It’s been so long since I’ve written a blog post, it really feels like I’m starting out from scratch here.

There’s a couple of reasons why I decided to have a “do-over” of my internet marketing career.

The first reason is simple… it’s in my blood. I tried to walk away. I tried to do other things, like concentrate on niche markets, be just a service provider to others, and I can’t do it. I love building websites, creating products, testing new traffic methods, and sharing what I find with anyone who will listen.

The second reason is just as simple… I love helping people. I’ve been at this a long time, and although I’ve never reached “guru” status (and never wanted to either), I’ve learned a bit on my trips around the internet marketing block. I love being able to answer questions, share the things I learn, and know that even if just one person “gets” what I’m trying to say and it helps them, I’ve had a good day.

Someone asked me yesterday why I was in internet marketing and this is what I told them:

“I’m not really in internet marketing for the money. I do it because it’s something I can’t not do. I love trying new things, testing to see what kind of results I can get, helping people…. Helping people is a really big one for me — I get a real charge out of seeing someone “get it”. The look on their face when the light bulb goes on is a beautiful thing and even though I’m not very good at being a people person, when I do get a chance to help someone out, it just makes my day.”

What I hope for this new version of The Ritchie Report is that it helps you “get” internet marketing. I hope that you find the information that you need here, and that if you don’t find the answer you’re looking for, you’ll feel comfortable enough to ask questions. The hardest thing I find about blogging in any form is to know what to write about. So please, feel free to tell me what you want to know and I’ll do my best to make sure that you get the answers you need.

So please, don’t be a stranger. Introduce yourself, say hi, tell me what you need help with and we’ll take it from there. Oh yeah, and do leave me a link to your blog so I can return the visit.

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It’s been awhile since I posted anything here, or anywhere else for that matter, and I must apologize for that. Once again it seems I bit off more than I bargained for with various challenges and projects in the months leading up to Christmas. I even spent a week planning out how to do a “100 sites in 100 days” project after reading a discussion on the turbo membership forum.

Then reality set it, along with its attendant overwhelm. Who am I kidding? I have a hard enough time doing one site in one hundred days, let alone one a day!

And so I found a compromise where I can work on my list of 100 sites, but not move on to a new one until the first one has made at least its first dollar. I also decided that in doing so, I will find ways to make use of the mountains of private label rights and master resale rights material that I have hoarded on various hard drives around here.

Then I decided I would blog about the whole process, so that anyone who’s interested can follow along. But, in typical Ruthie style, I procrastinated a bit on starting the blogging process, so the project is actually in its seventh day today.

Part of me thinks, why would anyone care what I have to say. It’s not like I’m some super successful guru or anything. And being as introverted as I am, it’s really hard for me to intentionally put myself into a position to be criticized and not totally in control. So as much as this is an exercise in creating profitable websites, it’s also an exercise in stretching my own comfort zone. I’m taking bigger, bolder actions in order to achieve my bigger, bolder dreams.

So here we are, sixteen days into the new year. It’s finally time to say Happy New Year, and let’s get to work!

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Sometimes I can be a little thick. I started transferring domains over to their new home on Monday and the downtime waiting for them to resolve gave me lots of time to think. (Instead of taking 20 minutes or so, it took a good 36 hours for the first of them to show up here.)

Thinking can be a dangerous exercise for me because it usually ends up in a change of plans. This time is no different. (Yeah, I know there’s always a first time. This ain’t it.)

Anyways, as I was going thought the content from the old sites, it occurred to me that I’m not getting the most out of what I already have. So I changed the plan a little.

The good news is that I didn’t change the process this time. I just tweaked the structure a little, and changed the order I was going to test in. I’m going to work at making all the existing sites turn a profit before I start adding new niches and topics.

The way I see things now, it makes a lot more sense to at least try and make the most out of what I already have, and let that be the foundation for anything to be built on. At least this way I won’t be starting from total scratch, although given the neglected state of most of the sites and lists, I might as well be.

In the next post, I’ll lay out the stats I have on the first site to be worked on.

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