My first expense is: - COFFEE (a lot I drank) Second expense is: - WIFE (a lot I had to buy for her to keep her quiet) Third expense is: - MY EYES (first tme in my life had to use glasses)
BUT ... Dargre, you forget! the last post i read of you, you got the best returns among anyone of us here! (your doctors trip!) M.
Those were rather pills...and limit on smoking. I was very restrictive with that So it was rather success - not a cost. Forgot to mentioned some other costs: - I'm not reading books anymore and I used to read a lot once - not watching movies (not a big lost as most of movies are so stupid now) - not playing guitar so often as I used too...
Well, I forgot to mention the other costs - like having to sleep in the dog box when I finish 2 o'clock in the morning! And yes, the guilty feeling when spending more time with the pc than with the wife and kids!
Creating my site cost me about $1500,- ( incl. Design/Mods/script/domain/hosting etc. etc.) Promotion is going above $5000,- in the past 3 months now.
i am not sure but my brother was spent around 2000$ for his directory for europe and i have spent around 600$ for my naxos-directory.com and we get the same pr....but his directory was only 3 month old and mine 6 month and the design and all creation of the site was from me.
Now Just think If we spend that much amount of money ... the returns also sometimes are preety coool... you have to spend a lot to make a lot.
You spend what you want to earn. People need to learn this, then questions like "why dont i make as much as him, why dont i get any submissions" would stop occuring.
Before I had directory or any other wbe site I invested in my BRAIN. And this is always what I suggest - especially for youmg people. Once I could build any template, any code I thought could be useful I started with it. So I spent $25 for the script, $9 for domain, $10 for host. Then invested every 10% of what I earned from it. Same what I always do with shares. Some may say: not so much. I would say: it depends of how much you earned
Good advice, I did the same. Started learning html when I was 11 and at the age 12 started trying to build websites. I have a graphic design degree and all those things pay off everyday.