As you can see on the top right side navigation I have a feed counter showing how many subscribers this site have.

Few days ago I got an email from a reader saying "you should rethink of proudly showing your feed counter on the site". I replied back "every time I visit the site, it reminds me how hard I have to work".

In today's internet world websites are growing and dying like fungus. Even kids know of the internet before they are 5 years old. Everybody wants their site known to others.  And that makes marketing efforts very difficult. You have to highlight a needle in a haystack.

In todays internet you can have success in three ways:

- A unique killer idea that will spread like a virus.

- Lots of money for advertising, building a good site.

- Work hard. 

I prefer the third option. To mention as an example, in February 2007 I launched a website webcosmo.com. When I launched the site I knew nothing about marketing, nothing about SEO. I requested many of my friends help me post an ad on my site. To my surprise none of my friends post a single ad. One person who supposed to be my partner turned his back on me. That made me even more determined. I learned. With lot of sweat I have made that site quite popular now. And that's a good beginning.

I hear lot of people in different forums want instant success, asking for the magic. People opens a new website, and start thinking visitors will flock to their site. Unfortunately its not the case. If you can't come up with a unique idea, you have to have money to back up your site on marketing and other aspects. If you don't have any of those two you have to work hard, there is no alternative.