What do you think of my 30-day trial idea?

[Vanessa]

This is so wonderful to see. What a great challenge to share publicly.

I love the Adsense/Amazon site model. You went full steam ahead into it.

I checked out your sites and wanted to ask you to put up a privacy policy on all your sites.

If you are doing Adwords, they require one on each site as part of ToS.

There's a plugin that will do this for you -- privacy policy generator, I think. I use it on my sites.

[icesar]

Thanks guys for all the supportive words! And thanks Vanessa for the heads' up; I'll be sure to add a standard privacy policy to all the sites.

[Froztwolf]

Thanks for sharing, this is a very interesting idea.

Could be a good fit for myself as I tend to be very capricious. If I can do market research when I feel like that, set up the design when I feel like that, do extra SEO work when I feel like that etc. that would make things a lot more interesting.

I might just steal your idea

[Curtis2011]

Originally Posted by icesar

Not to mention, I feel like I've built a very real asset. As a whole, the sites are producing about $30 a month with virtually no extra marketing or link-building, and with brand new domains (if you know SEO, you know this is a huge strike against you). So my prediction if I do a fair bit of link-building and value-building on these sites and if I hold on to them for 1-3 years is nothing but positive. At worst, they will have a decent resale value of a few hundred dollars and at best they will be solid income generating sites.

Don't you have to pay for hosting for all of the websites?

Is that not more expensive than the revenue you are making?

[SatvikBeri]

Originally Posted by Curtis2011

Don't you have to pay for hosting for all of the websites?

Is that not more expensive than the revenue you are making?

Many hosting plans, like hostgator, let you host an unlimited # of domains and just charge by space/bandwidth. The plan I use is $8 a month and I have some 15 sites on it.

[CoolBee]

Hey Icesar - how's it going?
Am in a space where I can begin to contemplate something like this!

[ellie]

Originally Posted by icesar

The experience has been rewarding in that I confirmed and connected with some of my strengths. I know that I'm good at starting new things and at doing research and analyzing options. I tend to look at the downsides of these strengths, namely that I have a hard time finishing projects and that I often get stuck in "analysis-paralysis." Here, I gave myself the chance to use these strengths without judging the downsides. This is how I ended up researching and getting started on 44 projects. It's also why I was able to go from idea to live site in about a half a day (Keep in mind these are very simple sites.)

Oh wow, how did I miss this thread? Great idea, you should of documented your journey in a blog, that would of got so many people interested. Explained what worked and what didn't work. I resonated with the part where you said you know your strengths, like starting things, but your weakness is completing things.

I do this too.

I am actually starting my own online business too and documenting the journey sort of I tend to go off on tangents. But what I have found by starting something and talking about it, is where my strengths and weaknesses lie and I sort of catch myself out, where I tend to want to give-up. It also has taught me if you just start something, it can actually evolve into something else, so just start something.

[codefreeze]

Amazing effort!