David Fiske A subtle blend of affiliate marketing and web development

I am looking for a reseller account to start my mass website empire. I'm currently favouring Host Nine over in America, predominantly because the cost of web hosting over there seems to be really cheap.
 
My strategy is threefold:

Build hundreds of niche websites that are a few static pages, preferably of timeless content. So for instance, the iPod Shuffle will always be the iPod shuffle. It is timeless. A price comparison sites has a short time limit as the prices can be out of date as soon as they are published.

The second theory is be accruing hundreds of websites, I develop a domain name portfolio and so can use these to trade if required.

I eventually will knuckle down and send some PPC traffic to some of these sites.

So why bother creating sites like these?

The kind of sites I am developing earn a magical figure. It's not a wonderful magical figure but that's without spending months networking trying t get my sites mentioned in a billion and one different places on the net (forums, bookmarking sites, etc.)

I find it easy building a site like that and I can do it quickly. I have just redesigned a client's hairdressing website (Apropos Hair Pembroke) and did that in a day. From scratch. The site has new content, a new layout, a new CMS, and a new stats package. All in a day. Not bad, eh?

The theory is that over the life of the domain (2 years for a .co.uk), each site should make between £100 and £250 per year using the 'build it and leave it' principle. At £100 per website, 100 sites would net around £10K. Best case scenario and 100 sites could net £25K. But with a reseller account, why stop at 100? Why not 200 or even 300 websites. Here's the maths:

• 100 sites @ £100 per year = £10K
• 100 sites @ £250 per year = £25K
• 200 sites @ £100 per year = £20K
• 200 sites @ £250 per year = £50K
• 300 sites @ £100 per year = £30K
• 300 sites @ £250 per year = £75K
• 365 sites @ £100 per year = £36.5K
• 365 sites @ £250 per year = £90K

It's probably naive to expect a 3 page site to make £250 in a year but I have sites under the dbfcs brand that make more than that and I've not touched them for a long time.

Nevertheless, with a reseller account, I pay a monthly sum for the hosting, plus around £2.50 a year for each domain name. So long as I make my money back to begin with, I'm happy!