What Do I Do For a Living?

AlreadyHosting.com

110mb.com

If you find yourself wondering what I do for a living… Your not alone!  In fact, some of my closest friends have trouble understanding what exactly I do with my businesses.   So… I decided to write up a quick post explaining my two main online businesses and hopefully be the end you will have at least a little bit of an understanding of what I work on all day….

AlreadyHosting.com

After trial and error with other online businesses (AND COUNTLESS HOURS OF RESEARCH) I came up with the idea of AlreadyHosting.com in the summer of 2008.   The site started really small and was a side project as I shuffled school, work, and other issues that face a typical college student.  As a college student, I was completely broke…  Well sometime about 1 to 2 months after creating AlreadyHosting.com I made my first referral (for HostGator) and made $50…. At the time that was HUGE and very encouraging to me.   So over time, I continues to promote & build AlreadyHosting.com, I literally spent every free minute working on the site, and it continued to grow accordingly.  After about a 10 month, I found myself in a position that I could quit the three part time jobs that I held at Murray State University and could focus solely on the development of AlreadyHosting.com.   Three years later, thousands of work-hours, and three designs later we are here today…

So now that you know the history of AlreadyHosting.com, you still may be finding yourself wondering…. What does the site do?  I developed the site as an aid to beginner and intermediate web site designers looking for a place to host (store) their website files.  I remember the first time that I created a website, the process can be quite confusing… And there are literally tens-of-thousands of web hosting providers ranging in price from $2 a month to $1000 a month, and I had NO CLUE who was good and how much was a reasonable amount to spending on website hosting.

AlreadyHosting.com can point people in the right direction… There are literally hundreds of web hosting providers in our directory that we have outlined/reviewed and also gave users and visitors the opportunity to leave their own reviews about the hosts.  We also negotiate deals (as a middle man) with web hosting providers and we can offer discounted hosting rates to our users.  AlreadyHosting is filled with articles related to web hosting, web design, search engine optimization, and marketing tips…

I make money (earn commission) when a user is referred to a web hosting provider from my site… I actually am an independent contractor for hundreds of hosts that are listed on my site even if they have negative reviews.  So to break it down as simple as possible… Take a look:

A user who is looking for web hosting  —> Finds my site —> Researches multiple hosts and chooses on that fits their needs —>  Clicks on a link from my site and visits the actual web host  —> Signs up and pays for an account with that host —> That host pays me a commission for sending them a new customer.

Hope that helps

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110mb.com

Ok.. So now that you have a little bit of an understanding about what I do with AlreadyHosting.com… I thought I would quickly discuss my other major business called 110mb.com.

In June of 2010, I decided that I wanted to expand my business a little bit and saw a great opportunity with 110mb.com being up for sale.   I knew that 110mb.com was HUGE, in fact it has been named one of the 500 most important domains on the internet.  The site currently is the 2012-th most visited website on the internet (According to Alexa).  With that being said, the site’s network receives over a million visits per day.. Which I knew could be monetized.

The problem with this site was its complexity… Although I had the business brains to take on a major task like this, I knew I would need a top-notch computer tech (guru), to maintain such a complex site…   For this task I turned to one of my best friends, and smartest people I have ever met… Craig Clayton.

110mb continues to be a work in progress for our team (which has now been expanded with additional staff).  The site has MANY issues when we acquired it and still today we are working to fix some of them, but slowly and surely we are improving the operation of this great service.

So what does 110mb.com do?  Great question… It is actually a FREE web hosting service… Our free hosting service is VERY/VERY basic… However, we do offer upgraded (premium) plans that users can purchase if the free plan doesn’t meet their needs.  That’s one of the major ways that we make money; however, we also make some from advertisers.

With a little help from my talented cousin Heather, we will soon be launching a whole new branch of 110mb.com, which I am very excited about.

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So there you go  .. That is the very short cliff notes version of what I do for a living…  But behind the scenes a do a TON of online marketing as well as flipping websites…  I hope you enjoyed this little write-up… Maybe you have a better understanding of what I do with my time throughout the day.

God Bless.