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Pimping is much better than running a call center

Saturday, April 26th, 2008

Disclaimer: This post is nothing but wacky humor. Do not take it serious to your hearts.

Finally I managed to close down my extreme loss making business of running the call center. It is not just money, but in all totality Call Center Business was a failure. To begin with I never really liked the concept of outsourced Call Centers. Running a global business, I myself keep on facing numerous difficulties because of outsourced call center. But anyway since every other guy in India with a bit of money was doing it, I also jumped into it. After losing a good chunk of money and peace, finally I am able to quit the CC business.

Wow what a nightmare it was. Always complaining clients, hectic schedules, clients not paying the money, employee quitting once they make enough money to purchase a cell, data theft, back stabbing people. Gosh I wander why at the first place I even started it.

Now coming to think about it, here is why running a Call Center business is similar to being a Pimp and running an Escort Agency.

1. Both business typically work at night
2. In both businesses as an employee Girls are more in demand.
3. It is tough to find talent in both businesses.
4. Talents are typically very unreliable and they tend to switch places with even very little extra money.
5. In both businesses, in CC business Owner, and in pimping business Pimp is helpless without good talent.
6. Both businesses require young talent.
7. With both businesses you typically do not get any respect in society.
8. Government has tough regulations against both businesses.
9. Both businesses have moody talents.
10. In both businesses talents dream to be free of the pimp and start on their own.

Now here is why Pimping is better than Call Center

1. You will always make profit in pimping
2. In Pimping, end client is always satisfied. Whereas in Call Center business End client (person making call) is unsatisfied 95% of the time.
3. In Pimping, no one can steal your client list.
4. You do not own any obligation towards talent in pimping.
5. You do not require any infra structure in pimping
6. You  make cash money in pimping
7. Pimping is just a few hour night business as compared to CC which goes for whole night.
8. In pimping you just provide transportation to talents. In Call Center you provide Food, Transportation, Drink, Party, Movie Tickets … List is endless.
9. In pimping you can close the business any day without any obligation.
10. In Pimping talents quit and be freelancers. They never become pimp to others.

Cheers.

~Nitin

Getting traffic from lycos.fr etc.

Sunday, April 13th, 2008

Life always comes back to full circle. I well remember during early 2005 all serps were dominated by crapy doorway pages. Sure taking a lesson now a days Google manually polices all high traffic keywords. But even Big G can’t monitor 100% web results manually. Here is how its happening right now.

1. Go to google search for any long tail ringtone keyword. For example lets search for mp3 ringtones for sprint phones . Here is what I see.

Ringtone Mafia of SERP

All top SERPs are dominated by pages hosted at free web-sites. When you click on any of the links, it is either redirected through javascript to advertiser page or a page full of banner ad with keyword stuffed in comes.

I did some reverse engineering and here is step by step how people are doing it.

A> Create a free account at any of popular free hosting site (e.g. lycos.fr)
B> Select any niche. Let’s say Ringtones.
C> Grab million long tail keywords.
D> Get a tool to build million pages each dedicated to its own keyword. Page should have some random keyword, some random article and that’s all.
E> If you are really smartass, you may put NOARCHIVE tg in meta, so that google doesn’t keep a cache of your page.

<META NAME=”ROBOTS” CONTENT=”NOARCHIVE”>

F> In header do javascript cloaking to your advertiser. With javascript cloaking when a human will click on Search result, it goes direct to advertiser page, whereas when Search Robot comes in, it will see the original page.
G> Upload all million pages through FTP.
H> Now all you got to do is somehow get these pages indexed. There are million ways of doing it. Typically these Blackhaters will do blog spamming to get links or if you really want to play safe, all u need to do is somehow get ur page crawled. There are tools available at various blackhat forums, which will get ur million pages indexed in no time.
I> In 1-2 days, your pages will be in SERP. Since lycos.fr etc are authority domain + ur site has nothing but keywords, you will rank good for long tail keywords.
J> Indeed longevity of these sites is always big Question Mark. A typical site will last for 3-5 days before someone will report it to G or Lycos and they will shut this site out. But by then BH guy already has gotten thousands clicks and made $. Beside all the work is done by tool, so in a day he will come out with hundred of these sites.
K> Goes without saying, I don’t recommend you to do this or any of other BH trick. If you wanna try, try at your own risk. However If you are one of those million losers of the web who are not really doing anything other than just whining and complaining about the spam on the net thinking that they are doing something useful in life, I gave you guys enough feed for whole year. Go check Google 24 hour and you will find millions of pages to complaint about:)

~Nitin

New direction for the blog

Sunday, April 13th, 2008

Ok Everyone. I am restarting to concentrate writing at my blog once again.
Basically during my last stint as blog writer I really lost the focus because at times to me it seemed bragging talking about how big I am and how much money I am going to make and all that. Also lately there had been a surge in make Money Online blogs. Anyone with a bit ebook reading used to claim themselves as Gurus and start giving tips for online money making. Also I got tired of people bitching at my blog about quality of the net and all that.
So in new incarnation of my blog, I am going to set a few records straight.
A> It is MY blog and I will write about the things that work for me.
B> I am very good in peeling the skin of any site / technique. So I will post more and more technique about how people are using the net to generate traffic / money.
C> All that I willl provide will be information. I do not endorse any stuff.
D> Some of the stuff that I talk about may fall into certain grey area of traffic / revenue generation. If you have any issues with that, I suggest you not waisting your precious time at my blog.
E> This blog is different than any other blog, because without emphasizing on just one specialized way of making money online, I will act as undercover agent and will disclose how people are generating traffic / making money.
F> I am not an innovator nor I have a vision like Einsteen. However I am good at duplicating how stuff works and how to produce something at mass scale. If you see something of interest on net, feel free to share it with me at nitin@omsolutions.net
G> Our focus has now totally changed. We no longer work for clients and writing programs for clients. So no client / programmer stuff.
H> Most of the stuff that you will read here, you might have read somewhere along with 1000 different ideas. However here we reverse Engineer the stuff that is working and then we will post case studies of working methods.

With these words I am starting new phase of journey for our blog.

Nitin