The Journey To The IPO

I hate when a review requires 200-300 words and only has 3 sentences to pull information from, it gets old quick.

I think it was a waste of money. You will get the traffic now, but it was too early and you do not have enough content to make the readers return to your site.

Its hard to review a concept let alone a concept thats been half-assed. So it was a good review.

Dude! That was an easy $300 :D

If collaborators want to do that they should join Trendirama instead. Although we have a lot to improve, at least we are on the way already, the idea is original, clearly explained and has great potential. (think quality of posters-readers on that site compared to quality of readers/posters in youTube or digg)

Click's potential value to an advertiser and quality of visitors may well be the main standard to value internet companies, rather than page views.

As Schwarz said "what is the value of a click towards your website from someone that can buy a plane from you?" How much would you pay to attract that visitor?

Quality is the key in the future, not quantity. And whatever you do, you still need some good business idea behind your site to begin with...

regards

You guys are great :razz:

Re: selling the domain, of course I'm open to the potential of selling it. LOL why wouldn't I leave that option open? I'm sure John Chow would sell TTZ if the money was right. Heck, any company, any where in the world is for sale, at the right price.

This $300 has been very well spent, those that don't see, well they just don't see it.

the dudes trying to sell the url for 250k
lol. i dont think anyones going to buy it. i mean maybe a url like fishing.com is worth that but not insane.cim. i mean thats rediculous.

There could actually be light at the end of the tunnel here. There’s plenty of time/opportunity to revamp the site. :smile:

I think, that $300 was well spent judging from the response to this review. Reason being it will generate traffic for days if not weeks. People will be curious to see what happens. $300 is nothing to spend on marketing.

JC is a businessman and as a business person why would you turn away money for a review that allows you to be guilt free.

I think this was an excellent example of making money online not just from JC but also from the person who spent the $300.

let him make money.. why are you people pissed off?

That's the purpose of the review. If John has to visit the site, read the posts and then decide not to review it, didn't he just basically review it?

My question is, when you get a reviewme request, how much of the site do you look at before you decide to review it?

Look if someone walks up to you and says I'll give you $300 to try this new Cola drink and tell me what you think, would you do it? You can't drink it and then say you I don't review Cherry drinks and walk away. Well, I guess you could, but that would be stupid.

Although the site had 2 posts, John still gave his usually high quality review with insight on what they should be doing. He could have easily just blasted the two posts and talked about the site layout or something. He did research to find out the registar, owner's name, etc... He still earned his $300 (or rather $150). :wink:

I see nothing wrong in reviewing a bad site, as long as it falls within the subject of this blog: making money oline. Which it does, in this case.

Eh I went to the site for 2 seconds then left.

I guess publicity is publicity -- the site is getting a lot of attention and perhaps that’s that main objective.

John - did you try firing off an email to get more details before writing the review? I don't have any issues with you taking the money if the product really is that bad, but you could have given them a bit of a chance to explain themselves and to get VFM

guess what, the domain name is listed for sale both on sedo.com and afternic.com. See for yourself:

http://www.afternic.com/insane.com

http://www.sedo.com/search/details.php4?domain=ins...

monetize the comments! $5 for each comment!

First he had the 300 bucks which was good for John Chow. Why would I refuse 300 bucks to tell you your site isn't all that.
For most, they'd not be too happy doing that review but I would have done it .Hey if anyone wants to offer me the 300 bucks now ,I am ready.Just don't blame me if I say something not nice.

that dude is insane. people will only join if they have a since of security and they wont have one if they dont even know the owners name.

I support the decision of John Chow to do this review. It was interesting, plus there are lessons to be learned here - such as if you want to market something, make sure you know what it is first!

Wow! $300 to get your awful site slammed by John Chow. I would have written about how bad the site is for free!

Kumiko