So this one came a little very late because of the season. The June part onwards seems to be the busiest part of the year as some people focus on their work, young ones like me go back to school and so. This round of head to head is a pretty interesting one. I really haven’t had much time picking a nice matchup. It’s pretty a little contrasting. Dave of the Internet Babel looks like a old older person than most of us while Germz cannot even watch rated x movies at cinemas! But well oh well, like other previous head to head this is a pretty interesting one. Check it out:
| Dave | Germz | |
|---|---|---|
| Describe yourself in less than 5 words? | A handsome balding hunk.  |
Easily Bored Person. |
| What is your favorite breakfast? | Hmm – Crispy Bacon, scrambled egg and Toast. | Coffee, it’s the only thing I drink for breakfast. If there is no coffee I won’t eat breakfast. |
| How long have you been blogging? | Currently – 1 hour a day cos I have a lot of other work on. Hope to ramp it up a bit soon. | Usually an hour, I spent way more time researching new business ventures and freelancing. |
| Any story behind choosing that domain name? | I bought Internet Babel as a developed blog (but I liked the name). | My friends call me germz, and Germz.com was already taken. |
| How many uniques are you getting monthly? | July (my first month of owning the Blog) was about 2,000 UVs and 15,000 Page Views.. | About 6000. |
| What is your average blog income? | hah 😉 Only 1 month in so very little to show at the moment. Ask me again in 12 months ;-). | About forty bucks per month, great thing that’s not my main source of income! |
| Do you read other blogs feeds? How many do you track? | – not a big consumer of feeds – prefer to visit the blogs i like and just Google around the web | I’m not a big fan of blog feeds, I don’t like having my email spammed with hundreds of emails per day with new articles. I hardly subscribe to any feeds unless I really like the content or I’m doing a favor for a friend. I currently only track about 3 or 4. |
| What are the other thing/projects that you are doing aside from blogging? | – Website development (got about 20 clients at the moment) – Helping develop some mining/data logging software – domain flipping/speculation – got a few websites of my own that bring in some Ad$en$e – Writing articles – drinking beer |
Studying, and freelancing. |
| What keeps a blogger from making money from his blog? | a few things off the top of my head (in no particular order) – lack of time – lack of commitment – not enough belief in their own skills/ability – treating readers like idiots – no interaction with community – aiming for a saturated market/not finding a niche |
I don’t use my blog to make money, I don’t think it’s easy to earn money from a blog unless your blog has a niche that’s easy to exploit. My only source of income for the blog comes from the advertisers. I only use the money to pay for hosting and aweber. |
| When does a blogger have to consider monetizing | Well, unless you’re doing it purely for the love of your subject and income is not a factor, then ideally you should be thinking about monetization before you start – it should be a part of the planning process. Money isn’t the key factor for a lot of Bloggers though so they shouldn’t get hung up about it. |
As soon as possible, it’s best when you have some content otherwise no one will want to advertise from you. |
| What makes your blog unique from others? | Me. Hehe. Well, that’s the main reason – the blog is about my personal entrepreneur experiences and projects, which differ from other entrepreneurs, good and bad. | It’s written by me! 😀 |
| What’s the biggest goal for this blog? | Apart from the things I mentioned above: – get the stats back up to where they used to be and then make them even better – increase the earnings (although that’s not my primary driver) – spread some useful knowledge – have some fun “ |
At the current moment I’m doing a very special project which I’m sure everyone will like. |
| Give me a blog you admire and why? | At the moment, I like reading the Net Fool – a lot of good info in there usually, and a nice ‘tone’ to it. | Thenetfool.com I visit his blog every time I get a chance, it’s very informative and I really like Jim’s point of view on most of his articles. |
I like the way Germz said “It’s written by me!” Good head to head scene 😀 Hope to see internetbabel flourish and Germz take over the internet 😉
I love these head to head things, glad to see it! I hope in a few months I can be in one!
Nice one Melvin – thanks mate. And Yes, I guess I am just slightly old 😉
hehhe… i always keep my commenters as a possible contestants… 😉
I guess something’s wrong. The gravatars are not showing properly. Hope you fix it soon mate.
Yeah, im noticing it… thanks for reminding