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Raiders 2.0 Domain Recast(ration)

What should have been one of the best days of my professional career as a webmaster and developer is just a morass of depression, futility, and stomach-wrenching disgust.....and this is just the way the last incarnation of web struggle began at about the same time just over two years ago. Is it ME? I could ask myself that over and over until I unconsciously begin to believe it. All I ever really wanted to do was to build a niche of my own and be an indy specialist from within it. Sadly, I see I'm going to just have to dump on the trail-blazer mode and get with the program. Internet copy- catting that is. I mean, when I think about it in the context of online revenue generation, it begins to look a whole lot more....profitable. In fact, due to a lucky break, I was able to get my hands on a script type that I'd been wanting for awhile. Having dealt with the Free Advertising niche (safelists, traffic exchanges, social viral mailers, etc.), I KNOW it's a multi-million, nay BILLION-dollar niche that has plenty of room for innovation. I was able to customize a few features into the script that give it a more "Web 2.0" feel i.e. a member text chat and mini-forum to help foster a better sense of community. None of the safelists I've reviewed so far have either one of these features. As well, the built in reciprocal link directory (with auto link-checker) is for members to advertise their personal/favorite links on an unlimited basis. I don't mind saying that I'm scared at the prospect of having to restart in such a competitive market, but I think with all my web-dev experience, it shouldn't be too hard to get a footing. I just need to justify my time spent chasing the dream of Internet self-sufficiency......By Lee Davis, Raiders 2.0, April 19, 2013

Raiders 2.0 FeedShark Submission Tracker

This is a permanent tracking tag inserted for the benefit of the Feed Shark submission tracker service (the recommended format being HyperSmash). Trying to maximize the power of automation in spreading the reach of the domain and web space properties @ Raiders 2.0. The initial promotional incursion has been a little rocky - wasted a 300-member submission as the URL destination wasn't included anywhere in the ad, and other incidents of this nature keep a sense of hesitancy about the process that must be banished. Have to pull out all the stops on this, and finding an eagerly receptive audience is job one now. Automation will only be the underpinning of what helps the project float. Grind, grind, grind, grind, grind......By Lee Davis, Raiders 2.0, April 20, 2013

Starting To Pull Out All The Stops

Grind, grind, grind, grind, grind. Trying to pull out all the stops is proving to be a mental game that's as trying as I'm attempting to be thorough. It's going to be a LOT of work to crash in on this market, which is getting mighty crowded. My determination is on the grim side after my last configuration topple. I feel that familiar gnawing doubt, highlighted by the question looming in the back of my head; "What do YOU have to offer?" It's the same question that the niche asks of anyone attempting to enter. Is it enough....that I've given members of either level (free or paid) the ability to promote even their affiliate links, communicate with and share with each other? Is that truly enough to give me the edge I need to get my foot in the door and start grinding up my own Internet Empire? I don't even know how much is enough anymore. I've gotten almost there so many times and had to either physically or overview-wise had to re-configure. Again I find myself at that point, but I'm determined to build whether it falls over or not. Something's got to give - "How Low Can A Punk Get"?!?!?!?!?!.....By Lee Davis, Raiders 2.0, April 20, 2013

There HAS To Be An Easier Way

Grind, grind, grind, grind, grind. There has GOT to be an easier way to do what I'm trying to do. I UNDERSTAND that there are hundreds of thousands of free advertising network sites (safelists/traffic exchanges/etc), but it's starting to almost become too much already. I'm racking my brain to try and find a substantive solution for spreading the ad beacon far and wide. Employing the $0.00 methods is a no-brainer at this point, but that requires a large investment of time that I need to devote also to research and development of the growth rate of the site. Trying to add nuggets of pure gold for the potential Raiders 2.0 user has gone well in the past few days. Put in features like an HTML|CSS Checker in the adpost section - something I haven't seen in ANY of the safelists I have memberships with, as well as added the PrivateMail system for the site (with future monetization extensions), and laid out 5-7 different options for the future. Since I'm not going the traditional route that even Corporate America is choosing (social), it'll be that much harder, and even more satisfying when I net my first paying upgrade. I'm really playing for keeps with this VRE since I don't see the competition doing anything that I'm managing to pull off. But, I don't want this to be about pure gimmickery either. I could throw in a bunch of digi-bling and be off to the races in a second, but then I devalue what I'm really trying to achieve; a SOCIALIZED safelist-user atmosphere. It's going to be hard to establish, but once it gets going, it's bound to upset someones' apple cart, and then the REAL fun should begin.....By Lee Davis, Raiders 2.0, April 25, 2013

Getting With It

As far as can tell, all my efforts for site security and functionality have been dealt with as well as could be. Sucks when you're trying to do it the right way and all of a sudden what once functioned craps out on you. I needed to be sure that there was no way that was going to happen and leave me with egg on my face....again. All has run extremely well considering I assed-backwards into my current situation with this safelist script. Just have to take up the promo slack and jump back into those long-abandoned places. Gonna need some serious mental conditioning before.....By Lee Davis, Raiders 2.0, April 27, 2013

Destroyer Class Status

All on go. For the last few days, all operations have progressed smoothly as far as the promotional sector and the background development has grown at a slowly-consistent rate. Background elements were fleshed out as well as future stategies examined. All in all, a fruitful week culminating with an initial signup, but no verification of said signup. Maybe they got cold feet - who knows. I'm looking to build a list of RABID users who also happen to be semi-regular buyers. But it's not about what they can do for me. Quite the opposite. Since I'm trying to change the game in the free advertising niche, I want to smother them with value for any monies spent with me. Once the user base is swelled satisfactorily, the domination of the market begins in earnest. Grind, grind, grind, grind, grind, grind, grind.....By Lee Davis, Raiders 2.0, May 5, 2013