i completely missed the YPN boom, it was only open to americans, yahoo wankers. what advertiser chumps were paying the big CPC's on the junk traffic? did advertisers think it was yahoo website properties?
How a 21 year old Made $2.5 Million Online and Blew it all in a Year
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He's trying to cash in on a book.
www.310andrewfashion.com
www.520venture.com
www.aphobiathreads.com
www.drivable.com
www.ecaandrew.com
www.ecahosting.com
www.fngstudios.com
www.jocksocial.com
www.keithlawmedia.com
www.kellyeden.com
www.mylyfestyle.com
www.notmyvideo.com
www.quantumjones.com
www.rosiecakestruck.com
www.rosiedesjardins.com
www.salvatorecamarda.com
www.social420.com
www.somecodes.com
www.theeinsteingroupllc.com
www.theepidemia.com
www.tonightsforecast.com
www.velrenovatio.com
www.womenchasemen.com
www.youngandstupidbook.com
www.is2s.net
This is why I have traffic from 3 major search engines and 100s of sites. One site dropping completely out of google will cost me somewhere between 0.0003% and 10% of my revenue.
Also, I am really looking forward to some douchey looking dudes with mullets and very gay facial hair telling me how to get women to chase me. Maybe that's the selling point- If these gay guys can get laid by a woman, your average dude can have millions of women chasing.
Adsense was pulling in like 20c a click, YPN was over $1 per click. He has had zero success since that site, isn't that proof enough that he simply got luck?
He makes duckfaces and changed his surname to 'Fashion'... ridonkulous.
OH and he spent something like $150k to get his new site drivable.com developed, what a joke. It's pretty much a flop, now hes onto this bemodel.com thing.
He makes duckfaces and changed his surname to 'Fashion'... ridonkulous.
OH and he spent something like $150k to get his new site drivable.com developed, what a joke. It's pretty much a flop, now hes onto this bemodel.com thing.
I guess I though't I'd jump in...
You're absolutely right. YPN was extremely retarded in letting people choose what ads to display, we could easily get 50 cents - $2.00 clicks. Stupid.
I did a Google test at my prime just to satisfy my own self-worth just because I knew I was cheating the system, I mean, a lot of marketers cheat the system, we all do. Or have at some point...
At my peak, I did roughly 11,000 - 15,000 clicks a day with Google, paying anywhere from 10 - 25 cents per click. My highest day on Google was $2,500. Take 15 cents x 13,000 clicks, that's roughly $1,900 per day... x 30 days in a month = anywhere from $50 - $65k per month. I had YPN running steady for 1.5 years. Replace that with Google Ads, 18 months x $60k = $1,080,000. Plus I sold some websites, etc... Maybe I wouldn't have made 2.5 million, but I would have made at least a million easily. Why would I stick with $2,500 a day, when YPN was paying $4 - $10k per day...?
Now, the luck vs skill thing... You can say that about anything? Professional poker players, stock market professionals who gamble with puts/calls guessing whether it's going to go up/down. Entrepreneurs risking investing in an "IDEA," did you know most entrepreneurs have to try 10 ideas, until one hits?
You could say the 12 years of programming knowledge behind me is luck, the constant drive to building websites, and not playing video games, is luck. I programmed day and night, building 30+ different websites trying to make internet revenue. I'm not saying I'm some amazing genius programmer by any means, I'm actually far from smart. I'm just in love with the internet, programming, and business. Nothing makes me happier, besides women.
Sure, me being the first to come up with idea right after "Chase Bad Kids" to build a MySpace help site, was luck. I reinvented the MySpace help site community and saturated it, with my backend. My partner a total fucking jackass sold my backend that I spent hours beyond hours programming myself, for $50 a pop on Sitepoint and Ebay. Goes to tell you, never trust anyone, not even your partners. All those dumb clone sites, were my work, yes all mine, I saw hundreds of them... Not trying to brag, but all those clones, were mine. End of story.
I learned an incredible amount of new skills from SEO, JavaScript, PHP, and creative marketing ideas from building this site. 200,000 visits per day, 1 million page views per day, and a peaking 6k Alexa, luck, sure.
Everything is luck. You go for it, and hope for it. There is no certainty in this world, and never will be. Certainty is boring. I'm not arguing or bashing, just wanted to get the facts out there for everyone.
Appreciate all the feedback, positive and negative. Negative feedback really does get my brain moving the most though, makes me think a little outside of the box. So thank you
Cheers.
PS. The duck face gets you laid. =]
I am indeed launching a ClickBank dating product, this weekend. If any JVs are interested in cross-promoting, hit me up asap. www.womenchasemen.com
You're absolutely right. YPN was extremely retarded in letting people choose what ads to display, we could easily get 50 cents - $2.00 clicks. Stupid.
I did a Google test at my prime just to satisfy my own self-worth just because I knew I was cheating the system, I mean, a lot of marketers cheat the system, we all do. Or have at some point...
At my peak, I did roughly 11,000 - 15,000 clicks a day with Google, paying anywhere from 10 - 25 cents per click. My highest day on Google was $2,500. Take 15 cents x 13,000 clicks, that's roughly $1,900 per day... x 30 days in a month = anywhere from $50 - $65k per month. I had YPN running steady for 1.5 years. Replace that with Google Ads, 18 months x $60k = $1,080,000. Plus I sold some websites, etc... Maybe I wouldn't have made 2.5 million, but I would have made at least a million easily. Why would I stick with $2,500 a day, when YPN was paying $4 - $10k per day...?
Now, the luck vs skill thing... You can say that about anything? Professional poker players, stock market professionals who gamble with puts/calls guessing whether it's going to go up/down. Entrepreneurs risking investing in an "IDEA," did you know most entrepreneurs have to try 10 ideas, until one hits?
You could say the 12 years of programming knowledge behind me is luck, the constant drive to building websites, and not playing video games, is luck. I programmed day and night, building 30+ different websites trying to make internet revenue. I'm not saying I'm some amazing genius programmer by any means, I'm actually far from smart. I'm just in love with the internet, programming, and business. Nothing makes me happier, besides women.
Sure, me being the first to come up with idea right after "Chase Bad Kids" to build a MySpace help site, was luck. I reinvented the MySpace help site community and saturated it, with my backend. My partner a total fucking jackass sold my backend that I spent hours beyond hours programming myself, for $50 a pop on Sitepoint and Ebay. Goes to tell you, never trust anyone, not even your partners. All those dumb clone sites, were my work, yes all mine, I saw hundreds of them... Not trying to brag, but all those clones, were mine. End of story.
I learned an incredible amount of new skills from SEO, JavaScript, PHP, and creative marketing ideas from building this site. 200,000 visits per day, 1 million page views per day, and a peaking 6k Alexa, luck, sure.
Everything is luck. You go for it, and hope for it. There is no certainty in this world, and never will be. Certainty is boring. I'm not arguing or bashing, just wanted to get the facts out there for everyone.
Appreciate all the feedback, positive and negative. Negative feedback really does get my brain moving the most though, makes me think a little outside of the box. So thank you
Cheers.
PS. The duck face gets you laid. =]
I am indeed launching a ClickBank dating product, this weekend. If any JVs are interested in cross-promoting, hit me up asap. www.womenchasemen.com
PS. Surname 'Fashion' is just an identity I go by because of photography business I was into. Andrew Fashion Photography. The name kind of just ended up being my "identity"
Lame I know right? But, I guess it fits. I take good photos. The women seem to keep referring more women to me, to take their photos. Shitty business I guess.
Lame I know right? But, I guess it fits. I take good photos. The women seem to keep referring more women to me, to take their photos. Shitty business I guess.
As far as Drivable.com, that cost me $110k or $120k, I forget... The brainstorming and outline and how unprepared I was, is what that project not up to par for me. Fast forward 4 years, now it's definitely not up to par for me. I don't want to release it, until I fix it, get some cash for marketing/branding, then I am ready to rock and roll. Drivable.com is definitely still in the works, and have a few investors looking into it.
BEMODEL.com may not make a lot of sense to people right now. But it will be fixed here within the month, a totally hot brand new looking site, and ready to market. Already 10,000 users with no marketing, when I start marketing, I will reach around 100-500k users easily. I have no doubt in my mind.
BEMODEL.com may not make a lot of sense to people right now. But it will be fixed here within the month, a totally hot brand new looking site, and ready to market. Already 10,000 users with no marketing, when I start marketing, I will reach around 100-500k users easily. I have no doubt in my mind.
I've argued about this very issue many times with people who told me I've been lucky.
Yes in a way it is luck but we create luck. By bringing dozens and dozens of ideas into reality you generate your luck.
Haters gonna hate.
Yes in a way it is luck but we create luck. By bringing dozens and dozens of ideas into reality you generate your luck.
Haters gonna hate.
I guess I though't I'd jump in...
You're absolutely right. YPN was extremely retarded in letting people choose what ads to display, we could easily get 50 cents - $2.00 clicks. Stupid.
I did a Google test at my prime just to satisfy my own self-worth just because I knew I was cheating the system, I mean, a lot of marketers cheat the system, we all do. Or have at some point...
At my peak, I did roughly 11,000 - 15,000 clicks a day with Google, paying anywhere from 10 - 25 cents per click. My highest day on Google was $2,500. Take 15 cents x 13,000 clicks, that's roughly $1,900 per day... x 30 days in a month = anywhere from $50 - $65k per month. I had YPN running steady for 1.5 years. Replace that with Google Ads, 18 months x $60k = $1,080,000. Plus I sold some websites, etc... Maybe I wouldn't have made 2.5 million, but I would have made at least a million easily. Why would I stick with $2,500 a day, when YPN was paying $4 - $10k per day...?
Now, the luck vs skill thing... You can say that about anything? Professional poker players, stock market professionals who gamble with puts/calls guessing whether it's going to go up/down. Entrepreneurs risking investing in an "IDEA," did you know most entrepreneurs have to try 10 ideas, until one hits?
You could say the 12 years of programming knowledge behind me is luck, the constant drive to building websites, and not playing video games, is luck. I programmed day and night, building 30+ different websites trying to make internet revenue. I'm not saying I'm some amazing genius programmer by any means, I'm actually far from smart. I'm just in love with the internet, programming, and business. Nothing makes me happier, besides women.
Sure, me being the first to come up with idea right after "Chase Bad Kids" to build a MySpace help site, was luck. I reinvented the MySpace help site community and saturated it, with my backend. My partner a total fucking jackass sold my backend that I spent hours beyond hours programming myself, for $50 a pop on Sitepoint and Ebay. Goes to tell you, never trust anyone, not even your partners. All those dumb clone sites, were my work, yes all mine, I saw hundreds of them... Not trying to brag, but all those clones, were mine. End of story.
I learned an incredible amount of new skills from SEO, JavaScript, PHP, and creative marketing ideas from building this site. 200,000 visits per day, 1 million page views per day, and a peaking 6k Alexa, luck, sure.
Everything is luck. You go for it, and hope for it. There is no certainty in this world, and never will be. Certainty is boring. I'm not arguing or bashing, just wanted to get the facts out there for everyone.
Appreciate all the feedback, positive and negative. Negative feedback really does get my brain moving the most though, makes me think a little outside of the box. So thank you
Cheers.
PS. The duck face gets you laid. =]
I am indeed launching a ClickBank dating product, this weekend. If any JVs are interested in cross-promoting, hit me up asap. www.womenchasemen.com
I have to give you credit for your chutzpah, if nothing else, in posting a self-serving yet ingenuous screed.
The fact that you worked day and night on your website before realizing it's fruition is something that's reflective of your strong drive and work ethics.
Maybe the fact that the big money was coming in, even when you hadn't expected such a sudden windfall, led you spend it without any regard for the future consequences.
When the big money was coming in, the only mistake you made, as it seems to me, was that you failed to realize that the grass isn't going to be green forever, especially if you don't adapt. Something that was gained too easily (in terms of rankings in search engine and YPN paying dollars per click) could very well be lost too easily. Had you bought something of value (property, stock of a reputable tech company, or even gold), you'd been pretty much set for life.
I've a feeling that a lot of affiliates (who made big money in rebills) will have the same story as yours (although not as drastic).
Good luck in your next venture and I sure do hope you'll invest before you'll spend.
lol @ people calling this luck. luck is where preperation and opportunity meet. guy hustled and stumbled upon a good idea and scaled the fuck outta it. yeah it was retarded blowing a couple mil like that, but it's a huge learning curve which will only benefit him in the future.
good luck man
good luck man