Notice: This idea has aleady evolved. Learn more here
The more I think about making 45n5.com pro version the less I envision it as simply paying for more news or tips and the more I envision it as helping other people make money online through providing them great tools.
The goal would be to enable as many people as possible to make more money online, realistically, and of course help me make money online also. Wouldn’t it be great to make a living helping people make money online? I think so too.
So as my idea evolves the more and more I’m thinking of a blog network community network. Instead of creating a bunch of blogs and making a network out of them, make communities and make a network out of them. Semantics? Not really.
I want to give people the opportunity to create communities around their blog like I’m doing with 45n5.com
Let me explain why you would want to be part of my yet unnamed network and why i consider the idea unique/great. This is also a picture of a blog network I would consider joining:
1. You Pay ME to be part of the network. Sounds crazy out of the gate, however you will realize the benefit of paying me to be in the network FAR outweighs anything you’ll pay and is much less than you’d pay at other blog networks. (plus, good hosting is very expensive)
Most blog networks charge a percentage of EVERYTHING you ever make. The richer you get the richer they get. See how that’s a bum deal already, for you anyway.
The price point is undecided but I’m thinking of charging in the range of $50 to $150 per month. In my opinion, You get lots of benefit for that money, let me continue.
2. I’ll personally work with you as a “consultant” until you are making at least the monthly fee to be in the network. Once you are at the level where your monthly network fee is paid you are in all profit. Not hand holding, but we’ll map out a gameplan and check in every now and then.
3. Custom Blog software. 45n5.com was custom coded by me! It is also turning into a social network platform! You won’t be using wordpress, you will be blogging on this blog platform where you can much more easily build a community than using the platform from 2003 called wordpress (yuck).
4. Always updated software - You won’t need to worry about doing updates etc. Just blog.
5. Spam management. Spam will be managed at the network level. We hate spam and want you blogging and not dealing with spam.
5. You keep the rights to the content. We don’t want your content.
6. We pay the hosting bills.
7. We handle the technical stuff. You just blog.
8. You keep the domain name. You register the domain, we’ll do the hosting. Again, I want YOU to be a success. We’ll be successful in the process.
9. Top 100 list. Your own top 100 list for your niche. You approve the blogs, we’ll host and update it.
10. Niche intelligence reporting. Let’s just say that you will know what people are posting about and linking to most in a nice neat report.
Ok so that is just the tip of the iceberg and I hope you can see how valuable it will be to be part of the network.
Yes there will be some drawbacks, like you won’t be able to install the flavor of the day plugin or modify your layout every week, plus pay a monthly fee, however the benefits should FAR AND AWAY outweigh anything else.
More is not always better!There will never be more than 10 blogs/networks added to the community at any given time to give those communities the best shot at success.
Also, there will only be ONE blog/community per topic. That’s it. No overlapping bloggers competing or echoing each other’s posts. We want to build authority sites for each of the communities in the network. (yes there is gray area so current network members can decide yes or no)
Finally!
That is my rough and evolving idea. It won’t come to fruition for 2-3 months. But, I’m looking to see who is interested in joining the network and building a community of your own.
Serious Inquiries ONLY.
If you are interested in learning more as details become available, email me the following info
mark @ 45n5.com
1. What topic/niche would you want to write about and start.
2. How long have you already been involved in this topic/niche.
3. How much would you consider as a fair price to pay monthly for this network/services?
Thanks for Looking and look forward to chatting with you more ;-)

