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Originally Posted by attackdepression
Lisa, I'm just curious about what you learned from the sites you created that failed. Can you tell us more about what you did (what the sites were about) and what went wrong. Sometimes I think it's great to learn from what others do wrong too.
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I could go on all day about my earlier failures. LOL
My first site was about Internet marketing. I had a lot of tips on how to market a site, get traffic, etc. and attempted to make money by pushing a lot of the Internet marketing books. I could never get over the 200 visitor mark and the site was around for over 6 years. I finally shut it down.
Lesson learned: Stay away from Net Marketing sites. Too competitive. And at the time I wasn't making much money, so it's hard to tell other people how to get traffic and make money if you aren't doing it yourself.
I had another site on a soap opera I used to watch (Days of Our Lives). Another site that couldn't never get over the 200 visitor per day mark. Entertainment sites are very hard to monetize. And this site was mostly visited by teenagers so their spending power was very weak and I had a hard time finding products to promote that people would buy.
And at the time AdSense was not around so I couldn't even monetize it with ads. This was in 2000. I kept the site around for a couple of years.
Lesson learned: Entertainment sites can often be hard to monetize, especially if your main audience is teens
Another site I tried was a forum for TV reality junkies. It was called 4TVAddicts.com That's when I learned you never launch a forum without having a site that already gets traffic. I tried to use my soap site to help promote it but the forum never got more than about 10 posts per week and it just wasn't worth it.
Those are three of them that come to mind. I've had others but these were probably my biggest lessons. Good question and you've given me a good idea to start another thread about this.