animalstyle
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I just found out that the business deal that accounts for 90% of my income on my first authority project is ending next month. Its a huge hit, but I don't have anyone to blame but myself.
The Major Flaw
The site is well aged and it sees a large amount of high value traffic in the industry. For so long I laser focused and pushed super hard on the most obvious monetization - sending traffic to the service provider. Against all odds, I managed to do that and be compensated.
Now that this is going away, I realize what I have actually had all along is just large amount of attention from a specific demographic group with a specific interest.
It's obviously not ideal, but I feel like reverse engineering the visitor and monetizing the site by providing them other options (through testing) is the next best move. That does two things:
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Regardless of how obvious it may be now, I still worked hard on this project for a long time. A hit like this hurts, but the first thing I do is look at the positives. Here's a list I came up with:
The Major Flaw
- I built a site in an industry that has one service provider, hoping to monetize the site by sending traffic to that provider.
- Why would you pay out commissions to a website about your industry if you have a monopoly on your industry?
The site is well aged and it sees a large amount of high value traffic in the industry. For so long I laser focused and pushed super hard on the most obvious monetization - sending traffic to the service provider. Against all odds, I managed to do that and be compensated.
Now that this is going away, I realize what I have actually had all along is just large amount of attention from a specific demographic group with a specific interest.
It's obviously not ideal, but I feel like reverse engineering the visitor and monetizing the site by providing them other options (through testing) is the next best move. That does two things:
- Brings in the most value out of the project.
- Sends customers away from the service provider, thus creating some leverage and worth for my traffic.
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Regardless of how obvious it may be now, I still worked hard on this project for a long time. A hit like this hurts, but the first thing I do is look at the positives. Here's a list I came up with:
- I built a bankroll.
- Learned about organic traffic generation, social, lead gen, sales and creating a business.
- Built a contact with the company and the door to work together in the future could open again.
- Every time I fail, I am left with the feeling of the fire still burning inside me. It keeps reinforcing the fact that I am going to keep going until win.