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yes, like 15% more. Normally your employer pays half of the payroll tax - as an owner you pay 100% of it yourself.

Last I heard he was only making ~$100k/yr off it. That was a few years ago though.

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$46k monthly/$550k annual - expecting 680k/yr by December.
DC area

110% guarantee he is actively looking to replace you after that incident.

2013: 65k
2014: 120k
2015: 175k
2016: 400k current rate, pacing for 500-600k pre-tax

business owner.

I'll clear $500k this year and the fact that I found the affiliate marketing thread many years ago is a big reason for it. Hard work and good ideas are not for everyone though.

business grew quite a bit these past several weeks. now doing over $1k/day in profit. Pacing for about $480k/yr by the end of Q2.

eCommerce. I advertise my own business on the GDN as well, since I know the targeting capabilities allow me to target exactly who I want (Gmail targeting). I look at it as a sunk cost - for me,...

Try search advertising.

Yes and no. Some of my clients do run on the GDN, but it is typically very difficult to drive a profit there on anything other than remarketing.

losing search share? um no. not even close. The opposite actually since yahoo/bing broke up.

s corp?

How are the tax savings over a sole proprietorship?

Set a goal to double the size of my business to $500k ARR this year. At the current rate, I'm going to hit that sometime next quarter. Have prospects lined up already that would allow me to hit that...

It can help you rank when the site is just starting out, and generally might help you if you are in a niche with branded competitors who also have poor link equity, but if you're competing against...

This.

Took me about 9-12 months before I ended up making any kind of money, and it actually came from my 3rd website - first 2 ideas were failures.

Why not just make it legible?

Passed $250k in annual recurring revenue this month. Goal is to hit $450-500k by end of the year.

I typically see bing/yahoo SEM produce about 1/10th the revenue of Google for my ecommerce clients. 30% is quite inflated.

PLAs dude - Google Shopping and Bing Shopping. Optimize your product feed. That right there should add steady sales.

anyone here hold REITs?