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by il 17y ago
Check your bank account?
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by il 17y ago
$20 CPM is absurd unless you have brand advertisers going after an incredibly lucrative demographic(like middle aged women). As an advertiser, in order for my ad to be profitable, I need to pay no more than $2-$3 CPM for highly targeted nic
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by il 17y ago
Ideally the same metrics any small business uses: -Revenue -Conversion Rate -Ad CTR -Time on site -Clickthroughs to order page -CPC/CPA -CLV
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by il 17y ago
If you're doing any sort of Internet startup, you should really try to develop an understanding of the online ad market, either to monetize your app or market it. Ad networks are very simple- they connect advertisers with publishers and tak
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by il 17y ago
Allright, I'm down for $100 for the same terms, my email is in my profile so you know how to reach me. What happens to the bet if FB is acquired?
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by il 17y ago
If I hadn't read your previous HN post, I would have no idea what your site does. It needs more descriptive content to clarify the immediate benefits of your app. If you're running it on Adwords, unless you want your campaign slapped in a f
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by il 17y ago
As someone who actually spends a lot of money on Facebook ads and thus has a little more insight on where those revenues are coming from, I'll take jaquems side too. A significant portion of that increase in revenues is due to ad policy cha
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by il 17y ago
Send me an email to ilya [at] unviral.com about this, I would be very interested in talking about applying this for tracking ad campaigns and correlating with some of the data I have been collecting. There's definitely a lucrative market fo
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by il 17y ago
Yeah if I was getting 5 cent CPC I would stick with Google too :)
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by il 17y ago
I'm surprised you're not doing media buys for your software as Plan C, that's by far the best way to reach forty-something ladies at large scale.
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by il 17y ago
And this is news how?
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by il 17y ago
I agree that there are some offers/advertisers that are scams that have no place in the industry. But a continuity offer that clearly discloses its terms (think Netflix) is really not unethical in any way, and your blanket dismissal of affi
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by il 17y ago
That wasn't meant to be a personal attack, I apologize if it looked like one. It's more an attack on the general sense here on HN that people are spending lots of time and money building things they have no idea how to monetize. Absolutely,
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by il 17y ago
When did "start a business" become "build something that you can't monetize"? The goal of business is to make money. The people you should be most concerned about building value for are your shareholders.
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by il 17y ago
Have some of you on the moral high ground ever considered the ethics of taking hundreds of thousands of dollars of investor money, promising a huge payout, and then squandering it? No? That's what hundreds of angel-backed startups do every
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by il 17y ago
Maybe I should have added a corollary. I'm assuming you already have a solid business model, or at least a well-defined market. "Adsense" is not a business model. Also, monetization is NOT hard if you're selling something people want. Getti
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by il 17y ago
I agree completely, $1 a day times 400 sites is simply not feasible. This article is terrible advice, the kind that will probably lead you to failure. I have a fairly successful affiliate marketing business (I make more than I would if I ha
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by il 17y ago
Read some of the old direct response stuff from the last century. You'll surprised at how many similarities there are between direct mail and online. -Claude Hopkins -Robert Collier -David Ogilvy -Gene Schwartz and others.
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by il 17y ago
The term "startup" has been misused so widely I think it's lost all meaning. An unmonetized webapp is NOT a startup or mini-startup.
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Affiliate marketing is more than Amazon and eBay. The vast majority of the industry is built on continuity models that pay closer to $40 for a purchase of a free trial, which usually results in making $2-$3 per click. Very few people have a
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by il 17y ago
Get to $1 million in revenues, get an office, start hiring employees.
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by il 17y ago
So basically Facebook got the same benefit as if they had acquired the company(the talent) for less money and the investors got screwed.
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by il 17y ago
Might just be an affiliate spamming Twitter. You should complain to the advertiser they are running the offer with- they will get kicked off and not paid for spamming/noncompliance.
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The MLM scammers may have used the book for their own purposes, but that shouldn't detract from the book's value. The book was published in 1937, during the great depression, and is based on study of some of the most successful businessmen
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by il 17y ago
Think and Grow Rich is an amazing book. You should read the book itself, it's not long, but the premise of the book is basically that most wealthy people got wealthy the same way: 1. Making a through, detailed plan on how they will get rich
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Robert Greene- 48 Laws of Power
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It would be interesting to see more data such as traffic(Alexa/quantcast?), number of employees/founders and so on. This sounds rather silly, but if you collect enough data, you may be able to approximate something of a "formula" for startu
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by il 17y ago
Umm..generating 20K a month in revenue in 3 months isn't hard when you have actual customers and run your startup like a business, not like a hobby. If you're building something people are willing to pay for, 20K is really not that much. If
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Too much generalization. Were all of you really abused and friendless in high school? I was(and still am) a huge geek in high school, and I pretty much loved it throughout. I made great friends I still keep in touch with(some of them from w
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by il 17y ago
Well, first of all, most people don't smoke marijuana by the ounce lol. An eighth of pot is currently around $60 on the black market, and legal sellers would probably keep the price around the same to compete. Which means, even with a $50 a

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