How much is your website worth? – part 2

Addition to 14 interesting websites that checks the value of your website, there is yet another one that does the same thing but sounds a bit too ridiculous to my case. Here is mine:

Now you probably understand why I said it’s ridiculous. There is no way for a site that has that much traffic worth that much money. I would sell it if anyone is interested.

However, it seems more accurate if the sites have much more traffic, e.g. google.com is worth $8.37 billion while Microsoft.com is at $1.05B.

So check it out for your own record.

9 First Step Goals for Blogging

Words from Darren Rowse on ProBlogger.net:

Many bloggers start blogs these days with the dream of millions of readers and making large amounts of money.

While it is possible to build blogs that are widely read and profitable and there’s nothing wrong with dreaming big – the reality is that it takes time and a lot of work to build these kinds of blogs.

And he went on and suggested a list of 9 first step goals to people who want to get into the blogging venture with a big dream of making money from it.

1. Publish 10 Posts
2. Getting your first comment from someone you don’t know
3. Get your first link from another blog
4. Build your readership up to more than 20 readers a day
5. Hit a level of 20 RSS subscribers
6. Getting your blog indexed in Google
7. Get your blog earning $1 a week (update: only if making money from your blog is one of your goals – it’s not for everyone
8. First guest post on another blog
9. Having someone (not you or your mum) tweet about your blog

I seemed to have accomplished most of them, except the guest post on another blog, but Darren is very right that it’s just a beginning to get my feet on the right track. There is a very long way to go.

Yes, blogging is my new venture on making more money, and I am doing it with a dream that would make me completely off the regular job one day, or at least gets me retire earlier. With that big dream in mind that is still in “day” stage, I am totally prepared doing that in a long term. A very long journey is laid out right ahead of me.

9 First Step Goals for New Bloggers [ProBlogger.net]

How much your website worth? [Fun]

Here are 14 interesting websites that checks the real worth of your hard work on websites. Some of them actually use their own formula calculate the value of your websites. Don’t take it very seriously but absolutely fun to check out.

If you are checking out your own website for getting the idea how much roughly it worth, make sure to try the following one first. The others are more meant to be for your competitors.

At least, according to the results, the value of my geek talk site has more value than JohnChow. LOL

Free Personal Finance eBook from the simple dollar

If you are in the same stage as mine who is hungry hunting money anywhere, don’t under-estimate the personal finance part the same time. The last thing you probably want to do is to waste the money you work hard to make in a way that you don’t even know how they are wasted. So thanks to the simple dollar for sharing this awesome free eBook on his blog with tons of ideas in it.

“Everything You Ever Really Needed to Know About Personal Finance on Just One Page” is a 49 page personal finance book that weaves together most of my favorite ideas on personal finance and a lot of other goodies into one document. I’m making it available for download under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 United States License, which means that this document is free – you can send it to your friends, put it up on your website, or print it out.

And here it is, thanks to the simple dollar again, and enjoy.

Everything You Ever Really Needed to Know About Personal Finance On Just One Page – Download My Personal Finance Book for Free! [the simple dollar]

Simple Marketing Ideas for Freelancers

FreelanceSwitch shared a very good collection of 50 simple marketing ideas, some of which are quite informative and innovative. Definitely worth checking, considering and even trying. And most of them are very inexpensive, though not all of them are free. Here are the top 10 ideas among them, note that starting a blog is on the first spot.

1. Start a blog
2. Go to Chamber of Commerce events and other local business events 
3. Release products (icons, articles, etc.) that can be used for free with attribution
4. Hand out business cards 
5. Guest post on blogs relevant to your skills 
6. Attend meetups in your area 
7. Place your brochures with printers, or other relevant businesses 
8. Organize a BarCamp or other unconference 
9. Network online with sites like LinkedIn or Twitter 
10. Share samples of your work online

50 Simple Marketing Ideas All Freelancers Can Use [FreelanceSwitch]