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Originally posted by Marc De@Jul 9 2003, 11:15 PM
Hooper - BTW, where do you fall in this list? Top 5, 10 ?
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that sounds like show n tell MarcDe.. you cant ask without telling first ;-)
I am surprised your estimate is so low Colin.. you would have helped a bunch of people on their way to the 500k level imho. A few of the people I was thinking of you would know directly from years back.
I wasn't thinking about spammers at all actually (well maybe one or two).. I dont know a hell of a lot and most I do know are more like GFYers who do it becasue they can make 4 or 5k a month with no thinking, just regular burger flippin work to most imho.
I cant believe there is less than 1000 individuals (not companies) doing 500k right now.. in the middle of summer and in a bad year.. I am not sure what our industry gross turnover is, so maybe Slavick may be right that it cant be true. I've been wrong before but if you are talking about realistic expectations.. I got bad news for some poor bastards with big staff numbers and daily headaches that are grossing under 500k pa... a hardworking sit at home in his jocks freesite webmaster with no overheads and very few headaches has been able to realisticly expect to do that for years. Must admit I also know a few who were doing better than that are no longer are too.
What about all the people that spend 20-30k a month on Ink/Adwords/PPC traffic? they appear to be a dime a dozen at the moment it seems.. surely they must gross about 500k. Every few weeks I seem to hear of some other cashed up bastard wanting to hire a webmaster to run this or that scheme... lots of people trying to buy a last piece of the action right now imho
I would have guessed a person or company would have to be grossing 50mil to be on the top ten last year. But that is pure guess work.. wouldnt be surprised if that drops to 30mill this year though!
Last edited by Opti at Jul 10 2003, 01:08 AM