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polish_aristocrat · 08-04-2007, 01:58 PM

Ok, I will give you a serious answer.

1. yes, some people are definitely hiding from IRS,... but that's not the main thing... because
2. this board is based on reputation, postcounts, and board personas.

So if I tell you I make $1500 per month, people will laugh at me.
Everyone thinks the same way and that's why 80% of people posting about their income, are artificially inflating it.. or just posting pure bullshit.

Either they want to fit better into the community, or they want to feel better about themselves, or they are just trolling.

There are many people here earning really very small amounts, there's a good portion of people making a good living on it and some make a very very good living.

The questions about traffic, conversions etc are totally stupid and naive, but don't get me wrong, I asked them as well.

But as someone pointed out, dependent on the traffic source you can convert 1:100 or 1:5000. But keep in mind that normal adult traffic does convert rather shitty nowadays, and if there's any norm then it's definitely worse than 1:1000.

But this industry gets worse and worse each year, that means it's harder and harder to make money. Some people will tell you "my income gros each year" thus making it sounds like my previous statement is wrong... but actually it is true. Those people are smart, they try new things to make money, scale them, automate and move to new stuff. So yes, if you're smart and you know what you're doing, you can surely grow each year. But overall it's getting harder to start and the conversions are getting worse, so hypothetically if you had a steady traffic source of 5000 visitors per day, today you'd be making less money than 3 years ago with it and FARRR, really FAR less than say 8-10 years ago.

08-04-2007, 01:58 PM
polish_aristocrat Too lazy to set a custom title Join Date: Jul 2002 Posts: 40,377	Ok, I will give you a serious answer. 1. yes, some people are definitely hiding from IRS,... but that's not the main thing... because 2. this board is based on reputation, postcounts, and board personas. So if I tell you I make $1500 per month, people will laugh at me. Everyone thinks the same way and that's why 80% of people posting about their income, are artificially inflating it.. or just posting pure bullshit. Either they want to fit better into the community, or they want to feel better about themselves, or they are just trolling. There are many people here earning really very small amounts, there's a good portion of people making a good living on it and some make a very very good living. The questions about traffic, conversions etc are totally stupid and naive, but don't get me wrong, I asked them as well. But as someone pointed out, dependent on the traffic source you can convert 1:100 or 1:5000. But keep in mind that normal adult traffic does convert rather shitty nowadays, and if there's any norm then it's definitely worse than 1:1000. But this industry gets worse and worse each year, that means it's harder and harder to make money. Some people will tell you "my income gros each year" thus making it sounds like my previous statement is wrong... but actually it is true. Those people are smart, they try new things to make money, scale them, automate and move to new stuff. So yes, if you're smart and you know what you're doing, you can surely grow each year. But overall it's getting harder to start and the conversions are getting worse, so hypothetically if you had a steady traffic source of 5000 visitors per day, today you'd be making less money than 3 years ago with it and FARRR, really FAR less than say 8-10 years ago. __________________ I don't use ICQ anymore.