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Your Biggest Expense as a Webmaster?

Discussion in 'General Business' started by sachin410, Apr 22, 2008.

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    As a webmaster, on what do you spend the most amount of money?

    (I am interested in your business expenses, not in your expensive gadgets..:p.)

    In the last few months, I have spent a good amount of money on getting content for my sites.

    I guess content is my biggest expense.
     
    sachin410, Apr 22, 2008 IP
  2. wisdomtool

    wisdomtool Moderator Staff

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    For me, time is my biggest expense as I wrote my own content.
     
    wisdomtool, Apr 22, 2008 IP
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    jezzz Notable Member

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    I spent more money on New Domain Registrations, Renewals and sometimes for Hosting renewals also
     
    jezzz, Apr 22, 2008 IP
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    silveraden Banned

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    $9.50 for domain and $24.50 for one year hosting... zero in advertising... so far the site is now earninng around $5 to $8 per day after my hard work in promotion..
     
    silveraden, Apr 22, 2008 IP
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    #include Banned

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    Dedicated Server for hosting $999 for 12 months.
     
    #include, Apr 22, 2008 IP
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    bskelhorn Peon

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    For me the only main expense was hiring a guy to create a stats page for my poker site. It was about $100, i'm 70% happy with it but I think i'm going to have to spend a little more to get it to 100%
     
    bskelhorn, Apr 22, 2008 IP
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    scriptaty Banned

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    Marketing if I say clearly as I use free hosting and I need to pay salary to my team members for marketing my website also (for my only one personal website ever).LOL
     
    scriptaty, Apr 22, 2008 IP
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    silveraden Banned

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    Well, I am looking forward to hire someone early next year for my biggest project and my budget is $2k to $3k just for programming and design... I will do the promotion when the program launches..
     
    silveraden, Apr 22, 2008 IP
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    My biggest expense is paying myself- Boy do I cost alot to keep around- I might just fire myself- outside of that don't really have much expense except hosting and stuff
     
    beautyinmd, Apr 22, 2008 IP
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    Time. Hosting is only a few dollars a month. Haven't tried paid advertising yet... so yep, it's gotta be time.
     
    dbjeeves, Apr 22, 2008 IP
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    dct Finder of cool gadgets

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    Biggest expensive for me is paid writers which come in at about $2.5K per month.
     
    dct, Apr 22, 2008 IP
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    biggest expense is writig new applications to support the site
     
    OriKlein, Apr 22, 2008 IP
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    time & marketing
    You can't buy or store time, that's why its so valuable
     
    Tobidotman, Apr 22, 2008 IP
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    masoha Well-Known Member

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    Time and dedicated hosting are my biggest expenses
     
    masoha, Apr 22, 2008 IP
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    geekos Well-Known Member

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    heres my list
    -Domain Registration/Renewal
    - hosting
    - advertising
     
    geekos, Apr 22, 2008 IP
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    Last year my biggest expense was $120,000 in outsourcing to various people.

    This year I expect it to hardware costs as we're launching our own web hosting company, we've already spent about $80,000 on the rackservers and datacenter space and we're just getting started.
     
    Christian Little, Apr 22, 2008 IP
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    w3bmaster Notable Member

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    Hosting Domains + Articles this are my only expenses ...
     
    w3bmaster, Apr 22, 2008 IP
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    Time and advertising. $10 bucks a year for domains or monthly hosting costs are nominal.
     
    niceilike, Apr 22, 2008 IP
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    paying for content. and links.
     
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    Attorneys / Designers are our high ticket item, most months its 8k, but it can run into 20k some months, depending on how many companies we are buying or selling within that time frame.
     
    l3vi, Apr 22, 2008 IP