I got an email today from Matt Mickiewicz, co-founder of Sitepoint.com, which I found surprising:

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Hi Donny,

Matt here from SitePoint….

I noticed you haven’t posted in our Marketplace in the past
month or so, and I’m wondering if you ran into any problems
with our system?

You’re one of our Top 50 sellers, so any feedback you can
provide is much appreciated.

Happy to chat via email or phone. I’m local: 604 *** ****.

Cheers,
Matt.
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Two things.

1) I’m one of sitepoint’s top 50 sellers? I know I list a lot of my sites for sale there, but wow, that’s pretty cool.
2) “I’m local: 604….” How’d he know I’m in the same region (Vancouver)? Was he even using a template when he sent this email?

Anyways, this just shows how important a customer-to-service provider relationship really is. Guess where I’ll be listing my next site for sale?

- Donny

A lot has happened in the past 2 months since I’ve updated. School is almost over (and so are the provincial exams), so I’ll have quite a bit of time to really get into my businesses. Just a matter of days.

Anyways, just wanted to give a quick update that I’m still here :).

Thank You,
Donny

I recently got into contact with 4 great guys who, after some considerable ‘nudging’, agreed to create four full-length videos where each of them answer 5 of the most common questions in their own industry. Why are these guys different that your average hobo off the street? Well… they’re what I’d like to call ’super-gurus’.

Let me introduce each one to you.

Aaron Wall is a SEO expert. He is THE SEO expert, and is said to be the best of the best. Don’t believe me? Do a google search for ‘SEO’ and you’ll find his website, seobook.com, ranked within the first 4 listings!

Jonathan Volk is an Affiliate Marketing legend. This dude pulls in over $50,000/month doing what he does best. He is the founder and owner of a company called AffiliateUnleashed. He also blogs regularly on JonathanVolk.com.

Josh Buckley is an average web entrepreneur who sold one of his websites last year for 6 figures ($xxx,xxx). When he sold it, he was only 15. He’s 16 now, and busier than ever. I am *not* jealous in any way :). He blogs at JoshBuckley.net.

Justin Brooke is my mentor and great friend. Being the CEO of Mpyre Marketing, he has been nominated as the Best Marketer of ‘07 for the American Business Awards. He co-owns SiteFlipAcademy.com with multi-millionaire Russel Brunson.

All 4 of these guys will be pumping you pure content to help you earn money. Even I am creating a video for you guys to enjoy.

Anyways, the first of the videos is already up and running live, so be sure to check it out here:

http://www.digitalthrone.com

Check it out, and enjoy!

Thank you,
Donny

After months of hard work, I have finally managed to complete and release the DigitalThrone:
http://www.digitalthrone.com

I have to thank Justin Brooke for giving me the tips on how to perfect my sales page. This is the guy and I have to admit that I was pretty nervous when talking with him on the phone. Anyways, here’s his website if you want to check out what he’s all about: http://www.siteflipacademy.com.

Also today, my local newspaper, the ‘Richmond News’ gave me a call and came over for a brief 30-45 minute interview. HOLY CRAP. I’m still shaking :p.

Anyways, if you haven’t already, be sure to check out what it’s all about at http://www.digitalthrone.com.

- Donny

After hours of work, I finally have the BattleForums.com contest pre-launch page online and working. Have a look for yourself:
http://www.battleforums.com/contest.php

JACT.com generously sponsored a brand new 8GB Ipod Touch, as well as some other amazing prizes (digital cameras, mp3 players, GPS systems, etc), so be sure to check them out as well.

- Donny

PS, DigitalThrone v.2 is scheduled to launch on Feb. 2nd. I’m going way past midnight every day trying to get there without any delays. I will update soon when I get the chance.

That’s right. Kinkarso.com now a registered company :p!

Instead of nudging me a million times, you people should simply comment on my blog posts so I know people are reading :p ;).

Anyways, just a bit of an update as to what’s happening with me and my sites.

BattleForums.com

I have just launched the brand new forum skin, and the members love it! The visitor-to-member conversion rate went up through the roof, and activity has shot up as well. The portal page is still being worked on. Everything is working except for the news post system, which will be done in a couple of days max. I also have a few viral campaign ideas lined up to really make our mark.

However, with the new skin, revenue has turned to 0. I guess I’ll have to implant a couple of advertisements when I get the time. I registered with Vibrant Media since I heard quite a bit of good things about them. Well, I got accepted and was sent a whole stack of paperwork to fill out. It’s been over a month and we’re still not set up (can’t say there was a lack of communication though). I guess they really take their publishers seriously.

LiveTV.ws

There might not be a lot of things going on on the outside, but we’ve been busy little bees on the back stage. A couple of programmers and I have been working our @$$É$ off for the past couple of weeks, adding brand new features to the ever-growing Social Television Network. LiveTV.ws is inches away from the big 20k members milestone, and it’s still going strong.

RayKu.com

Still need to find Mr. Adam Flynn to get an update…

Misc

I did a small test-launch of my DigitalThrone ebook, and the results were great. I received a good amount of feedback on how to improve my ebook. It’ll take awhile to address them all, but hopefully, I can have version two launched and ready for sale by mid January. Currently, I am giving away a free e-course on the DigitalThrone.com website to make up for the wait. Check it out!

Till next time,
Donny

PS, please comment!

With the $xx,xxx capital from my bank (after I submitted my business proposal around 2 weeks ago), I went on a spending frenzy. Just recently, I purchased a very large Blizzard Gaming Forum to be a big brother for CreepColony.com. It currently has over 1,080,000 posts and 60,000 members, being the very largest forum I have ever owned. Hopefully, I will be able to earn the trust and respect of my members quickly, and get right into the improvements I have planned for the site.

A lot of other things has gone on as well. I had the new LiveTV.ws design finished and integrated. I also had a whole set of functions developed for the site, including member profiles, prviate messaging, add/remove friends, and much more. Jeff Andersen and I are busy having the additional features developed and implanted. It shouldn’t be long until the brand new LiveTV.ws 2.0 is live and running. I can’t wait!

I just received a check of around $1,000 from Google & Neverblueads. Hopefully I won’t have too many of these months lined up in the future, but it doesn’t happen too often, so I guess it’s alright. I’m guessing it’s because of all the alternative ad network testing I’ve been doing. Oh well.

Everything else is going pretty well. At school, we just had our very first basketball game, and guess what? We won! 57-51 (I think). Tomorrow, I have two more games. It’s so weird how we are all required to wear ties and dress shirts to games now :S. With school, basketball, and all the other stuff in my life, I get around 2-4 hours max each day to work online (I try my best to sleep BEFORE midnight - It’s 12:30am right now :/). It’s hard, but I’m getting much better at managing my time.

Until next time,
Donny

Everyone knows about Facebook groups, and how some really absurd and ‘unexpected’ groups have gained thousands, to even millions of members since their launch. How do they do it? Apparently, there’s a new way to get the competitive edge. Here’s a quote from the site:

FacebookBay.com is a free service created by Facebook group owners, for Facebook group owners. We all know how hard it is to jump start a brand new group, especially when no one really knows about it. This is where we come in. With FacebookBay.com, we can bring you hundreds of members instantly, automatically, and 100% free of charge! No, we’re not kidding around. This free service will not stay free for long, so get started now!

So basically, the site works around a database of Facebook groups. In order to get your group in the database of groups, you must actually select a group that is provided randomly, join the group, and invite your full friends list to that group. Once that is finished, along with a few other things, you will be able to register, and have your own group added automatically. Pretty clever if you ask me :).

Read more about…
FacebookBay.com

Thank you,
Donny

PS, LiveTV.ws is doing pretty well with just about 16,000 members! I’m doing a bit of link building for the term Live Internet TV, which is also going pretty well.

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