My Big Break: A Lucky Accident

By Dane Carlson on May 7, 2011 in Administrivia

If you haven’t yet read my (long) post about how I accidentally started a blog as a business (this one), you really should take a few minutes today and give it a read.

You can imagine my surprise when I saw that the first full day that ads had run I made $28.83 on 24 clicks! The second day netted $33! All of this from a website that had just been sitting there for a couple years! In two days I’d made back more than I’d spent paying for the domain registration for all those years.

Read it.

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Business Opportunities Weblog editor and publisher Dane Carlson lives in the Sierra Nevada mountains of California, just 15 miles from Yosemite National Park. He accidentally became a professional blogger in 2001. He has added 12,203 posts to the site.