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05-16-06, 02:39 PM
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#1 | | Active Member
Join Date: Apr 2006
Posts: 62
|  When to toss in the towel?
This is my first venture so I may be jumping to conclusions, you've been warned!
Anyway my site, skins for wordpress is yet to make a sale, after launching just over a week ago. I have spent over $100 on advertising (if I bought adwords at face value) and the hits are coming (uniques from 13th may to today: 200, 200, 230, 216(today)), I'm getting listed in a lot of places ( http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Themes#Get_New_Themes ), and basically all my hits are relevant.
Where am I going wrong? Is it my product? Am I being too hasty?
I would most likely sell the site at sitepoint, but I know after the next PR updates my PR will be high and I would have sold the site way under face value.
What should I do?
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05-16-06, 07:22 PM
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#2 | | Busy Member
Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: East Coast, USA
Posts: 285
| Re: When to toss in the towel?
I would hang in there since it's only been a week. It takes a very long time to get a site off the ground these days, especially if one does not have a budget to match the big boys.
Here's my advice: Why not design a few more templates, and then hold a "re-launch", which would be a period of one or two weeks where every single template is available for free? This would greatly raise awareness, and if you required users to register an account with your site before downloading anything, you could track what they download, as well as establish a means for contacting them in the future.
Just a thought... | |
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05-18-06, 03:58 PM
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#3 | | Busy Member
Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Tempe/Tucson/Chandler AZ, USA
Posts: 235
| Re: When to toss in the towel?
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Originally Posted by Vi5 This is my first venture so I may be jumping to conclusions, you've been warned!
Anyway my site, skins for wordpress is yet to make a sale, after launching just over a week ago. I have spent over $100 on advertising (if I bought adwords at face value) and the hits are coming (uniques from 13th may to today: 200, 200, 230, 216(today)), I'm getting listed in a lot of places ( http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Themes#Get_New_Themes ), and basically all my hits are relevant.
Where am I going wrong? Is it my product? Am I being too hasty?
I would most likely sell the site at sitepoint, but I know after the next PR updates my PR will be high and I would have sold the site way under face value.
What should I do? | After a week?
Haha, I have sites that didn't turn a dime for a year and a half and now they're doing great  . Stick in there and keep workin it. | |
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05-30-06, 05:33 PM
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#4 | | Active Member
Join Date: May 2006
Posts: 40
| Re: When to toss in the towel?
Yeah. A week isn't that bad. Just stick in there and wait. It will start selling before you know it. If you're getting 200 plus hits per day, there are people bound of buy skins. | |
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06-01-06, 07:00 PM
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#5 | | Active Member
Join Date: May 2006
Posts: 41
| Re: When to toss in the towel?
Trust me. You'll know when to toss in the towel. And one week isn't it. Your stats are just at the beginning. They'll go up and people will buy. Don't worry too much about it. | |
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06-07-06, 12:35 PM
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#6 | | Active Member
Join Date: Jun 2006
Posts: 78
| Re: When to toss in the towel?
Definitely hang in there - a week is nothing and although you are discouraged because none of your visitors are buying, it is far too early days yet. For one thing people don't always make a purchase on the first visit. They mentally note the site, continue with their research, and then some of them come back a few days/weeks later.
I have spent months building up a site with almost no revenue in return, but if you persist and make your site noteworthy, you will get the results in the end. Don't give up and let it become stale is the best advice I can think of. | |
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06-07-06, 03:29 PM
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#7 | | Active Member
Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Chicopee, MA USA
Posts: 33
| Re: When to toss in the towel?
I would agress with what the others have said, a week is nothing don't sweat it. Even traditional brick and mortar start ups can go quite some time with nothing more than window shoppers; and the internet is a hell of a lot more packed than any Main St. Just give it time; people are coming to your site. I would consider GlobalWebDan's suggestion of asking users to register for free templates for a short time, everybody likes free stuff and if the free stuff is good some of them will come back for the pay stuff.
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06-07-06, 07:11 PM
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#8 | | Active Member
Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: South East England
Posts: 49
| Re: When to toss in the towel?
I'm inclined to agree with the earlier comments.
What I would, however, do is to constantly review what I'm doing to see if there is anything I should change | |
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06-08-06, 09:00 AM
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#9 | | Busy Member
Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: East Coast, USA
Posts: 285
| Re: When to toss in the towel?
SophMedia is right - some ventures take awhile to get started. I've been running GWB/CheapFastHost for just shy of two years now, and I feel like it's just now getting off the ground. Considering that a couple of months ago I was also ready to give up, I can honestly say, hang in there. It will get better. | |
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06-08-06, 09:55 AM
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#10 | | Busy Member
Join Date: Jun 2006
Posts: 259
| Re: When to toss in the towel?
I have to agree here too. A week is NO time at all to get the word out about your site. How many unique visitors have you actually had?
The average time it takes to be really profitting from a business is one year. There is no 'get rich quick' out there - there's just not. | |
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