Hopefully all of you poker affiliates reading this had a great week and are spending all that affiliate money that came in. The first week of the month is always fun getting fedex checks, bank wires, and of course the random $32.56 checks that you have no idea where they came from.

Anyhow Kyle and I had a site made a few months ago called SocialMarketingWorld.com. We haven’t done anything with the site and we are really perplexed if we should scrap the idea, develop it, form a joint venture, or even sell it.

The concept is to do a site like PokerAffiliateWorld.com but for the social marketers. For example, all the mass of internet marketers trying to get into Digg, Facebook, Myspace, Stumbleupon, and all the other social media.

Essentially we would take the PAW business model and do the exact same thing, but for social marketers and obviously not poker affiliates. The PAW business model (prior to the network) was a business model that worked very well. And you can probably see the similarities in this site. Although the backend CMS and url structure on this site is way better than PAW.

The fundamental problem we struggle with however is that everyone knows how hard it is to get a new forum going now days. If we do move forward with the plan, I imagine we will need to buy some advertising on other webmaster communities. Likewise we will probably buy a ton of content, and with Kyle’s sick SEO skills we will be ranking for all kinds of terms. Then of course we would be able to monetize the site by selling advertising, or even just do 2nd tier affiliate deals with all the ad spaces you see on the right.

Normally I wouldn’t share plans for a new business or site with the masses. But today we discussed selling the site or what to do with it, and I think Kyle and I both agree that we are not sure. So with that, we’d love to hear all your comments both good and bad if this site has legs or not.

Keep in mind, it is just a shell right now and we haven’t done barely any work on it. Should we decide to develop it, obviously there would tons more content and we would get rid of the Nokia spam in the forums. There are so many other brilliant minds that read this blog, we would love to here the feedback from our affiliate friends in the industry. And don’t worry good or bad, we want to hear it all.

Likewise if anyone has interest in doing this as a joint venture, Kyle and I are open to any ideas on the site. There you have it. Don’t hijack the idea, bitches…… email me first.

Now don’t be shy, give us your comments and feedback!

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