ARCast.TV - PlentyOfFish.com How one man beat the big guys
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I'm not sure if it's my network or the video, but it ends abruptly in the middle. I tried it twice and it ends at where Ron asks him "How did you do this" or something like that.
I'm surprised people still sign up.
If you want to see it in the silverlight player mode check out http://files.skyscrapr.net/users/arcast/tv/silverlight/default.html
P.S. I'm trying to update the show episode but for some reason it won't take.
PlentyOfFish.com isn't pretty, but Mr. Frind has said in interviews that:
- it earns a profit "North of $5M per year"
- he only works less than 2 hours a day
- it handles 1B pages/month on 1 web + 2 db servers and no tech staff
And a much smaller competitor was recently been acquired for $75M.
Impressed yet?
Really, is that just purely from Google Ads, as the site doesn't charge a joining fee.
I'd be interested to know if anyone has any more information on the revenue model for this site, very interesting case, considering as many have pointed out that the website itself is quite poor.
Also interesting is that POF gets 100% of its revenue from Adsense, but people like www.johnchow.com say that Adsense is a poor way to monetize a site. JohnChow says that Adsense generates only about 6% of income on his sites, so applying JC's business model to POF would generate North of $90M/yr!
http://www.johnchow.com/john-chow-dot-com-blog-income-report-july-2007/
ARCast.TV - PlentyOfFish.com How one man beat the big guys
Waleed Eissa .NET Software Developer, Sydney
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