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Uploaded by on Oct 27, 2010

The UK recently ran the "Make Your Mark With A Tenner" competition, where students were given £10 and challenged to make a profitable business with it. How would you bootstrap a business if you were given £10?

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  • Dear GoogleWebmasterHelp, you must be out of your mind. Even if you were educated to degree level, were an experienced developer-designer and if electricity, broadband and development-time were all free, then you would be left with the biggest challenge to online success: the google search engine itself.

    It was once possible to create this type of business, before google implemented the "power only goes to the powerful" algorithms.

  • For £10 you can get a whole year of hosting, or with some .info offers (think $2/domain)... you do the math, and use a free host like 000webhost

    Spend the remaining ~£8 on adwords.

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  • I must agree.. Really brilliant idea..

  • brilliant idea!

  • Where do I send this: Dear Google, what do you think of businesses that increase your pagerank for $100 a month? I know that they work, so what is it they are doing, and can it be legitimate, and/or with in google's very strict guidelines?

  • @slvrmsngr Seriously though - I'm still interested in this debate. It sucks that you did a few years work and end up with $30 per week from it. However, the fact that you generated that much traffic is still significant.

    Would you share with us, how you do it? If I can see a dependable way of getting even 100 true visitors per day, - that's a chink-of-light right there. I'll change from selling hotel rooms to selling Toyotas.

    What program do you use to create your optimised portal?

  • @emmetor Wow that really clears things up

  • @slvrmsngr - Correction: I started a site that was eventually making me $6000 per month in profit. Mr Bin Laden kicked it in the nuts, along with various natural disasters that hit the travel industry. I always bounced back, until Google made my sites a ghost-town. So, all my travel keywords started to point to MSN, AOL, CNN, ABTA.

    Why? because PageRank cannot do the only thing it's supposed to. It can't rank pages because it's not capable of thinking like a human. Page Rank can't Rank Pages

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