Back in October I managed to nuke one of my sites.  Just a dumb error on my part, deleted it all whilst transferring hosts and no back-up.

I tried to find a backup, but "other stuff" got in the way, so for almost 3 months the site was just a "server blank page" - you know the "index of" type thing with the little icons.  Real good, eh

Anyway, towards the end of January I found a partial backup, and replaced the sales page, a "how to" video.  I uploaded the product to Digital Product Delivery (it was previously being sold on the crapola that is CLickbank).

I then went in hunt of the extra pages in the domain, and managed to find them on archive.org.  Throughout all this, the forum part of the site was also broken - I had managed to get the DB, which was using SMF 1.1.3.  Not knowing this at the time, I installed a new 1.1.4 SMF pages - hence users could read the forum but not post.  So I had to fix that up - a few changes to the DB and all is pretty much OK.

Anyway, to cut a long story short, I've got the site up and running again.  In the last 10 days, I've sold 7 products at £29 each.  And that's without any promotion whatsoever - just people linking through and deciding to buy!

Which brings me to the point of this post;

How many sales did I lose during the (almost) 3 months that the site was offline?  

7 sales in 9 days extrapolates to about 65 sales in 3 months.  I've maybe missed out on $3.5k in product sales!  That's a lot of money lost just caused by my stupidity and forgetfulness.

So, as with any other so called "Make Money Online" blog, take the bloggers level of experience with a pinch of salt.  Had I been more "with it", I'd have fixed up the site just as soon as I broke it.  D'oh.

DO AS I SAY, not as I do