Archive for January 12th, 2007
Porn Affilliate earns $1.8 Miilion a year
CAPS Internet Inc. offers a clue. CAPS, a small business housed in a Toronto office building, doesn’t create or sell any adult content. But it serves up millions of pornographic photos and video clips each day on its dozens of Web sites, which have names like HardHut.com and GalleryHeaven.com and are often stumbled upon by Web surfers prowling for free porn.
After visitors click on the free images, they’re directed to sites that charge for porn. If they become paying customers, CAPS receives a commission, often $40 per subscriber. The seven-employee company took in about $1.4 million in revenue last year, and is on track to top $1.8 million this year, according to Matthew Gamble, a senior executive.
Sometimes, keeping affiliates happy means offering them gifts and bonuses, said Clark Chambers, who manages affiliate programs for pay sites OlderWomen.com and AuntJudys.com, among others. Mr. Chambers, based in Los Angeles, said he recently sent a $3,000 TAG Heuer watch to an 18-year-old in Moscow who runs a handful of affiliate Web sites. That was a bonus on top of the $5,000 to $8,000 a month in commissions he has been paying the teen. Mr. Chambers offers affiliates the option of either collecting 50% of referred sales, or receiving a flat $30 finder’s fee per customer. Getting good affiliates to pitch your wares “is super competitive,” Mr. Chambers said.
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Mobissimo.com brings in a few million dollars a year
How did Tarka do it? Simple: She studied Google.
Instead of selling tickets, Mobissimo focused on helping people find cheap ones – not just from big names like United (Charts) and American (Charts), but also from the burgeoning ranks of low-fare carriers here and abroad.
The big idea: Crawl the Web, find the best deals, and make money from advertising. The upstart airlines, especially those that have shied away from the expensive reservation systems used as the back end for sites such as Orbitz and Expedia (Charts), loved the idea. After all, they wouldn’t have to spend a dime to land new customers.
Full Article http://money.cnn.com/magazines/business2/business2_archive/2006/12/01/8394989/index.htm?postversion=2007011206
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Gpsreview.net = A Blog = $45,000 Per Year Revenue
Like many bloggers, Tim Flight started a Web log two years ago just to share his passion about something — in his case, global positioning devices.
Over time, traffic to his site, http://gpsreview.net, started to grow, and by placing Google’s text ads on his blog, he started to earn some extra cash, usually about $10 a month. But as traffic soared, he began to discover that there were ways to earn bigger dollars from his blog.
Today, those earnings amount to about $45,000 a year, he said.
See Full Article http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/10/AR2007011002405.html
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Entrepreneur Leaves job starts business
This is actually how it should be . One should not have to work at their job forever, waiting for a raise and complaining about office politics . The entrepreneur below did it right .
Kaushal Shukla, 32, of Ahmedabad, said he faced many challenges on his arrival in New Zealand: “For six months I could not find myself a job, and I temporarily worked with gas filling station.”
But the Economic Times, in New Delhi, reported Mr Shukla landed a job with Auckland-based PhotoPages, which did online restoration of photographs.
“He spotted an immense business opportunity in India, from where the same work could be done at half the cost,” the newspaper reported.
Upon returning from Auckland to Ahmedabad in 2004, Mr Shukla set up Rajmin Photo Gallery.
It restores old and damaged art work and photographs for customers around the world, with 50 staff working on 450 photographs a day, mostly using common PhotoShop software.
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