Did you start your site for Fun or to make Money?

Discussion in 'General Business' started by tmark938, Aug 10, 2006.

Did you start your site for Fun or to make Money?

Poll closed Aug 17, 2006.

Fun

10 vote(s)

26.3%
Money

7 vote(s)

18.4%
Mixture of the two

21 vote(s)

55.3%
Not sure

0 vote(s)

0.0%

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tmark938 Active Member

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Did you start your site for Fun or to make Money?

I started mine for money...............

What about you?

MB

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I started mine for fun about a year and a half ago. It started out with about 20 pages and has grown to about 300 something. Hopefully it will keep growing and I will start getting more visitors now that I'm finally trying to advertise my site.

I added adsense in March I guess, but I haven't started making money untill about a week ago. Every now and then I would get a click, but this week is the first time I have consistently gotten clicks every day. I've made $5 this week =)

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Started my first site for fun, then started making money after a couple years. Now I do a mixture of both. You have to enjoy what you are doing.

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I started to make Gazotto.com for fun. I love technology and love seeing what new stuff can do.

I put adsense cause heck it's free money, but it's not a huge earner.

If it was about the money I would have shut down or sold Gazotto ages ago.

But I like what I do so I keep doing it.

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Sort of a hobby and a job...

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My site started off free for fun. Then my internet connection became so saturated I couldn't even visit the site on the local network. At that point I went to membership based. That made some money and freed up the internet connection. Now it's adsense based and making pretty decent money at a 300% return on investment.

The next step is offering paid services.

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Started for fun but making money now...

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#8

One of them started for fun and still not making money.

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Mixture of the two

I was going to put a lot of time in it and therefore I thought it would be a good idea to take something that I like

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#10

At the begining it was for fun, after reading the posts here it did turn for money proboses

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#11

i started my site for fun and to gain experience in building a website.

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#12

I have a couple of sites that I run for fun but the majority of my sites are run for profit, though I still have fun doing that .

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#13

You need an option to share info. My info sites have no revenue potential.

Shannon
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I started for fun. But now I need money.. really bad

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For fun of course. For profit not now, maybe in the future

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#16

Business is business, so money is the aim, but we are friendly, reliable and professional

Moreover we enjoy our work, so that is good

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#17

For both money and fun and to share information

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#18

Well, some of my sites I started for fun...because I knew I could make money.

A little of both reasons, really. Depends on the site too. Some were for fun to mess around and learn, others were because I saw big dollar signs in my eyes. I should get my eyes checked, I'm probably legally blind.

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#19

I started by first site back in 2001 for fun. Then I found I could make some money with the site.

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#20

My first website was started to share info and for fun as well...I do make a little with adsense on it...but...anyhow, my other sites were started for money to pay off my hosting and to buy scripts etc for my main site...and then...to experiment with and see if I can make money online

AnaB, Aug 12, 2006 IP