Success stories?

Discussion in 'General Business' started by calande, Jun 7, 2006.

  1. #1
    I'm looking for big success stories on the net where the guys invested little money and got millionnaire. Could you tell the ones you know about? So far I know 3:

    - UltSearch
    http://www.expiredtraffic.com/index.php?page=ultsearch
    http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum25/2576.htm
    http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum25/3075.htm
    http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1205151,00.asp

    - Million-Dollar homepage
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Million_Dollar_Homepage
    http://www.milliondollarhomepage.com/

    - Gimme a Buck
    http://www.gimmeabuck.com/


    Any other? :)
     
    calande, Jun 7, 2006 IP
  2. Foggy

    Foggy Link and Site Buyer

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    http://www.clickhereyouidiot.com

    Bear in mind that you never really know how much people made. Milliondollarhomepage, for example, didn't make a million dollars if you deduct all his expenses. After that he'd have had to pay taxes (40% Income Tax + 23.8% National Insurance Tax + accountant fees etc). I'd be surprised if he made half a million. Still great going though :)
     
    Foggy, Jun 8, 2006 IP
  3. calande

    calande Well-Known Member

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    This needs to be kept secret, but I had a crazy idea this week. It would be something like TheRichestInternaut.com, and people would bid to be the richest man on the web. It would start at $1. Some one would access my site, pay $1 and have his photo, description, web site link on my front page, and written in big letters "The Richest Man on The Web". Then some one would bid $2 and kick him to be the newest richest internaut, and so forth, raising one dollar at a time. So, imagine how much money you can make with a $10,000 bid? It's 1+2+3+4...+9,999+10,000 :)

    http://www.auriance.com/docs/calculator.php

    But there are 2 problems. Each bid is one dollar. Even if the richest man changes each minute, there are 525,600 minutes in a year, so you earn half a million dollars, unlikely to happen. If everyday there is a new richest man, you only make $365, not worth the effort either :rolleyes:

    And, as each bid is only $1, if you wanna make a million, you'll have to change the profile of the richest man...A million times! This would have to be automized.

    This was the little story :)
     
    calande, Jun 8, 2006 IP
  4. donn

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    I like calande's thinking. However, having each person be the "richest" by bidding the same amount is kind of lame. If you did it for a year, ending on 365 dollars, and actually had people bid you would make much more, although I'm to lazy to pull out my calculator and actually add it up.
     
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    if the person changes each day, you make $66795 in a year and not $365. And thats not bad at all. And the highest bid is just $365 which is peanuts. Even a streetside link vendor can bid for it. Great idea..
     
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  6. calande

    calande Well-Known Member

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    Yes, I was mistaken on the 365-days :)
    It's not bidding the same amount, it's bidding always one dollar above the previous amount.
    Still, It's not like giving just one buck. It's a fair amount of money if you think about it. I don't think many people would pay...
     
    calande, Jun 9, 2006 IP
  7. JRJR

    JRJR Active Member

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    Yes...that would be a good income. :)

    There are a lot of crazy people. Since I saw the Savetoby.com website I believe there are people for everything. :D
     
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    Milliondollarhomepage probably host for free with sitelutions.com and also there' a referral code.
     
    donald, Jun 9, 2006 IP
  9. Foggy

    Foggy Link and Site Buyer

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    Surely there must be better ways of keeping secrets than posting them here? No? :)
     
    Foggy, Jun 9, 2006 IP
  10. calande

    calande Well-Known Member

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    I'm gonna try it, just to see how far this will go, probably not much more than a hundred bucks, because then it's a little expensive I guess :)

    I just registered richestinternaut.com, and the site should be up & running shortly :)
     
    calande, Jun 9, 2006 IP
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    JRJR Active Member

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    Good luck calande. Let us know the results. ;)
     
    JRJR, Jun 9, 2006 IP
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    Problem with the idea, when you get above around $50ish I doubt ou will get repeat bidders, I cannot imagine someone bidding $55, loosing to somoeone who pays 56, and then bids 57 to get back to the top :(

    May cause problems if your hoping to make a fortune from the idea :(

    Also there may be an issue for people with the fact that there is only 1$ difference between each bid, so I doubt top space would last long, unless you manage to rech High bids, but once yuou get to the high bids old bidders wontl ikely bid again at that point.
     
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  13. calande

    calande Well-Known Member

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    LOL, I was kidding :D
     
    calande, Jun 9, 2006 IP
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    i hope that my idea will make me the next $$$ :D
     
    dimi, Jun 15, 2006 IP
  15. calande

    calande Well-Known Member

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    Which idea?
     
    calande, Jun 15, 2006 IP
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    the idea to post threads, as many as possible so that he can get the benefit of adsense from DP..... to become next $$$ by this require lots of time and patience..
     
    mike_01, Jun 15, 2006 IP
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    that means more competition for the rest of us! :mad:

    I don't want to give up a portion of the 38 cents I've earned... :rolleyes: :cool:
     
    MTbiker, Jun 16, 2006 IP
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    ash1 Active Member

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    hopefully we will all be success stories
     
    ash1, Jun 16, 2006 IP
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    Calande,

    I think that idea has some merit. If thought through the idea may even work. You should not have said anything here though as no doubt if you do not do it yourself you will see it soon somewhere on the net.

    I think you should actually do it. It won't cost much and it might just work.
     
    timiepn, Jun 17, 2006 IP
  20. mike_01

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    give this thread a boost and this thread will itself become the highest visitors / highest adsense payer... and then calande can start his own sucess story.... (may be few of us too)
     
    mike_01, Jun 20, 2006 IP