My story so far

[Yankees338]

Also, now that you have the experience under your belt, you can fix this little "mistakes" from the first time around and get it going even better than before...

 

Dislike ads? Remove them and support the forum: Subscribe to Fastlane Insiders.

[AndrewG]

Trust me, I'd love to bring it back! He has all the php code but he thinks it's too hard to start over. I'm going to talk to him some more and get more information out of him.

 

[MJ DeMarco]

Trust me, I'd love to bring it back! He has all the php code but he thinks it's too hard to start over. I'm going to talk to him some more and get more information out of him.

No one ever said success was "easy" -- if it was, everyone would be rich. This mindset is a problem. "Hard" is a precursor to success so to be blunt, get on his a$$!:coco:

 

[rico]

Betcha whoever did this was jealous of the application! Maybe a competitor or similar? Whatever, thats a huge compliment to your business. I'd definitely find the code and relaunch it. tighten up the security and come back bigger and better!!!!

Good luck

 

Dislike ads? Remove them and support the forum: Subscribe to Fastlane Insiders.

[Yankees338]

Well I have learned a little more about what happened with Super Inbox. No one hacked into the server, the server simply crashed. My business partner in the application failed to tell me this. I wanted to relaunch the application but he is too lazy and doesn't feel like configuring the code to work with a new database.

So I have moved away from laziness like that and decided to strike out on my own again. I decided to create a blog where I can empower people and myself at the same time. My blog is called Lyved. I was having trouble coming up with a name that was short and that related to the blog. I came up with a new way to spell lived. Lyved will cover many topics about life, business, entrepreneurs, goals, dreams, inspiration, motivation, determination, life stories, and more. This blog is for those who want to change their lives and get the most out of it.

So please visit Lyved.com and read some of the articles I have posted. I just launched on Decemeber 31st so there isn't much content yet. If anyone is interested in exchanging links please let me know here: life{at}lyved{dot}.com

Thanks for all your support!

Andrew

First of all, you definitely deserve some rep points for not giving up after all you've gone through. Secondly, just bookmarked it! Can never have enough reading material! Good luck with it! Looks like you have some great content on there, and I look forward to following it. Keep up the hard work and determination!

 

[AndrewG]

Thanks Yankees. I'm definitely not giving up! Usually when a business venture of mine fails I fall into a depressive sort of state. But this time was totally different, I just dusted myself off and within days I was working on Lyved.com.

 

Dislike ads? Remove them and support the forum: Subscribe to Fastlane Insiders.

[dhuang]

Thanks Yankees. I'm definitely not giving up! Usually when a business venture of mine fails I fall into a depressive sort of state. But this time was totally different, I just dusted myself off and within days I was working on Lyved.com.

Consider me subscribed!

 

[AndrewG]

Thanks! I really appreciate it. My content and writing style will continue to improve so stay tuned.

 

[Poudda]

Very nice site. I like how positive it is. Couple ideas for thought:

Play on the "y" ie: "y-not?" "y-this site?" "y-are we here?" things like that:

Not sure about the spelling of Launched - launced?

Anyways. Like very much. keep it up! nice to see you being creative and applying your imagination.

Cheers!

 

Dislike ads? Remove them and support the forum: Subscribe to Fastlane Insiders.

[AndrewG]

Very nice site. I like how positive it is. Couple ideas for thought:

Play on the "y" ie: "y-not?" "y-this site?" "y-are we here?" things like that:

Not sure about the spelling of Launched - launced?

Anyways. Like very much. keep it up! nice to see you being creative and applying your imagination.

Cheers!

Oops, yeah that was a typo. Thanks. As for the "Y" aspect, I was trying to think of something like you mention. I'll have to keep brainstorming on that.

-Andrew

 

[bizboy]

Seems your on the right path, you will have great success.

 

[AndrewG]

Thanks bizboy! Just a little update: someone added one of my articles to Digg and as of right now it has 58 votes! It hasn't made it to the homepage but I'm very pleased. Check it out http://digg.com/health/Creating_a_Motivational_Environment. The article will probably interest many of you.

 

Dislike ads? Remove them and support the forum: Subscribe to Fastlane Insiders.

[MJ DeMarco]

Good stuff! Love the domain name ... nice, short, and very brandable!!

 

[AndrewG]

It took me about 2 weeks and hundreds of ideas but I'm VERY happy with Lyved. I'm glad you said it was brandable because that was my main goal. I didn't want to limit myself to just a blog.

 

[MJ DeMarco]

It took me about 2 weeks and hundreds of ideas but I'm VERY happy with Lyved. I'm glad you said it was brandable because that was my main goal. I didn't want to limit myself to just a blog.

In that branding process, I would suggest to make the "Y" in Lyved very special. Make it mean something. The "Y" is what differentiates your site from "Lived" so market and focus on the "Y" in your slogan and logo.

For example,

"Because YOU want more from life"

or

"Because its not the HOW, its the WHY."

or

"Say Yes to Life"

And in your logo, make the Y different. Larger, a different color, anything to set it apart from the rest of the site. You want visitors to remember "Lyved!" not Lived.

HEre is an example I threw together in 2 minutes:
View attachment 360

These are just some simple branding ideas.

 

Dislike ads? Remove them and support the forum: Subscribe to Fastlane Insiders.

[AndrewG]

Yeah I'll have to emphasize the Y just like you and Poudda said.

Thanks

 

[MJ DeMarco]

See above logo ... easier to show than to tell.

 

[AndrewG]

How about something like?:

I'm not sure about what my slogan would be though.

 

Dislike ads? Remove them and support the forum: Subscribe to Fastlane Insiders.

[AndrewG]

BIG UPDATE: I'm sure some of you know of John Chow, he runs a VERY profitable blog that has hundreds of thousands of readers a month. Well I emailed him the other day about a possible guest post on his blog and I hadn't heard back from him till today and he added my post to his blog! John is very picky about what he adds to his blog so this is very difficult, I've tried dozens of times to get on his site over the past year, but I never gave up. This could bring me a huge amount of traffic and new readers. You can check out the post here: http://www.johnchow.com/the-greatest-things-about-life/, please leave some comments and vote on it if you can.

-Andrew

PS I let everyone know about the traffic later tonight.

 

[AndrewG]

As of a few minutes ago I received 63 visitors directly from JohnChow.com. It's not as many as I thought but I think it's because I'm not offering a product or service so most people are interested in visiting my site. However, I am VERY thrilled that I was accepted as a guest blogger on one of the top blogs on the internet.

 

[Yankees338]

Update: Well I published a new article yesterday called 20 Ways to Change the World. I had the post submitted to Digg. At first it got a good amount of votes, then it slowed down, but it came back with many more votes and was promoted to the homepage of Digg! With over 480 votes! I received about 560 visitors from digg as of a few minutes ago. You can check out the link on digg here. I have received a lot of negative comments both on Digg and my own blog but I'm not letting it get to me. Here's the original link, have a look at some of the crazy comments but also the positive ones. At this same time my article also got stumbled! Stumble Upon is sort of like Digg. I received another 520 visitors from there. Check out the stumble here. So the past day I've had 1,175 unique visitors to Lyved. Obviously the traffic will die down A LOT tomorrow but I'm very happy that my articles are being well received by most people.

-Andrew

That's very impressive! I've been checking up, but I haven't been able to read every post. I did have a chance to comment on one of the posts, though, and I believe it was the first comment you received. Keep up the great work! It looks like it's starting to pay off already!

 

[AndrewG]

Wow! Just checked my stats again for the latest update, the numbers have changed. I received 6,223 visitors from Digg and many visitors from other social news sites. Which brings my total so far to 7,223 uniques visitors!

Thanks Yankees. Yeah I did see your comment about the "Cabs to Riches" story. I think you were my first official comment.

 

[dhuang]

Hey Andrew,

The video card in my new computer just died out, so I couldn't get around to reading your most recent posts, until I finally pulled out my laptop today... and WOW. Talk about loads of traffic in almost no time.

John Chow, Digg, and SU? Amazing stuff!

Congrats man, you certainly know how to generate tons of VIRAL traffic.

Btw, those Digg users can be serious pricks! :smxB:

 

Dislike ads? Remove them and support the forum: Subscribe to Fastlane Insiders.

[AndrewG]

Thanks dhuang. Yeah you wouldn't believe some of the comments they left. They're actually kind of funny.

Update: The official number of unique visitors for yesterday was 13,427!

 

[Jorge]

Wow Andrew, congrats!

It seems like everything you do can turn into something cool!

Cheers

 

[AndrewG]

Thanks Jorge, that made my day.

 

Dislike ads? Remove them and support the forum: Subscribe to Fastlane Insiders.

[Jorge]

No problem, YOU made your day, I was just pointing that out

 

[fastword]

Interesting story to follow!

I'm curious to ask you about traffic you are getting but how can you make money from them???

 

[AndrewG]

Eventually I will implement ads to earn money from Lyved. Right now I'm just focused on creating content and getting readers.

-Andrew

 

Dislike ads? Remove them and support the forum: Subscribe to Fastlane Insiders.

[dhuang]

Andrew, It's great the approach you're taking.

By building traffic through quality posts, instead of focusing on just monetizing your site, will be TONS better down the road.

Seems like you have a great readership going on, and looks like you're having a LOT of fun with Lyved!