If you’ve been keeping up with Tomaz from Freedom Ideas, you’ll see that he makes over $9,000USD per month from his websites as of 2007. It only took him two years after starting to get to that figure. I know of people out there making a lot more than that building the same kind of sites Tomaz and I build. And what kind of sites are those?
Simple content sites.
I believe almost anybody can build a simple online business like that. It takes a fair amount of work over time but it’s not especially hard or complicated. It’s entirely possible for the average person to do it.
Tomaz seems to be well organized and treats his sites seriously, as a business. But I don’t think Tomaz is any technology guru. I make that observation not to knock Tomaz but to make the point that you don’t have to be a geek to do well.
Whenever people ask about my sites, they tend to say the same thing after I explain what I do: “Oh that’s easy for you because you have a technology background. I could never do something like that.” The truth is though that very little of my technology background is necessary to build the kind of sites I do. If anything it is a hindrance because I tend to get stuck on technology details too much.
So what does it take to build a profitable website?
You just have to be patient and have the grit to stick with it. Find a good model and follow it. Take what you are doing seriously enough to do it right. And don’t get too caught up in technical details (like I do).
Maybe you were expecting it to be more complicated than that. It’s not.
