There’s always profit in WordPress plugins

Filed under Retail by on January 28, 2011 at 7:20 am {no comments}

Last I heard this site (AutoGTrends.com) was making around $500 per month selling a premium WordPress Plugin that allows you to automatically add content based around Google’s Hot Trends terms. This site is really well designed, but has terrible English. I suppose that is to be expected when you’re dealing with a WordPress Plugin programmer. Here’s the deal killer on this product though; Google is killing sites that it now considers to be search engine baiting “content farms”. This news seems to be all over mainstream media and even has some questioning the feasibility of Demand Media’s (eHow.com) IPO.

The important thing here is that you can scrape up some fairly good income if you have a solid WordPress plugin to sell. WordPress is so widely used that your marketing potential is huge. Capturing just a small portion of this market can really return some great revenue. Now, if these plugin programmers could just stay away from scraping content they’d be doing everyone a favor.

Turning WordPress install into a service

Filed under Services by on January 26, 2011 at 11:19 pm {no comments}

ProWPSetup charges $199 to handle the wordpress installation for others. Considering all I would need is FileZilla and access to a database I would absolutely handle this for 200 bucks a pop. This site is beautifully built out and offers a few value adds that make it a more attractive to potential customers. The setup fee includes the implementation of a premium theme from vendors like Woo Themes in addition to the most common and popular modules.

Of course, you could probably find some foreign labor to outsource the actual setup process to, but I see a few looming issues associated with this business model. If someone is willing to pay almost $200 for a WordPress install then they are most likely going to hound you will stupid questions. I don’t know about you, but I would probably need a service contract to go along with that install. I am not about to spend my days telling some old lady in Nevada how to add pictures of her cat to the site. Additionally I would have absolutely have to build in some hosting to the program. This would be necessary for a few reasons 1) You can give them a few months free and then start to bill them monthly and 2) It’s way easier to manage the install process when you know exactly what CPanel and database you need to be connecting to. Doing this would allow you a small profit on the front end with additional benefit of effectively building up a hosting reseller business.

Weight Loss CPA

Filed under CPA by on January 25, 2011 at 11:17 pm {no comments}

This site (burnrxweightloss.net) pulled down over 1200$ in just over two weeks from having been launched. That’s pretty damn impressive. The owner is simply using a free wordpress theme coupled with an Azoogle CPA weightloss ad. He was trying to time the offer to new years resolutions of course.

Obviously your first thought with affiliate ads is.. How much did the traffic cost? And from what I have been able to tell about this particular site there doesn’t seem to be much paid traffic. The owner did mention that he did some excellent SEO work. Of course, how much SEO work can pay off in two weeks? I wondered that myself, but he wasn’t kidding because he was organically ranking for his targeted key words. With an average conversion rate of just over 16% I would say he had some well targeted keywords and could afford to try some PPC on this campaign.

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