As you can see there is not much activity yet, because it is started only 2 days ago! The forum will also have a unique directory and later on will offer products for sale (that’s why it has the name perfectoffer.com).

If you are bored, or want to join a nice place to hangout and chat with other webmasters, you should join the community Just keep an eye on it and I will update you guys here on how the progress goes!

1. Design

I really can’t stress enough how important a professional-looking design is for attracting sales. Quite frankly, many people will just not trust a site that is poorly designed. You want your customers to feel that every aspect of your business is taken seriously so they can feel secure and confident that you will not rip them off. Presenting your business in a sloppy or ugly manner is just not the way to build that confidence.

2. Usability

This ties right in with design. Make sure the design of your site allows for easy navigation for your customers and makes the process of checking out as hassle-free as possible. Make sure that they can find anything that they would be looking for easily. Remember that your competition is just a few clicks away, and they can just as easily go elsewhere.

3. Marketing

Obviously marketing is of tremendous importance, perhaps even more so on the Internet, than in the physical world. Unlike a brick and mortar store, where it is easy for people to drive/walk by and see you, you cannot stand out on the Internet without a great deal of effort.

Thankfully, there are many ways to help you get found like search engine marketing, social media marketing, email advertising, PPC, banner ad campaigns, etc. The more Internet marketing methods you utilize, the greater chance you have of being discovered by potential customers. Just make sure your site is presentable when they get there.

4. Reputation

As many others and I have discussed repeatedly, it is important to manage your online reputation to the best of your ability. Search for yourself on search engines, and be careful of what information you put out there about yourself. This includes social media sites, blog comments, forum posts, and anything else your name may be attached to. It is also good to find out what others are saying about you, and to do your best to counter any negativity by any means necessary.

5. Price

Just as your lack of usability can drive customers to your competition (which is again, only a few clicks away), so can your lack of competitive pricing.

It’s one thing if you are offering your goods/services at the same price as everyone else, but if they are higher, most customers will just as soon go elsewhere than pay more to go with you unless you truly offer something extra that they’re interested in.

You will do well to remember the above five points when starting an online business. Just because you finally have a website, does not mean that you will automatically get those online sales.

That made me decide to get a new theme for new energy! Recently I also bought a fairly large xbox 360 forum which is not monetized at all (yet). This forum is good but does not have many good search engine rankings nor traffic. It needs more backlinks (relevant links), that is why I bought a halo 3 blog! It was up for sale for a very cheap price, holding a pagerank 3 and currently making $10 a month on adsense. I will update this blog like 5 times a month and link to sections at the xbox forum.

But for now: no more excuses for me!

Yesterday I put in $300 on the Euro to rise against the Dollar. Euro made a huge fall in value and it was at its lowest point in the last 30 days, so I expected to go back up! Left it run for the night and when I woke up, everything was closed due to stop loss (that means I lost all). This made me decide I would leave this market alone for a long time!

At least it was a nice experience!

We also started a new site today, it is a gadget blog and will be posted on once a day! We will review laptops, cameras, desktops, iphones and all other cool gadgets everyone wants to have! This website will also be monetized with affiliates which we will discuss here ofcourse! Currently it only runs some adsense ads which I am not a fan of, but what the hell

Maybe we are lucky and can even win a brand new xbox 360 elite from the contest john cow is running! He is giving this xbox 360 away through a lottery he will hold on the end of April! The contest is proudly sponsored by Top Hosting Center “webhosting solutions for you and your business”. GTA 4 will come with the xbox if you win it.

The forum is not monetized at the moment! This is something we are going to change, but not that it will be irritating the forum members! We will update you here how we are going to monetize this xbox 360 community! The first goal is to make $1500 a month from it at the end of 2008!

This server is very big and there is room left for others to take some space, so if you need some at very cheap rates, you can contact us!

We have to agree at some points with David about this. Starting new sites from scratch takes indeed a lot of time and money if you want to promote it and get the word out! We also bought sites in the past (like this technology forum) and are always looking for new sites to purchase. But, starting a new site from scratch about a topic that you are very passionate about can be a good thing! You are in charge from the start and know every detail of the site! It might be hard to get traffic at the beginning, but if you keep building links and do some basic search engine optimization on it, it has to work

Recently we sold one of our own made sites, started from scratch, for the most we have ever sold a site before, so the hard work, time and money does pay off if you do it right!

David also stated that if you see a good site and are interested in it, just mail the owner of the site with the question if it is for sale! I never did this before but it looks like it’s working, as David bought 2 sites this way before! Something we are going to try to from now on

Our goals for this forum is getting it under 200k alexa as soon as possible and get 5000 posts by the end of May! If you need a place to share your thoughts on several webmaster/technology topics, feel free to join and discuss it with the community.

Currently the forum is not monetized but will be if it is more popular. The plan is to sell banners on top of the forum to private advertisers and get small banners under every first post. Maybe a paid membership subscription, but we are not sure about that yet.

There are also other investment options which we are checking out lately, such as stocks and mutual funds. We will keep you updated about our investments and if we are making profit from it or a loss.