I’ve just started a sort-of work experience thing at Sun FM this week and I was surprised to see how much facebook and youtube’ing was going on during working hours. Pleasantly surprised that is. This video, about ‘fainting goats’ was shown to me by one of the presenters and it had me in tears of laughter:
Archive for July, 2008
… I’m bored, and I’ve just stuck Collateral on. Whilst Jamie Foxx arranges his dream post card in his head rest, I’m going to continue to day dream about what I posted about only the other day.
That post has certainly given me something to think about.
I spent a few hours today looking at how feasible it is to set up an internet business, and just how much traffic you would need to make the kind of money you could live off. (You should, by this point, realise that this could be quite a boring subject if you’re not interested in internet stuff).
After looking at all the standard kind of ad formats - banners, footers, half page ads, small ads and so on and so forth - all of which charge per thousand views, I came to the conclusion that with four or five differing ads on each page I could amass around £28.50 for all the ads every thousand times they’re seen. Of course, £28.50 isn’t a lot of money, but should any website be successful and bring in 100,000 views a month (bare in mind thats 100,000 views not 100,000 people) then £28.50 per thousand views becomes £2,850 a month. That’s a lot of money as far as I’m concerned.
How feasible is it that I could attract 100,000 views to the website in question, and how likely is it that I could sell ads? Well, if the figures are there then the advertisers will come, and after looking at my traffic the other day, my hip hop station averaged between 4,000 and 5,500 views per month. On its best month it achieved 7,749 page views (that would have earnt me about £200 if I’d been selling advertising).
At no point did I promote my dissertation website in any way shape or form during its inception. Everybody that found their way to the site found it through google, or other search engines, or some other way. All I know is that I didn’t promote it one bit and I got nearly 8,000 views in one month - but I averaged near enough 5,000. Now… the million dollar question is… if I promote it… can 5,000 views become 100,000 views?
As I said before, that’s views not people.
If I could do it, that’s near enough £3,000 a month in my pocket. Which is £36,000 a year - self employed. And that’s if I’m selling ads for as little as £5 per thousand views (specialist ads on successful sites can be as much as £15-30 so I’ve read). So there’s scope for improvement, and I’m working with the bare minimum in my plans.
The real trick for this would be to get other DJs on board. DJs from across the world - Australia, throughout Asia and Africa, different European DJs and of course ones from the other side of the Atlantic. I alone attracted 5,000 views a month, so a team of 10 or more DJs would most definitely attract around 50,000 I reckon. If I was willing to open my pockets to them then I’d sure I’d get even more on board…
It’s all theoretical right now, and I’m planning with a very positive mind set (of course). The stats are fairly simple - I have a website that is already more popular than some existing radio stations (worldhiphop.fm is more popular in America than Sunderland’s biggest radio station, for example). I have 5,000 views coming into that site per month and the website has shot up nearly 5 million places to become almost the 3,000,000th most popular website on the net. Those are all fact.
I’m going to talk it out with my Dad, and if he thinks its a good idea then I’ll probably have to seek professional business advice before pursuing this. But at the moment, all of this sounds much better than earning minimum wage in a grotty bar in the North East of England, don’t you think?
The other day I wrote about how this ‘blog’ was the 5 million and something-th most popular website on the net.
I’ve just this second checked out my uni project, www.worldhiphop.fm, to see how popular that was out of curiosity.
3,635,501st is the answer. Up 5,000,000 in the last few months!
And its the 1,145,277th most popular site in the United States!
Damn!!!!!!!!! I might have a think about launching that station for real. Shit more people are interested in that than what I’ve got to say on here haha! Hmmm… certainly food for thought…
While I’m posting new hip hop stuff, here’s another dude who’s gonna be big soon. Along the same sorta lines as The Cool Kids or Wale and that kinda style. This guy goes by the name of Kid Cudi, and this be his debut mixtape “A Kid called Cudi”. Enjoy.
Just opened up my task manager. Looks like I got that Gestapo virus:
While I’m on my hip hop tip… here’s a new video from Clipse (my favourite hip hop duo of all time).
I’m forced to post this simply because they’re sporting a Man United shirt in the vid… when was the last time you saw that in hip hop? (something tells me that’s a marketing tool… and it worked)
I know I’m late on this one.
One of the dopest rappers around at the moment, Wale, put out this tape about a month ago.
It’s called ‘The Mixtape About Nothing’ and this guy is one of the freshest rappers out right now. I’m sick of people saying he’s the next Kanye or the next Lupe - dude is the first Wale. He’s rapping about stuff aside from girls, drugs or cars which is where the comparisons come from, I guess. He’s out of Washington D.C. and is recently signed to a seven-figure deal with Interscope (so expect big things to follow). I’ve posted a few of his videos and his tracks before, but I just haven’t got round to putting this up for some gay reason.
Definitely worth checking out if you’re into hip hop away from the 50 Cent stuff. It’s better than 90% of the albums I’ve picked up this year, that’s for sure.
Wale. A Mixtape About Nothing. Download it now.
Tracks 1-10: Download
Tracks 11-19: Download
If you hadn’t already guessed, there’s a Seinfeld theme… dope stuff. Track six “The Kramer” is highly recommended.
According to Alexa.com (Google’s website that ranks websites and traffic): robwoolford.com is the 5,175,754th most popular website on the internet.
3 months ago it was 6,803,483rd.
That’s over 1.5 million places climbed in 3 months. Oh yeah! It also says that this here website has had a 209% increase in traffic over the past 3 months, and that was already a considerable improvement on what I was doing this time last month.
Aim: to get in the top 3,000,000 by the end of the year. Then top 1,000,000 by 2010.
You may think that’s nothing, but type in ‘the’ into Google and it returns 14,420,000,000 websites. Yeah, 14.5 billion. So I don’t think I’m doing too bad ;).
A couple of weeks ago, on the 1st of July to be precise, I wrote that I was going to shed my beer gut in time for the end of august.
I’ve stuck by almost everything I penned that day. I’ve been to the gym all but three weekdays (I had guests up for graduation) and I’ve had spells of healthy eating. Unfortunately, when you graduate all this stuff goes to the back of your mind and you fit in as much student living as possible to make up for the fact that, after you don your robe, you will no longer be entitled to the student lifestyle. So that weekend was particularly messy in terms of what I ate, what I drank and the little exercise I did. But that was always going to happen and I’m glad it did.
This is now the the third week of my seven week scheme, and I’m happy to say that I’ve dropped almost 3kg - which is just over 5lbs - which is almost half a stone. That’s not bad at all. The difference in appearance is hardly staggering, but to me its noticeable. And that is motivation enough to continue with round-the-clock healthy eating and gym visits 5 days a week (reading that sentence back makes it sound like bloody hard work).
Looking at my past few attempts to hammer the gym throughout uni, the lightest I’ve been since I was 18 was just over 80kg (or 12 and a half stone). I’m only a few kg from being there again, and I’m within touching distance of being ‘a healthy weight’ according to what your BMI should be for someone of my age and height. Infact, I think with a couple more visits to the gym I’ll banish the label of ‘overweight’! Which is exactly what I was hoping for.
I’ve seen some pretty bizarre and strange people in the time I’ve been gyming it up - mostly in the swimming pool.
There was one guy who had the thickest, darkest hair I’ve ever seen all down one side of his back, and then a hairless left side, so he kind of looked like a walking ying/yang sign - but I wasn’t sure if this was some kind of medical/surgical result, or if it is just natural. Then, only the other day, in a packed pool where everybody was sticking to their lanes, some asian dude got in and swam directly at me - only to stop seconds before we would collide - and swim back to where he just came from. He did this over and over. After a while I had to get out of the pool because it was becoming impossible to do lengths. I’m not sure if the dude had ever been swimming before or what, but that was pretty bizarre, and rather annoying. Then today there were 6 or 7 ’special’ kids - I’m not sure if they were disabled, ‘bad’ or underpriveleged kids or whatever (they all had community supervisors watching poolside), but they basically stood bang in the middle of the swimming pool across 3 lanes. Which meant the other 10 or so people had to swim around them, often crashing into each other, while these kids just stood around splashing each other. Wouldn’t have been so bad at one end of the pool, but in the centre of the pool across so many lanes that became pretty annoying. And when I say kids they were 15 or 16. Old enough to swim rather than play.
And then there’s the old guy who talks to all the young girls (and no one else)… or the rather overweight gentleman who wears a shiny grey jumpsuit like in the “Mo’ Money Mo’ Problems” video (i’m guessing its supposed to help him lose a lot of weight, but that didn’t work for Biggie)… or the two girls who have been in matching track suits every time i’ve seen them… there’s a lot of weird gym-goers.
It makes me wonder what my ‘weird’ gym-goer trait is?
Valencia v Real Madrid.
First leg of the Spanish super cup.
The day after we arrive in the region.
That. is. sexy.
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