Amidst the doom, there are some who bloom!
It’s getting hot everywhere – Global warming on the environment front, recession is blazing and almost all business houses talk of budgets being cut down, sales looking bad, overhead costs high, performance under scanner, unpaid leaves and in worst cases staff SHOWN THE DOOR!
Ask the economic experts and they all remain hopeful that the latter part of 2009 should be fairly better than what we are going through now. Billionaire Warren Buffet described that the economy has fallen off the cliff and warned of unemployment climbing further before the recession is over. There are many out there feeling doomed already after having got the Pink slip and many more caught up in the fear of “What next” or “When is my turn?”.
For those of you who wake up with a war of worries, I thought I will share the success story of Marcus Frind who is referred to as the online dating King today. In the year 2003, Marcus founded www.plentyoffish.com – a hugely popular on-line dating site that gets 1.2 billion page views per month and half a million unique logins per day. The most amazing part is that until recently (few months) when he hired a customer service representative , Marcus handled all of it as the CEO and the only employee of this company with a handful of servers. It is reported that he makes up to $10 million a year on Google ads working only two hours a day.
Marcus started this company at a real bad time in 2003 when he was shifting every 2 months from one sinking company to another and was about to get fired. To learn about birth and growth of this empire, I encourage you to read his blog at the link below:
https://plentyoffish.wordpress.com/2006/06/14/how-i-started-an-empire/
Some of Markus’s statements that left strong impressions in me…
When he added the Goole Adsense affiliate program to monetize his site for the first time, he says;
“I made a whole $5.63 cents my first month, but that was more then enough for me to realize that I wouldn’t go broke running the site and I could make a business out of this with enough traffic” – You might make very little money to start but the positivity is what matters!
“I refused to accept defeat of any kind, and I constantly forced myself to test new things” – Keep Innovating!
“When 2004 rolled around and word of mouth REALLY kicked in and as they say the rest is history”.- You need to get people talking about you or your company!
“I look back now at how ill prepared I was, I didn’t know anything about SEO, Advertising, community and I didn’t even know what Venture Capital was. Just goes to show you ANYONE CAN DO ANYTHING! “
For those of you who wake up with a war of worries, I thought I will share the success story of Marcus Frind who is referred to as the online dating King today. In the year 2003, Marcus founded www.plentyoffish.com – a hugely popular on-line dating site that gets 1.2 billion page views per month and half a million unique logins per day. The most amazing part is that until recently (few months) when he hired a customer service representative , Marcus handled all of it as the CEO and the only employee of this company with a handful of servers. It is reported that he makes up to $10 million a year on Google ads working only two hours a day.
Marcus started this company at a real bad time in 2003 when he was shifting every 2 months from one sinking company to another and was about to get fired. To learn about birth and growth of this empire, I encourage you to read his blog at the link below:
https://plentyoffish.wordpress.com/2006/06/14/how-i-started-an-empire/
Some of Markus’s statements that left strong impressions in me…
When he added the Goole Adsense affiliate program to monetize his site for the first time, he says;
“I made a whole $5.63 cents my first month, but that was more then enough for me to realize that I wouldn’t go broke running the site and I could make a business out of this with enough traffic” – You might make very little money to start but the positivity is what matters!
“I refused to accept defeat of any kind, and I constantly forced myself to test new things” – Keep Innovating!
“When 2004 rolled around and word of mouth REALLY kicked in and as they say the rest is history”.- You need to get people talking about you or your company!
“I look back now at how ill prepared I was, I didn’t know anything about SEO, Advertising, community and I didn’t even know what Venture Capital was. Just goes to show you ANYONE CAN DO ANYTHING! “
