If You Are Interested in Working With Us
We are looking for several excellent writers/editors for various Web sites we are developing. If you yourself are not interested, perhaps you know someone who is, and if so, please pass this along to them. As we mention below, we are always on the lookout for other types of Web professionals who are good (designers, developers, SEO experts, etc.). Also, if you have ideas for Web businesses, we would love to talk with you.
In 2007, James Mitchell started an incubator which starts Web-based businesses. The idea is to assemble teams of highly experienced Web professionals — designers, developers/programmers, SEO experts, writers/editors, database and system administrators and others — to start business, where the focus is generating positive cash flow rather than burn through millions of dollars of venture capital with the small chance that a major company such as Google will purchase the company.
This effort has gone better than we expected. There has been some ramp up time — our own learning of various development tools (on the .Net side), assembling good people, and such mundane tasks as figuring out which project management system is the best and how to set up a virtual private network. We have finished one project, to be used for Internet marketing, with very advanced technology and now we are monetizing this technology. Another project focusing on various talent categories — models, actresses, singers, writers — is underway.
Our professionals work on an entrepreneurial basis — no one receives a salary but rather a percentage of the profits generated by the sites they work on. Through this approach, we eliminate the need to bring in outside investors (who not only receive a substantial cut of the equity but also a liquidation preference) and we frankly attract a higher caliber of person than the traditional approach.
We have researched various categories which are of interest to certain groups. The idea is to develop high-quality Web sites around these areas of interest, using a content management system such as WordPress, so that users can contribute screen content and we can attract bloggers with specialized expertise. (Search engine favor Web sites with constantly changing content.) We have developed some proprietary link exchange programs to create hundreds of cross links to and from our site, focusing on other Web sites in the same field (which search engines highly prefer to just random links). The idea is to get a site up within a month, find a few experts who will blog, start the cross link programs, generating high search engine rankings. The traditional ways to monetize such sites is targeted advertising and sales of products, but we have developed a far more (and we mean far more) profitable way to monetize some of these sites, which we will disclose to you if we meet in person, it appears there is a good fit, and you are highly interested.
For these new projects, we are seeking several excellent writers/editors. Ideally we would like someone who can both write and edit. You would research a particular subject we are developing a Web site for, write original copy, and find the better articles on the subject and seek to obtain permission to publish the article. You would also seek to find two, three of four experts in this field and see if they would like to blog on this subject. Their blog would be published within our Web site and we would make it easy for them technically. You would be responsible for managing the bloggers, making certain their copy is interesting and relevant.
Obviously you would have to be a good writer and editor. Other desired characteristics include:
Please note this is an entrepreneurial situation — you will receive a cut of the profits generated by the site(s) you work on. These ideas my group has developed are frankly quite good and there is no doubt these sites will be successful, and thus over time you will end up making far more money than selling your time for $50 or $125 an hour. But it is an entrepreneurial situation and it's essential that you can afford something like this, both financially and psychologically.
In terms of time commitment — we would want a minimum of twenty hours a week. Anything less than that, the amount of work created is simply not worth the time we have to spend to get you up to speed. If you can work more than that, great, the percentage you would receive would go up more than proportionately.
If you're interested in working with us, please read our information for prospective partners and then send James Mitchell an e-mail at JMitchell@KensingtonLLC.com.