Comments on: The 10 Greatest Mistakes I’ve Made Since Starting My Blog

By: Chris

Chris — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 18:08:24 +0000

All mistakes are a learning experience.

Who said something like ‘ those who never made a mistake never made anything’?

Horribly mangled probably, but a sound philosophy.

By: alzack

alzack — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 13:45:12 +0000

Interesting experiences that I can learn.
Thanks

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By: musicNmovies

musicNmovies — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 03:23:42 +0000

One of the “mistake” or atleast can be called MISTAKE is choosing right interface for the blog too – THEME. If you run entertianment blog, make it like a entertianment blog, the color, navigation system and other system should look like that.

For your blog too, I am seeing RIGHT SIDEBAR being too much cramped. Even the bottom links seem to appear out of the column. Better try some simple nice themes like Alexified (which by the way I use) – Its just my choice though [www.musicnmovies.info].

By: Henry

Henry — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 21:39:15 +0000

Ha ha ha, great article I love the line you closed with. The 50 sites in 50 days has a catchy title, but I can understand how it did not work. You can not spread yourself so thin.

By: Mark

Mark — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 21:31:23 +0000

Good post. On the subject of goofy sites – check out http://www.LingsCars.com which is a humourous web site based around a serious business (car leasing). Despite the ‘in your face’ design and approach it seems to work as she is doing over $2 million a month in business (although her profit percentage is small) and she estimates her website and business as being worth $2 million (£1 million) based on 8 times gross profit and possibly worth 5 times that in a few years time!

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By: Nate Whitehill

Nate Whitehill — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 09:03:15 +0000

Great post, Matt! Wow, that’s crazy that emohairstyles.info sold for $1000! I would be interested in hearing more about that. Feel free to contact me via skype (natewhitehill), if you get a chance.

By: Jacob

Jacob — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 00:18:49 +0000

Uh uh! I am eighteen and I am a grammar Nazi! However, like David said, as long as you have learned about your mistakes, that is all that matters. Fifty sites in fifty days was an interesting idea. Unfortunately, running that many sites is difficult. So, congrats on your changing your opinion on things and I hope you can succeed in what ever you do!

By: David Airey

David Airey — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 23:11:45 +0000

If everything you do is right, you’ll never learn anything.

Seems to me like you’ve learnt a fair amount about trying your 50 sites idea, so it’s all good.