$100 - $200? I spend 49.95 for 5 years for mine? Wow
Same here; I've never paid more than $10-11 per year for a domain name. The only reason to buy a $100+ annual cost domain name is after you've proven it's a viable, profitable internet property deserving of the fancy name.
So I didn't spend much time on the actual web site, but I have some constructive feedback:
- the entire content "above the fold" appears to be relatively meaningless. What I mean is: 1) you have your site name, and then a motto that repeats the name, 2) you have a low resolution photo that does not look good on a desktop browser taking up a great deal of space, and it's not clear what the picture has to do with wealth or health, 3) then there's another photo awkwardly overlapping, and it looks like it's a sales brochure for rich people looking to buy expensive beach front property (OK I guess that ties into wealth, but most people buying there either have excessive wealth... or excessive debt), and there's an email sign up, before anyone has had a chance to be sold on your content being valuable.
Suggestion: Slim down the lead in imagery and get people hooked on content. Ironically, MMM's site is similar. Lots of space for navigation, email sign up and finally a "featured article." But keep in mind this is an update from the original layout, designed long after the blog was already popular.
- the site is littered with awkward/missing punctuation, random changes between capitalized and lowercase letters and massive white-space rather than content.
Suggestion: Take the time to edit this to look and feel like professional journalism. I don't mean take away
your voice. Your disclaimer is tongue-in-cheek fun and interesting.
- your "About Us" doesn't talk about you, who you are, what you do, what you care about, etc.
Suggestion: Put a real "About Us" at the top of your home page, making it
personal.
You say that you're not comfortable sharing your "details" with your readers. You may have to make a tough choice here. While you don't have to talk about your real names, real employers or real location, think about maybe sharing "pretty good" indicators of who you are as people. Use colorful language to talk about how you perceive the world and how your history affects your decision-making now. Are you the (not professional, but well-enough-educated) subject matter experts you want your readers to believe you are? Prove it. How do you know how to improve health and wealth? Why should we listen to you, let alone trust you and act on your suggestions? Were you in the place in our lives that we are? And now you're in a better place? Now we want to know how you made that journey!