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Markus Friend Of Plentyoffish.com by Seun(m): 8:41pm On Jan 09, 2009
Frind's online dating company, Plenty of Fish, is newly located on the 26th floor of a downtown skyscraper with a revolving restaurant on the roof. The gleaming space could easily house 30 employees, but as Frind strides in, it is eerily quiet -- just a room with new carpets, freshly painted walls, and eight flat-screen computer monitors. Frind drops his bag and plops himself down in front of one of them.

He looks down at his desk. There's a $180,000 order waiting for his signature. It's from VideoEgg, a San Francisco company that is paying Frind to run a series of Budweiser commercials in Canada. Like most of his advertising deals, this one found Frind. He hadn't even heard of VideoEgg until a week ago. But then, you tend to attract advertisers' attention when you are serving up 1.6 billion webpages each month.

That's a lot of personal ads. "One-point-six ba-hillion," Frind says slowly, smacking his lips on the hard b. "There are maybe 10 sites in the U.S. with more than that." Five years ago, he started Plenty of Fish with no money, no plan, and scant knowledge of how to build a Web business. Today, according to the research firm Hitwise, his creation is the largest dating website in the U.S. and quite possibly the world. Its traffic is four times that of the dating pioneer Match, which has annual revenue of $350 million and a staff that numbers in the hundreds. Until 2007, Frind had a staff of exactly zero. Today, he employs just three customer service workers, who check for spam and delete nude images from the Plenty of Fish website while Frind handles everything else.
http://www.inc.com/magazine/20090101/and-the-money-comes-rolling-in.html
Re: Markus Friend Of Plentyoffish.com by Nobody: 12:08am On Jan 10, 2009
The guy makes more money in adsense in one day than most people make in a year. it is truly amazing. A site that runs itself and makes millions of dollars each year. Sometimes you have to be at the right place at the right time. Being among the first also helps.
Re: Markus Friend Of Plentyoffish.com by Nobody: 4:02am On Jan 10, 2009
The guy don overcome sufferhead for life. If i get that kind opportunity, i go just delete all these scripts wey i alwayz dey write throway everything them.
Na Wa O. If the guy even fit give me secretary job - make i just go help am type letter sef,
Re: Markus Friend Of Plentyoffish.com by OmniPotens(m): 5:05am On Jan 11, 2009
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The guy don overcome sufferhead for life. If i get that kind opportunity, i go just delete all these scripts wey i alwayz dey write throway everything them.
Na Wa O. If the guy even fit give me secretary job - make i just go help am type letter sef,

You are just too funny. What will you be doing with that kinda job? Oya, throw away your skills and see if hunger will not partner with you for better payment contracts grin
Just kidding wink

But those are good figures. What do think about Entrepreneuring then? The key?
Re: Markus Friend Of Plentyoffish.com by Seun(m): 11:26am On Jan 15, 2009
Traffic is the key to this kind of earning.  That's what I love about adsense.  Once you know how to generate legitimate traffic to your website, you don't really need to know anything else about business. That's why I will never teach a seminar about entrepreneurship. Because what do I know, really?

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Re: Markus Friend Of Plentyoffish.com by tumfulu1: 11:18pm On Jan 22, 2009
idiot wat do u kno?
lazy man
Re: Markus Friend Of Plentyoffish.com by coldwater(m): 10:23pm On Jan 30, 2009
tumfulu.:

idiot wat do u kno?
lazy man

grin grin grin
Re: Markus Friend Of Plentyoffish.com by ztyle(m): 11:08pm On Feb 01, 2009
idiot wat do u kno?
lazy man
Dat na slap for our admin face!grin

Dude if i may ask why must u make such remark to the Oga of Naira?

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