Archive for July, 2008

We’ll be talking more about the challenge later today or tomorrow, but I wanted to make a quick post to clarify something.

Apparently, some of you think this is a competition of all of us trying this and seeing who “wins”, or who can sell first with the goal or whatnot.

I just want to clarify, it’s a challenge for me to see if I can do it, and you guys are helping me, which helps you learn the process and see what works, and what doesn’t. Obviously, you can take the knowledge you learn from me and from this challenge and do it yourself, but it’s not a competition between us to see who can do it the fastest, or make the most money.

Just thought I’d clarify that.

First off, I want to apologize for the delay, but my grandma has not been doing well at all, and I’ve been at the hospital almost every day, so it’s been tough on the family. But I’m taking time to write this up, as it’s important I think.

The time has come for use to move onto the first step of the MonkeyBlogger Challenge. Picking a niche. Now, this is one of the toughest, and most crucial steps when it comes to starting a blog or website with the goal of selling for profit.

So for our blog, that’s the first thing we want to figure out. What is it we want to do with this blog? What do we want to promote? A product? A service? Is is a news blog? Thes are all things we need to consider.

I’ve done a lot of research and thought regarding this, and I’ve decided to go with a news blog. But the next step is choosing what type of news blog. Considering there are many news blogs, I don’t want to be too general with my niche.  For example, I wouldn’t go for a blog like www.tuaw.com, which covers everything Apple, but something like www.appleiphoneapps.com, which covers just iPhone apps.

So I’ve picked four general niches, and I’m looking for the help of my readers to pick which one to go with, and then what sub-niche to go with. So, in the comments, leave which of the four you think I should choose and why, as well as some sub-niche ideas. I’ll consider all and then choose what to go with, and we’ll discuss that in another post.

So without further adu, here are the four niche choices.

1. Technology
2. Music
3. Television
4. Sports

Now it’s time for your input.

Well guys, had a tough week, my grandma had a stroke, and is well, dying. It’s been hard for the family and I but I know I must get my mind off it, so I’m going to start the Official, First….MONKEYBLOGGER CHALLENGE!

We are going to be having a lot of fun with this theme.

“Create a blog and sell if for $500 profit”

For this, we are going to have to go through a few steps to start up.

1. Pick a niche

2. Pick a name and domain

3. Set up blog, organize, custom, optimize

4. Start the content flow

5. Promote, promote, promote

6. Build lasting readerships

7. SELL THAT BAD BOY!

So to start off, we need a niche. A theme. A starting point.

I will be brainstorming and reasearching this a lot, and I’ll need your help in making final desicions. So in the comments of this post, I want you to leave your ideas regarding niche choice, and tomorrow I’ll be listing mine here.

On another note, at the end of the challenge, whoever brings this post the most traffic will get an amazing price. So don’t make haste to post about it in your blogs!

Hey guys, sorry I couldn’t tell you, my family and I made an unexpected trip up to Orlando this weekend to stay with my sister, I will be here a week. over the weekend I had no access to a computer, but now I’m good, so don’t worry, tomorrow will bring aome great tips you all can use in your blog.

In other news, the voting for the MonkeyBlogger’s first challenge has ended, and it seems that the choice “Create a blog and sell it for $500 profit”, has come back to win.

So that will be our challenege, and we’ll get that underway in just a few days, so stay tuned! So sorry for the content delay folks, didn’t know I was coming up to Orlando, but I’ve alotted time for my blog, so no worries! :)

Just a little rant that’s making me a bit angry.

If anyone read about it, John Chow screwed Shoemoney’s team in Top Affiliate Challenge. He went into their account, made a post on their blog saying that they were going to lose, and then changed the password so they couldn’t log in.

What the heck man? That’s so cheap, not even funny, and very immature.

Does a guy who makes over 30k a month just from his blog really feel that threatened? Jeez.

And on the other hand, look at Bill Gates. Quits Microsoft, (sort of) to commit his life and money to malaria and other diseases and charities. Wow. That’s just great! I’m very proud of Bill for doing this, and at the same time John Chow is pulling stupid stunts like this and buying useless tech things and dinners at fancy restaurants that he doesn’t need.

I know I may sound like a “crazy” here, but it just urks me how some people with so much money can be so cheap, stingy, and selfish, when people accross the world need that money just to survive. I can tell you right now, if I made $30,000 a month plus like he does, I’d donate 1,000s a month to different things.

Well, I guess that’s it, tomorrow we’ll have some great content, so stay tuned for that.