Interesting article on loss making TV and internet companies in India - Bleeding to death . Unless you understand internet technology very well, it is difficult to make money online.
Loss making TV channels and internet companies
August 14th, 2009Hackers back in action
May 26th, 2009After a long break, the hackers are back in action.
For about 10-15 websites , I have got the message Hacked by 3rm4k
Earlier some other websites were hacked by Santix.
Someone has lots of $ to spend troubling me
How to sue Google and win, spending $40
March 6th, 2009A lot of Adsense publishers have suffered from their Google’s arbitary decision making process.
Useful info on how to sue Google and win (spending only $40)
In the long run, transparency helps. I will be writing a more detailed post on this in a months time.
Internet download limits in India
March 4th, 2009Tata Indicom broadband unlimited plan usage limits – it is a good thing that they are implementing them. Till last month, I could barely use the Tata Indicom connection during the day, due to some people misusing their connection. My other ISP connection with a monthly download limit was much faster.
It is easy to say that it should be unlimited, but everything has finite limits and volumes in India are low.
H-1B abuse
February 14th, 2009It seems the recession and job losses are making the authorities pay a lot of attention to H-1B abuse. Most of the arrested seem to be Indians. There is no coverage in most Indian internet media.
Revenues of Indian Internet companies
February 5th, 2009I have always been curious to know the turnover of Indian internet companies . This analysis of Infoedge results is very revealing. Some of the larger companies have more than 1000 employees and a turnover of about 200 crores, so per employee contribution is about 0.2 crores (20 L). I wonder what the average salaries in this sector are.
Other internet only companies
Revenue for Web 18 (based on their quarterly results) seems to be about Rs 60 crores
Rediff – averages to be $24 million or approximately Rs 120 crores
Indiamart – Rs 38 crore / 900 employees (based on the comments)
People Interactive - 400 employees
The SEM companies may be having a higher turnover, but a large portion of the money is paid to Google and Yahoo. These are the high profile internet companies.
There may be other internet companies with a higher turnover, or much more profitable than these companies , but if they are not publicly listed or do not want /need funding from external sources, their turnover will remain a secret.
For internet companies, manpower and office costs are the major cost, the profit margins are much higher, but if you are not diversified, you could face problems during a recession.
Sale of Tripmela at eBay for less than $2500 – a fairly low price, considering the effort put in. Making money from the Indian internet market seems to be challenging.
Monetization options
January 24th, 2009Most people developing information websites plan to monetise them using Adsense, but it is a poor long term choice.
Declining Adsense revenues for publishers. Unfortunately , most publishers are brainwashed into thinking that this is the best choice.
Large scale website development
January 11th, 2009Interest post on a developed website network.
Moxymedia – 30,000 developed websites. To build a reasonably large network of websites (1000+) takes a lot of time. But once you have a network, there is little competition, especially if you can keep your overheads low and don’t depend on PPC for monetisation.
Nearly 2 years ago, I spent a lot of money on domains, but I ‘m glad I did, at least part of the experiment paid off.
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January 11th, 2009Links and comments on interesting posts in 2009