🌴 THIS IS THE HOME BASE FOR FREAK SITES

THE ISLANDS ARE THE FUN PART. THIS PAGE EXPLAINS WHAT I BUILT.

I took a familiar product — classified advertising — and repurposed it into full-page Internet advertising I could use myself.

That was the original idea.

I wanted pages I could build around subjects I already knew how to talk about, write about, turn into videos, share through social media and use to promote my own brands.

A car story. A trip. A marathon. A cemetery. A sponsorship. A business. A weird rabbit hole. Something I wanted to sell. Something I wanted people to find again six months later.

Instead of throwing everything into one giant website, I started building separate niche websites around those subjects.

I CALL THEM ISLANDS.

Then I realized I had built something other people could use too.

FreakSites.com is the home base for that idea. The actual stories, Parking Spots, businesses, people and rabbit holes live out on the individual Islands.

⭐ WHERE THE IDEA CAME FROM

Before Freak Sites, I had already started doing this at CoolCarGuy.com.

Cool Car Guy is my separate flagship around cool cars. It is not a Freak Site.

But the idea underneath it kept getting bigger.
At first I thought it would be cool to have a site just to connect people with cool cars using inexpensive advertising.
When I had a dealership, I was paying one popular car website $3,600 a year just to list 15 cars a month.
Even a popular site like Craigslist at $5 a car for 30 days was $900 a year to list 15 vehicles a month.

Online advertising isn’t cheap. There’s a reason companies like YouTube and Facebook built enormous businesses around selling attention.

I could take one subject, give it a full page, add photographs, video, links, a call to action and its own URL, then use that page as a destination for everything else I was doing.

I could write the Parking Spot.
Make a video about the subject.
Share the video or story.
Send people back to the page.
Use the page to promote one of my brands, businesses, channels or other projects.

CONTENT → PARKING SPOT → VIDEO & SOCIAL → ISLAND → MY OTHER STUFF

I could create my own little closed loop if I wanted to.

And once I saw that, cars were obviously not the only subject where it could work.

⭐ SO WHAT EXACTLY DID I REPURPOSE?

Classified advertising is familiar.

HERE’S THE THING.
HERE’S THE PRICE.
HERE’S HOW TO CONTACT ME.

Useful. Simple. Also pretty limited.

So I stretched the classified listing into a full-page advertising product.

I call that page a Parking Spot.

Now the same basic idea can be used to sell something, promote something, explain a business, preserve a story, showcase a project, embed a video, document a trip or build a whole piece of content around a subject.

The Parking Spot is still advertising. It just doesn’t have to look like a two-line classified ad.

⭐ THEN I KEPT LOWERING THE PRICE. 😂

I started out thinking a product like this could easily be worth something like $99 a year.

Then I played with packages. Maybe $49.95 for five listings. Maybe something else.

Eventually I asked a much simpler question:

WHAT IF I JUST LET SOMEBODY GRAB ONE FOR SEVEN BUCKS?

One full-page Parking Spot. Seven dollars one time. No subscription. No scheduled renewal. No scheduled expiration.

Use it. Update it. Keep it accurate. Promote it wherever you want.

If somebody parks junk, abandons something that needs attention or stops managing a page that shouldn’t still be sitting there, I can tow it.

It’s my sandbox. My beach. My Island.

I’m using the same tools myself. For seven bucks, you get to play with them too.

TRY FINDING A FULL-PAGE ONLINE ADVERTISING PRODUCT FOR $7 WITH ITS OWN URL AND NO SCHEDULED EXPIRATION.

Good luck. 😂

⭐ WHAT DOES THE $7 PARKING SPOT ACTUALLY GIVE YOU?

  • One full page on a focused niche website
  • Your own page and shareable URL
  • Up to 25 photographs
  • Up to two supported embedded videos
  • Up to 30,000 characters of writing
  • Links, contact information, pricing and calls to action
  • A public view counter
  • Connection to your profile and other Parking Spots
  • The ability to update the page when the story changes
  • No subscription
  • No scheduled renewal
  • No scheduled expiration

Seven dollars is the product.

What you do with the page is up to you.

⭐ BUT SOCIAL MEDIA IS FREE.

Absolutely.

Post on Facebook. X. Instagram. TikTok. LinkedIn. YouTube. Rumble.

I do.

But that’s not the same product.

On social media, you get a post inside somebody else’s feed.

Want more people to see it?

Usually you start paying to boost the post, buy impressions, buy clicks or buy views.

And what are you buying?

A little piece of somebody else’s screen competing with everything else flying past it.

Sometimes the ad is exactly what people are trying to scroll past. 😂

A PARKING SPOT IS A DIFFERENT KIND OF AD.

For $7 one time, you’re not buying a tiny ad.

You’re getting the whole page.

  • Up to 25 photographs
  • Up to two supported embedded videos
  • Up to 30,000 characters of writing
  • Your own URL
  • Links, contact information, pricing and calls to action
  • A public view counter
  • A place inside a niche website built around the subject

THE WHOLE PAGE IS YOUR AD.

I’m not inserting another advertiser halfway through your Parking Spot.

I’m not charging you again every time somebody looks at it.

I’m not making you bid against somebody else to keep the page visible tomorrow.

And I’m not building an algorithmic social feed that decides your Parking Spot had its twenty minutes and should disappear underneath yesterday’s content.

Use social media to create attention.
Use YouTube or Rumble to create video.
Use whatever platforms make sense.

Then give that attention somewhere focused to land.

A SOCIAL POST GETS A TIMESTAMP.
A BOOSTED POST BUYS MORE ATTENTION.
A PARKING SPOT GETS AN ADDRESS.

You control the advertising itself. I control the Island it lives on.

TRY BUYING THAT KIND OF ONLINE DISPLAY ADVERTISING FOR SEVEN BUCKS.

Good luck. 😂

⭐ ONE PARKING SPOT CAN TURN INTO SOMETHING BIGGER

One Parking Spot is one page.

Create more and they begin collecting around your profile.

That can become your Garage.

Keep going and the Garage can start looking like your own Channel inside the Island.

A car person can build a virtual garage. A runner can build years of race history. A travel creator can build a library of trips. A business can build pages around products and services. A historian can build a research collection. A sponsor or creator can build a body of work people can browse.

PARKING SPOT → GARAGE → CHANNEL → ISLAND

That is the basic architecture I built for myself.

⭐ AND YES — I PLUGGED IN AN AFFILIATE PROGRAM TOO.

Because once I decided other people could use the advertising, another question was obvious:

IF SOMEBODY HELPS ME FIND A CUSTOMER, WHY WOULDN’T I SHARE SOME OF THE MONEY?

Each participating Island has its own Affiliate Program.

Sell a Parking Spot directly and the current direct commission is 20%.

If somebody wants to build a network too, the connected structure is:

20% → 15% → 10% → 5% → 5%

You don’t get paid for joining.
You don’t get paid just because somebody else joins.

The advertising has to sell.

So now the system can work a few different ways.

  • I can use the advertising myself.
  • You can use the advertising yourself.
  • You can get paid for brokering the advertising.
  • You can build a Garage or Channel around something you care about.

Or you can just read the stuff I park there and never spend seven bucks.

⭐ WHY A BUNCH OF DIFFERENT ISLANDS?

Because Cars Freak should feel like cars.

Runner Freak should sound like somebody who has actually stood at a start line.

Grave Freak should be allowed to get weird around cemeteries, death, faith and everything people build around the grave.

Weapons Freak should be able to wander from a rifle to a drone to AI to geopolitics without pretending those are the same conversation somebody came to Housing Freak to have.

Sponsors Freak should be about sponsorship.

I don’t want one giant everything-platform.

I want separate places with their own personality, subject, search, Parking Spots and audience.

I call the collection an archipelago because that’s basically what I accidentally built — a bunch of separate Islands connected by one bigger idea.

🌴 HERE ARE THE ISLANDS YOU CAN PLAY ON FOR NOW

These are enough to keep me busy for a while. 😂

🚘 CarsFreak.com — cars, trucks, motorcycles, parts, businesses, events, projects, stories and everything automotive.

🏠 HousingFreak.com — homes, rentals, land, renovations, contractors, agents, investors, neighborhoods, businesses and everything housing.

🧳 TravelersFreak.com — trips, destinations, hotels, resorts, campgrounds, road trips, restaurants, travel businesses, disasters, deals and stories.

🏃 RunnerFreak.com — races, runners, training, shoes, gear, coaches, clubs, travel, businesses, finish lines and running stories.

⚔️ WeaponsFreak.com — weapons and everything around them: firearms, military, warfare, history, veterans, defense, technology, AI, geopolitics, business, policy and culture.

🪦 GraveFreak.com — graves, cemeteries, memorials, funerals, genealogy, famous deaths, faith, mystery, business, history and everything around the grave.

💰 SponsorsFreak.com — creators, athletes, events, businesses, brands, venues, projects, causes, media and the world around sponsorship.

ONE SET OF ISLANDS.
THE SALES FREAK.

And over at CoolCarGuy.com, the separate flagship where this whole idea started, I’m The Cool Car Guy.

Different brands. Different businesses. Same basic Parking Spot idea underneath them.

CHOOSE WHERE YOU WANT TO PLAY.
LEAVE SEVEN DOLLARS IN THE METER.
GRAB YOUR OWN PARKING SPOT.

Yeah. It’s really that simple.

🌴 MORE ISLANDS?

Probably.

WritersFreak.com is sitting there waiting for me when I decide I need another rabbit hole around writers, books, publishing, editing, media, storytelling and the people creating the words.

There are other ideas too.

But I’m not in a race to build fifty empty websites just so I can say I own fifty websites.

These Islands already give me more than enough to create, promote, test, sell and talk about.

If another Island makes sense later, I’ll build it.

If not, I already have plenty of beach to wander around on.

⭐ THAT’S FREAK SITES.

I built a collection of niche Islands around subjects I actually want to create content around.

I use the Parking Spots myself.
I made the same tools available to everybody else for seven bucks.
I connected an Affiliate Program so people can broker the advertising if they want to.

And I kept the Islands separate so each one can have its own personality instead of turning into one giant feed controlled by an algorithm.

PARKING SPOT → GARAGE → CHANNEL → ISLAND

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