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111,885 Views, 236 Comments & ZERO Income

by GarrieWilson
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A friend of mine asked how many visitors, days, weeks,
years it takes to make mony from ads.

My reply to him was simple.

1.

He then sent me to an Instructable he made in 2007
that has 111,885 views & 236 comments but has made
him a WHOPPING ZERO dollars.

Nothing. Nada. Zilch.

Sure, it's a free instruction and from what I have seen,
Instructables.com doesnt share revenue but with that
many views he should be making money with it.

So... What would you do to turn this around?

Would you turn it into a Kindle/Nook ebook?

Put it on a site and give it away and upsell videos?


Garrie
#111 #236 #885 #comments #income #views
  • Profile picture of the author kenmichaels
    He says he has 800k newsletter subscribers, does he at least make money off of that ?


    if you say no, you need to smack your friend upside the back of his head.


    he has a "pro" section , bottom price $2.oo a month.

    if he is not even making money with that. to me, it sounds liek most people
    are getting what they want for free, OR they are just one time visitors.

    Both things can be fixed rather easy.

    A) limit what they can do for free, more then it currently is.

    B) figure out a way to make them repeat customers.

    .... Side note: maybe hes giving to much away in his news letter?

    also on the purchase page, i just two lists. supposed benefits of why you want to buy pro.

    but i don't see any "real " reason, any real call to action
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      • Profile picture of the author kenmichaels
        Originally Posted by joseph7384 View Post

        Are you replying to the right thread, I don't see were he says he has 800k newsletter subscribers.

        Am I missing something here.

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        • Profile picture of the author kenmichaels
          ok, wait a sec....

          you had typed Instructables.com. which i visited,
          then you put a link in your text, to a sub page.


          so your friend doesnt own Instructables.com ?

          he just has a page, selling the BB gun? which s not making any money
          is this correct ?
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          • Profile picture of the author GarrieWilson
            Originally Posted by kenmichaels View Post

            ok, wait a sec....

            you had typed Instructables.com. which i visited,
            then you put a link in your text, to a sub page.


            so your friend doesnt own Instructables.com ?

            he just has a page, selling the BB gun? which s not making any money
            is this correct ?
            Yes. His page is the BB gun page only.

            I was confused. The site provides zero revenue sharing.
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          • Profile picture of the author MikeTucker
            Originally Posted by kenmichaels View Post

            so your friend doesnt own Instructables.com ?
            You have never heard of instructables.com?

            They are fairly popular and rank on the 1st page
            of Google for a lot of "How To" type questions,
            a lot like mashables.

            But, the only reward for authors is recognition
            and insults from other members, for the most part.


            If this guy wants to monetize his toy,
            he is probably going to have to put his article
            somewhere else.
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            • Profile picture of the author Tonylee93
              Originally Posted by MikeTucker View Post


              If this guy wants to monetize his toy,
              he is probably going to have to put his article
              somewhere else.
              I agree with this statement it might be easier if he publishes a similar (not the same because thats delicate content and google hates that) somewhere else that you now will make him money. Maybe on hubpages or squidoo at least then you will be making money for sure ... in due time and hard work of course!
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  • Profile picture of the author GarrieWilson
    Oops. I forgot to add the URL.

    And no. He doesn't have anything tangible from it.

    Garrie
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  • Profile picture of the author GarrieWilson
    Thanks Mike & Tony.

    Any other suggestions for him?

    Garrie
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    He needs to know who his readership are and sell them what they want.
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    Tell him to check other earners and copy it. Just my 2 cents
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  • Profile picture of the author wfhblueprints
    GarrieWilson,

    Does your friend have an actual website?

    If so he will benefit from having a link back to his site where he can then sell them something....

    He could record a step by step construction of a similar bb gun and offer a product based on that.

    Hard to see him making anything off instructables...when I cannot see much of an attempt at monetizing it.

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