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BizMP a unique webmaster forum

2006-11-12T23:04:00.000-05:00

Just wanted to share with everyone this great forum that I found called BizMP. They are the first site which is entirely dedicated to the pracitce of buying and selling websites and domains for profit. Which is great because it is one of my best ways of gaining income. Many sites have sections for a marketplace, but thats all BizMP focuses on. They are related to some of the biggest names in the buy/sell industry, and try their best to give the members the best interviews, the best advice, and of course- Tips on making SERIOUS cash. The main thing that drew me in was this contest they are having. You cannot find prizes like this anywhere online.

With this contest we will have 3 winners! After 1 month (Contest ends November 15th at midnight PST), the 3 members with the most points will each win:
$1,000 “ Sent Via Paypal
6 Hour Consultation with Bostondan VALUE OF $1000
1 Year Link in the footer of BizMP! - VALUE OF $2400 ($200 a Month)
Interview to be featured on BizMP
TOTAL VALUE OF $4,400 TO EACH WINNER

View the full contest here

Day #176 - Update on earnings

2006-11-09T21:51:00.000-05:00

I updated the earnings today they are not the most acurate due to me not tracking everything but still it is pretty close. I am looking to buy a huge forum, social networking site, or one with proven earnings making at least $x daily. This should be a good start to make a big network of websites down the road. Will update this once a week if I can.

Day #79 - Updates on everything.

2006-08-02T13:58:00.000-04:00

The HipHop site was down for about a week and now I have to go on vacation to L.A. for a week so I will have to start really promoting that when I get back. I have made alot of money lately about $800.00 in the past 2 weeks and been using that money to buy new sites. I really want to start earning good money with Adsense. I bought another site and will let you know more about that once the payment clears. Good to see this blog is pagerank 3 now.

Day #51 - Skin almost complete

2006-07-05T12:41:00.000-04:00

The skin is almost officially complete and I have been gathering a list of contacts that know alot about the rap game in order to help me with a successfull launch. I was thinking of making about 5-6 people moderators so we can get a good amount of posts going off the start. I noticed that A TON of people listen to HipHop, even more adults then I assumed so it should not be very difficult to get members. The website is eHipHop.net if anyone wants to check out the skin and catagories and give me comments that would be appreciated. I'm finally going to sell that domain name this week if offers do not come I will sell it for $250, which is still around $70 profit. I have a guy that might buy it at $450 [buy it now price], that would be very exciting. I'm really like this high risk-reward domains they seem very easy to sell and get lots of interest. Still talking about selling the PrizeForFree network and mentioned a price to the hopeful buyer. That would be a good sale consider the lack of interest we have recieved trying to sell it.

Day #44 - Lots of updates!

2006-06-27T11:16:00.000-04:00

Sorry I have not been updating this recently because nothing new has happened that is big time. I have just been trying to get higher offers on my names and working on starting up those forums. I decided instead of making a Wii forum to make a Poker forum since I know a lot about the subject and can get great referral commissions. I bought a few more domain names you can check them out in that section. I got buying that is interested in my incentive network so hopefully he will end up buying that because I can use the money for other projects and to buy better domains. I started playing Poker again only up $5.00 so nothing really special yet but will let you know if I win a big tournament.

Day #32 Finally getting it all together.

2006-06-15T17:24:00.000-04:00

I worked really hard on the HipHop website, set out a couple of e-mails to record companies, artists, and added some catagories to the forum. Now I'm just waiting for the skin to be complete and then we can work an a main site. My goal was to get everything rolling by the end of the week and I want to stick to that. ACT is over and everything school related for the time being feels great!

Advertise on my blog!

I have noticed that the traffic has been picking up if anyone is interested we can work out prices or you can just make a donation, to me, directly by Paypal. I would be able to get you traffic and great expose to everyone that reads this. Let me know by e-mail tfcsoldier48307[at]yahoo.com.

Day #26 - Lots going on!

2006-06-09T21:51:00.000-04:00

I keep trying to update this but was getting an error from Blogger saying that I was "unable to update it" due to maintenance. Well good thing that was finally fixed. A lot has been going on aside from making money online. I finished up all of my exams only two of them were difficult the rest I probally got a solid grade on. I have to take the ACT tomorrow pretty worried about that it is such a long test and very tiring bubbling in all of those letters. I bought a few more domain names and moving forward on development of my website. I was very proud of this one purchase in paticular. I bought 1858.com for low $xxx which is a nice name to consider all NNNN.com's are registered and it is a real date. Almost all extensions were taken so that was a good sign. I plan on working really hard to get those sites up and running this week hopefully I can do that and reap the benefits later. Thanks for reading today I appreciate the interest.

Day #21 Exams this week.

2006-06-04T19:33:00.000-04:00

I have exams starting this Wednesday and my last official week of school. I will probally not have that much time to update this and buy or sell any domains or websites but will offically be off the whole summer after this week. I talked with the guy that is designing the IPB skin for my hiphop site and looks like he should have that done either this week or next week. My incentive website is ending this week on eBay and hopefully we break $1,000 on the last day. I really hope that will be a good sale and will prove my thoughts of eBay being a bad place to sell expecive items wrong.

Day #18 Updates on Auctions

2006-06-01T17:42:00.000-04:00

Not much new has been going on so this will be a quick update. I recieved a couple of questions about the auction and it got a few more bids and alot of watchers. Hopefully it can get to over $100 by the time three days remain. I'm waiting to talk to the guy that is going to code the IPB forum. Hopefully I can catch him today and we can get that started. Also I sent an application to Adsense worth a shot hopefully they will accept me and I can finally start putting that on my websites.

Day #16 eBay auction doing good.

2006-05-30T21:54:00.000-04:00

I recieved a couple of private messages that I answered regarding my incentive website and they seem pretty interested. It is at $25.00 with a little under 8 days left still doing pretty well considering most of the bids always come on the last three days. Hopefully the number of watchers will pick up towards the end. If you would like to follow the auction you can view it on eBay here. That is all that has happened today I'm going to buy an IPB forum tomorrow and talk with the guy that is making the skin so I can move foward with starting my HipHop forum.

Day #15 Why you should join Dreamhost!

2006-05-29T15:38:00.000-04:00

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Where you first start to notice the difference between DreamHost and all other webhosts is the community feel of our web panel. Besides the standard links for things like email and domain management, there are areas for customer suggestions, DreamHost newsletters, the DreamHost Site of the Month, DreamHost donations, the unofficial DreamHost directory, the DreamHost Rewards program, as well as a customer discussion area. All of these are a natural outcropping of our desire to stay in touch with our clients and to foster a free flow of ideas between them and us. What better way to learn how to keep our customers happy than to ask them, and then to act on what they say?

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Day #15 Domain sale and eBay update.

2006-05-29T11:40:00.000-04:00

I sold my first domain name since starting this Blog. Not really a big sale but a good start considering I only paid $30 for the package of names. I sold WiiGames.info for $27.50 last night. I also decided to start making a Nintendo Wii forum with all of the Wii domains that I have. I think that is better then just leaving them parked and can hopefully get it pretty large before the Wii is released. Wish me luck with these sites and hopefully I can further development and get more ideas today.

Day #14 Starting a HUGE Hip-Hop Community

2006-05-28T14:00:00.000-04:00

After reading comments from some of the readers I have decided to start a Hip-Hop community. This is going to be a huge project and probally cost me about $500. I need to get a custom skin, vB license, moderators and advertisers to build it really fast. Hopefully this will turn out to be a great sale down the road and get me good monthly income off of advertisements. For now I just have the domain names. I bought e-hiphop.net and ehiphop.net. The name had been archived since 2000 so hopefully it still has some type-in traffic comming but that does not matter to much. I thought it was a great name and describes "online hiphop" great.

Day #13 Selling some names on eBay

2006-05-27T15:24:00.000-04:00

I decided to list the eight .be domain names for sale on eBay. I won them for almost nothing in an auction on NamePros and figure mine as well try and get a few dollars. I expect it to get around $20.00 they are pretty brandable names that a company would love to have. View the auction here and would appreciate any bids just to get it going. Thanks for reading today I am just going to play Poker some more and not really do anything buying wise. Might even start developing some of my names into forums if Poker gets boring.

Day #11 Bought more domain names.

2006-05-25T20:37:00.000-04:00

I bought only two domains today but I feel these are my best yet potential wise. I also put my Wii domains up just to see what offers people are considering already good interest and they have been up for less then a day. The domains that are bought are below:

R-Kelly.us

Searches done in April 2006
Count	Search Term
568705	r kelly

.com
X

.net
X

.org
X

.us
X

.info
X

.name

.biz
X

.tv

.ws

.cc

.bz

.de
X

.co.uk
X

YoungDro.Info

Searches done in April 2006
Count	Search Term
32721	young dro

He just released his music video for "Shoulder Lean" and in my opinion he is going to be the next big artist this summer when he releases his album. That was a ton of results for someone thats song had not even been on television until two days ago when he premiered it. If you want to hear the song or learn more about him click here.

Day #10 Sale is complete.

2006-05-24T17:53:00.000-04:00

The buyer paid for the website yesterday and I transfered everything to him so the sale is pretty much complete unless he comes across a major problem but highly doubt that. I came across a great song yesterday on MTV Jams and I learned that it was just released as a video yesterday. I checked and this artist has a pretty high overture for somebody that has just hit the scene. To top things off he is signed with T.I.'s label (or at least he was in the video) and good extensions are still avaliable. I will probally buy these and let you know more information later. Hopefully I can find a few names on eBay today as well.

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Day #9 First website sale.

2006-05-23T18:40:00.000-04:00

I had not had time to post here that I had put my auction up for sale and before I could it was SOLD at "Buy it Now." This is great news it was a pretty good sale in my eyes $150 for a site that I am sure can make great money with more development and traffic. I wish the buyer best of luck with further development and hopefully I can start creating more php forums like this. I have six great Nintendo Wii domains that I can redirect to and start a forum out of . Well maybe that is my next idea for development will have to start looking at what free skins are out there.

Day #8 Update

2006-05-22T18:54:00.000-04:00

Turns out to be a bummer and I lost the auctions but not feeling bad about it. The first auction was at $144 for 255 domains and the other one was at $305 for 355 domains with about 5-10 minutes remaining. Then the high rollers came in and the bidding went up to $1,000 then $2,000 and ended at around $2,500 for each of them I was shocked. There were some really valuable names in the bunch but I didn't expect it to go even close to that high. Well hopefully next time I can win one of these at a steal of a price and then park them and wait for offers while selling the others individually.

Day #8 Hoping to win some of these auctions!

2006-05-22T15:36:00.000-04:00

I found some great auctions on eBay that are ending in a couple of hours. They have many top quality domains and are selling in bulk so there is anywhere from 80-500 depending on which auction I win. Out of the ten names I checked eight of them had more then one extension taken and some even have an overture in the hundreds. That means mega traffic and huge resale! Well I will let you know if I end up winning them or not and I am going to start playing on PokerStars for real money this week. Wish me luck.

Day #7 Advertising and Domains

2006-05-21T13:06:00.000-04:00

I need a couple of high traffic and high PageRank sites to link to this blog so we can get some traffic and repeat visitors comming in. By doing this hopefully I can get some good donations and then will be able to buy some high risk/profit domains; meaning buy for $100 and resell for $250. I will be registering some more domains soon and putting the ones I own now up for offers but will probally hold onto them since they will only be worth good value when their albums are released and popularity peaks.

If I advertise where will my link go?

In the right hand corner under "Affiliates".

What is so special about donating other then helping you?

If you donate you will get your site or real name listed on the donators section and will also get a description of your product/website listed in the next post (will be brief unless big donation).

How will we be ranked in Affiliates spot?

Based on your websites Page Rank and traffic that it is recieving. The bigger you are the better spot you get and the more traffic you will bring this blog.

Day #6 Update on domains.

2006-05-19T20:36:00.000-04:00

Yesterday at night I finally recieved six Wii domains I won in an auction on NamePros. I thought long term this was a GREAT deal they are very nice keywords and already almost all extensions have been snapped up. I got them parked at Sedo and hope that I will get a few offers threw them. I'm going to start playing Poker soon again on PokerStars and will hopefully make some good money from that. I have a set strategy to do only Sit&Go's, Limit Tables and Tournaments from my recent play I have noticed that I lose to much at the tables with bad all-in calls. I also put nice descriptions on the names into Sedo so people will be able to see the potential that they have and be more interested. Well I'm thinking of registering some more .info's tonight but well see how that goes. See the "Domain Portfolio" for the domains that I won.

Day #4 Bought more domains!

2006-05-16T15:32:00.000-04:00

I spent more time looking at the music industry domains and pretty much searched for every hot artist out there. I found that the .us is always avaliable and I'm still considering registering all of these domains in that extension due to the good resale value once all of them are taken. Well here are the names that I bought hopefully they will bring in some traffic and clicks on SEDO. So far I have not recieved any bids on the network but alot of interest so hopefully the first bid will come in soon.

Registered Letoya.info on May 15, 2006.
Google: Results 1 - 10 of about 806,000 for "letoya"
Yahoo: Results 1 - 10 of about 672,000 for "letoya"
Overture: 66688 letoya, 61882 letoya luckett

Registered FieldMob.info on May 15, 2006.
Google: Results 1 - 10 of about 630,000 for "field mob"
Yahoo: Results 1 - 10 of about 362,000 for "field mob"
Overture: 155427 field mob

LeToya Nicole Luckett (Born on in March 11, 1981 in Houston, Texas) is an American R&B singer. She is a Grammy Award winner and original member of multiplatinum R&B group, Destiny's Child. As a solo artist, Luckett uses her first name only. Her self titled debut album "Letoya" is scheduled for release on July 18.

Field Mob is a hip hop group from Albany, Georgia. They have recently signed with Ludacris and his Disturbing Tha Peace record label. Their new single, "So What", is produced by Jazze Pha and guest stars R&B singer, Ciara.

Day #3 Finishing Up The List

2006-05-15T20:19:00.000-04:00

I spent most of my free time today finishing up my list of domains that I am going to register. Due to the fact that I listen to rap music I have been searching for domains of these artists that are avaliable. I used to own a Young Jeezy domain and it was making $5.00 on its highest months which is not bad at all for just parking. I have about 15-20 names that I want to register and think that I can get some good numbers in the resale market about four months down the road when all extensions are picked up. That is about all I have done today already recieved two uniques on the name I picked up yesterday.

Day #2 Bought Some Domains

2006-05-14T19:07:00.000-04:00

I was checking on eBay today and found a few really nice names even though they were trademarked I still felt that I could get a quick sale based on OTV and search results. Well I lost the auction in the last seconds and added a few domains to watch. Shortly after I started looking for good .info names to register because they have been so cheap lately. I found a couple and wrote them down and pondered them for a bit but decided that two of the three would probally not get traffic. The name I registered was LupeFiasoco.info he is a up and comming rap star and after hearing some of his music on MTV Jams he is pretty darn good.

Wassulu Muhammad Jaco (born and raised in Chicago, Illinois), known professionally as Lupe Fiasco (pronounced LOO-PAY), is an American rapper. (Lupe says his name is a reference to his nickname from Hispanic friends from the "Loo" in Wassulu and the word "fiasco" which means "disgrace"). Lupe first became known to the mainstream hip-hop music when he appeared on the song "Touch the Sky" from Kayne Wests sophomore album Late Reistration. He is to release his debut album, Lupe Fiascos Food and Liquor on Atlantic Records in spring 2006. He released a preview track for the album in August 2005, named "Kick, Push," which showcased his interest in skateboarding

Day #2 Network for sale!

2006-05-13T20:49:00.000-04:00

I listed an Incentive Network for sale at SitePoint and NamePros. I choose to do an auction because I believe that a good bidding war will start from that rather then just putting one price. I will updated this blog with any bids that come in and the final price that it gets. I will only get half of the final total because I have been running the site with a partner. My goal for this week is to acquire as many quality domains as I can and start getting a good portolio build. Well that is all that has happened so far today quite alot and hopefully I will get some offers comming in by the end of the day.