The first one is the hardest and the most satisfying. I’m sure in the next 6 months to a year you will be in a position to have someone fulltime in Burbank pounding the pavement churning up opportunities. For many in the Geo city space, the first site is where we make all the mistakes, but more importantly, we learn how to do it right.

But to me this seems like an incremental step after you have done so much work already, and one that would make money.

From where i sit you have something of value to sell today and there is no reason why you could not increase ad fees as the site traffic increases, and establishing ad relations now could only benefit future sales.

But it is all about opportunity cost I guess, and you can make more money doing something else, and the hassle of working with a partner on the ground seems to make that not worthwhile until you can justify higher ad fees.

Anyway, I haven’t built any authority sites myself just yet so will keep following your site and doing my best to pick up tips.

One thing that worries me is that you paid major $ for burbank.com and have such a long payback period. If this is typical then the idea of buying a geo to build an income producing business around doesn’t seem to make sense for people who would need a quicker return on their investment. I am such a person. I was thinking of buying a five figure geo and moving to the US to start a company to develop and run it full time, but it seems that it is not a viable plan.

I live in Manhattan and it’s expensive to take a trip to Lowell and Burbank for meetings…Because of the domain biz, I am in no rush to generate revenue. I’d rather build a presence first and grow traffic first and then make money from advertisers….