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Blog on failed website. Is this interesting?
foley
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Hi
I had my first go at a startup about two years ago. It turned out that it was not this idea that was going to make me rich. A couple of months ago I finally pulled the plug of the website and decided to write a few words on my hard earned lessons. What was good, why it went wrong and what I`d do again next time.
There are probably no new revolutionary ideas, it just another startup gone wrong. I would be happy for any feedback on the blog. Is it interesting for others to read?http://bountybox.net/blog
Thanks a lot,
Steffen
I had my first go at a startup about two years ago. It turned out that it was not this idea that was going to make me rich. A couple of months ago I finally pulled the plug of the website and decided to write a few words on my hard earned lessons. What was good, why it went wrong and what I`d do again next time.
There are probably no new revolutionary ideas, it just another startup gone wrong. I would be happy for any feedback on the blog. Is it interesting for others to read?http://bountybox.net/blog
Thanks a lot,
Steffen
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only the code that needs a thorough revamp, but all marketing up to
this point is undone, however simple and low budget: word-to-mouth,
newsgroup postings, backlinks, search engine rank. It doesn`t matter if
you have a big budget or not, changing the name will undo x months of
marketing regardless of how much money/time/energy is put into it"
Why didn`t you just link your new site names to the original site? This way you would have paralleled your marketing efforts rather than just throw them away.
Thanks for taking a look.
I did redirect the old names to the new ones. So I kept the visitors that would go to the old site but still I lost two very important assets:Brand recognitionSearch engine rank
My point is that however little there was of both in absolute terms, it was the result of a full marketing campaign with my budget constraints and I had to do it (almost) all over again.