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Monday, January 14, 2008

Online Mohabbatein Earns Him Millions...

Markus Frind, 28 is a millionaire who works just 10 hours/week. He stuck gold by starting an Online Dating site Plentyoffish.com. He started it just to learn a new language ASP.Net he himself never knew that learning a new language would make his so rich. He Works out of his apartment in Vancouver, British Columbia,and he says he has net profits of about $10 million a year.Below is the image of the Cheque he received from Google AdSense, worth a million. This was his second check for 2 months, as the first one was rejected by his bank stating that the amount was too big !! Recently he hired an employee to maintain the site, until then he was the only one who was maintainign the site.


There are many dating sites, but what makes plentyoffish.com a success is that its totally free. The tag line says..100% free. Put Away Your Credit Card.The site has a few flaws though, very less or no customer service, poor look and feel, members photos get distorted as there is no feature to re size your photograph,in spite of all this his site has 500 million page views.Markus says as he gets visitors in spite of these flaws he considers them trivial and doesn't bother to fix them.


At a point it became difficult for him to scan the new members for spam, and to verify the pictures for nudity. He solved this by calling for volunteers from his members to do the job, and as people take good interest in looking at others picture and profile, it worked out well for him .Below are some of his facts as mentioned at moneygeek.


Markus Frind :
-- Age: 28 years old

-- Height: 6' 0" (183 cm)

-- Sign: Gemini [6]

-- He started Plentyoffish site because he had to learn ASP.NET and he doesn’t want to buy a book

-- He said Plentyoffish traffic = 3 X Digg.com traffic..

1 comment:

M.P.Singh said...

Interesting post, you never know which of your move will make you billionaire. Lets hope same for this blog too.