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Where Did They Start Their Millions: PlentyOfFish
Website: PlentyOfFish
Founder: Markus Frind
Place started the business: In his office
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Back in 2001 after his birthday someone in the office introduced him to online dating sites. He went back to his desk and checked out udate.com and kiss.com and lavalife/web personals. He was bored and He wanted to chat with people. He was really annoyed when he found out you had to pay for everything, he ended up telling the girl who introduced him to the sites that he could do better and make them for free, so he went and registered Plentyoffish.com.
Adsense Millionaire: PlentyofFish.com and Markus Frind
Markus Frind is a Canadian entrepreneur who owns PlentyofFish.com, the world’s largest online dating website. According to reports in 2006, he earned around $10,000 a day through Adsense’s contextual advertising program.
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According to a recent article , Plenty of Fish now receives 45 million visitors along with 1.1 billion pageviews every month.
His annual income from PlentyofFish.com alone is currently $5 to $10 million a year.
What is fascinating is that Markus Frind is a one-man show. He virtually ran Plenty of Fish by himself, along with help from his girlfriend and other voluntary moderators.
This is however, set to change as Markus has plans to gradually develop a team of 20 to 30 employees over the next few months.
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