I'm really in need of something like this, if anyone knows anything please lmk or PM me.

Small sample size for me but it seems a lot of the forums I go to are losing traffic. One should be doing really well bc it is a football forum and the team in question is one of the best, but each year less and less people seem to post. I am interested in it because I want to open up my own forum. I know how hard it can be but for me fifty posters would be wonderful.

It used to be that forums were one of the very few 'social' outlets on the internet. (IRC, forums, email lists... what else was there?)

Today, there are many more places vying for social interactions from those same people. One could theorize that every site is a loser as more big players are battling for those attention spans.

Probably doesn't matter for 1 site project though. Your project will largely fail or succeed on it's own accord...

Establishing a website which is just a forum about a topic is a boat that has sailed a long time ago. Forums (like a lot of things on the internet) are very saturated market and sites like Reddit which serve as quasi forums have taken a lot of the forum market share. You might be able to do it, but it will be an uphill struggle and running a forum really isn't as much fun as you might think it is.

However, forums as an additional service you offer for your brand/website are a great idea if you have enough of an audience. They serve as excellent social proofs, they engage users, they reduce support requests as users help each other, they can provide good quality content with regards to SEO, they build loyalty to your brand/product and they keep visitors coming back.

They can have a negative impact though. I don't know if anyone else does this, but if there's a service/product I'm interested in I'll often check their forums. If I see a few hundred posts total it makes me feel that the purchase is far more riskier - whereas the absence of the forum I probably wouldn't have this opinion.

I do this too but I'm mainly looking for active involvement from the site operator/product creator/support. If there are no posts, questions aren't getting answered or its full of spam, I move on.

Good example of buying yourself work rather than an asset that produces passive income - http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/30...bsite-1258844/

And it's going to be very hard work for what will probably end up being a very low hourly rate. Feel sorry for the guy.

There is nothing wrong with buying yourself work. It's how most small/individual businesses are.

The guy in question unfortunately bought something he didn't understand at all. That's completely different. It's a big mistake trying to enter a very competitive field having no background or understanding of it.

The only way I would buy anything I didn't understand is if the seller had a history of good reputation and was basically willing to spend XX-XXX hours coaching and answering questions after the sale - and I would do it with an expectation of losing most of the investment in exchange for learning something.

I'm keeping my fingers crossed that the guy lucks into a couple of sales and it's not a complete loss for him, but it doesn't sound good.

Does anyone know of any good copyrighters who have some experience with internet marketing? Looking to have a homepage and a few product pages done.

This is a friend of mine who does really good work. He's also a former 2p2er

http://resultscopywriting.com/

Norton blocks that website for me saying:

Hmm crazy, I'll ask him about it.

I think I see the problem...

I have a whole bunch of domains at godaddy and networksolutions. They are both horrible to navigate as one tries to avoid all the spam and advertisements to get to the settings one wants.

I also hate that pricing sucks and I always have to search around for coupons to bring it down. I'm not looking for $1 domains. I want consistent $9/domain pricing without having to search for coupons. Bonus points if privacy setting is available for cheap.

Anyone recommend a registrar that doesn't play these stupid tricks but still offers competitive pricing? All I want is reliable, consistent pricing and not to be bombarded with all this crap.

Namecheap has been really easy to work with for me. Cheap domains, free whoisguard for the first year and no advertising spam that I can remember. Godaddy is a nightmare in terms of spam.

another +1 for namecheap.

even if they weren't a great price, their control panel for managing your domains is awesome. night and day from the spam ridden confusing on purpose GoDaddy

IIRC it is still worth searching for namecheap coupons, however it is very easy.

for the people that are buying domains, are u usually searching for ones that just recently been expired or hand reg them? also are u selling to end users by blast emailing hundreds, or just re-listing them on auctions websites?

NameSilo.com....cheap flat rate year after year (no gimmicks) and includes free privacy. Own about 25 domains with them and never looked back.

Looks like a good place, but I've never heard of these people. Are they reputable and have a decently long history? I might have to give them a try - otherwise it's namecheap.

Does anyone here have much experience with Mixpanel?

Integrating it now into my first web startup prior to beta testing. It's absolutely incredible. Free to use 200k events/month, and the best support I've ever encountered.

Any tips or strategies using it? Suggestions for KPI's for a subscription based service?

Buy yourself a reseller plan from godaddy, then transfer all your domains to yourself. You can transfer domains to yourself for $7.82/yr with free privacy.

Yes, this is perfectly fine, I work for the company and do the same thing.

reseller plan comes with free deluxe hosting and a bunch of other freebies.

Iam going to switch form godaddy myself, anyone else with experience with these guys, seems like a great deal.


How much is the reseller plan, considering that cost, how much do you save. Fact is for me the GD website is a PITA to navigate and im tired of all the upsell all the time, that wont go away with the reseller plan im sure.
( Plus i have a reseller hosting plan elsewhere...HawkHost)

You can buy a reseller for ~$102 to $120/yr which includes ssl, unlimited domain hosting, express email marketing, and 100gb online backup. You can set your own prices for domains and privacy. I set mine to the lowest possible.

Heven't been following flippa lately but just took a look and saw this which looks kind of interesting.

https://flippa.com/2841319-establish...es-great-niche

Anyone have thoughts on it?

I'd be wary, traffic plummeted around July and the conversion rate has dropped significantly as well in the last few months.

From the PayPal records I see only around $2k revenue in October and with the claimed margin of 15-20% that seems like a whole lot of work for $400 a month. (Unless that is the actual profit?)

The only reason to go for it is if you have a solid plan to get back to the previous traffic/conversion levels.

Thanks for the input. I'm interested in the site since I do a lot in the outdoors/ marine/ hunting/ sporting niche and have several sites which would work with it and help drive traffic plus some other ideas of improving the site and increasing traffic.

I'm wondering about the bounce rate which is like 76% and also if you or anyone else has experience with an ecommerce site and whether the stats in the listing look legit as well as other concerns I should have.