Get easy money, go international!

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I was thinking about this: anyone not living in the US tries out the US anyway since it's the 'heart' of internet marketing (well, most information comes from there, that's why I call it that way). But do you do, as an US citizen, do the same thing? Go outside of your country? You're missing out on a lot of cash, ESPECIALLY with the great euro -> dollar conversion right now.

Just to hand out some tips about the Netherlands for example: travel is HOT right now, competition is quite low (we get 5% of the order value for every booking - easily 100 euro (= $148 / booking)). Also, ringtones dead? Perhaps in the US, in the UK they're HOT, in Belgium they're HOT, in the Netherland they're HOT, in Germany they're HOT!

So I want to know, are you guys going international or is the translation part too much of a hassle? I'm interested for sure.
 


I don´t mean to say the time for ringtones in germany is over but the big times are definetly over.

http://www.google.de/trends?q=klingelt%C3%B6ne


klingeltöne= ringtones


argh01 said:
Assuming you use landing pages, do you put them on american .com domains or local-to-nation domains?
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Using an .com domain in european countries should work way better than for example doing it the other way around-like using an .de domain in the US
 
About a year ago, someone made a clone of facebook for Russia, called vkontakte.ru (in contact). Somehow they became very popular, look at their stats in Alexa, right now they have rank 54! But this is an exception, usually it is hard to adapt something from another country.
 
I do ringtones in those countries and I must say that it is getting harder. The UK still works ok but Belgium and The Netherlands aren't profitable for me anymore. Google deactivated all my ads because of the new "mobile content" policy. I tried doing it the google compliant way (with a checkbox ...) but this is not profitable.

Funny you should mention travel though. I started creating a travel site for NL about a week ago.
 
I hear ringtones are still hot in central and south american countries, but I haven't had the chance to really start testing this out yet. I'm more concerned with my USA ringtone campaigns right now, which seem to be dying out way too quickly.
 
It's harder

One reason I don't do much business in other countries/languages is that the monetization is harder. In the US, you have all kinds of affiliate programs and ways to effectively monetize mass traffic. That kind of structure is not yet in place in many markets. The US market is very welcoming in that regard, especially for noobs like yours truly. But sure, you're leaving money on the table if you don't get in on foreign markets.
 
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