Just like... people I know in poker consistently and vastly underestimate how much money the poker portal I help run makes. Basically, I don't think people who don't make money online realize how much money there is to be made online. It's a lot.
I'll try to get more specific for you...
Think of a site like WWTDD.com. It's a good site. You look at it and it's nice. But you probably never think, "I wonder how much money this site makes?" Let me tell you, it's a lot.
First, that site probably gets 5 million visitors daily (that's a ballpark guess, I could be off by a lot, but there's a decent chance it's reasonably close). Each of those visitors is worth money. In the case of this site, not very much. It's a celebrity gossip blog. Their traffic is worth shit. But each visitor is still probably worth half a penny to the site on a daily basis (again, that's a guess and I'm probably underestimating if anything). That's $25,000 in revenue per day. For a bunch of silly celebrity gossip. Now they probably spend a bunch on rights to photos and hosting costs, but nowhere near $25k a day. That site literally profits millions a year. Does this characterize somewhat how the value of websites and Internet traffic is more than people realize?
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