Part IV
June/2006, More sites, more traffic, more business
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Hi Ken!
Tamar took a year off school to focus on building our sites. She's
amazing!!! She does all the dirty work - actually I call it the dirty
work and she says that what I do is the dirty work...
Together we decide
on a battle plan and then she's in charge of brainstorming words,
creating the "raw" content, graphics, printables - she then sends
everything over to me and I'm in charge of editing everything, getting
it online and everything that has to do with traffic. Let's say that at
the rate she's been working, I've got about 6 months of work in my inbox
from her.
Luckily, she's going back to school next year!
Traffic to the original kid party site is very stable right now. Tamar
says that in the future, it'll be our smallest site, because our other
sites are gaining lots of momentum.
We're building a strong "coolest" brand, now over 5 sites. The newest
three are growing so quickly. Visitors are sending in their own
recipes, ideas, and so forth. Who would of thought we'd be
building our own little "coolest" empire?
You won't believe how many copy-cat sites I've run into. But your
advice is turning out correct, Ken. Our energy and passions
creates "uncopiable" content with a unique voice, like the cakes and costumes sites
and just believing that the passion we have for our sites is stronger
than those who have other things in mind.
We'll always be a step ahead. Plus, of course, Google is eliminating
copy-sites faster and faster -- we've seen them disappearing lately.
And that makes sense, too. Google wants to reward good sites, since
their mission is to deliver great search results.
Ken, in case you think I'm locked up somewhere doing all this...
"The Wandering Israeli" music show has been going great! (Naama, my wife, is
my agent and wife... Our marriage is the biggest success of
them all!) I perform with two amazing musicians and in June alone we have
14 shows - it's crazy, it's draining, but it's so much fun and so
rewarding. It doesn't leave me that much time to work on the sites,
though.
I recently told Tamar that, once we've got the sites operating on a
routine basis like the kid parties site is today, I'm planning to create
an original site to promote SBI. I'm not sure exactly what I mean by
"original", but I'll make sure to find out.
Site Build It! changes lives, Ken. More people need to know that, and I'd love
to "pay it forward" (as they say in the SBI! forums). And, of course, it
will be another profitable site (but that goes without saying!).
Take care and best regards to the family,
Elad
Go ahead to my Sept/2006 "Coolest Brand" update.
Go back to my Jan/2006 "drama" update.
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