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Loss making TV channels and internet companies

2k9 — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 10:35:13 +0000

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.

How to sue Google and win, spending $40

2k9 — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 14:59:51 +0000

A 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

2k9 — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 12:10:18 +0000

Tata 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

2k9 — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 12:20:11 +0000

It 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

2k9 — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 11:27:32 +0000

I 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

2k9 — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 09:13:03 +0000

Most 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

2k9 — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 14:38:53 +0000

Interest 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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2k9 — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 13:41:01 +0000

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