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I run a Conversion Rate Optimisation Agency and would be happy to help you design a new landing page to test as part of a free consultancy, in return for a review/testimonial of our work.

Let me know if interested.

As one of the other comments has already touched on. You did not actually test smiling faces vs non-smiling faces as both the landing pages are very different in more than just one element.

Also, from my experience your industry to better suited to different types of tests such as the value proposition and the selling of the benefits rather than the features of your product.

Answer the visitors need/desire and they will sign up

I use Trello....

But I am still trying to get the optimum column setup to make me as productive as possible.

Would love to know what columns you all have on your Trello boards?

I have also just started work on this project: http://cupomterra.com.br/

Yeah. You can get affiliate links for pretty much everything these days.

Basically I started built a website and my hobby is to work on it and improve it.. The main goal was not to make revenue.

The revenue it makes now is through memberships and affiliate revenue.

1 year.

Built up a hobby site slowly over the past two years, at the end of the first year it was making £7,700 a month..

It is still active and earning around £2-3k per month with only about 1 hours work a week.

Currently looking to sell it on as I have just started on a new project.

Certainly something that sounds interesting..

Guess it depends on the cost of the monthly fee? If this is solely performance based I would argue that you would not need the monthly fee?

In terms of technical, seo, UX?

Is there a good easy to follow guide anywhere? What are the things I should be keeping an eye out for?

Tools I can run to check my site?

I have a project that I now maintain on just 2 hours a week... But I worked on it for 4 weeks, 10 hours a week...

So that is 136hr/y.

Revenue for the past 12 months is £26,500

26500/136 = £195ph

Thanks for all the interest everyone..

Got a nice selection of emails and am going through them to optimise them... Will post the results up in here!

This is something that I look to optimise...

Mobile site speed is growing in importance and this is something that I get asked to look at a lot..

If you want to drop me and email with your details I can take a look and make some recommendations for you?

Thanks for the tip... I will take a look at that!

Thanks for the interest...

If you drop me an email to: david@blogoptimisation.com

Let me know your Wordpress Site URL that you would like me to take a look at.

I will then perform an audit for you and identify how much I can do to help you and I can then provide you with a list of changes to make to speed up the site.... Or I can go in and do the optimisations for you if easier..

That will get you some gains, but there is a lot more that can be done to get your site to load in less than 0.5 secs

Where are good sites for publishing white papers?

Yeah, I like to avoid going down the ads route, just as I tend to prefer to get the traffic organically or through working for it..

I could look at where I might be able to interact more with bloggers.

Thanks for the link, not seen that article... Will give it a read

I guess I could highlight the top 25 publications in my industry and then post the top writers on those publications an email to see how I get on..

Any tips from your emails to Lifehacker that I could use?

Is it best to talk more about them and then drop in my website at the end to ask them to take a look and consider writing about it?

Yeah, think that makes sense.

I like using the auto-responder emails to push the subscriptions and affiliate links...

Seems to work pretty well.

Seems like a multi-tier approach is the way to go!!

Yeah, this is why I want to try and negotiate my risk and have a steady and more reliable monthly income.

The site is currently built using Wordpress...

I like the ability of having a tiered approach for pricing... I don't think I would ever completely remove the free tier, as my data is incredibly helpful to a lot of people so want to still offer a value resource to all.

Just some better/more advanced stuff for the others that would like more...

Removing ads as a tier is a good idea as well.

A test for new traffic?

I did a trial for signups for a 'Premium' model and I got about 150 signups in week 1.

The site is in sports data/betting data/tips

I currently have a site that is generating upwards of £4,000 a month in ad/affiliate revenue...

Should I consider moving to a subscription based modal and charging for my service as a way of managing the risk and fluctuations from the ad/affiliate model?

Site is: http://betalyst.com

It is a combination of a site + app and has an email database of 15k that is very active.

Not seen this before... Will take a look

What industry are your startups in?