Bring On 2010

Finally I found time to blog again! I hope to pick this back up and take it a bit more seriously this year, I should be able to reasonably stick to at least one post a week. With 2009 behind us I’m feeling motivated about improving my content and overall user experience involving poker sites and also think I’m well positioned for a lot of expansion this year. Switching half of my trackers over to CPA on the poker side is a nice boost in short term income, and I’m still growing things on the revshare end in sports, bingo, casino, and some poker in case something drastic happens.

It’s been a crazy lasts few months, I started over 50 new sites and acquired paid out of my ass for the best premium domains I could find left on the market. I am well positioned in several different markets, and even a few small things are off the ground outside of gaming. For the first time I have reliable help in posting news and fresh content on my sites, and I’ve been able to spend most of my time taking existing things to a better level.

I’m currently improving my poker deposit site, as a lot of the info is outdated and it’s rather unorganized.  Mike Wittmeyer inspired me to dig my heels in and get to work, as he’s been working on a similar rebuild of PokerSite.org – that is a key thing in growing beyond earning “enough” to earning “a lot” is to be a perfectionist and constantly review and evaluate what you could do better on current pages, so there is a lot of that going on in my current situation.

Some of my new domains are looking to become great site, and I’m learning a lot about new markets like Betting Sites and even building an Online Casino Site for fun.  My best domains are actually not online yet though, I’ve decided I’m going to build my best two after I get my current projects under control.  I parked about 45 other domains too, for later development as we get around to it.  I have no shortage of work to do in 2010, but I’m going to be a super affiliate by the end of the year – I can just feel it in my blood.

Some people might be aware that we are also launching an open source poker training site, working on that with some of the bigger names in the game and getting pretty excited.  We are SO CLOSE on opening it, I got pretty deep into the coding and have had a really tough time settling on any type of user friendly layout/design.  I’m not an expert at usability so it’s been really tough for me, and frustrating because 90% of the project was the custom admin and programming to get this site off the ground, but we own it top to bottom instead of having an off the shelf video solution that might have brick walls to run into that we haven’t considered.

It’s basically done but I have to get it looking sexy before I can release it to the world, so I’m both excited that we are close and frustrated that it has taken so long and so much $$$$ to get here.  Coders will tell you tomorrow and get it done next month, I guess I need to start factoring that in my future planning lol.

Not much else going on except everything is on the upswing and I’ve got some real heaters warming up on the bench that are about to get there.  Should be a fun experience seeing where 2010 takes me, I just know I want to have at least a month over 50k or I’ll feel like I failed.