What was your worst website / marketing idea?

efeezy

efeezy

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The title says it all. Don't be afraid to get your ass laughed at. We've all had some stupid ideas (which we probably though would make us filthy rich), but bombed completely. So let's hear your absolute worst site / money making ideas. If you still have the site and you want to post it, even better. Maybe we can all learn a little something, and at least get a good laugh at each others expense.

For me, I'd say my Adult Diaper review site was probably my shittiest idea (pun intended). Never made a dime and i spent way too much time on it. Sorry I don't have a site to show you, but it was really bad, believe me.
 


^^ It's ok to forget them, as long as you learned something positive from the fuck up and applied it to your next project.
 
There was a brief article awhile back in a popular newspaper about a new men's pantyhose trend called Mantyhose. Basically a throwback to the old days when, I guess, men actually wore leggings and pantyhose. Apparently it was coming back into style. I bought the domain BuyMantyhose.com, but I just couldn't bring myself to put a site up or research this trend anymore. Still got the domain if anyone is interested in it, cuz I sure ain't.
 
Somehow I think this demotivational poster fits in well with this post...
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I totally forgot about another flop of mine. www.FilmsFight.com Two movies were matched against each other and users could vote and comment on which one should win.

It's based on a weekly bit on an AM radio show out here in L.A. I just couldn't find a way to monetize it properly or get decent exposure. It still might have a way to go, but it's been back burnered.
 
efeezy said:
The title says it all. Don't be afraid to get your ass laughed at. We've all had some stupid ideas (which we probably though would make us filthy rich), but bombed completely. So let's hear your absolute worst site / money making ideas. If you still have the site and you want to post it, even better. Maybe we can all learn a little something, and at least get a good laugh at each others expense.

For me, I'd say my Adult Diaper review site was probably my shittiest idea (pun intended). Never made a dime and i spent way too much time on it. Sorry I don't have a site to show you, but it was really bad, believe me.
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i can only imagine the rating categories, or scores

"light but leaky"

or "bunched up in my nethers"

or "i wore it for 5 days and still held strong"
 
my worst idea? Spending a huge amount of time/effort driving around getting PO boxes to dominate Google Local results for a specific adult niche, not realizing that adult converts like shit and nearly everyone looking for this would be looking for the service in person and not willing to pay for a 'find escorts' adult dating site.

Converted somewhere like 1:800 off super targeted traffic that I was foolishly thinking would be more like 1:40
 
mumblejae said:
i can only imagine the rating categories, or scores

"light but leaky"

or "bunched up in my nethers"

or "i wore it for 5 days and still held strong"
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but what about the AVERAGE results a consumer can expect, not those crazy 'misleading' testimonials you've stated above (I kid I kid)
 
My very first project was a site about investing for beginners. The problem was I didn't know anything about investing, and that's a damn competitive niche for a noob.

I put Adsense on it and was immediately making a couple bucks a day and though I had discovered a gold mine, but then I got an email from Google saying all my clicks were from the same IP address. My girlfriend had been clicking on ads everyday to "help me".

So it made almost no money after that. But I did learn a bit about how to article market, how to social bookmark, how to use Wordpress, etc.
 
i have a site on the first page of google for a targeted niche. have had over 500 clicks and not one conversion with amazon. i thought id make decent money off it but i guess not.
 
2002, started websocials.com - hybrid social networking for models/talent/singles. Actually did ok for a minute, we did dvd tours (at clubs, car shows, model/talent shows, studio's...), had a tv show aimed at the site, branded gear to give out by the hundreds (shirts/trucker caps). Everything was to be free until we hit 100,000 members, then we switch the payment on at $5/month.

We got to 10K members, most hand picked hotties, and had no clue how to monetize it. Lil' banner/cpa/aff money from ad inventory, a few premium memberships, but for the most part a quick way to blow 70-80K and a few years thinking I'd be the next myspace/facebook (then myspace/facebook/youtube swallowed all the smaller guys for a while, including us). I actually remember being side by side with POF for a while back then..

Wasn't all that stupid an idea, but I failed to fucking hell (learned a hell of a lot too though). Also really hard to walk away from something like that, and know when to stop kicking the horse...
 
Bombastic said:
My very first project was a site about investing for beginners. The problem was I didn't know anything about investing, and that's a damn competitive niche for a noob.

I put Adsense on it and was immediately making a couple bucks a day and though I had discovered a gold mine, but then I got an email from Google saying all my clicks were from the same IP address. My girlfriend had been clicking on ads everyday to "help me".
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Haha that's so cute. I hope you bought her something nice after you started making money. :D
 
My first site ever was a bailbond directories site. It sucked so bad in everyway. I was manually adding stuff, the design was atrocious, and it was my first and last attempt with adsense. I'm not even sure it ever got indexed. Hell, I'm not even sure I knew what "indexed" was at that time.
 
My worst idea was a continuity membership program where people logged on to my website and then selected movies they wanted to watch that would be mailed via regional shipping centers so that they would get there in a timely fashion. We were working on some software before launch that would automatically set up a customer delivery que and send them their next movie when they finished their previous selection.

Goddamn outsourcers dragged their feet on the programming and then some company called NETFLIX came to market....pshhhh.

WTF.

Oh well, lesson learned...

Now I'm thinking about doing the same thing but for video games! errrrr, wait.



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I'm pretty sure one of my first websites was about Runescape or something when I was like 15.
 
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