January 12, 2000; This project is a complete waste of time...
For the past few months 3 team-members came, and left us again. Guess most people recognize failure rather quickly, en get out a.s.a.p. In the meanwhile we still do not make any serious bucks whatsoever. Our Greed-O-Meter hit the $ 200,- mark. We managed to earn that with a team of 3 guys in no less than 5 months...
But last week our luck seemed to change! The Black Stump listed us on their 'Bizarro Page', and some people have been writing us because they want to exchange links. Today we are awarded 'Grouse site of the day'. That may sound funny, but those Grouse people have sent us about 250 visitors in one single day! On top of that, Yahoo finally listed us after sending an e-mail to their helpdesk!
August 17, 1999; The total failure of this project
You won't find many people in the Internet business who admit these sort of things without trying to cover up the most pathetic facts, but perhaps we are a bit different. The simple truth is, our ambitious Million Dollar Quest is a total failure up to now! Today's count shows a figure of little over 95 dollar, just enough to buy us a few books and magazins about the latest Internet developments. It took us over 3 and a half months to earn this money, and remember; there are three of us! So up to now, each of us has managed to earn 30 dollarcents a day.
Just look at these results and weep!
Although many claim the Internet is a gold-mine, we haven't seen much cash come to us yet, despite the tens of hours we spend working on our projects. The funny thing, or the sad thing if you wish, is that the actual website you are looking at now is the most disasterous contributor to our results. This website is online since july 1, and received only 30 visitors up to now! That is about 0,6 visitors a day! We know of people who have websites about their rabbit or dog, and who manage to attract about a hundred times more visitors every
day!
Apparently, we do a lot of things wrong. One of the most important explanations for not getting any visitors we think is the fact that we don't succeed in getting listed with Yahoo. We tryed to submit for several times now, but it just doesn't work. Today we will start a new offensive for getting some attention on the web. We will let you know about the results
soon.