Hey man no question in mind, just wanted to let you know that examine is a lifesaver. I recommend it to all of my clients, friends and family. Some are ignorant to the truth but many listen, thankyou.
Examine.com has grown up: $700,000 in the past year
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Re: Examine.com has grown up: $700,000 in the past year
#32Hey man no question in mind, just wanted to let you know that examine is a lifesaver. I recommend it to all of my clients, friends and family. Some are ignorant to the truth but many listen, thankyou.
Thanks!
We've tried to be as non-condescending as possible. It's not hard being right, it's hard to teach/show someone the truth.
Re: Examine.com has grown up: $700,000 in the past year
#33What prompted dropping all links to supplements purchasable online? Because you guys are an unbiased source, did you still feel it was wrong to offer an affiliate link to the product? I absolutely love Examine.com and have shared it with many friends, but I seriously questioned that move from both a business and helpfulness perspective. 1. From the user's perspective, it's helpful to click right out and get the produ…
It's easier and simpler. While we linked to only the generic search from Amazon.com, it's easier to doubt the research when we still profit from the sales. Examine.com is run as a lifestyle business. If we wanted to maximize revenue, we could easily 2-3x our revenue in the span of 6 months. Just not our approach.
I appreciate the work you do!
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#34@SoloX5 - big fan here (from /r/fitness)!
I'm wondering why you didnt setup examine.com as a wiki (I read somewhere that it is a Wordpress site right now).
Each of your landing pages are heavy and (I assume) are constantly being edited. How do you manage that process ?
It'll be nice to know the plugins,etc. you use for the site - its brilliant for a quick encyclopedia-ish wordpress setup !
Quick comment - it might be a good idea to go SSL by default on the site. Your register/login pages are also non-ssl.
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#35Hi, I'm Sol. Any questions, just ask.
Hey Sol, Mike from PricePlow here!
Always a pleasure watching your success - congratulations for taking the long, hard road and grinding away.
I know we can't work together much due to your wise philosophy of non-affiliation, but I'll always look forward to working with you in any venture, whether it's this one or the next!
Congrats once again!
Re: Examine.com has grown up: $700,000 in the past year
#36Hi, I'm Sol. Any questions, just ask.
Hey Sol, Mike from PricePlow here! Always a pleasure watching your success - congratulations for taking the long, hard road and grinding away. I know we can't work together much due to your wise philosophy of non-affiliation, but I'll always look forward to working with you in any venture, whether it's this one or the next! Congrats once again!
:-)
Re: Examine.com has grown up: $700,000 in the past year
#37@SoloX5 - big fan here (from /r/fitness)! I'm wondering why you didnt setup examine.com as a wiki (I read somewhere that it is a Wordpress site right now). Each of your landing pages are heavy and (I assume) are constantly being edited. How do you manage that process ? It'll be nice to know the plugins,etc. you use for the site - its brilliant for a quick encyclopedia-ish wordpress setup ! Quick comment - it might be…
Hihi.
We have a wiki-backend, but the reality is that our subject matter is far too specialized.
The edits are not as frequent as you'd imagine - one of our guys does the lead research on our page, emails the editors, and then they all hash it over, partly via email/asana, and partly with online editing. Then when they are all happy with it, it goes to the copyeditor to clean up (another fittitor!)
You can also click on the "History" link to see how a page has evolved.
RE: SSL - yes. We are working on rewriting the entire code base from scratch, so that is one of the things on our massive todo list!
And thanks for the kind words.
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#38Also curious how the domain examine.com was acquired, was it something dormant that you or one of your team already own, or did you actually shell out 4,5 or 6 figures for the said domain?
One example of a successful generic domain is bodybuilding.com which I believe was bought for $30k a long time ago and then developed instead of sat on.
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#39Also curious how the domain examine.com was acquired, was it something dormant that you or one of your team already own, or did you actually shell out 4,5 or 6 figures for the said domain? One example of a successful generic domain is bodybuilding.com which I believe was bought for $30k a long time ago and then developed instead of sat on.
We did purchase it.
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#40Hi, I'm Sol. Any questions, just ask.
Hey Sol! Fellow entrepreneur here :)
You should start accepting Bitcoin on your site! It would let you increase profits ~3%. My company Moolah.io lets you do it for free, hit me up at jonathon@moolah.io
Thanks!