A business to tell your mother about...

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How many of you recon you have a business you can tell your mother about?

Not literally - meaning, have you got an ethical business that doesn't take advantage of loopholes, people, bugs in systems, google, search engines etc to make money.

I started off hoping not to go down this road, but i'm slipping a little with sneaky new ideas and plans.

I want sum inspiration from people with 'businesses you can tell your mother about' -

(I know there's not many here he he)
 


taking advantage of bugs and loopholes in search engines. abusing sites by spamming etc. plain lying on sales pages, reports or ads for example pretending to be a girl and getting people to sign up to a dating site.

you know what i mean - blackhat/spamming/etc.

who has a business that does not do any of this,

or who can justify a business that does this.

I'm not having a go, and I'm not knocking it.
 
WTF?

If your biz looks OK from the outside... i.e. making money and at least some part of it is presentable to the public in order to make that money, (or even if it's not) who gives a fuck what goes on behind the green door?

Your mother knows you're married or, have a g/f or b/f or whatever your persuasion may be but, does she watch you have sex? Do you tell her or show her all your perverted little fetishes or fantasies?

WTF? Who cares? Show your mama this - http://www.wickedfire.com/shooting-...never-make-more-money-than-me.html#post170678
 
I dont actually want to tell my mother fuk all.

It's just a phrase I heard off someone the once. You know your business is ethical and moral when it's something you can tell your mother about.

I'm just at that stage where I'm about to draw the line as to how far I'll go. How much of an internet bad boy I want to be.

Being ethical has barriers. Big ones.

Not being ethical makes it too easy... but comes with legal crap most of the time.
 
i try hard to be ethical. alot of people look at a good ethic as a negative trait in business (and maybe it is). i was raised in private, catholic school all my life (except college.. and im still as atheist as can be). good parents,good family, good community. im having a hard time pushing myself to rip people off a little to make a buck, just not my style.
 
I didn't mean to come off too harsh. Here's the deal, as I see it.

Ethics means different things to different people. What's ethical to one may not be to another. It boils down to choice. If you can comfortably do something and still sleep at night, in your own mind, it's ethical. If the thing you're doing is unethical to someone else, that's their problem.

If the thing you're doing is unethical to the society you live in, others will take you to task for it... as in ostracizing you, putting you in jail or chopping your head off. Or, anything in between. Depends on the situation.

When it comes to marketing on the innernets, there's a whole slew of things a lot of people and companies do that could go either way. Gaming the SEs is one. Look, the SEs are just other businesses and they exist to earn money, just like we do. Is gaming them taking cash out of their pockets? Usually not.

Gaming consumers, on the other hand, by lying, cheating or stealing IS taking money out of someones pocket and I'm not advocating that. Giving someone what they expect and are willing to pay for, no matter how you accomplish it, is the bottom line. If a few SEs get gamed in the process... oh well.

If I have to game a SE to get top rankings for my desired search term to get consumers eyes on my offer and they decide to buy in, no one really gets hurt. As long as, in the end, the consumer gets what they want and are voluntarilly willing to pay for it, it's all good.

Same goes for the social networks and every other place we can go to get in front of our markets. It's about getting in front of the eyes that's at issue here. Once we have eyeballs looking at us, then we have to behave in a way that makes the owners of those eyes want to trust us.

I have 2 "commandments" I live by... 10 is WAY too many.

1. Give a little, take a little.
2. Keep yourself clean.

It'd take me all day to expound on the meanings of those 2 commandments but, if you'll think about each of them for a while, I think you'll come up with your own meanings.

Now, it's time for me to get back to things I may or may not tell my mother about. :D
 
I actually just tried to explain this to my parents today. They got lost at "I bid on keywords in the yahoo search engine".

Just tell them you promote stuff online, in the end thats what I told my mom, and she said just not to do any porn.
 
barman said:
nagger please! my moms done more unethical things than me. she's old school.
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I love this. This is funny as hell....Your moms must be a straight pimp (in a good way that is...). Like the mom from the movie Goonies if you remember that.. (that movie was the shiiiiiiiat!)
 
Hahaha... I got a call from my mom the other day (she lives out of state and I haven't talked to her in a couple months) saying, "Your sister said you make money on the internet with your websites. What does that mean? Did you quit your job or something? How do you make money on the internet? I don't get it."

Me: "Porn sites mom, porn sites."

Mom: "Haha.. Are you serious?"

Me: "Yes."

Mom: "As long as it pays the bills. Good for you, honey!"

My mom is cool as fuck and I couldn't ask for a better mom. She honestly supports everything I do. I don't really do porn sites, I just didn't feel like explaining affiliate marketing, PPC, SEO, Traffic, etc. to her. :)

Usually when people ask me how I make money online I just tell them I build websites. Simple as that. No need to go into details.
 
MyOwnDemon said:
Usually when people ask me how I make money online I just tell them I build websites. Simple as that. No need to go into details.
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How the fuck does that work for you? That always gets an instant response "Well, what type of sites though?" for me.

I always just say "I build websites. Without going into specifics, I find a need and I fill it." That tells them what I do, that I won't get specific, and that its a real business. Shuts them right up too.
 
I fill needs that help people in the search engines. I then feed on that need by monetizing it in every which way I can. I like looking for people who need money because being the capitalist, greedy pig that I am, I know I can make money by helping them get money.

I tell people I sell money and it's the fucken truth.

I also am in the travel business. I help people plan vacations with content sites that give them what they want.

So I sell money and I am a travel guide!:yin-yang: I'm so fucken ethical! I love my life!
 
I tell people that big internet companies pay me for sending them referrals. That's all affiliate marketing really is anyway. You just find targeted prospects and refer them to the business. There's nothing shady about "sending referalls"

How they get referred may be shady, but that's none of my mom's business.
 
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