I'd say hire a writer and keep this going - you should be able to find a few for $10 - $20 a post and that still leaves a fair amount of room for profit.
You could go for a sale too - blogs are doing well at the moment. Good luck with whatever you decide :)
It would be sad to see ya go as you've really set the standard for creative blogging and making mooney. I'd say hire a poster also, that way you're still in control of the product you started..It could continue to grow and be worth even more when you do decide to sell it.
It's hard to know whether this is a joke or not cause if it is that's a really well worked rickroll, but if it isn't then you shouldn't have come out with it with a rickroll...
I'm guessing it's an april fools....cause of the rickroll mainly...
Come on, don't sell it. If you sell your blog you will only make money once, little by little your money will dissappear. In the other hand if you hire someone to run it, you will be earning money for a very long time, I'm pretty sure it won't be that hard to find someone to run this blog for you, also you will be able to blog when you have some free time...blog just for fun.
I'd go with hiring if i were you..but if you went down the path of selling, I'd offer a valuation or BIN price (at 25% more than what you want though)...
Lmao... got me with the link. Nice one. As far as the blog, id say hire a blogger and at least overlook the blog content to assure quality. (And laughs of course).
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Si Philp
· 1 year ago
I don't think selling should be an option, wouldn't want the possibility of stale milk :???: Nice april fools :razz:
DotDriven
· 1 year ago
Go ahead and sell it. You already lost your mojo. This blog never was all that great for real marketing tips/advice (unless there were some good guest bloggers) but at least it had some decent comedy. Well it doesn't even have that anymore. No offense inteded to be honest but you gave up what made this blog great in an attempt to "put on a suit" and play "grownup" pretending like you knew what you were doing ;). Sure, you had a few decent and useful post but most were either just updates on industry news, paid reviews or post about your own products services (which weren't all that great either...come one, Adsense templates?!?) or just some lame attempt at link bait.
I don't deny that you built up a decent reader base and an ok amount of traffic but in the end this place is more fluff than even Chows blog.
Go ahead and try to get a premium price by selling now while it is still kind of on top. If not it will just continue to go down hill and you won't get nearly as much for it later.
Again, although probably comes across as an attack, no offense intended. I do respect your talent at comedy writing but you gave that up long ago :(. Now all we get is a bunch of dumb bovine related replacement words that just are not funny anymore. It's udder boring...
I was think of making you an offer when I heard that John Chow's site was for sale after his unfortunate death this morning. I think I will try to by Chow's site instead.
I won't visit and cancel subscription if you are not the writer. Just like I did with Chow's blog. I hate it when the bloggers let their site run just for MONEY and forget about their readers. Hiring $10 , $20 per post is too cheap for a quality written post.
The best long term solution might be outsourcing your content, as others have said. But I do know from experience it's difficult to find writers who will ghost blog, at least at the level of writing your site would need. Anyone can get 2nd grade posts for $5 a pop, but experience and talent are worth much more than most blogs are willing to pay.
There is nothing to sell, the blog is you, your personality and your style. That's why people come to it. If it was more than a blog, say a whole content management system with forums, maybe.
As far as hiring someone to write full time, it would have to be many someones. One person can't do it, that's the equivelant of selling it. If one person were willing, they would likely start their own blog.
Zero and Up
· 1 year ago
I wonder if any milk companies would be interested in the site? :lol:
It sounds like a tough decision, but totally up to you of course.
Cow, go ahead and act like you are special or feel free to take shots at my blog but I never claimed to be an a-list blogger and only offer a handful of actual unique content that is helpful. My blog is just for fun and like 30th as far as revenue source.
I'm just saying you did your best work back when you were less serious about your self and didn't believe your own silly hype. Back when you leached off chow to get traffic, and deserved it because you actually had some talent back then and were funny. Not so much now.
But if it makes you feel better to pretend then that is fine.
You already tried to sell the site once so why not sell now. You know while the traffic is still reasonable rather than wait until it dies off more? Maybe then you would have time to make some real money rather than just selling adsense templates and copying ideas and selling on hype.
But whatever. This blog stopped being a good read when you started taking yourself too serious and believed your own hype. :roll:
We're not acting like we're special. We're not 'taking a shot' at your blog, simply 'returning the favor' by stating our observation. Our blog is for fun too, perhaps not as 30th for revenue, but hey.
When did we leach traffic off Chow, and did we really have any talent to start with?
We're just puzzled as to why you had a sudden urge to judge us in a nasty comment, where the words "no offense intended" seemed to be misplaced in between all the down talking.
You say we lost our mojo a long time ago, yet you're obviously still reading us, and take the time to leave 100+words comments, what's your real intention?
DotDriven
· 1 year ago
Bob, I know you would rather take the defensive route rather than just accept that many of the things I say are true. Whatever makes it easier for you I guess.
To be completely honest, I used to be a huge fan and looked up to you as a creative blogger. Back when you were using your "leached" traffic and making it actually entertaining. Yes, you were leaching traffic with the name, basically one big link bait. But your content was creative and funny enough to make ti worth it. You used to be good.
But then you decided to take yourself too serious and consider yourself a real marketer and changed the theme of the blog...which was probably just after you were trying to sell on sitepoint. I can see the motivation, to make more money by running it, but you lost that part that made this blog stand out. Since then you have had very little new and creative content that you actually wrote. The rest of the stuff was a lot of guest bloggers, a lot of self promotion and a lot of regurgitated info.
I guess it's more me just being sad that you gave up on what made this blog good and why I used to be here every day. Yes, you are right, you were "good enough" to get me to come by and write a couple long post (which I do all the time lol) but you are mistaken to think I'm still a regular reader. I do stop in every few weeks to see if anything has changed but it only looks worse and worse every time. You can check the logs if you want.
By "no offense intended" I didn't mean to take shots directly at you, just what the blog has become. Like I said, I used to really enjoy your writing and creativity and was a regular reader and commenter. I respected what you were doing since you had the content to back you up. Not so much now.
Don't listen to him! I think you have a great blog well deserving of far more readers than you have... I always read yours before Chows.
Egor
· 1 year ago
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AhReview: The Review King
· 1 year ago
DotDriven.... You say, Bob monetized his blog a little much.... Well if Bob didn't do that there wouldn't be a johncow blog left.... After all we all need the dough... The you say, johncow stole the traffic...which would otherwise have gone to chow...so what? He did..and profited from it...and is "still" profiting from it...and will hopefully continue to do so... Also Bob shares the "love"[if your in the promoting biz. you'll know what I'm talking about] The JohnCow blog is really great and Bob makes product promotion entertaining... I've entered the same field as a novice and the JohnCow blog really motivates me (well atleast my 'about me' page!)... The way you apply: “no offense intended”...is the way I were to say "I love you"... So what if Bob tried to sell the blog on sitepoint?? Face it man.... Your frustated that your not making it... and just taking out your frustation on Bob... And you say Bob is FAKE internet marketer....who just promotes hype?? Well I don't know what's your defination of "hype" but it seems to be pretty similar to Uncle Sam's defination of "unlawful combatants"...
P.S.: Bob, 50K for the "cow" isn't enough....the blogging industry is just starting to grow all around the world so you'll make a lot of dough!! So make the "cow" fatter...And if you need me I'll help in feeding it!
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I'd say hire a writer and keep this going - you should be able to find a few for $10 - $20 a post and that still leaves a fair amount of room for profit.
You could go for a sale too - blogs are doing well at the moment. Good luck with whatever you decide :)
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In terms of hiring out, thats plausable. Why not have a poll of what we think instead of just asking for comments...
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I'm guessing it's an april fools....cause of the rickroll mainly...
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Come on, don't sell it. If you sell your blog you will only make money once, little by little your money will dissappear. In the other hand if you hire someone to run it, you will be earning money for a very long time, I'm pretty sure it won't be that hard to find someone to run this blog for you, also you will be able to blog when you have some free time...blog just for fun.
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I'd go with hiring if i were you..but if you went down the path of selling, I'd offer a valuation or BIN price (at 25% more than what you want though)...
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Nice april fools :razz:
I don't deny that you built up a decent reader base and an ok amount of traffic but in the end this place is more fluff than even Chows blog.
Go ahead and try to get a premium price by selling now while it is still kind of on top. If not it will just continue to go down hill and you won't get nearly as much for it later.
Again, although probably comes across as an attack, no offense intended. I do respect your talent at comedy writing but you gave that up long ago :(. Now all we get is a bunch of dumb bovine related replacement words that just are not funny anymore. It's udder boring...
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I would have taken your blog ,money and visitors.Visit my blog and see for your self.
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There is nothing to sell, the blog is you, your personality and your style. That's why people come to it. If it was more than a blog, say a whole content management system with forums, maybe.
As far as hiring someone to write full time, it would have to be many someones. One person can't do it, that's the equivelant of selling it. If one person were willing, they would likely start their own blog.
It sounds like a tough decision, but totally up to you of course.
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Then, do this all over again by creating a parody on another big industry name.
Maybe MooMoney.com?
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I'm just saying you did your best work back when you were less serious about your self and didn't believe your own silly hype. Back when you leached off chow to get traffic, and deserved it because you actually had some talent back then and were funny. Not so much now.
But if it makes you feel better to pretend then that is fine.
You already tried to sell the site once so why not sell now. You know while the traffic is still reasonable rather than wait until it dies off more? Maybe then you would have time to make some real money rather than just selling adsense templates and copying ideas and selling on hype.
But whatever. This blog stopped being a good read when you started taking yourself too serious and believed your own hype. :roll:
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We're not acting like we're special.
We're not 'taking a shot' at your blog, simply 'returning the favor' by stating our observation.
Our blog is for fun too, perhaps not as 30th for revenue, but hey.
When did we leach traffic off Chow, and did we really have any talent to start with?
We're just puzzled as to why you had a sudden urge to judge us in a nasty comment, where the words "no offense intended" seemed to be misplaced in between all the down talking.
You say we lost our mojo a long time ago, yet you're obviously still reading us, and take the time to leave 100+words comments, what's your real intention?
To be completely honest, I used to be a huge fan and looked up to you as a creative blogger. Back when you were using your "leached" traffic and making it actually entertaining. Yes, you were leaching traffic with the name, basically one big link bait. But your content was creative and funny enough to make ti worth it. You used to be good.
But then you decided to take yourself too serious and consider yourself a real marketer and changed the theme of the blog...which was probably just after you were trying to sell on sitepoint. I can see the motivation, to make more money by running it, but you lost that part that made this blog stand out. Since then you have had very little new and creative content that you actually wrote. The rest of the stuff was a lot of guest bloggers, a lot of self promotion and a lot of regurgitated info.
I guess it's more me just being sad that you gave up on what made this blog good and why I used to be here every day. Yes, you are right, you were "good enough" to get me to come by and write a couple long post (which I do all the time lol) but you are mistaken to think I'm still a regular reader. I do stop in every few weeks to see if anything has changed but it only looks worse and worse every time. You can check the logs if you want.
By "no offense intended" I didn't mean to take shots directly at you, just what the blog has become. Like I said, I used to really enjoy your writing and creativity and was a regular reader and commenter. I respected what you were doing since you had the content to back you up. Not so much now.
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Don't listen to him! I think you have a great blog well deserving of far more readers than you have... I always read yours before Chows.
You say, Bob monetized his blog a little much....
Well if Bob didn't do that there wouldn't be a johncow blog left....
After all we all need the dough...
The you say, johncow stole the traffic...which would otherwise have gone to chow...so what? He did..and profited from it...and is "still" profiting from it...and will hopefully continue to do so...
Also Bob shares the "love"[if your in the promoting biz. you'll know what I'm talking about]
The JohnCow blog is really great and Bob makes product promotion entertaining...
I've entered the same field as a novice and the JohnCow blog really motivates me (well atleast my 'about me' page!)...
The way you apply: “no offense intended”...is the way I were to say "I love you"...
So what if Bob tried to sell the blog on sitepoint??
Face it man....
Your frustated that your not making it...
and just taking out your frustation on Bob...
And you say Bob is FAKE internet marketer....who just promotes hype??
Well I don't know what's your defination of "hype" but it seems to be pretty similar to Uncle Sam's defination of "unlawful combatants"...
P.S.: Bob, 50K for the "cow" isn't enough....the blogging industry is just starting to grow all around the world so you'll make a lot of dough!! So make the "cow" fatter...And if you need me I'll help in feeding it!
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