Not sure where to go next..

[CertMedAssist]

Advanced Medical Assistant of America.
URL: http://www.certmedassistant.com

My web site is dedicated solely to student and professional medical assistants, regardless of their professional affiliation. However, over time it has also become a favorite of many others in a related medical and health care delivery field. These are professionals who are dedicated to increase their professional and personal skills!

I am offering networking resources and pertinent information, also links and free resources for the student and professional medical assistant, review presentations, medical terminology and body system quizzes, peer-reviewed tips, independent forum and opportunities to gain valuable continuing education credits.


I would like to find a way to turn this web site into a revenue creating site. Over the past few months, I have earned $250 through "membership." But this is going really very slow! I have searched the Internet for web sites and emailed their webmasters when I thought they might be interested in placing an ad onto my site (ie. sites that sell nursing uniforms, medical equipment, books, resume services, job seekers/finders etc) I thought I was offering VERY REASONABLY PRICED banner advertisement opportunities but nobody is interested (http://www.certmedassistant.com/104bannerads.htm)

On the other hand, I am not interested in promoting affiliated programs. I feel that advertisement should never be free, and wether someone clicks on a banner or not, advertisement is a service that deserves to be rewarded!!! I am not willing to decrease the quality of my web site with numberous flashing buttons, taking a gamble on click throughs and accepting pennies, when it cost me real money and time to maintain a quality web site.

My husband, tired of my "whining" suggests selling the entire web site, but I am not ready to depart with my creation (created Dec. 2000.) Should I however, decide to do so?
And how would I best go about that?


Danni R.

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With best wishes in your chosen career,

Danni R.
www.certmedassistant.com

[kevin]

Hi Danni,

I don't have the answer to your dilemma but will make a few observations.

First, your website has not been up and running for very long. Few websites get much attention at first. Depending on how much time and effort and planning you put into a website, it can take a considerable amount of time to start generating the traffic needed to earn a modest amount of revenue.

To make money from advertisments or pay per clicks or any kind of advertising takes tremendous amounts of traffic visiting your website. Your website does not get anywhere near that amount of traffic, and since it is targeted to a narrow audience, it probably never will.

The aggregate statistics for your website( http://www.nethit-free.nl/netpoll/viewstat_uk.htm?FFDE9C ) show that it recieves little traffic.
Your chances of selling it for anything more than you paid for the domain name are very very small.
If your website was recieving 500,000 to a million hits per month you might be able to sell it for a very modest profit (or generate a small amount of revenue via advertising).

Unless someone that is very interested in this particular profession, or someone has a website that this would make a nice addition to, or it was recieving far more traffic than it currently does, I suggest you hang onto it and consider it a labor of love.

Maybe other will have some advice for you....

Regards,
Kevin

[CertMedAssist]

Thanks Kevin for your critique. In reading I realize, that your points are all very valid and well put. I couldn't argue or disagree with anything you said. Fact is indeed, that my target audience is quite limited. The only advantage this offers is that there is a chance I can "carve out a niche" of my own.

Thanks for explaining about my web site still being "very young" and about how the number of "hits" can affect revenue and success or failure with affiliated banner ads.

Danni R.