I recently launched two new mashup sites. I was meaning to post about these earlier but work and the holiday got in the way. Anyway, the two new sites are the Manchester United Report and the Real Madrid Report. Soccer is something I’ve wanted to expand my growing sports network into for the last six months or so but I never got around to actually putting sites together.

Luckily, I found a guy in the UK who was wiling to write the player biographies for each of the clubs for a more than reasonable price. It was simply a matter of copying and pasting his content into my mashup CMS and the sites were live.

I normally don’t talk dollar amounts on this blog but a lot of people are curious what various projects cost so this time I’ll reveal that information. The biographies cost $30 per team. Add another $10 per team for the domains and the cost of each site was $40. I spent about an hour or two adding all of the content into my content management system to get the sites up and running.

So for $80 and a small amount of my own time, I expanded my sports network by two sites and also added an entire new sport to the coverage. I’d say that was an incredibly good deal.