3 Catches For Plentyoffish: Why Any Idiot Can Make Millions?
photo by Marcus’ wife.
Wowza, now there’s a path with heart… PlentyofFish, a free dating site has become the 30th largest site in Canada. It’s a ONE PERSON company run by Marcus who has a WordPress blog, The Paradigm Shift: Adapt or Die
Marcus seems to think Any Idiot Can Make Millions, but there are three catches if you ask me…
1) If everybody did it, the supply would overwhelm demand and the cost per clicks offered would go down drastically. Darn that Adam Smith!
2) Where’s the rest of all the Google Adsense money going to? Uh… Google?
**News Flash** Kids. That is called CONCENTRATION OF WEALTH, because Google gets most of the money, and even as “Don’t Be Evil” as Google may be, there are going to be competitors who will gain traction by offering their clients a greater cut of the proceeds, bringing us to the #3 catch…
3) Marcus ain’t no idiot. He’s there first and if he’s even smarter he’ll use his eyeball base to start his own sponsored search program right there on PlentyofFish. He can keep more of the money and actually have a better chance to “change the world,” as he says he wants to.
To be fair Marcus notes that “competition may drive up prices and its no longer profitable for you to bid on those terms.” and goes on to say “If you have your own website affiliate networks are great. If don’t have many users (under 30,000 uniques/day) and they are all focused on your subject area a good rule of thumb is you can make $2.00 off affiliate ads for every dollar you make off adsense.”
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Raphie Frank is a New York City- based interactive producer, writer, photographer and designer, with supplemental expertise in Usability & Online Marketing. Raphie helped found swandivedigital in 2000 after ten years of production, technical and design experience in the Visual and Performing Arts worlds. While at swandivedigital he oversaw multiple engagements for such organizations as the Markle Foundation, Referral Networks and the Shubert Foundation, before setting out on his own in 2005 as a freelance intermedia consultant.
Prior to his experience at swandivedigital, Raphie traversed the artistic globe as Culture House Director (“Asylum” theater/cafe/art gallery, Prague, 1992-1993), award-winning short-film Producer (Bacchus, Germany, 1998), Theatrical Lighting Designer and published photographer. Raphie graduated from Vassar in 1990 with degrees in Psychology and Dramatic Writing and has published 50 interviews with leading city blog Gothamist.com since August, 2004.
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Planning Warhol in Prague: Part I: The Asylum Culture House & The Warholesquian Sensibility
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The Asylum of cultural myth, for those who were in Prague and in the sub-cultural know during that winter and spring of 1993, lingers in memory as a crazed Bacchanalian Warholesquian happening, even if, public nipple piercings and simulated urination aside, a generally less explicitly sexual version. One minute you might go into the café, a smallish cave-like hole-in-the-wall we always thought of as the Soul of Asylum, and there would be a bongo, guitar and violin foot-stomping Celtic jam. Ten minutes later there might be a cultural film about Rodin flickering across the wall, and another half hour after that you might find a wanna-Kerouac poet spouting Beat banalities or diamonds across the room and over the cheers or heckles of his temporarily captive audience. Read Essay
Planning Warhol in Prague: Part II: Kafka and The “Refounding” of the Asylum Culture House
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Look at an old 19th Century Italian landscape painting and you might think “Wow! What unique vision those Italians had! Look at the gem-like fragile clarity of the leaves and their sparkling translucence. Look at those elongated spidery trunks! ” Then you go to Italy and look at the actual landscapes and the actual trees and you realize those painters were simply painting what they saw. That’s what it looks like.
To read Kafka is a similar experience. “The Castle” and “The Trial” are not the twisted mad ravings of a genius, but simply faithful recordings of the daily Czech experience with authority. That day was the first, but certainly not last, day I think I truly understood that. Rik felt it too. And that understanding came upon us this time not in a twisted brow knowledge kind of way, but more in a brown coal smog, nowhere-to-get-away-from-it, kind of way. Except that instead of being everywhere all at once, it’s nowhere all at once which is so… Czech. So… passive aggressive. Read Essay
Yes, Virginia There is Still A Santa Claus
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Interestingly enough, I think that moment bothered me more than — sorry to blow the lid on this Virginia — finding out my parents were Santa Claus four years previous. On some level I already knew Santa was a fraud even before Brian Kux, my red-haired neighbor two doors down back in Washington D.C., cemented into eternity my collapsed North Pole house of card illusions one Christmas Day. Playing outside together with our new toys, he told me with an almost conspiratorial glee that he had seen his parents putting presents under the Christmas tree the night before. It didn’t come as much of a surprise and, although he was a full year older than me, I didn’t need his wizened input to immediately understand the exact implications of what that meant. The writing had already been on the wall for some time now.
After all, Santa looked different every time we met at the shopping mall and sometimes he was in two places at once; I would see him again on the way home from the mall collecting money for the Salvation Army on a street corner, the helicopter he’d come to the mall in nowhere in sight. And didn’t Santa use a sleigh anyway? I knew there was something fishy going on by the time I was four. Read Essay
Riven Hearts
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I said “no” a couple times, A little too loudly. Guess it made me mad, that unpaid electrician waking up at 3am to catch a train to an isolated Long Island train station the producers “forgot” to pick up. Guess it made me mad having shit bubble up the drain in the shower of the rooms they gave us. And we were told we’d made the choice. After all, we were offered a ride back to the City each night; eight hours between call times. Three hours home and three hours back. And the Assistant Camera Man with a child at home to support who said he was mad as hell cowered in fear when the time came to say “Yes” or “No” to the face of the Producer when I spoke for the crew at the request of the crew.I understood, but wished they had not said they would if they wouldn’t. Read Essay
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If someone has google adsense on their page, and they get 30,000 hits a day, and maybe 40 clicks. How much do they get?
Bearing in mind they’re a site who gets 30,000 unique visitors a day.
How does myspace.com and flickr make money?
Hey hey, Ryan, I’ll have to get back to you on that. Suffice it to say, in a figurative sense, that they make money by selling freedom, hope and the spirit of poetic possibility. I know that’s not the answer you were looking for, but its far more accurate than to reduce the equation simply to a matter of advertising, eyeball valuations, eCommerce & such.
I plan to write more on this so stay tuned. meantime, I’m just a tad too busy trying to change the world to reply in full just now. Meantime, let me refer you back to the PlentyofFish blog. Marcus has a lot of insightful observations on the issue. Click on the “Any Idiot Can Make Millions” link up above and read his post…
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Raphie
I agree. With that huge traffic it is better to start his own pay per click or better per sale program.
Google AdSense pays a small part of that the get from advertisers. Do not lose valueable visitors and send traffic directly to advertisers through affiliate program with %%% per sale but not just per click.
Yes, I aggree there are many ways to make millions. Most are so complex that the average person stands no chance. For those with talent and able to outwit most with lateral thinking, it is still a brain overload situation.
I have nothing for sale,but perhaps a visit to my website may show you another route to making millions. Best wishes to you all. Charles
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