I first wrote about Scott Wainner back in November 2006. Scott and I go way back – all the way back to the dot com boom. While I was running The TechZone, Scott had a tech site call SysOpt.com and another one call ResellerRatings.
In the summer of 1999, EarthWeb acquired Scott’s two sites plus another site call CodeGuru for $12.4 million in cash and stock. He had just turned 21. You can read the full story on what happen to Scott here, but to make a long story short, the Internet crashed and Scott bought back ResellerRatings for a fraction of what he sold it for.
Scott’s story is the kind that Internet dreams are made of. It’s the kind of story that draws millions to try their hand at making money online. A few months ago, Scott emailed me asking if he should start his own blog about making money on the Web. I told him to go for it. Over the weekend, Scott sent me an email saying his new blog, W Revenue dot Com, was up. I was going to give him a shout out but he ordered this ReviewMe review instead.
What Is W Revenue dot Com?
The name W Revenue came about because I advised Scott not to use his name for the blog. W Revenue sounds like “Double your revenue” and the W is for Scott’s last name. I think it’s kinda catchy. The blog will focus on doing business on the web and making money from content based sites and forums.
The blog has an extremely clean two-column layout with a nice amount of blue, which is the official color of tech. Other than links to Scott’s network of sites, there is no advertising of any kind on W Revenue dot Com. I am not sure if Scott plans to monetize the blog or leave it ad free.
Why You Should Listen To Scott Wainner
Unlike the thousands of “make money online” blogs where the blogger has never actually made any money online, Scott writes from experience. His websites generates seven figures in revenue annually. In his Freshmen year of college he was making $100,000 a year with SysOpts.com. And let’s not forget he sold two sites for millions at the height of the dot com boom and bought one back for pennies at the bottom of the dot com crash.
So.. I have website marketing, monetization, and development experience to share, which until now has been bottled up. I think it’s better to share and collaborate than to keep secrets, don’t you?
I can understand where Scott is coming from. One of the reasons I started John Chow dot Com was to share my knowledge and experience and having W Revenue on the Net just made things a whole lot more interesting.
It May Be Brand New But Scott Is An Old Hat
W Revenue dot Com is a brand new blog – it went live on Sunday. Scott seeded the blog with nine high quality posts that you’ll want to check out.
- How to Save 25-40% on ALL Personal Travel
- 10 Steps to a 7 Figure Income From Your Site
- Money for Nothing: Tacoda Behavioral Targeting
- Ten Business Boosting Quick Tips for Site Owners
- Make More Money with Google Adsense in Forums
- I Want to Buy Your Forum
- Negotiate CPM Guarantees with Kontera and Vibrant Media
- Mingle2 Link Bait, Mingle2 SEO Genius Matt Inman
- Why Take My Advice, Anyway?
If you haven’t done so, I would recommend adding W Revenue dot Com to your RSS reader (Scott offers a full feed). I am looking forward to reading more of Scott’s work and I’m really glad he decided to move forward to create W Revenue. The Internet needs more people like Scott. There are tons of people who have make a lot of money online, but not many are willing to share what they know. Like Scott said, “I think it’s better to share and collaborate than to keep secrets, don’t you?”
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