Success stories
DotCom Tales: Vantagenet and Freepolls.com
My first successful venture was co-founding Vantagenet in 1997. I had JAWSmovie.com up and running and I wanted to add a forum to the site. My business partner and I wrote some forum software and decided to offer it to any webmaster that wanted it for free. We hosted the forums on our [...]
Testing out Google Adwords and Microsoft Adcenter
I have around $500 worth of Microsoft Adcenter coupons so I figured I would give them a try for one of my sites. I set it up for the 2nd highest traffic site (Internweb.com), because it has the best click-thru ratio of any of my sites on Adsense, roughly 3.5%. The trick use [...]
Zune Forum Makes 62K for Teen
This is the kind of entrepreneurial spirit I can related to! A California teen grabbed the domain ZuneBoards.com, set up some free forum software and made around $1K a month using Adsense for two years, then listed the site on SitePoint.com and sold it for $62K, for a total take of roughly $86K. His [...]
DotCom Tales: Mormons
So as mentioned before, I will briefly discuss Mormons. I just don’t get it. They are basically a cult, with ridiculous beliefs, and a questionable history (the founder Joseph Smith was a convicted con-artist). Most of them live in one place, the state of Utah. Although officially condemned, some Mormons still [...]