www.nickpagan.com - coming to an end?
My personal interests are moving away from the topics that form the basis of this blog. Consequently, I’m thinking of bringing it to a close. I’m polling readers using a survey to see what you like about this blog and what you’d like to see from it in the future.
Dear Reader,
I’m thinking of bringing www.nickpagan.com to a close. I got into blogging after reading Steve Pavlina’s post on how to get income from a blog. I didn’t know anything about blogging, or very much about the internet in general, but I like to write and I figured that I things that would interest other people. Steve made it sound easy so I jumped on in.
I didn’t have much more intention than to be something of a Pavlina clone, but as I began this whole project, and struggled mightily within myself, I started to fathom out some deep issues about the root causes of most emotional and mental problems. When I had it figured out I put my theory into the e-book ‘Understand How To Operate Your Brain Perfectly’ which you can still download for free.
I wanted to get some income from all of this and so I started writing an e-book to sell. I wanted to create a book that went further and that tied all of the pieces of the inner mental game, how to solve problems effectively, how to turn intentions into physical realities, how to learn quickly and how to take action with highly effective and efficient productivity methods. It turned into a massive project that took months of further research. The result was the book ‘Make Things Possible.’ It’s as comprehensive as I felt I could get into creating a generic approach to getting things done that tackles all of the major problems that hold people back.
My general aim in life is to spend as much time as is reasonably possible in acting productively on cherished desires and doing so in a cheerful manner. The investigations, theories and experiments that I have done over the past 18-months have all led to that endpoint. My methods are the most effective that I have ever developed for myself. They are not a magic bullet and continuous monitoring and fine tuning is necessary, but the methods are simple, pragmatic and based upon practical realities rather than on the fanciful beliefs that a lot of personal development methods would have you follow.
Now that the book is finished and I have achieved a higher level of personal ability, I find myself interested in topics beyond the scope of this blog. Most of my time is now spent learning the ropes of doing business on the internet. What that has taught me is that www.nickpagan.com was not well conceived from the outset to become a commercially viable entity.
Consequently, I’m thinking of wrapping the thing up. What would cause me to continue is if I could find out more details of what the readership of this blog would like. If I had a clearly defined brief to fulfill, then I would find it easier to keep contributing, rather than the hit or miss, “will it prove popular and useful or not?” thinking that normally runs through my head.
I’ve created a short survey to poll the readership. If you want to participate then click the survey link.
#1 - Permalink Chris November 24th, 2008 at 11:49 pmHey Nick! I hope you leave the site up! I think a forum would be great! I would love to interact with other visitors of nickpagan.com. Comments aren’t the best avenue for discussion between users.
#2 - Permalink Newton November 25th, 2008 at 5:11 pmI would be cool that you continue posting from time to time or just simply keeping the website online. But hey it’s yours
do whatever you want with it. 
#3 - Permalink sue November 29th, 2008 at 10:31 amNick,
I agree with chris in that leaving the site up is a great way for other people to interact and discuss issues.
#4 - Permalink Penelope December 6th, 2008 at 6:57 pmHi Nick,
I only discovered your blog last night (someone posted a link to your article about natural talent on twitter), and while I’ve only read 2 of your posts, I think it’s a great blog.
If you’re no longer interested in writing about the subject you originally intended, I’d say write about whatever you want to. Because your domain/title of the blog is your name, it doesn’t lock you into any particular topic.
As for monetizing your blog, have you considered Google AdSense? It takes a while to get to your first payment, but it picks up. Since your blog has been around for a while already, you might already have enough readership to earn faster than someone just starting to blog.
I was hesitant about ads before, because I thought they’d detract from the look of my blog, but the text ads are color-customizable and don’t look too bad. You can also choose to block ads from certain sites that you feel are unattractive or inappropriate for your site.
Good luck whatever you decide!
P
#5 - Permalink admin December 7th, 2008 at 6:06 amThanks Penny,
I’ve had a few responses to the survey and the results are intriguing. I was getting dismayed by my lack of traffic, but that’s all my fault. I didn’t pay enough attention to optimizing posts to do well in the search engines and I have not been promoting my own posts. I’m taking a much more active line on that now.
I’ll still have a lot to say and a lot to contribute and by lowering some of my expectations it’ll be far more enjoyable to continue
#6 - Permalink Chris December 7th, 2008 at 12:35 pmHey Nick, I’ve subscribed to your rss feed, and sometimes I don’t even visit the site. I just read the article on google reader. So that may contribute to some of your low traffic numbers. Just a thought…
#7 - Permalink admin December 7th, 2008 at 1:04 pmChris, I’m sure that has an effect. My RSS feed is about 220 people.