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Originally Posted by Dugmor
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Holy shit, taking it waaaay back.
Does anyone remember JJJ links? I remember the first gallery I I submitted to them and was accepted. I had a counter at the bottom of the page. I woke up one morning and it had something like 190,000+ uniques in like 8 hours. I looked at the stats for the sponsor and it showed something like $1,800. I was like cool! I get 20% of that which is killer! The revenue kept rising but at the same time depleting over the next weeks. What I didn’t realize was that the sales figure that I was seeing WAS the 20%. I immediately stopped going to my day job, bought some (very overpriced) hosting, and I was off in my internet sales/marketing journey. This was like 1998 or 1999. Hand making galleries in Microsoft Front Page on my $3,000 HP Pavilion 300mhz or whatever it was that I purchased from Circuit City. It was all on dial-up too! I think I used a company called Atlantic.net for my ISP. Ahh, the memories.