Well, Digital Point just paid over $100,000 for new equipment to keep up with the demand so the point is kind of mute. You have to pay to play no matter what your angle is.

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I know the feeling. However, you've just got to jump in balls deep sometimes.

Like they on Shawshank Redemption...."Get busy living or get busy dieing".

While I refuse to ever be in debt financially, I figure that most people are blowing their money on purses, jeans, or Outback Steak. I may as well blow my money on stuff that could really pay off in the long run....before someone else does.

Brandon Drury

Mute??? Are you saying that it's not worth it? Do you think Digitalpoint said "You know...that's a big investment. Maybe we should just stay small or quit"?

The point is hardly mute. They'll pay for that in 8 months or less. That's about like a concrete company buying a new truck. There are always costs to doing business. It just so happens that great tools and hosting are a lot cheaper than buiding a restaurant or starting a storefront. If you don't believe me, take a look at the prices for advertising in magazines or even your local newspaper. IT'S OUTRAGEOUS!!

The average car dealer in my area sinks $100,000 into radio advertising every year. They still afford $2,000,000 buildings and multiple employees.

I think webmasters, in general, are spoiled. We've had it so easy to make money. The game is getting tougher every day. I'll gladly sink some money into a site I believe in.

Brandon

my wife works at an advertising agency and they don't take a new client unless they are willing to drop 250k into ad's.

Trust me, I know it takes money to make money ;)
hence, why I keep spending money on this site, I know It'll pay off ;)

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For $3k, I can go buy 10 good links for a year. Chances are, if the links are truly 'good', I'll make my 3k back, and then some.

Rather then spend hours upon hours finding good sites that will sell on-topic links, I can spend that time coming up with a good idea for a cool tool, spend $3k to have a programmer create it for me, then release it to my forum members. If the tool is worth its salt, I'll end up with dozens, or hundreds of links. Links that will last more then a year, and links that will be on topic to the tool, and to my website.

Theres lots of webmasters that will gladly send out link request emails for 8hrs a day, theres a few SEOs that send out link buy emails 2 or 3 hrs a day. But the truly successful create amazing content or amazing tools that create links naturally and organically.

Wonder what kind of tool would work for this type of site ?

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Thats the hard part.

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The Digital Point tools... are they ones they designed themselves? Or, are they open source type tools/software??

Thanks!

Lyte

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I'm sure theirs are custom, but you can find free version of most those if you want to run them on your site at this site.. Free SEO Tools

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Ohh... good link! I didn't know 'bout that those!

So, would I use that VB Link/Download hack in order to offer those??

Thanks!

Lyte

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um, i don't know how you would want to share them.

btw, i sent u an email

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