Greetings from the Million Dollar Wiki!
It’s been awhile since there’s been any activity on the MDW blog, so I felt it was my duty to sign in here and give everyone an update on what’s going on.
The obvious big news here is this blog post is not being written by Graham Langdon.
“OMGWTF!”
No no, calm down. I’m not a hacker/cracker, and Graham is not dead. And neither is MDW for that matter. In fact I hope you all receive this post as good news. My name is Ron, and I am the new owner of the Million Dollar Wiki. It is a pleasure to meet you all!
“So what happened to Graham?”
Well, Graham is hard at work developing the next big thing in Internet marketing, namely Entrecard.com. If you haven’t discovered it already, it’s like a online business card system for blog owners. You can sign up, create an Entrecard and drop it in the box of other bloggers when you visit their sites. It’s pretty cool! Check out the sample in the top right column of this blog.
So long story short, the Million Dollar Wiki has gone beyond the simple experiment it started as and has evolved into a real business, one that requires nurturing and care. Being such, Graham has passed the torch to me, and I fully intend to run with it.
I will be keeping in touch with Graham. This was his baby, his vision and I understand that. My charge is to keep good care of it. From this point on, it will be my responsibility to bring value to our wiki page owners and keep this site running strong for at least the next 15 years. And yes, I’m up for the challenge.
“Who are you again?”
My name is Ron James, and I am a 31-year-old father of three from the San Francisco Bay Area. I have been a web developer and self-employed entrepreneur for the better part of the last 10 years. 5 months ago this week, I purchased my first wiki page on the Million Dollar Wiki. A couple weeks later I bought another, and yet another. It never crossed my mind that I might end up as the new owner of MDW.
I saw, and continue to see, the potential in owning wiki pages and the concept behind Million Dollar Wiki. So I don’t come to you as an outsider, but as a fellow wiki page owner who wants to see MDW and all of it’s wiki page owners succeed.
The Million Dollar Wiki 2.0 : Wiki Harder (Coming Soon To Theatres Near You)
My top six priorities for the Million Dollar Wiki are as follows,
- Increasing traffic to the Million Dollar Wiki, and the pages within it. I’ve already begun working on this. Traffic has increased to over 5,000 visitors a day and is growing.
- Allowing page owners to easily resell and transfer their wiki pages to others without a commission to MDW.
- Building a membership area where you can track and manage your wiki pages.
- Bringing back the forum and encouraging community participation. I will be looking for community liaisons that can help moderate and vanish the spam problem the old forum had. If you’re interested in lending a hand, drop me an email!
- Improving the Million Dollar Wiki homepage and the streamlining the process of getting your page featured there. Let’s give other pages a chance to have some fun.
- Reviewing page quality standards and rewarding page owners with increased visibility and traffic for creating an excellent Million Dollar Wiki experience to their viewers.
There are a few other ideas that I look forward to talking with you about over the coming weeks. My email inbox is open, and your comments and suggestions are always welcome.
Very sincerely yours,
Ron
pages[at]milliondollarwiki.com
