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Cooking With Conan (www.cookingwithconan.com) is a new video recipe website for bodybuilders and athletes that I have been working on for the last 2 months.
If you are looking at losing weight, this site has a bunch of ideas for healthy recipes.
At present I have filmed over 70 recipes and cooking tips and am uploading several recipes a day....
(Video Recipe Inside - see Conan cook up a storm)
It has been 1 year since my last decent job, so recently (several months ago) I started my own projects to keep me occupied and productive.
First I had a few criteria.
- Had to be profitable, preferably immediately
- Had to help get me known, increase my exposure
- Preferably had a big upside (can become increasingly profitable)
- Help build the Conan Stevens brand name!
(I am a product that needs marketing and distribution - actors should read less acting books and more business books by self made entrepreneurs, sales and marketing are your tools forward. In a crowded marketplace you need to differentiate yourself - good acting skills are not enough to succeed today.)
So I tossed a few ideas around of things that I am good at or recognised for so that I would be an instant authourity on the subject.
I came up with a cooking site for bodybuilders. www.CookingWithConan.com
I am a good cook, in fact a Chef I once lived with watched me making a meal one meal and remarked that I could get work as a cook, obviously not as a Chef as I have not served my training or apprenticeship but as a cook definitely. I asked what a 'cook' was and he replied someone who would make food at a pub, or other public area where a fully qualified chef would not be required.
Funny that. I did work at the Kiosk at Newcastle Beach serving hot and cold foods one summer.
Now to be recognised as an authourity on the subject I had to cook something that I was knowledgeable and experienced in. Bodybuilding style low fat high protein meals. It had to be. I have the body to prove my credentials in that area.
There we go instant authoritive expert cook - on recipes for bodybuilders and athletes.
Bodybuilding.com is one of the most heavily trafficed websites on the entire web, I guess there are about 1 million 'bodybuilders' or guys who train regularly in the US alone, add in all the other athletes in the world and that makes a rather large niche market.
So with a potential of over 1 million interested and very dedicated sports people I think my fame would be increased, all I would need is a producer or director or even just an assistant director who trains to come across my cooking site to give me a shot at bigger things.
If I can generate significant traffic immediately then the website has the chance to make money from advertising and sales of my own ebook products on training and dieting.The upside is if the site becomes famous or I become famous then I can sell sponsorship deals so that I advertise and recommend a certain brand of egg white powder, protein powder, cooking oil, etc.
As the site gets more traffic, either through it's own merits or through me becoming famous through movie appearances the revenue and sales will increase.It took me a total of 2 months to build and film and upload the site, and has cost me less than $1000.
Self promoting, wide distribution, FREE access, instant revenue and huge upside.
www.CookingWithConan.com
If you are an actor - What are you doing to self promote during your quiet times?
It is entirely due to my self promotions on the Internet that I am getting ahead and progressing. I know that several Directors, Casting Directors and even Producers read my site regularly - what better way to remain in their mind.
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