eCommerce Tycoon

**Elenis** · 05-30-2008, 03:05 PM

Iam an experienced web programmer (PHP,MYSQL,CSS,AJAX) yet i never won a single cent with that experience, how ironic can that be?

**ECSuite_Russell** · 05-30-2008, 03:45 PM

Unless being a programmer makes you good at counting cards, not very?

Now if you've never EARNED a cent, that's something different.

**Elenis** · 05-30-2008, 05:02 PM

I ran some awesome sites yet their monetization always failed, maybe my work is cursed

**andrei155** · 05-30-2008, 05:11 PM

Are you looking for advice, or what..

**Elenis** · 05-30-2008, 05:17 PM

No, maybe wrong forum

Yet i didn't find any appropriate category for this

**VirtuosiMedia** · 05-30-2008, 05:22 PM

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Originally Posted by Elenis

I ran some awesome sites yet their monetization always failed, maybe my work is cursed

Unfortunately, having the technical skills to code a website doesn't necessarily mean that you will be able to monetize that same website. Monetization falls in a different category altogether. If you're serious about it, you'd do well to look into conversion rates, A/B split and multivariate testing, design, typography, content editing, and on-page optimization to name a few of the things you'll need to be successful. If you want a good place to start, check out this site.

**Elenis** · 05-30-2008, 05:36 PM

Is a site that receives 1 million pageviews/month bad optimized?

**andrei155** · 05-30-2008, 05:38 PM

Not to be rude, but if you haven't made any money, then yes.

**Elenis** · 05-30-2008, 05:55 PM

You only think of money?

**andrei155** · 05-30-2008, 05:57 PM

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yet i never won a single cent

you did it first : P

**Elenis** · 05-30-2008, 06:07 PM

I said: "I never won a cent with web programming", i didnt say "I never won a cent with web programming therefore i only think of money"

**andrei155** · 05-30-2008, 06:11 PM

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I am an experienced web programmer (PHP,MYSQL,CSS,AJAX) yet i never won a single cent with that experience, how ironic can that be?

From your original post. You have 21 words, not including the brackets. 10 of these words are relating to money and earnings.

Meaning that more than 50% of your post is about money.

Meaning that if we used this biased piece of information, you think about money 12.5 hours of a day.

**ECSuite_Russell** · 05-30-2008, 07:08 PM

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Originally Posted by andrei155

From your original post. You have 21 words, not including the brackets. 10 of these words are relating to money and earnings.

Meaning that more than 50% of your post is about money.

Meaning that if we used this biased piece of information, you think about money 12.5 hours of a day.

Brutal Andrei, hehe.

Elenis, what were you getting at? I still don't understand what the purpose of your original post was.

**Elenis** · 05-30-2008, 07:30 PM

Like i said before it was just a statement, i was pointing the irony, this place have a forum for successful stories, i do believe there should also a forum for unsuccessful stories like this one

**willcode4beer** · 12:30 PM

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Originally Posted by Elenis

I said: "I never won a cent with web programming", i didnt say "I never won a cent with web programming therefore i only think of money"

if you want to win money programming, maybe you should try topcoder

Quote:

Originally Posted by Elenis

Like i said before it was just a statement, i was pointing the irony, this place have a forum for successful stories, i do believe there should also a forum for unsuccessful stories like this one

Shouldn't we (all) try to focus on success instead of the negative?

On to the topic of money. Did you create a business plan before building your site? Did you enter into it with a plan to generate income? As you learned things developing and promoting your site, did you modify the plan with the new information?

**Elenis** · 06-03-2008, 01:34 PM

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On to the topic of money. Did you create a business plan before building your site? Did you enter into it with a plan to generate income? As you learned things developing and promoting your site, did you modify the plan with the new information?

The only thing i didnt try yet was paying people to get my products o_o

**VirtuosiMedia** · 06-03-2008, 02:56 PM

If you share your site, we'll review it for you.