Bin Laden T-shirt seller, 23, makes $120k in two days

John Romaine

13 years ago

http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...0k-2-days.html

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ronr 13 years ago

oops someone beat me to it.
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Ken Strong 13 years ago

Originally Posted by ramone_johnny

http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...0k-2-days.html

This thread was here first, let's use that one.
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Andyhenry

13 years ago

I find that whole thing distasteful but I guess some people will want to learn from the fact that he made money - if it was IM he would now be a Guru.

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Emmanuel Sopitan 13 years ago

Word. True, thats how pathetic standard of rating we have now
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ruch1v

13 years ago

Yeah this isn't uncommon, I have a funny t-shirt website (nothing like this though) and it's not unlikely for other t-shirt companies whose mailing list I'm on to send out an email for related tshirts on the same day as the incident.

I'm not too bothered about people making fun of Bin Laden's death (if it even happened, but that's for another thread) but what really pissed me off was a site mailing out for their 'anti-pedo' tshirts celebrating on the day Michael Jackson died - What is wrong with people! I remember replying back to that broadcast too

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Dann Vicker

13 years ago

That's called cashing in on what's hot in the market. Quite a few im lessons to learn from this.

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sbucciarel

Banned 13 years ago

Gross, tasteless tees, but someone has to supply people with no taste ... lol

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KenThompson 13 years ago

Originally Posted by sbucciarel

Gross, tasteless tees, but someone has to supply people with no taste ... lol

No not really. People with no taste have it in their blood. lol

Ever see "Back to School" with Rodney Dangerfield?

"Call me when you have no class." LOL

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GeorgR.

13 years ago

Sorry, need the whole story. Just debating this with my wife heavily also.

So he runs home, gets the domain and gets the site up at 3:30am in the morning. T-Shirts via Zazzle....CHECK

My question is: How did he get TRAFFIC to the site, how did he spread word about his site?

I mean, you can make a zillion sites....but people dont simply come to the site if they dont know it. THIS is what i want to know..how did he spread word about his site?

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Seekness

13 years ago

Had to have been heavy PPC - adwords, facebook, etc. There probably wasn't much bidding competition for these keywords since it was so new, not to mention not too many ways to monetize something like this besides apparel, surveys, etc.

Originally Posted by GeorgR.

Sorry, need the whole story. Just debating this with my wife heavily also.

So he runs home, gets the domain and gets the site up at 3:30am in the morning. T-Shirts via Zazzle....CHECK

My question is: How did he get TRAFFIC to the site, how did he spread word about his site?

I mean, you can make a zillion sites....but people dont simply come to the site if they dont know it. THIS is what i want to know..how did he spread word about his site?

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KenThompson 13 years ago

Originally Posted by GeorgR.

how did he spread word about his site?

That thought crossed my mind, too, briefly. But considering how extremely
viral that story was, and the sentiment it stirred, it seems a novelty item
like that would get heavy word of mouth advertising pretty fast.

If he has friends on FB, something so hot like that news would only need a
jump start to take off.

Kudos to him for taking decisive action.

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sbucciarel

Banned 13 years ago

There are numerous ways he could do that.
Adwords
Twitter
Facebook
Media Buys
Other Social Media

He probably is also good at getting indexed fast and probably used a combination of all of the above.

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Mike Hill

13 years ago

Love it, absolutely love it... Good for this kid to recognize a hot market and actually take immediate and massive action.

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skorpion

13 years ago

Anyone know his actual website or where he sold the shirts? Unless I'm just missing it somewhere...

Cool story.

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mattlaclear

13 years ago

I have a hard time buying into this story. We're pulling in great money every month but we're constantly fighting paypal and our merchant account providers for increases. Last month we went from $50k in sales to $78k (and yes we do have screen shots to prove this) and we had half of our accounts temporarily shut down because of the increase. So we had to fax all kinds of stuff to them including invoices to prove the purchases were legit. SO how in the heck can someone make that kind of cheese right out the gate?

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christopher jon

13 years ago

I mean, you can make a zillion sites....but people dont simply come to the site if they dont know it. THIS is what i want to know..how did he spread word about his site?

Yeah, that is my question as well and the most important piece of the puzzle.

It wasn't SEO. The site wouldn't have been indexed that quickly or ranked very well to begin with.

The product was sold through zazzle which could have been enough to jump-start the product and start a viral buzz.

Adwords? Possibly.

Something to think about while waiting for the next BIG EVENT.

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x3xsolxdierx3x 13 years ago

lol...hate to say this...but, maybe it really didn't see sales until headlines, like this thread, began to come out?

Of course, that would require lying about earnings, and that never happens online. lol

Has anyone found his site yet? I think I missed it in the article...
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Fernando Veloso 13 years ago

Originally Posted by christopher jon

Something to think about while waiting for the next BIG EVENT.

When next event hit, people will be talking about it - not making it profitable.
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PPC-Coach

13 years ago

That's one market he can have. I would not want to be on those insane terrorists "todo" list.

Dumb move for a quick buck.

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temp_12000

13 years ago

who is the #1 terrorist now? dam*, I should not mention this, someone may register his related domain already!

come on, how many times this kind of things can happen in our life? how many people are competing for these things? looks like keep doing my daily job may have a better chance to make me some money. oh, well, maybe just me.

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Jeremy Morgan 13 years ago

I could see why some would be offended, but I gotta say I wish I thought of it. This is a prime example of jumping on something while it's hot. The guy may not have a lot of long term success but he's sure got a nice pile of money to work on a future project.
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