It’s been a while since I’ve done a real update about my online ventures, I hope these kind of posts will be more consistent from now on, when I was doing this before it kept me focused on my targets and I hope it will have the same effect now.

Here are some of the things I’m doing and some to-do-listed tasks:

Hiring bloggers - This is the thing I’m most excited about, I’ve done it before but it was through web development forums and the writers weren’t really blog-savvy so it didn’t go very well.

This time I decided to post on a very well known job board and was overwhelmed with the amount of applications I got, of course most of them were either inexperienced, asking for too much or just not compatible.

I already signed a contract with a very talented author who’s very motivated, I’m in the talks with another gal who worked at a lot of the A-list entertainment blogs and an inexperienced, but a very determined guy who will go on a trial period before he’s approved as an author.

I’m offering the authors a flat-rate fee plus a share off advertisement income to make their paycheck dependent on the blog’s income, thus motivating them to do the job at their best. If this works out - the site’s traffic should go back to about 750K/month and earnings should be back into steady 4 figures a month.

Waiting for a refund - Actually the refund is waiting for me. I’ve bought a site which turned out to be a huge disappointment, luckily I signed a legal contract with the seller that included a money-back-guarantee after 7 days.

The only thing is - The money for the site was wired through my bank, and I’ve been too lazy to call them and get my transfer details. $1500 are sitting there waiting for me and I’m being a lazy bastard.

Buying passive income sites - This is something I’ve been trying to do for about 2 months now, with little success. I know that if I acted a bit faster in some cases I could’ve sealed those deals, but I’d rather be on the safe side than get burned with a bargain.

I’m looking for anything that requires little to zero maintenance - proxies, resource sites, CPA landing pages, etc..

My next steps with AlleNation - My ideas for this blog are kinda archived for now, at least since I get a reasonable amount of consistent traffic. I’ve got plans to redesign very soon, start offering SEO & blogging services and build a community core around this place.

See you around,
Allen