traffic and earning potential.
You’ll see.
You know I thought I knew the niche the whole time I was reading your post until I read you going to do some research which made me lost. Anyway, I hope everything works out for you in this new niche.
Ha, thanks, but you do realize now that we have to hear what your original guess was.
I got 20 bucks on porn.
I like that you’re doing so far.
Is it gonna be another site in IM niche?
Adrian: Nope, definitely not part of the IM niche. The IM niche disgusts me to no end (sorta why it took me about 6 years to bring myself to start this blog).
It’s actually not part of the tech/internet niche at all, really. Although, the way I’m going to do it, the site will still appeal to that niche (this is really the key to getting non-tech/internet stuff to go viral, as it is that niche and those people who truly make things go viral).