Foundations for successful Web projects – interview with Andreas device wheel
With own blogs enough money to earn is not easy to live it.
It takes definitely quite a while, as far as to improve the own blog income.
To live still from blogging work offer. Blogging for money is still in its infancy, but it is progressing.
Today, I do about an interview with Andreas device wheel on such bloggerjobs but also how to make Web projects generally successful.
1. Please introduce yourself and your website “DOMAIN.COM” my readers.
Hi peer, my name is Andreas of device wheel, I am 26 years old, live in Aachen and DOMAIN.COM put in March 2008 online.
DOMAIN.COM is a job board for job opportunities around blogging, podcasting, blog design and consulting.
2. What is behind the site and how you came to?
I got the idea when I was looking for a co-bloggers themselves for one of my blogs. At that time no body knew me, where I had to search for someone.
I see the problem with many other bloggers and so I decided to quickly build me a very simple job board and remedy.
Beginning on WordPress on an ongoing basis, the Board jobberbase today on the open source software. Lucky was natural that the domain was still available. :)
Bloggerjobs positioned today as a “Bulletin Board”. It is now open for all possible deals that have to do something with blogs.
Every now and then reappeared the criticism that so many low-paid jobs there to be found. But I see it in my responsibility for great jobs to ensure but I get only the space where supply and demand meet.
3. How was the launch of your website and how did you know it? What marketing measures were particularly effective?
I have made me many, many thoughts about, as I can make the project known to make. I have forth this question so long before me until the page was online and then pounced chance.
I looking for 20 people I didn’t know written via XING because in your profile specified to blogger. My idea was: but blogger search, you can switch but also an advertisement with bloggerjobs.
Of the 20 someone has ad of course never a for me, but one of them has also twittered. This has then Jan Tißler of upload read, a message about written in his blog and then it went cat ´ from as Schmitz.
The topic of blogging for money polarized of course and so bloggerjobs then soon landed in the virtual Shredder of Don Alphonso.
Overall, I’ve had good luck marketing so. Next to the viral effect I briefly brought Google AdWords and advertising on some blogs, both but not targeted enough to measure real success.
4. What is the business model behind your job board? How “earn” you something?
A business model I did worry me at bloggerjobs at the beginning. My main aim was a good website to create people will help. At the same time, I wanted to achieve but also the page means no organizational effort for me.
Than me that through the technical implementation managed was already eventually got the idea, ok how could you earn with the page a few euros.
From the outset I wanted to charge no listing of jobs and so was actually only the indirect way of marketing say about advertising and affiliate programs.
I’ve tried direct marketing, but it was to be found to complex matching partner although bloggerjobs is the ideal place to promote such products. I finally gather alot influencers on the Web page. :-)
5. Can you tell us a few statistical figures for the current state of your job board?
Clear peer. I am always very, if blogger Prize give something about your statistics in your blog you can read always very much, because I will mention also a few numbers.
Currently, the Board provides around 16,000 page impression per month. One might presume not much at first glance, but for a relatively small group of people it appeals to a very good number I think.
Most visitors come across links and blog entries. My luck was even the subject of polarized people like to discuss, which has helped tremendously and without this thrust bloggerjobs wouldn’t even where it is today.
The monthly turnover is the low digit.
6. What potential does you for the blog market in Germany?
Hard to say. Somehow I feel for half a year, there is no special development, in any case, it has become quite still.
I see still given the chance to live as a professional blogger by one or more blogs, it’s just a very broad and stony way until then.
The hero is a bit missing the German market as we know him from stories you can heraufschauen and points the way to the other.
In the United States there were people who have positioned itself as a hero and have become a guide for many bloggers quite quickly. There is still much to do in the German market, I am but confident.
7. Are you running a blog? If Yes, why and what’s in it for you?
In addition to bloggerjobs I run a number of blogs, which is also the idea of bloggerjobs.
I started in January 2007 with EASN – everything a StartUp needs a blog for entrepreneurs. I have almost 2 years to a small network as well as profiles of investors in the past developed with a Board to co-founder to find.
Shortly after bloggerjobs went online, I started also the style log. Although I setup many other blogs, but still no time have found to fill them.
My goal is to succeed with the money you can earn its own small blog network. However, and this is very important: money may believe never be the first thought if you would like to start a blog.
If the thought monetize to increase traffic and to be known, superimpose the own fun at blogging, one device in a case from which one comes out easily.
I have found that a project not listed here, where it absolutely mattered me to write a blog that discards cash, which is absolutely wrong is gone.
After half a year I have stopped it. Projects but I have started from lust in the topic are all very well and evolve so how I want it.
In addition to much personal recognition, good contacts and a lot of new knowledge, then a few euros on the blogs come around.
8. What tips can you give others, who want to start a similar like DOMAIN.COM project?
Just try.
There are now so much open source software on the net that you really can build everything what one imagines.
If you have a large budget for development and marketing like me, then you must stop themselves ran and beat a couple of nights around the ears.
It is a Web project to start more easily than ever without great knowledge. You must have the will of course bring much to learn and also patience.
Most importantly, it creates a tangible benefits, the people moved the service to use first and second to tell and third return.
Who would like to start a professional project, which necessarily should consider this principle!
9. Your ultimate tip for bloggers?
My ultimate tip for bloggers is to find a topic for which you really Burns and to which it enjoys.
Readers remember very quickly if someone just out blogs because he would like to generate search results on Google or someone with body and soul in the is and it would like to inspire yourself and others.
The fire is missing you should save yourself the time and would rather spend with family and friends.
Andreas thanks for your interesting replies
Example DOMAIN.COM shows very nicely I think what a good idea at the right time can cause.
Instead of pressing anything in the market, what it already to the sufficient are, the idea of DOMAIN.COM resulted from the absence of an offer.
It helps in principle very, if you have a blog / website theme which polarized and stimulates people to the discussion.
This also caused that viral marketing work and many bloggers have reported including I.
I find very interesting also the approach of Andreas gradually build its own blog network. That sure is a good idea rather than to set a project only.
Finally, Andreas takes a view I can fully share. You must have fun on blogging. Who “must” daily fill his blog with life, which should enjoy it.
This of course very soon find readers and honor this. But your own life is this simple.
And usually comes the success.