Money?

Is anyone making money from this business?

[uk_dokey]

I just wanted to take a poll really to see how my fellow webmasters are doing in the UK. It seems that maybe we are behind the US in this business. My company has been around for 1 year now and we struggle to cover our costs. The best we seem to do is recoup half the costs at best. Let em know how you do and whether you advertise purely on the net i.e search engines etc. Also if you have good positions does it really lead to sales for you?

[4eyes]

We make money by managing and optimising sites for our customers.

One of our customers is a small (2 man) company who sell popular and competitive products (which shall remain nameless coz I don't want anyone snooping at what we did :))

They sell from a 'real world' shop and also through their web site. They are now doing 75% of their business thru the web site and are very happy at their return on investment.

Their site has 200 (static) catalog pages, most of which are getting a top 10 position on Google, and similar elsewhere.

We didn't use any tricks, just clean optimisation coupled with a structured and themed web site. The single most important factor was having a customer that listened to our advice (all gleaned from this forum) and was prepared to trust that we really did know what we were doing.

And that is a bl**dy rare thing indeed :)

[IanTurner]

Barely enough to stay afloat, have been in business 3 years now and in December we get our third years accounts and thus hopefully the opportunity to get more public sector work.

We make money from a number of services including optimisation, 2000/IIS hosting, web design and web database applications. The combination gives us enough to keep trading, hopefully as our hosting business matures things will become a little easier.