This post is slightly later than usual (or maybe not) but anyways, I was busy setting up a new website for a latest project. At the moment, I’m buzzing with a crazy amount of ideas – I’m putting them into action as I can as I know if I hold back, I won’t do it so as I had the time I went full steam ahead on this one. Although I will have to hold back on these while my exams are ongoing (still need guest posters, send me an email) I will start marketing the crap out of these projects when they’re over as I’ll have a good three months or so to do that. :)

Anyways, my latest project:

(Yes, I know that the logo looks like it was designed by a third grader, however I actually paid for it :razz: )

It’s called “4 Blog Hosting” and I picked up a nice short domain for it, that is 4bh.org. What it basically will be is a website that will offer free Wordpress blog hosting to others – I did say I wanted to help out bloggers without the funds to buy hosting of their own, and this website is a place where they can go, send me details of what they need and I can hook them up on my VPS. Fairly easy, hey?

What the website will also offer is a Hostgator Rebate; and that is how I will be making money. For all those that want to upgrade or move over to Hostgator, I’ll basically pay for the first two months of the move, quite a fair option I think to new bloggers. They get two months free, and I pick up the affiliate commission on the referral.

You see, I was thinking… a standard website usually sells for around ten times a month’s revenue, or that is what the sales at Sitepoint would dictate at least. So, taking this into account… a website that made five Hostgator referrals a month would be worth $5,000 and a website that made ten Hostgator referrals a month would be worth $10,000. Probably not so high, but a good chunk of that at least, especially if I can get it somewhat established. I will be SEOing it for some long tail keywords and running a couple of contests to get it off the ground; you should be able to subscribe if I’ve set it up properly :)

It is still not at all done; most of the pages need adding to and some posts need to be written up but the framework is there. I’ve used the Revolution Pro Business theme which is definitely a sweet one (it is the same one I’m using for Dubai Den) and it does what it needs to. So if you need hosting, head on over there and send me a message. :)

Blog Premiere forums are now setup so that only posters with more than ten posts can see the private section; there were too many people just signing up, not contributing at all just to see it. I didn’t really like that so got George to tweak stuff – it is well worth the five minutes you will take to post the ten posts as there is a wealth of information available there that anyone can use. :)

That project I mentioned earlier – something that I had not seen discussed anywhere; I’m making a few tweaks to that, and will no longer be doing it with proxies – however, all I can say is that if it kicks off, I’ll be making something close to 30 – 40x my investment without having to break a sweat (minimal work). I should (hopefully!) be getting hooked up with a credit card this weekend, so will be putting it into action after my exams, however I have already gotten the go ahead from certain individuals and I cannot see how it will not work. If it does or doesn’t, I’ll post here. :razz:

I also got my parents to buy me a few books, which I’ll be taking a look at (after these exams, gaah) – one of which is Seth Godin’s Purple Cow which I’ve heard is a very good read. I asked them to get Problogger’s book too but it didn’t seem to be available in any of the local stores, so I’ll look at buying from Amazon whenever I can (again, after exams).

I asked this a while ago, but it’ll be interesting to see how people are coming along – what projects are you working on, and what do you think of my Free Wordpress Blog Hosting site? :)

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