I have a friend who is a local celebrity in the weather business. He's a TV weather guy. He just put up his own website and announced it on TV. He has done ZERO advertising of his site other than that.
In 18 days he has had 265,000 hits to his site, and the site isn't even 10% developed yet. His "guess" is that within a year, he will be getting 50,000 hits a day. Right now it is about 14,725 hits a day. ( and the current site is TERRIBLE ..... but what he has planned is AWESOME! )
He plans to market this commercially. So, I told him I would ask the masses:
1. For a site of this size, should he expect to be able to be profitable, via advertising?
2. How much might a site like this cost to run for a year.... right now it is all text and graphics, but eventually he plans to ad LIVE streaming video, plus have archived video that people can watch.
He is also considering adding a VBulletin forum to his site.
Any and all opinions / info would be appreciated.
In 18 days he has had 265,000 hits to his site, and the site isn't even 10% developed yet. His "guess" is that within a year, he will be getting 50,000 hits a day. Right now it is about 14,725 hits a day. ( and the current site is TERRIBLE ..... but what he has planned is AWESOME! )
He plans to market this commercially. So, I told him I would ask the masses:
1. For a site of this size, should he expect to be able to be profitable, via advertising?
2. How much might a site like this cost to run for a year.... right now it is all text and graphics, but eventually he plans to ad LIVE streaming video, plus have archived video that people can watch.
He is also considering adding a VBulletin forum to his site.
Any and all opinions / info would be appreciated.
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