Local e-businesses

[jazzy]

Hi. How's our local e-business doing? Ok, when i say e-business, these are business that their primary business or source of profit is their websites.

Im referring to the likes of yehey.com and pex of course? Do they still earning and how? What are the other companies into this business?

I wonder if ads in their site will suffice.

[jazzy]

any idea guys? :)

[Melfan]

ours is fine. we primarily earn from ads and commissions. the money we are making can make us live a decent lifestyle here in the philippines

[what]

i think ads won't suffice, especially these days when the economy's in a slump

the key is diversity

offer promos (like here in pex, they hooked up with nestle for the nesvita promo), offer freebies, offer tours...pex hooked up with the hongkong ad board recently for the shop in hongkong promo

of course, pex got paid for these promotions

[jazzy]

melfan,
what's your website?

what,
i heard from my boss that yehey.com is already a multi million business. is it true?

Do you guys know any book, mags or website that can shed light on this? Really curious on this kind of businesses.

[gumacanian]

This aint local but the kid must be taking 2000/3000 $ every 10 days or so...It can be done.

www.pimpslord.com

[trizfores]

how do you set one up anyways?

[woofers]

Does selling domain names and webspace count? My friend makes a couple of thousand a month, but not enough to live on. Of course he had to do a bit of initial sales and legwork, approaching companies and convincing them they needed to put up websites but now he just bills them every year.

[mcgyver8]

same as mine...www.webhostingexperts.biz I also setup people to have their own webhosting businessess.

check out the reseller plans.

[jazzy]

Im referring to top e-businesses or dot coms here.

Web hosting and design can be done nowadays even of a student. Ive been into that business too, but opt not to play on the same ground.

Lots of hosting lowered down their fees as low as P50 a month. It kills the industry. That's why hosting now is just a sideline to me.

[woofers]

Originally posted by jazzy
Im referring to top e-businesses or dot coms here.
I was with a certain online service provider from day one until early this year. At its peak it had a captive audience of about a quarter of a million active users in the Philippine and Singapore. It worked great for a while, but the sudden drop in advertising expenditures after 9/11 killed the business model. They've been trying other revenue streams, from prepaid cards to reseller programs to corporate solutions and mobile applications but without much success.

It's a shame because the concept was great, the technology behind it was scalable and all the people there were bright, passionate, hardworking and motivated. Still, it was a hell of a ride! I wouldn't trade the experience for the world.

The hot tech companies right now are those in the mobile content arena. They're making so much money it's ridiculous!

[jazzy]

woofers,

may we know the company name? if you dont mind. :)

[svey]

hi guys! pls. help me naman balak ko kc magpagawa ng website to sell some stuff. Kaya lang napanood ko sa tv na yong ibang nag-papagawa ng website found out later na di sa kanila yong website. Pano ba malalaman na sa akin nga talaga yong pinagawa kong website? And may tax bang binabayaran?

[shalomsiy]

Well madaming opportunities diyan sa net para kumita. Madami nagsasabi may money sa blogging. Well that is true if you have content and traffic. Kung wala, e di palpak blog mo or website mo. sayang lang pera and effort. Ginagawa ko ngayon PPC (pay per click) ads. Experiences ko nasa link. Meron din mga stuff dyan about blogging for those interested.

http://angatpinoy.com/viewtopic.php?pid=1115#p1115

[mamee]

hi guys! pls. help me naman balak ko kc magpagawa ng website to sell some stuff. Kaya lang napanood ko sa tv na yong ibang nag-papagawa ng website found out later na di sa kanila yong website. Pano ba malalaman na sa akin nga talaga yong pinagawa kong website? And may tax bang binabayaran?

may online business ako at gusto ko mag lagay ng own website. ok ba yun? advantageous ba yun?

[what]

yes of course. e-commerce is very advantageous. most of the big companies na nga ngayon entertain orders placed via the Internet. nagbabayad lang ang client using a credit card or a third party company like paypal or xoom, you receive the order and then when everything's in order, ship the items through a courier