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TheMillionDollarDare

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Nov 19, 2007 5:34 PM ET Quote Report Abuse

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My site is www.themilliondollardare.com. I need not only critique on my site, but would also appreciate any suggestions on how to make the site work. While I realize the site looks like it is asking for free money, what I am really selling is entertainment. My goal is to capture people`s imagination and heart through a blog, and make money in doing so. Any suggestion in going about doing this?

In addition I realize one of the biggest obstacles is getting my name out there. How do blogs get famous and a good following? The funny thing is that I learned Typepad and blogging over the weekend, and www.themilliondollardare.com is what I have as a result. So I am WIDE open to any suggestions and advice that anyone can give me.

Someone was telling me about startupnation and how great it is, and from the looks of it it looks like I will be spending every hour I am not on my blog here picking your guy`s brain.

Thanks in advance.

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Nov 19, 2007 6:24 PM ET Quote Report Abuse

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So, in a nutshell ..... people read your blog based on a crazy idea about you trying to get rich from others through "donations" .... "to capture people`s imagination and heart" ..... and this is going to get folks to fork over their money?

I can be entertained on a website without making donations .... how are you going to convince me to "donate", when I`m not even sure what the entertainment factor is from your site? Your quest to becoming rich? I`d rather spend my time making myself rich than reading about someone else doing it by asking for handouts in a blog.

MillionDollarHomepage at least offered people something for their money, i.e. a place on their site, even if it was small; people that bought into it could at least say "Hey, I`m on there". From your blog, they get, what, their name mentioned? a prize? a warm fuzzy feeling for giving you some cash?

Just my opinion .... you have a lot of convincing to do. If you make it, fine, but don`t count on my money.

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TheMillionDollarDare

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Nov 19, 2007 6:31 PM ET Quote Report Abuse

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Thanks for your candor. While I am hoping to get money through donation, I am also looking for comission through Adwords and Amazon. You are right though, maybe I should offer more. What would you suggest?

CampSteve

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Nov 19, 2007 7:43 PM ET Quote Report Abuse

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The way blogs gain a following and thus make money is by offering valuable content to their readers. "It`s all about the content" as they say. And the content must be all about your readership.

It`s a great goal to make money but the blog so far is all about you. It can`t be that way. Don`t take it personally but the blogosphere doesn`t care about you. They care about themselves. You MUST offer value to readers!

nhgnikole

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Nov 20, 2007 3:12 PM ET Quote Report Abuse

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Yep, value value value.

If you want blog tips, read ProBlogger.

But his first rule is that you have to draw traffic with content, and no one cares about you unless you`re telling them how to do it too.

CraigL

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Nov 21, 2007 12:53 AM ET Quote Report Abuse

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Entertainment isn`t all that easy to do. As they say, it takes 10 years to know how to play a piano, then another 10 to make it look like you`re not doing anything all that difficult.

How do you know you`re offering entertainment? It didn`t look all that entertaining to me, actually. Not much white space, so not so easy to read either.

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