With the recent sale of two of my sites, I have now gained about $370 in capital I can use to fund new projects and/or existing projects. I am still debating on whether or not to continue with my “fire sale” and get rid of Fight Song Lyrics too. With college football season just around the corner (that’s my prime time) it would be a really tough decision to sell it. I am also $10.30 short of the $100 mark needed in Adsense to get a monthly deposit. If I sell Fight Song Lyrics I will never get to $100 by August 31st.

  • SonicWildFire.com Sold
  • Million Dollar Idea
  • Historum is Dying!
  • Buccaneers vs. Jaguars

Sonicwildfire.com Sold
I was able to complete a sale on Wednesday morning for sonicwildfire.com. Oddly enough, the same person who bought Medieval II from me, is the same person who bought Sonic. We agreed on a BIN price of $200. $200 is a lot less than I originally expected to make from the sale. One of the DigitalPoint members brought to my attention that the name of the game might be changed in the future. Sega officially denied the name change, but who really knows? So instead of getting the $300-400 I originally planned for, I was only able to get $200. An absolute STEAL if the name of the game stays Sonic Wild Fire.

Million Dollar Idea
After talking with Andreas Bard on MSN yesterday, he said something that sort of stuck into my mind. He said “50% of a lot is more than 100% of a little”. A simple, yet very powerful statement when trying to earn revenue online. After thinking it over on the ride home from work, I decided to work on an idea I had with a friend who is not in the internet business at all. In fact he works as an energy trader accountant in Jacksonville where I live. I’ll reveal more about the idea once we get a domain and set up the site… which hopefully I can do this weekend.
Whether or not it’s a million dollar idea … I don’t know? But it will be fun to have a business partner that is not in the industry. Getting an outsiders perspective on things can open your eyes to new avenues to reach people. And don’t worry, this isn’t a myspace resource site or arcade or directory or ring tone site. It’s totally fresh. I plan on using some of the money I raised for this venture. It will use free Joomla though, so the design and launch of the site won’t cost much, just the advertising will.

Historum is Dying Down
The past week or so has been rough on Historum. Memberships have slowed down… traffic has slowed down, and revenue has pretty much stayed the same. Activity on the forum is also dwindling. One of my best posters went on vacation for 2 weeks. So it’s tough replacing him, as he is very knowledgable in history. I know forums take a long time to grow generally, but I just don’t want to see my site dying after not even 3 months.

I need to promote it better. I think A contest is in store. I have money from my site sales to offer something like a $50 Amazon gift card. I will have to research the best type of contest to run … Referrals? Number of Posts ? There are a couple of options I need to look into.

Bucs vs. Jaguars
As some of you might know I have season tickets to the Jacksonville Jaguars NFL games (that’s American Football for those of you out of country). This Saturday the Jaguars play the Buccaneers, so I will be going to that game. The 3rd preseason game is always the best because the starters play almost 3 quarters worth of football. If the Jaguars first string offense doesn’t score at least 1 or 2 touchdowns … we could be in for a loooong season.

That’s it for now. If I don’t post later or tomorrow, I hope everyone has an awesome weekend! I know I will being at the Jaguars game!