We have just launched a new niche social media/networking site www.hypgroove.com. This is a Digg style community site aimed at those with an interest in hypnosis and self-improvement content. You will be able to recommend and vote on news, articles, videos, audios.
The site is fairly embryonic at the moment but considering the domain name was only bought 24 hours ago progress has been reasonable. There will be categories added and separate sections for articles and videos etc.
At the moment if you wish to post a page then use ‘Submit News’ tab. You will have to register before you can add any web pages. Please also feel free to vote approval on any web-links that you find through the site.
Now let me explain the reason we have built Hypgroove and the thinking behind it.
Those of you who have been following my blog postings will know that we lost a lot of blog traffic to Adam Eason’s website last week.
Now every cloud has a silver lining (first cliche today) and we held crisis talks (ok – I am exaggerating for dramatic effect) as we needed to get traffic to our site – and highly targeted traffic at that as soon as.
It was interesting talking to my techie lads as we realised that we hardly ever use Google for searches any more. In fact we get much more interesting and varied results by using social networking or bookmarking sites such as del.icio.us, Digg, Furl or Reddit to name but four.
These are large non specific bookmarking sites – but what is beginning to emerge are similar sites but within specific niches. Here is a site we were looking at which got us thinking – it is almost embarrassing to look at the date of that blog entry – what foresite that writer had. The niche sites he is talking about are really only emerging now.
Here is a site that lists some of the niches currently emerging. We noticed that to date there was not one for self-improvement and hypnosis.
Opportunity!
There is now! Hypgroove
Go – register – and get posting any pages that you find and want to share
If you need a brief introduction to on-line bookmarking take a look here
Over the next few days I will be lifting the lid on Social Networking and Bookmarking.
The first will be about Del.icio.us which I have been using for some time
About Keith Watson
Hi - I am Keith Watson.
This blog is dedicated to Banger - a teacher from my teenage years who - at least once a week - insisted upon cracking the hilarious - and I have to say - never heard before line "What's on Watson?".
I would smile demurely - the rest of the class would fall about with sides aching - and life would go on for another week.
'Wats-on My Mind' I have decided will assist me personally as well as be of interest to others (I hope) who share my challenges. It will help keep me organised and document my activities so that I know what I did yesterday.
You think I am joking!!
I have been in the website development game since 1993 and have been involved with over 2000 website builds (with the help of my fantastic team of freelance programmers)
It was only in the last two years though that I have moved over to making money for myself on line and in particular linking up with an amazing talent called Adam Eason to produce and distribute self help and hypnotherapy products.
As a result of looking to promote these products I have downloaded hundreds of internet marketing articles and e-books, studied countless reports, tested list building tactics, butterflied, boot-camped, buzzed, adsensed, affiliated, met a jerk, jv'ed, plr given-awayed, and generally suffered from information overload.
My computer - presumably in a fit of pique or simply demanding a holiday has given up the ghost on at least two occassions - causing me even more stress.
Oh this simple business of making money online.
BUT the great news is that it is all working and our list has grown - I have found some gurus I have complete faith in - and Adam and I are actually making money from our endeavours.
Some way to go but I am more relaxed and can spot a phoney over hyped, sexed up, must have latest product which you must either buy or if not, simply fade into oblivion. There’s not room on this Internet for the two of us.
This ramble of an introduction is really to set the scene for I am sure an interesting journey which I invite you to join. In fact I want you to help me find the right tools, scripts, plugins etc. etc, that will catapult me into the stratosphere of success. I hope you will be there with me.
I don't just consider success in a monetary sense. I so want to help some friends of mine who are involved in Christian missionary work in some pretty harrowing parts of this world. If I can bring any help to their missions that will give me more satisfaction than anything else.
I really, really do love this web stuff and the people you meet. I am convinced that this powerful technology can be harnessed to do some good.
