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02-08-2008, 09:19 AM
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So, I clicked on the link Jacolesflea posted about the school shooting, and because of my severe lack on an attention span, I clicked away on one of the side banners, and found this! http://potw.news.yahoo.com/s/potw/52...en-millionaire
She borrowed $8 for a website from her Mom, and 3 years later, it's now a multi-million dollar company.
VERY cool. |
02-08-2008, 09:51 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Union City, California | | Darnit, why can't I be a popular teenage girl on myspace?
I have to do it the god-honest way by playing gigs and selling CD's
....please buy our CD's 
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02-08-2008, 10:01 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: College Station, Texas | | That's awesome. |
02-08-2008, 11:48 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: New City, NY | | I know someone in a nearby high school who did much the same thing, about 7 or 8 years ago. The kid since had his business go under, his house was foreclosed, and he's declared bankruptcy. Luckily, like the girl in the article, he dropped out of school to concentrate on the business 
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02-08-2008, 12:06 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Cornwall, UK. | | | How DO you make money out of a website like that?
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02-08-2008, 12:07 PM
|  | The Lowdown Diggler | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Huntington Beach, CA | | | This sounds like the workings of an infomercial. |
02-08-2008, 12:08 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: New City, NY | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Bass Junkie How DO you make money out of a website like that? | Ad revenue. Advertisers will pay websites to advertise on their site. The higher the web traffic on the site, the more the advertisers will pay.
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02-08-2008, 12:16 PM
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Originally Posted by TrooperFarva Ad revenue. Advertisers will pay websites to advertise on their site. The higher the web traffic on the site, the more the advertisers will pay. | I knew about paying for ads but i didn't thinkyou could get that much from ads.
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02-08-2008, 01:21 PM
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Originally Posted by Bass Junkie I knew about paying for ads but i didn't thinkyou could get that much from ads. | Companies will pay a lot of money for the opportunity to seperate you from your hard earned money.
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02-08-2008, 03:51 PM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Montreal,Canada | | Who cares she's fat, ugly and judging by her website and the fact she dropped out brainless too, move on........  harsh but don't be so PC I was thinking what everyone else was.
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02-08-2008, 04:12 PM
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Originally Posted by peaveyuser Who cares she's fat, ugly and judging by her website and the fact she dropped out brainless too, move on........ harsh but don't be so PC I was thinking what everyone else was. | You know, maybe being too nice isn't what is keeping you single... 
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02-08-2008, 04:25 PM
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Originally Posted by HollowBassman You know, maybe being too nice isn't what is keeping you single... | hey I'm gonna try the ass thing now, see where it takes me |
02-08-2008, 04:25 PM
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Originally Posted by TrooperFarva Ad revenue. Advertisers will pay websites to advertise on their site. The higher the web traffic on the site, the more the advertisers will pay. | And, if you have a web site with adds and a lot of traffic AND you somehow manage to convince people to pay money to support... well, I'll bet you could make a freaking killing! |
02-08-2008, 04:25 PM
| | Supporting Member | | Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: WI | | | I can make way better backgrounds than what she has. Thats retarded. |
02-08-2008, 04:37 PM
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Originally Posted by meev992 Darnit, why can't I be a popular teenage girl on myspace? | Why can't you? It's the internet after all.
As for the actual article, there's nothing like hitching your family's financial future to piggybacking a trend. I hope she has a plan for when MySpace falls out of favor or does a major redesign to their software.
Reminds me of a guy in Sacramento who cashed in his savings to open up a Pog store. I'm guessing he wishes he could take that decision back. |
02-08-2008, 04:50 PM
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Originally Posted by peaveyuser Who cares she's fat, ugly and judging by her website and the fact she dropped out brainless too, move on........ | I actually think she's pretty hot. I love me some chubby girls. |
02-08-2008, 05:04 PM
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Originally Posted by Matthew Bryson And, if you have a web site with adds and a lot of traffic AND you somehow manage to convince people to pay money to support... well, I'll bet you could make a freaking killing! | Actually if you have a lot of traffic, like millions of visitors, you don't convince people of anything.
You just use things like google adsense to put content sensitive links on your site. they get paid everytime someone clicks on an ad. People looking at one thing will click on another similar thing of interest. Look at the adsense posted on parts of this site.
The real trick is getting the milllions of visitors. |
02-08-2008, 05:07 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Filthydelphia, USA | | | Anybody who can figure out how to make money like that off the net is pretty clever. I work for IBM, and I work all day and and some nights for my salary. More power to her. |
02-08-2008, 06:08 PM
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Originally Posted by jsbass I can make way better backgrounds than what she has. Thats retarded. | Then do it...and you can be an internet millionaire Quote:
Originally Posted by TheBigO As for the actual article, there's nothing like hitching your family's financial future to piggybacking a trend. I hope she has a plan for when MySpace falls out of favor or does a major redesign to their software.
Reminds me of a guy in Sacramento who cashed in his savings to open up a Pog store. I'm guessing he wishes he could take that decision back. | A couple years of making a million bucks + a good investment strategy = never having to work again from what I understand. Maybe they're piggybacking a trend, but they're piggybacking it all the way to multi-millionaire status.
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