An Unfinished Project…

A new dimensional Life plan

I am not sure from where to start this story. This is a true story that happened in my life like 4-5 years back. Me and a close friend of mine wanted to do something that can earn us a substantial amount of money. In my country, students are chiefly dependent either to their parents or work like providing tuition to students of different grades. Unfortunately, we never liked to do be in any of these conditions. Personally, I never liked to get full support from my parents; therefore, I had to look out for an option by which I could sort my problems related to the financial status. However, I used to be a potent explorer in the cyber space. I always liked to explore different web applications and their functional capabilities. That’s the reason of having exploration habit on a peak level.

In 2006, the month would be November I guess; we both planned something that could bring a new dimension in our life. At that point of time, we didn’t have any idea of about SEO and the basic guideline of doing web promotions. Besides, social media websites like Facebook has not been so popular at that point of time. Hi5 was rocking with great shine but didn’t have the market strategy of approving web promotional works. However, our main aim was to build up a website that could promote underground musicians. To make it worthy, we started to create a demo website through free domain hosting service. Then, we made a survey through asking out different peoples about this strategic plan. After getting impressive response, we decided to make a full version of the website along with all the essential facilities that would require while running a website.

Making run of a underground music based website can be a tricky thing. It is quite difficult to make participation without having a substantial amount of knowledge on underground music and various genres related to the UG music. Therefore, we had to know explore through hundreds of websites about those popular "underground music" genres along with popular bands or solo artists. Besides, it was also extremely beneficial to make something unique that could appeal mass people with strong interest level. To make it happen, we had to go through so many difficulties in each and every single day. One of the hardest parts was the website building part. It’s absolutely important to create something that could highlight properly with the theme of your work. After working for 1 and half months, we finally got the chance of introducing our website in the cyber space. Even though we were extremely nervous about the outcome, but still we were extremely happy as it was our first work in duo.

An Unknown Success?

After launching the website, we had to make some initiatives for letting people know about our websites. Our main target was to invite musicians and music production houses from different parts of the world. To follow that particular dream, I had to work every single minute for like 30 consecutive days. At first, I was simply confused on how to make web promotion for our website. I had no idea about the SEO service and its efficacy at that period of time. I just knew that, I would need to let people know about our website at any cost. I used to go to different websites and forums for making people invited into our website. Even though, it was some kind of black hat SEO techniques but didn’t bother about its adverse situations. However, I was succeeded to get users in a good rate, and users did come from a different part of the globe. First month, we did get about 300 users, and most of them are underground musicians. More interestingly, many of them were performing at a regular basis into their respective cities or towns. I was slightly amazed to see a bunch of musicians in our website, and willing to work with us. To let you know, we were the first two people from our country that had initiated this sort of plan for the first time. There were never any people from our country had tried to do such things. It was a brave move from us, but we liked to gain rather than waiting for the result.

After two months, the numbers of users were about 500, and honestly I was pretty much happy with that count. I never expected to get such number of people with that period of time. However, things were getting tougher for us as we didn’t have any permanent moderator to monitor the website. After contacting with some users, we finally made a group of moderators whose are also musicians or UG music lover. I was a little bit tensed about that particular decision, but we had to take that step to make things forward. It would be a setback we had to stay static for a while. After 3 months, we started to get some officials from various music recording houses. This was thrilling news for us as we had a marvellous plan for upcoming musicians. We wanted to work as a music promoting corporation. We used to provide some demos to those officials to check out if there was any possibility of making a contract with the musicians. That decision was significant in a way as we wanted to spread out quality music that people would love to listen. We used to get hundreds of musicians from African regions. There are some countries that I had never heard the name of. I used to get amazed while interacting with them and specially listening to their music. Those musicians had inspired me a lot to work harder and be focused.

Bitter Curse on my Dream

Online money making is not an easy thing to do. The Google Adsense was there to help website owners, but it was not easy for us to make it profitable. Basically we didn’t have the proper guideline to make it useful enough for us. We used to get some percentage after making a contract with a musician to a music recording level. The initiative was impressive, and we were relatively happy for getting some decent response from people. We did affiliate with some message boards to let people know about us. To make it work, I had to interact with webmasters or website owners, and gave a suggestion to make affiliation with us. That decision was a fruitful one as we had able to get good web traffics from various countries.

Things were looking shiny and bright, but it was not ever lasting. After 6 months, our website got hacked due to lack of technical knowledge. We had to loss valuable databases and most importantly our precious members. It was heartbreaking, and still it makes me sad. If it would not happen at that particular time, me and my friend would be able to stand in a good position. However, my friend used to work with technical aspects, and he did manage to bring back the website with less information loss as he did have some backups. It was may be a signal for future extinction.

After 8 months, we decided to expand our work in several countries. To make it happen, we needed to get some people who could manage to bring up with good ideas. After passing some tensed days, we did manage to get 4 people working for us. It felt great to get those members as they were absolutely perfect for those jobs. The key issue was to take care of the website from those online frauds. But, it didn’t occur just like that. After passing 10 months, we had to lose the website again due to some technical failure. It was also the reason of hacking down by some hackers. After that, we never managed to get it back as there not much information were left. We had to lose a good amount of web traffics and money as there was nothing present.

After analyzing the casualty, we did manage to understand about the security issues. We didn’t have any professional workers that could manage to block those frauds from hacking our website. I was devastated totally as there was nothing I could do to bring out our website again. I do still feel to run the website again, but never felt the urge like what it was before.

Things will not be placed in the way that we may prefer. It will turn around at its own pace, and we people need to work out to make it worth. One mistake can change everything in your life. Never wait for something to happen, as it is far way better making it happen!