2web Crew #8 - Markus Frind of Plentyoffish.com
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Duncan Riley and Richard Giles talk with Markus Frind from Plentyoffish.com, the largest free dating site in the world with over 15 million pageviews a day.
Markus is a one man show, earning $10,000 a day from Google’s Adsense. In fact, he mentioned after the show that that number is now dated. We discuss his business, how he runs it on only several Window’s systems (Microsoft’s perfect advertisement), Adsense, SEO’s getting into web sites development, his web design (or lack of), and the normal question about whether it’s a good time to start a web business.
Apologize upfront. I’m still stunned at his success, so I spent most of the conversation sounding as such, and Duncan was under the weather with a sick child at home, so he was a little distracted. There was also a strange echo on the line, but you get the gist.
May 3rd, 2006 at 1:07 pm
[...] I interviewed Markus Frind, along with Duncan Riley of B5Media, this morning for the 2web Crew podcast. He created and runs Plentyoffish.com. Clay Cook of Minti put me on to him. [...]
May 4th, 2006 at 4:50 am
[...] Good catch by Darren Rouse of ProBlogger, who points out the 2WebCrew Interview of Markus Frind of Plentyoffish.com. [...]
May 4th, 2006 at 6:57 am
$10 000 a day from AdSense…
A dating website called PlentyofFish earns its owner $10 000 per day in AdSense earnings alone and this figure may already have been eclipsed…. We discuss his business, how he runs it on only several Window’s systems (Microsoft’s perfect advertisem…
May 4th, 2006 at 8:25 am
This interview was awesome! It is hard to beleive that he is pulling in that much money. I really enjoyed this interview.
Paul Sanchez
May 4th, 2006 at 9:07 am
It may sound like a lot of money, but he is doing 15 millions pageviews a day, so the conversion is not very high. I know sites doing this amount of pages in three months instead of one day, but getting aroung 10 times more money.
May 4th, 2006 at 9:52 am
I wish I was earning $10k per instead of a few cents!
May 4th, 2006 at 9:56 am
[...] Yes all these thoughts were running through my head after listening to the 2WebCrew Podcast with Plenty of Fish’s Markus Frind. This podcast was one of the most boring podcasts ever. No offense Duncan. It was more like a conversation at the bar. But that’s alright I still learned a lot. Markus Frind wanted to keep everything a secret which is fine but why have a podcast if your going to say I can’t comment on this every five minutes. The truth of the matter is 80% of what ugly people do to win dates is a mystery to them, they try to cloud this in an air of mystery. This has never fooled me. Just like ugly sites. Sometimes you stumble onto success but you don’t know the answers to why. Well for the first time ever you are going to find out what the answers to these and other valuable secrets. Do you want to be as rich as Markus Frind ? Do you want to bang the hottest chicks? (figuratively speaking — I’ve heard the hotties actually have a higher ration of STD’s so I stick with the ugly ones) Do you want to the be net’s next zillionaire? Of course you do. And if you send me 19.99 in a SASE I promise you I will reveal to you the secrets you’ve been dying to know. Just kidding. [...]
May 4th, 2006 at 10:50 am
[...] Podcast interview with Markus Frind of PlentyOfFish.com, a free dating site that makes $10K per day via Adsense. Needless to say, he’s got massive traffic in order to get to that figure. [...]
May 4th, 2006 at 12:07 pm
[...] And let’s put it this way, listening to 2WebCrew’s podcast interview with Markus inspired me to change my paradigm about what one man can do. More amazingly he did it with little to none marketing efforts, besides word of mouth! [...]
May 4th, 2006 at 5:38 pm
[...] You can listen to the 30 minute long postcast interview here. [...]
May 4th, 2006 at 8:37 pm
[...] Duncan Riley and Richard Giles interviewed Markus earlier this week on a podcast for their 2webcrew show, over at the Podcast Network. Here’s their blurb on the interview: Markus is a one man show, earning $10,000 a day from Google’s Adsense. In fact, he mentioned after the show that that number is now dated. We discuss his business, how he runs it on only several Window’s systems (Microsoft’s perfect advertisement), Adsense, SEO’s getting into web sites development, his web design (or lack of), and the normal question about whether it’s a good time to start a web business. [...]
May 5th, 2006 at 5:38 pm
Wow! 10k a day! I’m very impressed. Do you need a moderator for your website?.
May 5th, 2006 at 6:26 pm
Yes, I wish he could’ve revealed a little more of his “secrets”, but nonetheless it was inspiring. Anything is possible with the internet! With a little (or a lot) of hard work, patience, and perserverance, it can be done :)
May 5th, 2006 at 9:22 pm
Impressive indeed and operated by one person.
May 6th, 2006 at 3:38 am
I would loved to hear the free service vs paid service to compare if doing an adsense only approach is more profitable than a paid dating web site.
May 6th, 2006 at 8:31 pm
[...] Listen to the podcast. RELATED POSTS [...]
May 7th, 2006 at 5:36 pm
[...] Markus Frind, the guy who makes USD10,000 per day via Adsense said this in his podcast. [...]
May 8th, 2006 at 10:25 am
[...] Markus Frind of Plentyoffish.com Plentyoffish webmaster explains how he makes money from AdSense (tags: adsense) [...]
May 8th, 2006 at 7:43 pm
[...] http://2webcrew.thepodcastnetwork.com/2006/05/03/2web-crew-8-markus-frind-of-plentyoffishcom/ [link] [...]
May 8th, 2006 at 11:47 pm
Hello
Been trying to download the podcast but haven’t been able to.
Is it still available for download?
May 9th, 2006 at 1:45 am
[...] Markus Frind Interview [...]
May 9th, 2006 at 3:14 am
Outstanding interview - There iwill always be naysayers. Sme think he should have revealed more; The truth of it is in the building and maintenance (not much) of a valuable, content driven site. Markus simply explains the reality of this to the world. A vibrant person; a killer niche and the power of traffic to content is what it is all about. I am certain he could take a few minutes and improve his click-through, but this goes to show the world what the average person with a not so average site can do. Awesome!
Chris
May 9th, 2006 at 3:56 am
I listened with fascination to Markus Frind’s success story. I am very proud of him as it wasn’t long ago he was a candidate for me in my sybersearch recruiting business. He was someone I placed some years ago. I am now the student as I have earned all of $3.07 in Adsense earnings since I began in March 2006. I can only dream of $10K a day but would be over the moon with that per month. Way to go Markus!!
May 9th, 2006 at 5:05 am
People asked about other affiliate programs….
http://www.plentyoffish.com/aff.jpg
Creating a free adult dating site and upselling to adultfriendfinder.com or Sexsearch.com would make you a billionaire, and that is no exaggeration. I make good money off it and have next to no adult traffic nor do i want it.
As for question of free vs paid, a free dating site will only make a small fraction of the money a paid dating site makes. I’m not sure of the exact amount but its under 1%. Most free dating sites will barely break even if they are lucky. The problem is no one else has figured out how to dramatically reduce the cost of the infustructure.
May 9th, 2006 at 8:57 am
Awesome interview. Very inspiring. Thanks for sharing with us.
Mark
May 9th, 2006 at 4:05 pm
[...] I just checked out the 2webcrew podcast. I have to tell you that I was pretty amazed! [...]
May 9th, 2006 at 9:57 pm
Outstanding, inspiring, I am awe struck. My brain has been expanded, you? I have heard of other non-pretty sites doing big biz numbers, not in adsense, but with affiliate programs.
http://spyware.pcwash.com , an anti-spyware software site comes to mind.
John
May 11th, 2006 at 9:50 pm
[...] Hey! Did you get a chance to listen to podcast with Markus Frind — the guy behind PlentyOfFish.com? If you haven’t already, click here to listen to it. It’s pretty interesting. Related Posts: People, Ad Revenues, Case Studies No Comments [...]
May 16th, 2006 at 3:02 am
[...] 首先简单介绍一下这个强人。根据TPN的报道，他的名字为Markus Frind，运营着世界上最大的免费约会网站——plentyoffish.com。这个网站平均每天的浏览量为1500万PV，它所投放的AdSense广告平均每天的收入超过了惊人的10000美元，并且还只是一个相对保守的数据而已。与此同时，Markus还在这个网站上投放了其它一些广告，因此他每天的广告收入远远超过10000美元。 [...]
May 19th, 2006 at 6:10 am
Super Interesting podcast. Thank you Markus. You make everything sound very achievable no tricks or fancy stuff. I would like to know when google will open adsense to other languages. We need to share the wealth…
May 21st, 2006 at 2:41 am
The funny thing about plengyoffisth.com is i know a friend that uses this site and now she is married. This is amazing! great interview. finally someone talks about the truth. All these so called gurus dont say how long it took them the make there first dollar. Or how long they get listed in the search engines. Keep up the good work you guys i enjoyed your interview..
mike
May 23rd, 2006 at 7:23 pm
[...] Telefon-Interviews und Expertenwissen Nun sind die Informationen die eine Person liefert schon recht interessant, die Qualität und dadurch der Mehrwert für den Besucher erhöht sich allerdings, wenn mehrere Personen über ein Thema diskutieren. Wenn sich zum Beispiel 2 Web-Experten über den Bereich Usability unterhalten gibt es einigen Gesprächsstoff. Für viele Themen ist ausserdem die Sichtweise einer einzelnen Person absolut nicht ausreichend. Dadurch bieten sich Diskussionen durchaus an, der Hörer kann sich somit seine eigene Meinung bilden und muss nicht zwangsläufig einem einzigen Autor glauben. Ein sehr schönes Beispiel dafür ist das Interview mit dem Gründer und Betreiber von Plentyoffish.com [...]
May 29th, 2006 at 6:11 pm
[...] Briefly, i’ll intro this giant to you. According to TPN (the podcast network), his name is Markus Frind, the owner of world largets free dating network site, plentyoffish.com, with 15 million pageviews a day. Adsense in his site bring Markus Frind USD 10,000 everyday. Besides adsense, he also having other ads on his site. [...]
June 5th, 2006 at 9:49 am
Are Designers Clued In?…
Ever since Scoble posted this post a debate has been raging about anti marketing design. It looks like the debate can be broken down into 2 sides, Designers are calling this BS. My experience is that what users say they want and ne…
June 9th, 2006 at 12:22 pm
[...] Last month Duncan and I interviewed Markus Frind from Plenty of Fish for the 2web Crew podcast. [...]
June 9th, 2006 at 2:22 pm
Plenty of cash!…
I can’t get enough of hearing and talking about PlentyOfFish.com
Plentyfish.com is a personals site run by one guy, Marcus Frind, and it clears US$10,000 in AdSense revenue per day! That’s right, not a typo $10k/day (aka ~!US$3.6M per yea…
June 12th, 2006 at 12:19 pm
Thank you for this excellent interview!
This story will encourage a lot of people!
June 13th, 2006 at 9:07 pm
[...] Aufsehen erregt hat Markus im März, als Scoble in einem Beitrag über ihn geschrieben und die “Ugly-Design-Debatte” angerissen hat. Die Grundidee dabei ist, dass Sites mit amateurhaftem Design besser konvertieren, weil sie von den Besuchern als vertrauenswürdiger empfunden werden im Vergleich zu “big fancy corporate-style sites”. Im Mai wurde von 2webcrew ein vielbeachteter Podcast veröffentlicht mit einem Interview, in dem Markus einige seiner Geheimnisse preisgibt. Seit kurzem betreibt er nun ein eigenes Blog, The Paradigm Shift. In einem Beitrag von vorgestern beschreibt er, wie aus seiner Sicht Viral Marketing funktioniert und wie Sites wie plentyoffish.com davon profitieren. Es gibt seit dem Erfolg der MillionDollarHomepage viel Hype rund um Viral Marketing, wobei oft vergessen wird, dass das beste Viral Marketing langfristig nichts nutzt, wenn dem User nicht ein toller Service mit klarem Mehrwert geboten wird! [...]
June 16th, 2006 at 6:29 pm
Any chance of another podcast?
Molly
June 17th, 2006 at 2:43 am
[...] 1. Plentyoffish - täglich 10.000 Dollar durch Adsense 2. Facebook - wöchentlich 1.000.000 Dollar 3. Dann gibts da noch einen der seit 1995 ne Website hat und diese seitdem aktualisiert. Ich konnte es nicht mehr finden, aber nach Angaben verdient er 80.000 Dollar im Monat durch Affiliate [...]
July 11th, 2006 at 8:52 pm
Markus doesn’t offer a shred of proof for his grandiose and unbelivable claims. And he doesn’t mention his draconian management style that causes huge turnover among members. POF members only last a few months at best after being insulted by Markus, his lackey moderators and his 4 pages of rules and regulations. Wish him luck, he needs it.
July 11th, 2006 at 10:26 pm
actually mike, he has posted photos of some of his adsense cheques for $800,000 up on his site so… I think that buys a lot of luck. And I don’t think he exists to prove anything to you.
July 24th, 2006 at 8:30 pm
Very nice work of Markus he made a site and made some money, true or not about the 10k he gets every day
I also made a site to get in contact with people, date,… all by myself called Me Tarzan You Jane http://www.MeTarzanYouJane.eu
And no I’m not a company, and yes I also started this to learn some aspx. I normally programmed asp but wanted to change to a newer more powerfull language.
The site has it’s share of members in Europe but the rest of the world can also follow now because everything is translated in english.
So guys and girls if you want some real honest site, no fake entries, blogs on the internet just real stuff then support me and sign yourself and your friends up. All free.
Not happy, then contact me via the site and let me now what bothers you and most of the time in the past after hearing something I also implemented new wishes or enhanced the site.
July 24th, 2006 at 8:48 pm
[...] Dieser Trend, der von Plentyoffish.com Gründer Markus Frind losgetreten wurde (sehr ausführlich im Podcast in diesem Podcast zu hören) scheint nun auch auf andere Website-Entwickler überzuspringen. Neuestes Exemplar ist hier Driverchange.com und nachzuhören in diesem Podcast. [...]
August 28th, 2006 at 12:58 am
[...] Su nombre es Markus Frind es creador del sitio Plentyoffish.com el cual posee un trafico enorme, para que se den una idea su pagina llega a las 15 millones de paginas vistas por día. Sus ingresos de Adsense llegan a 10000 dólares diarios. Recientemente la gente del blog 2web Crew en uno de sus podcasts entrevistó a Markus y realmente no tiene desperdicio. [...]
October 16th, 2006 at 3:54 pm
Outstanding interview. I have only recently been learning about Plenty of Fish. Thanks for the great podcast.
April 25th, 2007 at 4:49 pm
its really such a wonderful work of Markus. Hope i could earn at least 1k per day.
May 10th, 2007 at 3:38 am
Perhaps Markus may want to work on the “Customer Service” part of the site. If you keep deleting people for no reason at all you may start to lose some $$
August 15th, 2007 at 5:25 am
Woh, I am really impressed. Markus must be good at math and marketing. His success makes me work harder on my site.
Thanks for sharing.
January 16th, 2008 at 5:37 am
This is a great MP3. I first heard of the website on another Place, I believe on Guy Kawasaki’s Blog. It’s very motivating to think that you can code a website and make a lot of money…
Thanks
July 9th, 2008 at 1:59 pm
bullcrap! to the poster who says he can beat markus. he cant!
i admire him and have been on his site since ‘03.