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How to become rich even if nobody is following you on Twitter

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Re: How to become rich even if nobody is following you on Twitter

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Post by jfornear »

maxklein wrote: post #40
dbz wrote: post #29

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I guess I should have said sounds like a "strategy." It dislike the strategy because it's not why I program. I don't program a million things to make a million dollars. I program because it's a passion, and unless I misinterpreted the meaning of the post, this strategy is...heartless. I take into account that "in-crowd" has it easy and "normal" doesn't. I could image myself writing a similar article; however, instead…

One of the reasons I write now is to grow my popularity, so that one day I will have enough reach to be able to build something big and grand and people will actually notice.

Why do you have to have reach in order to build something big and grand? Your reach has no bearing on the quality of your product! The idea is to build something so great that others will talk favorably about it regardless of what you say.

Re: How to become rich even if nobody is following you on Twitter

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Post by kiba »

phreanix wrote: post #50
kiba wrote: post #31

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Wikis are forever sustainable, even if it is horribly outdated. However, depending on the niche you occupied, you barely get enough money above your domain cost renewal. Beyond a certain point, it is not worth your time to invest in it. For me, it helps that I can wait a few year before bootstrapping my next website, along with freelance work. That wiki is still earning me money.

Just curious, as someone who is considering starting up a wiki, what is your revenue model? Just ads?

That's pretty much it.

Re: How to become rich even if nobody is following you on Twitter

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Post by jacquesm »

maxklein wrote: post #18
cwalcott wrote: post #12

It seems like marketing would still be an issue though. Even to make $1/day, someone has to find your software. If you're not marketing through a blog or Twitter, that leaves advertising. So now in addition to writing good ads, you need to make sure each project is making more than you're spending on advertising, which is a lot of work on its own.

Actually, it's not. If you have to move 1000 copies of software in a month, then you need to market. If you want to move 1 copy a month, list it on download.com and you will move 1 copy. That's the beauty of the system - it minimises the need for marketing and instead ups the project count to make up for the loss there. You are basically moving resources from one thing (marketing, promotion) into another (designing g…

If you write software to move 1 copy per month then you'll be writing software to move 25 copies during the lifetime of that version. It'd be very hard to even support your users.

Re: How to become rich even if nobody is following you on Twitter

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Post by waterlesscloud »

conesus wrote: post #36
sabat wrote: post #32

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I'm not sure your conclusion necessarily follows what he's proposing. He's saying: find 400 things that each make $1/day -- it's a thought experiment as much as it is a proposition, BTW. Some people would certainly make 400 spam blogs or something else equally useless. I don't think that was the author's intention, though. I wish I could personally say that every single thing I do has my heart and soul in it. I can't…

My conclusion stems from his primary example: A collection of ninja videos slathered with adsense. It's half-way to a spamblog, but he considers it something to be proud of.

I think he considers it a way to make money.

Re: How to become rich even if nobody is following you on Twitter

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Post by waterlesscloud »

maxklein wrote: post #19
mixmax wrote: post #16

Assuming a 20 day work month and a 10 hour workday that will give you half an hour a month to work on each of your 400 projects. And assuming (optimistically) that you will spend 2 weeks doing each project it will take 15 years to get to 400. And that's not counting overhead such as accounting, etc. for all of your projects. I like the idea of the post, but maybe he took it a bit too far...

That's the point - you don't start a new project every 2 weeks. You start off with an idea easily adaptable to various scenarios. Then adapt each time, target new people, and observe if the variation makes you required $1 a day. When you have nichified a codebase that nothing more can be squeezed of it, you start on the next.

So it's not really 400 projects, it's maybe 20 projects optimized in 20 different ways each.

That's a whole different way to look at it.

Re: How to become rich even if nobody is following you on Twitter

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Post by slig »

windsurfer wrote: post #53
maxklein wrote: post #38

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If you want to make $1 a day, go search for a keyword. Like Owls. Then find a bunch of videos of owls in YouTube, put them on the site and call the site OwlVideo.com. In a week you will be making $1 a day. Or if you prefer to program for the desktop - go wrap ffmpeg and make an AVI to MP4 converter. Def make $30 in sales in a month. Or if you prefer to program for the web, make something that parses Apples XML of new…

Do you have a newsletter or blog?

He is the author of the post.

Re: How to become rich even if nobody is following you on Twitter

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Post by axod »

Periodic wrote: post #78
axod wrote: post #68

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That's the reason this analogy never works. It's like saying "Could you run 10,000km?" ".. erm no" "ok, how about can you run 1km?" "sure!" "Great! so all you need to do, is do that 10,000 times! easy eh!?" I have trouble paying more than 1 or 2 projects real attention. And without attention, things die.

Or perhaps it's like saying, "So you want to visit every major city in Europe. Do you have a year of free time?" "... erm no" "Okay, could you maybe take a vacation every other year and visit just one country in Europe?" "Yeah, I can do that." "Great, just fit those in when you can for the rest of your life and you'll have done it. Easy, huh?"

Apart from the fact that then, you're not visiting them all on a single trip, so by the time you get to the 5th or so, you can't remember the 1st any more (If you don't pay projects attention, they die).

Re: How to become rich even if nobody is following you on Twitter

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Post by aw3c2 »

awolf wrote: post #80
aw3c2 wrote: post #28

How on earth are you supposed to create and maintain 400 "projects" at once?

I think the point is that these are the types of projects that you don't support at all. I've got a few of these on my back-burner right now... $50-$100 /month, 0 effort.

care to tell us what kind of projects those are?

Re: How to become rich even if nobody is following you on Twitter

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Post by aw3c2 »

thibaut_barrere wrote: post #75
tjogin wrote: post #69

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It would be really interesting if you could describe some of these projects briefly.

Those I know revolve around affiliation, alternate search engines, porn/erotic stuff, niche technological forums and such topics :) Not by him but in the same kind of idea, here's an example: http://fastpowertools.com/ A while back I know the owner of this site did a few hundreds $ per month. It was really an eye-opener to me :) Of course this requires SEO skills to earn more than a few bucks, that need to be learn o…

That site looks like a shady search engine spam site. I could never earn money like that and feel good about myself.

Re: How to become rich even if nobody is following you on Twitter

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Post by DanielBMarkham »

jacquesm wrote: post #79

Interesting, I've been doing just that for the last couple of years. It's been a mix of partial successes and total failures, mostly failures. I didn't want to go the 'mfa' route for obvious reasons, so I try to make these sites in to something that actually is useful, and that have a sense of community about them. Here is a breakdown of what you can make this way in a month based on adsense alone after several years…

I'd add something else.

It's all so very easy to say that you can quickly make a buck a day on the internet. "Sure, just throw together some videos of puppies and put some adsense on there" but that's not the reality of the net today.

People and companies are heavily competing on every freaking keyword that anybody might be interested in. That doesn't mean there isn't opportunities, but it's a much longer haul than just brainstorming an idea and creating a simple web site.

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