Comments on: What Is Holding You Back From Creating A Website

By: John Allen

John Allen — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 23:05:05 +0000

Hello Jamie:

I want to run a blog for the .info extension since no one else is, and I want to build a directory for pumps but don’t know how.

-Allen

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 20:29:12 +0000

@Jim: Relax. No one said they were gonna take any time away from your kids. Geez. Holy sh..

By: Jamie Zoch

Jamie Zoch — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 13:54:07 +0000

Thank you Jim and Kedaar for your input!

By: Gazzip

Gazzip — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 13:15:12 +0000

Yeah I’v bought some from iStockphoto.com before and they do have a great selection but I tend to need something more specific, like certain golf courses in a certain place, same with hotels and other local attractions. Real hard to get them without flying there or getting them from the local tourist board.(which has’nt worked so far out of all my attempts)

Places like Gettyimages can charge you $300 + just to use one photo for a year!, so many rules,restrictions and hoops to jump through makes it unaffordable unless you’re a big media/news company like BBC, FORBES etc .

Thanks

By: Kedaar

Kedaar — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 05:43:36 +0000

I am part time domainer and can spend only 1-2 hours a day and that also if my 2yr old son allows me to work. Time is obvious but money also the main factor as i cant hire guy to develop for me.
Then also I have decided to develop at least 85% of my portfolio in 3 months. It is project dead line for me set by me.
Professionals deliver better under pressure

By: Jim Holleran

Jim Holleran — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 00:52:30 +0000

For me, I work 2-3 hours a day and my time is better spent buying/selling domains and monetizing my traffic through PPC, CPA, etc.

I don’t work when my twin 2 year old daughters are awake because they are my #1 priority and nothing is going to take away time from them.

Thanks, Jim

By: Jamie Zoch

Jamie Zoch — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 20:42:01 +0000

Thank you for your input Richard. SEO is all of our best friend and can really lower advertising costs. I think with social media, SEO and your domain used should really help lower ad costs.

By: Jamie Zoch

Jamie Zoch — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 20:39:43 +0000

@Gazzip,

iStockphoto.com is the cheapest and has The Best images with a super wide range of images. I have used them many times and have always been happy.

By: Richard

Richard — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 18:39:27 +0000

I guess for me it’s the advertising costs. If you don’t have help through word of mouth (social media), or you’re not search engine optimized, then you’re pretty much a sitting duck. There’s always the “fresh, unique content” setback, but if you have a domain with a clear future than it’s not that much of a problem to generate content.

By: Gazzip

Gazzip — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 18:25:10 +0000

Interesting question Jamie

My main problem always seems to be the same, getting decent appropriate photos that I can legally use. I’v contacted quiet a few tourism boards asking if I could use their media but they never ever bother to reply LOL (drives me nuts)- I think they’re just pissed because my domains are pretty good ones

I have bought a few photos before but some of the prices are INSANE, It would be cheaper to fly there for two weeks and take my own photos if I had the spare money to do so!

I’ll just throw this idea out there to your viewers incase any domainer/developer is looking for a new project.

How about a photo bank for domainer/developers, we come from all over the world so we could upload our own photos for free use by other members, the operator could charge a set yearly fee something like $30/$40 for each member + members also have to upload a certain amount of photos each year of their membership.

Once there is a good stock of photos they could extend the offer to professional web developers which would also help bring more developers into the realm of domainerland – more domain sales perhaps

Just a thought as it seems far more domainers are turning to development since PPC fell off the cliff.

By: Jamie Zoch

Jamie Zoch — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 17:20:46 +0000

@Leonard,
Thank you for your input. Yes it is not always easy to turn a profit from a site but I think there is a lot more to just turning a profit with a website. As you stated, experience is one thing gained. Maybe you would love blogging, but simply have not tried it.. how would you know, until you try it. Maybe your company just needs a presence on the web! Building it yourself (with a little help to get started) allows you to put your passion into the site! No it will not make money on ads right away, but you can provide data to your customers they may need etc.

By: Leonard Britt

Leonard Britt — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 17:16:04 +0000

Making money from development is not as easy as creating a minisite. However, I believe it is still a useful learning experience to have gone through the process of learning basic website development. Of course I am still using XSitePro2 but later this year will sit down, learn WP basics and launch a site on WordPress. Perhaps maybe it would be easier to just redesign an existing site with a nicer template. We’ll see…

By: Jamie Zoch

Jamie Zoch — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 16:57:46 +0000

Because a domain is just a domain. Add a good domain with a fairly useful website and you can gain value not only into your domain name, but hold the shot at making money with the site as well.

By: TriCounty

TriCounty — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 16:52:06 +0000

Why make time-consuming sites when you can just buy domains?

I hate maintaining sites.