A start up...THE INSANITY

To get an idea off the whiteboard to launch is by far one of the most difficult things anyone can do. After experiencing this first hand with Diehard101.com I decided to take the site down for a while and refocus my efforts to making it work. This was a false start to say the least. I can't even count how much money I have loss, a lawsuit came and gone (I won), a couple of friendships were lost and what am I left with? A great idea that is what, I will not stop building the idea out, just a diff… Continue

So I went to diehard101.com today to check in on the amount of members we had signed up today. We are still getting a decent amount of visitors from the activity a couple of days ago and the bounce rate decreased by 25% from Monday to Tuesday.

I go to the site and I get a forbidden message, after my wife threw water on my face to have me come back I called my CTO and Editor in Chief. We don't know what took place, we thought the server crashed. That wasn't the answer, we still don't know what t… Continue

Today we had our greatest day of traffic coming to the site EVER. One of my content writers wrote an article about Manny Ramirez and how he would fit in with EVERY MLB team in the league. He then went to the mlb forums and posted the article and we didn't sign up one person. We are 4 days away from our beta stage of the site and we missed out on over 1400 new people visiting the site today.

I am taking the positive out of it, we did one article and had 1400 plus folks come over to the site, the… Continue

I keep on trying to set aside a few minutes to come into this fantastic website and do some more blogging on a consistent basis and it is very frustrating for me not to be able to do so. I think about it and I tell myself okay in 10 minutes I'm going to sportsmarketing20.com and I am going to blog, give some people a few updates, maybe make a person or two chuckle a bit and give them updates on where Diehard101.com is. However, next thing I know it is 2 days later. Go figure.

So an update......… Continue

It has been a little while since I last did a blog. I have been swamped with the ups and downs of trying to launch a brand new media property. Some great things have taken place over the last 7 days for Diehard101.com. We somehow were picked up by a few sports fanboards! What ended up happening is that our subscribers went from 100 to 200 in 4 days this last week! We had record breaking days for new signups, page views, comments, blogs and more importantly buzz.

Some members from a competitor c… Continue