+1.
I always enjoy reading his posts.
This is a funny thread. The source of his income is in fact true. Some of the numbers may be a little high, and he should have done a little calculation on his subscription vs. PPC, etc. One of the main source sites does in fact get over 12,000 unique hits a day and he is making over $6K a day, just on Azoogle/YPN income. Couple that with subscriptions of which this one particular site has about 200,000 members and say only 10,000 of those signed up for subscription members ship, that's what... $2.4MM a year, plus the Azoogle/YPN income of $6K a day which is another $2.1MM a year and that income is half of his PPC income so that means he's doing close to $8MM a year. And that's just one site mixed among the PPC and leaving out the over thousand sites he has.
(And to note, I've known Jeremy for about 10 years and I've seen the numbers)
is this even possible? making million off of only 12,000 uniques per day? i do recall that digg was pulling in around 6k a day, but their user base is probably in the millions per day. now i KNOW digg's traffic is far, far greater than anything jeremy is dreaming up. they are in the top 100 websites online so their traffic is astronomical.
the one thought to consider is youtube.com. youtube's traffic is probably greater than most sites can imagine YET they had to get two rounds of funding (all for less than $20 million). it is highly unlikely that jeremy was able to get more traffic than those sites.
now it is possible to make money off of subscribers, but you need at least 50k paying members at $10 per month to reach close to the numbers that jeremy is talking about.
still it is a great dream and something to shoot for. but ya about the article writer he definitely did nail it when he said that a person who is making millions can't pay off of his home (inexpensive home).
THAT sounds fishy. no envy here. just saying i dont make millions and all of my homes are paid off.![]()
is this even possible? making million off of only 12,000 uniques per day? i do recall that digg was pulling in around 6k a day, but their user base is probably in the millions per day. now i KNOW digg's traffic is far, far greater than anything jeremy is dreaming up. they are in the top 100 websites online so their traffic is astronomical.
anyhow it seems quite unlikely that jeremy is making more money than digg.com but i guess it is possible.
the one thought to consider is youtube.com. youtube's traffic is probably greater than most sites can imagine YET they had to get two rounds of funding (all for less than $20 million). it is highly unlikely that jeremy was able to get more traffic than those sites.
now it is possible to make money off of subscribers, but you need at least 50k paying members at $10 per month to reach close to the numbers that jeremy is talking about.
i wont call shoemoney fishy, but it would seem highly doubtful that he has been able to do all of this from jan. 2005 til now with the numbers he is talking about.
still it is a great dream and something to shoot for. but ya about the article writer he definitely did nail it when he said that a person who is making millions can't pay off of his home (inexpensive home).
THAT sounds fishy. no envy here. just saying i dont make millions and all of my homes are paid off.![]()
He is a great self marketing person and I like him. But one thing that has always bugged me is this....On his show, various interviews and posts, he has mentioned how in he knew nothing about SEO, SEM, conferences, API's, YPN, affiliate stuff, hosting, storefronts, even blogs (although he has backdated posts written in present tense from before he later said he thought about a blog) and so on. So he wasn't doing much until that conference, etc. He goes to SES San Jose August 8-11, 2005. That famous Adsense check is dated Sept 27th. Google pays for the previous month. So he goes home and implements stuff he learned and makes that amount in 20 days from the 12th to the 31st? Even if you did PPC with thousands of keywords, it takes time to get the words, ads and the general ball rolling. You could spend 111k and make 112k or lose money but the check would still be high. So the time period, check, comments and story just don't completely add up. But it sure got attention to make other things happen.
but maybe that is his secret. pretend you have made a ton of cash then go ahead and tell everyone in the world you have done it. i am sure a lot of ppl will bandwagon to your site and then you get a ton of subscribers.
but hey who knows maybe he is a cinderella story online?
Intersting thread about shoemoney. Real or Not?