Ask HN: How did you 'accidentally' make money?

Re:Ask HN: How did you 'accidentally' make money? by kadavy on Monday July 12, 2010 @02:02PM (#1508776)

I'm having trouble thinking of what offers on CJ would be right for this. There are Marijuana delivery services in SF, right? You could sign them up and serve ads locally using Google Ad Manager.

What about HighTimes.com? Maybe they would advertise. Better yet, see who advertises on HighTimes, and contact those companies.

Do you have a newsletter? You could collect email addresses and send out a weekly digest or something. Put in a little more time, and offer articles and tips (?) on smoking weed. Email lists are extremely valuable.

You can definitely make way more than you are already. AdSense ("Webmaster Welfare") has pathetic CPMs. The ads its serving up on your site are irrelevant. I know creatives like to smoke weed, but Adobe Creative Suite? Seriously?

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Re:Ask HN: How did you 'accidentally' make money? by endlessvoid94 on Monday July 12, 2010 @02:18PM (#1508826)

Those are great tips, thanks. I actually have some high profile people following @thathigh on twitter, namely, Snoop Dogg, Sarah Silverman, Doug Benson, Bill Maher, and Guy Kawasaki. Not sure how to capitalize on those, as twitter doesn't send a ton of traffic to the site. Any ideas? :-)

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Re:Ask HN: How did you 'accidentally' make money? by kadavy on Monday July 12, 2010 @03:13PM (#1509035)

Wow, that's interesting. I guess I would start by just trying to have a conversation with them on Twitter or something. A retweet from Snoop would be great!

Or, you could create a little badge on your site for social proof. "We're followed by..." Keeping it up to date would be a challenge, but they probably won't unfollow you.

Seriously, e-mail those advertisers though, it will be the easiest money you ever made. They would love to advertise on your site.

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