The HillSeven Concept - A Blog Network

Starting in January, I am going to begin serious work on my new business venture, HillSeven. HillSeven.com will primarily be a blog network. There will be supplementary businesses, such as eBay stores, ebooks and perhaps even Second Life operations, but they will all tie in with building a network of high-traffic blogs.

Why blogs?

If you are one of the many people who hear the word “blog” and think of teens ranting about their lives, you many be wondering what the hell I’m talking about, so I will provide a bit of education…

Monetized blogs can actually drive some serious income. There are many blogs out there that pull in $5,000+ monthly. Of course, that level of income takes some serious time and effort to set up. Good content must be created on an almost daily basis for over a year to pull in any serious amount of traffic. But the people who can do that can pull in some serious income as well as a variety of other perks.

Why don’t I just set up my own blog and focus on that?

I am, sort of. I have this site that I write for once in a while, and I have StockWeblog.com that I write for, but there’s lots of other people out there who can produce much better content than I can, I’m sure. So I want to help new bloggers by giving them a professionally designed site to write on and just let them worry about creating great content while I manage the business side of the operation. Some of these blogs might be team efforts, like StockWeblog.com, and some will be for individuals, like this site.

Why can’t these potential bloggers just set up their own site?

That would be possible for some people, or anyone can go to WordPress, Blogger, LiveJournal, MySpace or one of the other major sites and get a cheap yourname.whatever.com free blog right away. But I have spent months learning how to set up blogs. Including how to design and market blogs, how to work with PHP and CSS (and this is with a pre-existing strong knowledge of computer programming), and how to effectively monetize them. I think I’m pretty decent with computer graphics, as well. Plus, I will have a dedicated server and the resources to fund new sites.

So anyone who wants to blog on their own will have to spend their own time learning all this, or they could just work with me and get the benefits of this knowledge without spending the time or effort that they could be using to create content. And not only will the site that I create not cost them anything, but they will have me working every day to make them a lot of money with it, because I’ll only make money if they make money.

Why a network?

Synergy. Along with the benefits described above, creating a network of blogs and other related business should greatly improve the traffic flow. The blogs can be linked together in various ways to get visitors to the site on the network that they will enjoy the most. I can’t give away too much of this part of the operation, but I have some ideas that I think will work very well.

Who do I want to work with?

Anyone. I want to talk to people who may be serious about blogging, but even if you only have the slightest interest in writing about anything that you enjoy, send me a message and we’ll see what we can work out. I am currently talking to a few people about this but I will constantly be looking for more who are interested.

Any topic has potential. Political, Religious, Tech and Personal Development blogs seem to be the most popular but there are some highly specialized blogs (e.g. scrabbooking) that seem to be doing well. Anything you’re interested in and could write about often would work. Video blogs are becoming quite popular as well (via YouTube). I would like some of these new blogs that HillSeven sets up to be a combination of written and video content.

Even if you just think the idea is interesting and might want to be involved in some way other than writing, let me know. I would also like to find a few recruiters/designers to work with as well.

Contact me here.