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Adnan, the owner of Blogtrepreneur.com, informed me a month ago that he had decided to give up blogging and he would be selling his flagship blog, Blogtrepreneur.com.

Adnan has decided to first offer the blog to his readers to see if he can “keep it in the family” and sell it to someone who already reads and knows his blog. If he doesn’t get the price he wants there, he’ll move it to the traditional option of a Sitepoint sale.

You can read about the Blogtrepreneur.com Sale here.

Blogtrepreneur.com is a great blog and nearing 1000 daily RSS readers. Getting 1000 RSS readers is VERY hard, especially in the hyper competitive online marketing and blogging industry, so if you were considering starting a blog on these topics and you want a very good head start, this blog sale represents a great opportunity.

Adnan wants low five figures for the blog. Considering it takes most bloggers at least a year minimum to build a blog to the point Adnan has (or really I should say - most bloggers never build their blog to this point), this is an option for an investor who wants to fast track their entry into the upper levels of the blogosphere and hopefully, continue to grow the site even further.

Adnan states that the site made over $600 in October of this year, so with a low five figures price he is asking more than the average that sites go, but given the sale price of recent blogs bloggingfingers.com ($6000) and Onemansgoal.com ($8500), it’s not that unrealistic.

To be honest I think the site is under monetized as well - I think you could raise the income to $1000 a month within a month or two after buying it and of course I’d be adding an email newsletter opt-in form to start building a list to further monetize the site.

I wish Adnan the best of luck with the sale and if you are interested in buying go check out his sale post.

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Adnan from Blogtrepreneur has written a field report entry in the forums regarding his experiment with the Alexa Widget on his blog in response to my previous article - How To Boost Your Alexa Ranking In One Easy Step.

Adnan reports:

I think it’s pretty obvious in saying that for me, the Alexa widget had a massive effect on my rankings. A result of this may have been the selling of 3 text links through TLA but I can’t know this for sure.

Read the full report

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Welcome to the first of the guest contributions for this month. Over the next few weeks you will see articles from many different authors here at Entrepreneur’s Journey. Enjoy! - Yaro

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By Adnan from Blogtrepreneur.com

When Yaro asked me to fill in and write an article, I decided that I should try and answer a question that will in effect make or break an online company -

How Can I Keep Visitors Coming Back To My Site For More?

Hopefully this article should apply to all Internet website owners, from bloggers to e-commerce store masters. Visitors, whether they be unique (first time) or repeat, are essential to a site’s well-being and growth over a period of time. By having a constant flow of visitors, you are enabling more pageviews and so more revenue if you are selling your own products or if you have advertising, and you are more likely to build a solid and sharing community if you own a forum or blog.

There are a few ways in which you can turn more unique visitors into returning visitors. Here are some ideas -

• One of the first things a person sees when they enter your homepage is your logo and branding. This is why many people spend a lot of time and money on logos, due to first impressions from a visitor’s perspective. By having a clean, professional font, or a fun and wacky picture, you are attempting to create a sense of trust between the visitor and yourself. This trust is key in making the visitor feel more at home and more likely to return to your site.
• Tied in with this is the use of personal pronouns (for example “you” or “we”). By engaging the reader in your webpage, you are being more personal and thus are creating a bond that will hopefully pull in more readers. If you are a blogger, creating a sense of personality can help you to increase your readership.
• Customer service is extremely important in tempting a reader to revisit your site. When someone emails you, you must always be polite and courteous, the same as in a phone call. Go out of your way in order to help your visitor feel comfortable with your company, whether you are selling a product or not.
• Make sure on every page in your site there is a noticeable contact button or link so that readers can get in touch with you if there is a problem or simply if they have any worries or queries.

Happy customers are more likely to refer others through word of mouth, and it is this viral marketing which will help more people to arrive at your site, and which will inevitably keep people coming back for more. However, remember that all marketing is not good marketing. Once one user has had a bad experience, poor reviews can become viral on the Internet and can ruin your business. Make sure this does not happen through your attitude and your business ethic.

By holding certain promotions, you may also find your number of returning visitors increase dramatically. Some examples of this could include holding competitions, where a user submits their contact information in return for a prize. Obviously, once you have obtained this information it would be immoral to use this for spamming and the like, so make sure you also have stringent policies against this. Once you have obtained email addresses use this wealth of information to form a newsletter, where every week you email your list advertising a certain product or service. This will help users to keep coming back to your site for more products or information.

Other promotions could include opening a forum or blog on your site. People always love to read fresh and new content, so make sure there are always new articles and you may find the number of members or comments increasing. Forums are also very good for advertising revenue as they tend to have a very high amount of pageviews as users keep refreshing the pages to see if anyone has commented on their threads or posted a reply.

Even if you try out just a few of these ideas it may be enough to convince your visitors to come back for more. With this can come more revenue and a greater online community which in effect, is the dream of any aspiring business owner or entrepreneur!

Adnan
www.blogtrepreneur.com

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