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If Spraggett (in my opinion one of the best chess writers on the net) has to resort to pornographic content to attract readers to his blog, where does that leave the rest of us?
If Spraggett (in my opinion one of the best chess writers on the net) has to resort to pornographic content to attract readers to his blog, where does that leave the rest of us?
As I understand chess blogging is not very profitable.
TWIC - 10 (?) in business, and recently a guy complained that it did not bring him big monies.
All more or less connected with persons' or organizations' other activities:
Susan Polgar - news re-repost. Setup properly Google News search and you'll get similar results.
ChessCafe - (Larry will be ban me) Many good chess authors promotes its books' business.
chessvibe - also started to publish an opening newspaper.
chessninja - Mig's help to promote the Kasparov's agenda. Did he bankrupt recently? no more updates.
crestbook - Shipov's and his buddies hobby.
ChessCafe does a good job.
We sell to product to them and they sell product to us..a win win situation ...but we hope Chess Talkers will buy from us :) www.strategygames.ca If you see a better price at their site or elsewhere...contact me and I will see what we can do...if we can do better ...then we will :)
Don't forget, when you buy from us, you contribute to the sponsorship of event such as the 2012 Canadian Junior...
As I understand chess blogging is not very profitable.
TWIC - 10 (?) in business, and recently a guy complained that it did not bring him big monies.
All more or less connected with persons' or organizations' other activities:
Susan Polgar - news re-repost. Setup properly Google News search and you'll get similar results.
ChessCafe - (Larry will be ban me) Many good chess authors promotes its books' business.
chessvibe - also started to publish an opening newspaper.
chessninja - Mig's help to promote the Kasparov's agenda. Did he bankrupt recently? no more updates.
crestbook - Shipov's and his buddies hobby.
Note that NIC and these top news sites are not just blogs. Alot of work.
Yip has a column of links which I assume were a free trade to increase traffic, you link mine on your blog. But why not sell links? Such as for mind games mental development software.
I think Strategy Games could make money by having links and mentions on the blogs of top Canadian chess players. Strategy Games charges teachers to advertise on cma, I think Larry should consider paying to advertise on blogs. At the very least, he would probably be open to giving the blogger a discount on their own items bought from Strategy Games.
If a blog is inviting chess players to Budapest (or some other city), recommend a hotel and get a kickback from the hotel, like $5 a person (This is what online travel agents do). Has anybody set up a billeting exchange where if I play chess in your city I can sleep on your couch, and visiting my town you can sleep on my couch?
There's all kinds of free talk about chess online, but to be a business you need to have a product(s) and market it. A customer base of 2,000 CFC tournament players is very small. Yet there are over 100,000 kids learning chess in Canadian schools. Parents are paying for lessons to develop minds. I would try to tap that larger market.
My blog is in its infant stage of growth as I don't really know what I'm doing. The left links are to what I think are interesting sites or ones that provide useful tools.
I usually try to make posts with some kind of graphic element or do something to add some interest at a more personal level like a bit of bio info.
I study the pageview stats regularly to make an educated guess as to what is going to be popular, who my market is and what they want.
Next few blogs will be
-Panama Open featuring Hansen/Hambleton
-London Open
-Sunday I have a team match
-then I pick up on what gets posted on chesstalk for hints
Now I'm waiting patiently for tuesday's TWIC so I can get the jump on the latest news.(Its 2:50am here) but now its hard to sleep.
For the next few months I'm going to try to build up traffic and keep the quality of the posts consistent.
The blog was really born as I got tired of waiting for the kind of news that I wanted to read regularly. I don't find 2700 level chess that interesting or relevant to me. Not to mention even is it is interesing I don't really understand it.
Local news is more interesting to me or at least players that I might have some connection with.
I'm waiting to see what the CFC will be offering for their website content and the mythical $25,000 or so that is planned to be spent on it.
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