Its been a while since I've been on the forum. My blogging seminars and public speaking career has really taken off in the last 6 months. I am doing many talks about cellphones, chat rooms and social networking at schools across South Africa. This is still my primary source of income.
However, next Feb starting on Valentine's Day I will be involved in a 2-month reality radio show as a dating coach. This will be huge expose for that side of me. And I've just been asked my a friend of mine,
Scot McKay, to do an interview for one of his dating products. Since I do not have electronic products right now the potential income from the international audience is going to be limited.
I must say in South Africa we currently have 4 million Internet users from a population that's close to 48 million people. So I would not rely on online marketing but continued positioning in the mainstream media and radio interviews in particular. In fact I have formed an
informal partnership with SMARTdate, a speed dating company, to do workshops and seminars together. We have experimented on a small scale at the Sexpo recently held in Johannesburg.
As things are right now I would need to substantially shift my focus to seminars, workshops and coaching in the dating realm. Again I must emphasise I do not have much of any competition. However, in the Web 2.0/Social Media space its almost too crowded in South Africa because with our small online population I know most of the major bloggers personally.
In terms of comparing traffic I for November I did 2,000 unique visitors on
my business blog and 8,500 unique visitors on
my dating tips blog.
I suppose I would need to move step by step introducing more products and services in the dating realm over the next 6-12 months. In the dating space I have almost zero competition in the SA blogosphere ;-)
Any further suggestions?