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Discussion in 'General Business' started by ViciousSummer, Apr 14, 2006.

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  1. Ashkan

    Ashkan Active Member

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    #61
    That's exactly what I meant dct. Someone out there might know exactly what to do to make UBlam huge and use it to make much more money than it is making now.
     
    Ashkan, May 25, 2006 IP
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    MTbiker Well-Known Member

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    #62
    It depends on the buyer. You can have a site with no revenue or traffic, but if it has unique content and design, could sell for quite a bit. (which makes sense considering rates for designers and writers)

    If you were looking to sell, maybe wait for a big company to make an offer - remember how much myspace sold for...

    anyway i think it's a cool idea and am always glad to see stuff from other college entrepreneurs, i'll be adding some sites one of these days
     
    MTbiker, May 26, 2006 IP
  3. Ashkan

    Ashkan Active Member

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    #63
    I'm not going to sell UBlam. The problem with selling the website would be that I want to be loyal to my customers and make sure their sites stay on UBlam for about 2 years. So if I was to sell the site, I would put that condition on it.

    I want to get the Buzz of UBlam going around MySpace. Any ideas or programs I can use to do that with?
     
    Ashkan, May 26, 2006 IP
  4. Ashkan

    Ashkan Active Member

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    Ashkan, May 27, 2006 IP
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    rewlie Active Member

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    #65
    it's a good supplement for my brain when i need to stop for a coffee in the middle of the night, doing heavy research .

    Myspace did not allow javascript.
     
    rewlie, May 27, 2006 IP
  6. Ashkan

    Ashkan Active Member

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    Wehey! Good to hear that! What kind of script does MySpace allow? Forexample scripts on this page work... http://www.graphixpimper.com/
     
    Ashkan, May 28, 2006 IP
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    Phynder Well-Known Member

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    #67
    Those are not scripts - they are just GIFs (graphics).
     
    Phynder, May 28, 2006 IP
  8. Ashkan

    Ashkan Active Member

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    Hmm..so I won't able to make a push-able miniBLAM for MySpace.

    Do google ads pay for impressions? or do they only pay for clicks?
     
    Ashkan, May 30, 2006 IP
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    dct Finder of cool gadgets

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    #69
    Google normally pays per click, it is possible to get CPM ads if an advertiser selects your site for that option but generally it's CPC based.
     
    dct, May 30, 2006 IP
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    Phynder Well-Known Member

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    I guess I don't understand what you need JS for? Just have a graphic pointing to ublam - what does JS do for you?
     
    Phynder, May 30, 2006 IP
  11. Ashkan

    Ashkan Active Member

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    #71
    So that the button can go in-and-out when you press it (i.e. Pushable not just a picture of a button)

    Got 955 uniques yesterday!

    We also reached 100,000 total BLAMs yesterday! Maybe I should've done some special thing for the 100,000th Blammer...
     
    Ashkan, Jun 1, 2006 IP
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    kozuch82 Peon

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    #72
    Sorry for this words, but for me it is a rubbish site... like tons of similar sites to yours. Dont tell us your $3 listing is that worth!

    I dont like directories, since they do not work at all. And your site IS a directory.
     
    kozuch82, Jun 6, 2006 IP
  13. Ashkan

    Ashkan Active Member

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    Well actually... My site isn't like all the other sites out there... I get more hits than all of them put together because I have used various ways to get hits on the BLAM button. e.g the widgets (as I have already said if you had read the whole post) : about 15,000 downloads and increasing http://widgets.yahoo.com/gallery/?search=blam - and that's just only one of the ways the BLAM button is getting hits and I do have other plans on the way. And with 111,347 Blams spread over 2000 entries - ie. 56 (and increasing!) hits per $1. I'll leave you to make a decision on whether it is worth it!

    And don't even get me started on the looks of UBlam.com compared to others...
     
    Ashkan, Jun 6, 2006 IP
  14. ViciousSummer

    ViciousSummer Ayn Rand for President! Staff

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    #74
    Ublam may be "rubbish" to you, but you are not the target market for ublam, so to say that spending $3 to advertise on Ublam is not worth it is totally ridiculous. I spent $10 or so and the traffic I've received is more then worth it. Perhaps you just don't understand marketing.
     
    ViciousSummer, Jun 6, 2006 IP
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    iowadawg Prominent Member

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    #75
    When the first post about ublam came out, I bought several links.
    Got some good hits from all that.

    Now this is where Ashkan is shining big time for me:
    He decided that my sites were not what he wanted on his site.
    His decision and I agreed.

    And guess what??????????
    HE REFUNDED MY MONEY PLUS AN EXTRA DOLLAR!

    Did he have to do this?
    Not really...but he did!

    Ashkan, my hat is off to you for being a gentleman and a scholar and proving to me, and hopefully to others, that you are an honest person to deal with!
     
    iowadawg, Jun 6, 2006 IP
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  16. ViciousSummer

    ViciousSummer Ayn Rand for President! Staff

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    #76
    I was just checking my stats for lalalingerie.com. Last week ublam sent 21 visitor and 4.76% converted into a sale. That's a great conversion rate :)!
     
    ViciousSummer, Jun 10, 2006 IP
  17. Ashkan

    Ashkan Active Member

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    :) wow...thanks!

    I've made a list of all the miniBlams around the net but I know there are others but I just can't remember where, here's all the ones I remembered. If any of you have seen any that I've missed please let me know:


    http://www.rakebackdeals.co.uk/
    http://sixseconds.comicgenesis.com/
    http://www.fletcherapts.com/
    http://www.cantbarsed.com/funnystuff.htm
    http://www.turnbucklemayhem.com/
    http://www.netparts.co.uk/blam.php and http://www.netparts.co.uk/blam1.php
    http://paralleldementia.comicgenesis.com/links.html
    http://www.wintersteel.com/Favorite_Links~ns4.html
    http://www.homestead.com/wintersteel/Favorite_Links.html
    http://www.platform27.co.uk/itsbroken and http://www.platform27.co.uk/weblogEntry/112ai86bc5p96
    http://www.tribal-unity.com/Friends~ns4.html
    http://www.eurkosart.net/omen/links.php
    http://wannaspell.com/
    http://helios.jdmsphoto.com/debris/links.html


    I'm getting constant number of uniques now which is good but I want to give it another boost.Widgets has been one of my best ideas for promoting the site so far... but I'm now looking for other ways to step-up the number of uniques further. Any ideas?
     
    Ashkan, Jun 11, 2006 IP
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    toby Notable Member

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    I'm just trying with my venture of 5$. wonder how much it could convert :)
     
    toby, Jun 11, 2006 IP
  19. webviz

    webviz Peon

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    Trick idiots into clicking your crappy ads? :)
     
    webviz, Jun 11, 2006 IP
  20. Ashkan

    Ashkan Active Member

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    #80
    Are you talking about me or someone else?

    If it is about me then I have this to say: Only people with no sense of logic and no argument drop one liners full of clear show of arrogance. Do you want to explain what you mean?

    If it isn't about me then ignore the above.
     
    Ashkan, Jun 11, 2006 IP
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