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Couldn't agree more with everything you've said! I wanted to write more last night but partner came off a 12 hour shift and I needed to go! Things I would do d
by zapperdapper 9y ago
Couldn't agree more with everything you've said! I wanted to write more last night but partner came off a 12 hour shift and I needed to go!
Things I would do differently now:
1) I would do keyword search. This was back in 2003 and I didn't know what keyword research was back then!
2) I picked a lousy domain name. I thought it was cool, but I soon found out that my domain turned out to be the name of a Gary Numan song - and I thought my domain name was cleverly original!! Most of my organic traffic from Google was people looking for the song lyrics!! Doh!
3) I never did a podcast.
4) I never wrote many guest articles.
5) I should have done more Joint Ventures.
6) I should have had a mailing list and provided a free ebook to encourage sign up.
7) I focused mostly on content but should have been splitting time at least 50:50 with traffic generation - having great content only takes you so far - you have to let people know about it.
8) I did several interviews with retired expats - I should have done more.
The content was pretty good. I ran the site for I think eight years - it was more a labour of love than a business. I had people write me and say they moved to Thailand because of my site, or it helped them make the move. However, I regret I did not take it more seriously as a business - the market is now enormous, but hard to break into these days.
By the way I love your site!
- mattbgates 9y agoThank you Zapper! Very much appreciated! No matter how much we read.. no matter how much we all take in.. there are ALWAYS things that we should've done and could've done.. or done them better. It is a learning experience. Honestly, I had no desire to build an email list at the time, as my whole focus was on writing quality content, but those people that have done so... and acquired something like 30,000+ subscribers have to market less, whereas I have to try and find those people with a subscriber list and either ask them to mention my products, or pay them to do it. Or... as I'm doing now for marketing... I'm just writing about the topic and topics surrounding my products.