Profitable Websites Are Hard Work…

Friday, March 21st, 2008

Categories: Ad Revenue Driven Websites

This may come as a news flash to some, but, if you’re looking to draw some sort of sustainable income from a website, it requires a lot of hard work. Hard work in terms of managing and updating the site and gathering the resources to sufficiently run it. After all, Rome wasn’t built in a day.
Those that are less experienced with web start-up projects need to know:

If you build it, they will NOT come. If you build it, you need to work at getting new visitors and maintaining the ones you already have. Your website will not become universally reknown as it leaps onto the world wide web.
Your ideas will not always be as viral as you think they might be. They will need a big push from you.
Advertising dollars don’t add up to a whole lot. Period. You need a lot of traffic to make it worth your while. This will take time.
Online communities don’t simply begin with the touch of a button.
Growth is exponential, and doesn’t happen in a month. Expect commitment to succeed.
For every successful website, there are likely dozens that didn’t succeed. Why? the concept and execution were poor.

Hate to be the bearer of bad news on Easter, but I am just trying to help.