I agree :) ... last check weren't they doing 22 mil$ per day in ad rev? 3.5 days covers 150 exploits

According to the .co registry, e.co was sold for $81,000, so I doubt a.co would be that much cheaper.

Source?

text'd my pal over at amazon HQ

and he was all like "19 grand, brah!"?

I'm notoriously bad at predicting what technology trends are going to work and which ones aren't... I'm leaning towards this just wont catch on, which I've learned means it will probably catch on like a wild fire. Haha

Hard drives..

Jk... but seriously, good question! it's gotta just be a massive feet of engineering

bet it'd be 100x as big...

hah sorry had to.. but seriously would be crazy!

Now do it in pennies.

Here's a trillion pennies:

http://www.kokogiak.com/megapenny/sixteen.asp

And if that's not enough, one quadrillion pennies:

http://www.kokogiak.com/megapenny/seventeen.asp

and if that's still not enough, one quintillion pennies:

http://www.kokogiak.com/megapenny/eighteen.asp

Now do it in peak-of-hyperinflation Zimbabwean pennies! I'm not sure if there's enough atoms in the universe for that.

has anyone seen the HTML5 based runescape 3? http://runescape.wikia.com/wiki/RuneScape_3

Crazy!

agreed... this article ignores the fact that lots of people simply don't like pepsi, Diet Coke sells more than pepsi

If you're in third place... you have to make it a choice until you're first

I get 100% of all my sales through Facebook... as a small business owner social media is the lowest price entry point directly to your audience

That's a great point. But Facebook is starting to stonewall business owners with promoted posts, and the value of the channel seems to be dipping lower and lower. So business owners work to build up these audiences, and then they're charged a premium to get any eyeballs. At this point, a simple website and a good SEO expert might be a better long-term investment.

I've literally stopped my SEO efforts.. most are just price checking anyways, looking for 'the lowest price' (web design services)... I tend to find building a relationship and educating my potential clients better than trying to get a sale from SEO window shoppers, I can do that best with social media... I've started driving people from my website to my social media profiles, and I'm doing the same with my clients

Really? I find few things more annoying than going to a business's or organization's website and finding it has no details about them, their products, their services, or anything else useful -- all because some genius has decided that facebook/twitter/google+/etc is a better platform for that information than their website.

Want to know the result? My money goes elsewhere.

It may be better to stick to targeted advertising (e.g. Adwords) where you can aim at consumers further along the sales funnel by controlling specificity and have an easier way to track conversions.

Also any money invested in SEO, as in building good content vs. SEO "tricks", usually has a bigger payoff than paid advertising.

Interesting. What kind of business?

Web Design - mainly building B2B sites as well... Behind every 'B' is a 'C'... I connect personally with business owners around my city and post useful info about how they could build their business with a better website. Get about 3 leads a week from people asking for more information - get about 1 sale a week.

I've literally stopped my SEO efforts.. most are just price checking anyways, looking for 'the lowest price'... I tend to find building a relationship and educating my potential clients better than trying to get a sale from SEO window shoppers

thanks in advance for checking it out :) i think many of us can relate haha