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Awesome stories. Would love for Tim to repeat the experiment soliciting answers to his questions from people whose ideas didn't work. Hard to collect valuable data from a post like this without having any idea of what the failure rate is. We can state for certain though, that it sells books! Go Tim. Maybe that's the real takeaway.
Describe your muse in 1-3 sentences.
Clockspot is a web-based employee time tracking tool, designed for business owners. Employees clock in from any phone or computer. Managers can then check timesheets online instantly.
What is the website for your muse?
http://www.clockspot.com
How much revenue is your muse currently generating per month (on average)?
More than $25,000 per month
To get to this monthly revenue number, how long did it take after the idea struck?
12 months.
How did you decide on this muse?
I originally came up with Clockspot because my parents needed a way to track time for different employees at different offices. Being a techie, I insisted that they hold off on buying physical time clocks, and instead wait for me to make them a simple web-based time clock. Within 3 days, I had a rough but usable prototype.
What ideas did you consider but reject, and why?
Out of college, I started a social Question & Answer website called Qaboom.com (pronounced “Kaboom!”). It didn’t work out for a number of reasons: partner conflicts, difficulties gaining traction, a failed partnership, etc. I learned a whole lot, but had to cut my losses and move on.
I dabbled in a couple of startup projects/ideas after that, then eventually came up with Clockspot. I’ve been running it ever since.
What were some of the main tipping points (if any) or “A-ha!” moments? How did they come about?
“The 4-Hour Workweek” really struck a chord with me because my company was growing quickly, and there was this forever-growing list of things that needed to get done. I was working 80+ hour weeks, at the expense of everything else around me: my relationships, my social life, my body… Being a perfectionist, I was very reluctant to delegate tasks to anyone but myself.
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The "click type" report shows the kind of data that its name would suggest. It lets you measure the performance of each click type you're using. "You can think of a click type as how your customers interact with your ads," says Google's Nathania Lozada. "Did they click on the headline, a sitelink, or some other aspect of your ad?"Link To Full Story: www.smartpassiveincome.com
For those of you who aren’t familiar with the niche site duel, Tyrone Shum and I started niche sites from scratch back in August of 2010 and are revealing everything during the entire progress, from keyword research to domain name to monetization, to see who outperforms the other. Since starting, both Tyrone and I are both ranking in the number 1 spot in Google for our primary keywords. Woot!
In my last two updates, I had mentioned that I obtained a #1 ranking in Google for my primary keyword “security guard training”, and I showed you the backlinking strategy that I used to get there.
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So here’s something devilishly brilliant: The Huffington Post applies A/B testing to some of its headlines. Readers are randomly shown one of two headlines for the same story. After five minutes, which is enough time for such a high-traffic site, the version with the most clicks becomes the wood that everyone sees.
Headlines have always played the most promotional role in news, charged with selling readers on the articles they adorn, so it only makes sense to apply the best tools of market research to their crafting. Think of it as a more rigorous version of magazines adjusting their covers based on newsstand sales.
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In order to get started with drop shipping, I typically suggest that etailers have some form of value proposition that can be offered to the vendor or suppliers. The notion that you are going to carry their products and just throw them up on pay per clicks is not very persuasive or compelling. Moreover, competing on the basis of pricing is oftentimes not the best solution either, as it creates a “race to the bottom” scenario with the integrity of the retail pricing of the vendor’s product being degraded. Vendors need to be reassured that you WILL NOT violate the MSRP strategy they have in place. They also need to be reassured that you can provide them with new market share.
My chief recommendation—that has become something of a personal dictum—is that in order to excite interest on the part of a vendor you need to be interesting to them, both in terms of the economics or the peripheral benefits by way of brand exposure and eyeballs.
What this means is that rankings and search engine placements for critical key terms in the vendor’s industry are essential. If you rank in the top 5 for a key terms like “shower rings” then most manufacturers or dealers of shower rings could benefit by having their items up on your site.
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Well, they had a great run for a couple of years and then they started seeing more competition from smaller players who turned into big players, because that’s what always happens with time. People flock to where there is good or easy money. Then soon it didn’t make sense anymore to mess around with eBay, one of their best sales outlets so they said bye bye to it.
Now earlier this year, Amazon, the place where they sell close to two third’s of their stuff and do the most of their biz online started directly competing with them… Looks like Amazon saw an opportunity (analyzed all the sales data from last few years, looked into margins and added the inventory by going direct to manufacturer since there is some nice $$$ to be made) and that’s that.