I finished yesterday with $2.33. The sale of the website I was trying to negotiate did not go through. You win some. You lose some. I could have sold it had I been asking $500 for it; but it’s a website into which $2000 and a year of development was invested. I would sooner hold on to it and try to see what I can do by way of turning it profitable for myself than sell it for $500 in desperation to raise money to help pay the bills. I have put another site on the market that I’m very reluctant to sell. If I get what I’m asking for it great. If I don’t get what I’m asking for it I won’t sell it. It could be a site earing up to $5000 per month for me in year’s time. Not a fortune but $5000 per month will add a little much needed security by comparison to my present situation. I won’t be able to buy the dream house; but I might be able to start saving towards it.

It’s been a slow day for me so far today; but not as slow as it was yesterday. Yesterday was not a great day for me at all. I forced myself to work as best I could. It was difficult to make the effort. I’d say I gave about 50% yesterday, which is to say I worked 50% fewer hours than usual; but 50% of 16 is 8 and the standard workday is 8 hours long; so technically I put in a standard workday’s worth of effort yesterday.

It is 3:19PM right now. I’ve been up and working since around 6AM. I started my day with cold pizza. Not necessarily a wise way to start the day. I’ve managed to update only 1 site so far today mainly because I’ve been doing some modifications to it in the hope of making it more appealing to the potential buyer.

I was having a conversation with someone about the trend in the buying and selling of websites. They suggested that I put too much work into the sites I try to sell. Buyers tend not to be willing to pay much for a site unless it’s already generating revenue. They don’t care how my time you spent building the site, how much money you spent on it, how great it looks. If it’s not a profitable business they want you to hand it over for ten bucks. With that in mind, the individual I was talking to suggested that since buyers appear only willing to spend a hundred dollars or so, I shouldn’t put more than a hundred dollars worth of effort into building the sites I put up for sale.

It’s an interesting way of looking at it. I could probably build 10 simple sites per day and try to sell them for $100 each. It would certainly be an interesting experiment to see if I could actually manage to build 300 websites in a month and pull off making $30,000. Maybe I’ll do some research, see what people are buying. I need to get out of this money-less life after all. I need to start making money. I’ve had enough of not having any control over the level at which my life is being lived.