for individuals making 1k/month or more

Sorry to give you the bad news - every business is different.

Every marketer is unique and brings different experience, skills, talents, knowledge, aptitudes, tolerance, resources, and work ethics to the table.

What someone else is doing in their business has absolutely no bearing at all on what you will or can do in your business!

The best you can do is to go into this marketing game with your eyes wide open, not prone to listening to or believing all the hype you will hear about how easy and profitable it is to sell things online.

Do some market research first to locate online demand for solutions to common problems. You might also look for desires/dreams/passions that are common and that you can help fulfill for a price.

Don't fall for the BS that you will be handed because you're new, unsuspecting, and looking for a way to make income online. Your time will be much better spent in looking for unmet demands in the marketplace where you can supply a product or service for a fee that will solve problems and enrich people's lives.

The very best to you,

Steve

What someone else is doing in their business has absolutely no bearing at all on what you will or can do in your business!

yes I know there are different ways that people make money online and some methods for them may not work for me, I'll just reprhase that as getting a good feel for what I need to do and replace that with getting a feel for what other marketers are doing to make meny online. thanks for the tip though, as I do know that there is a lot of crap out there that is being taught

check this guy out he has alot of free content for beginners and he is the real deal in my opinion and read his story it's kind of inspiring CharlesNgo.com | Internet Marketing Strategies.

Just focus and what you are capable of doing online. You can make more money if you really know well what you're doing.

But don't settle with what you already know. You have to keep learning and discover what other things you can offer.

As I've said many times; you either have it or you don't.

Some good advice here even if it might sound harsh. The thing I notice with a lot of people getting into business is they're thinking they can follow a set formula to generate income like they would with following a study plan to get a degree, or complete a checklist of tasks in a job to climb the promotional ladder. In business if it were as laid out like that, you can bet that a bit organization would already have exploited it. Kind of like the efficient market hypothesis with the stock market. As other have mentioned, you need to find a niche and come up with a unique product and creative way to market to it.

Boy do you have this wrong ! forget the 1K for now you have learn one thing first then expand

No one will give you the way they make money this is a marketing site and you think others would not copy

go to udemy website look for courses on what you want to do then learn and take ACTION then maybe then you may get your first $50 week

RW

This is such a broad question. Making money is making money. The internet is just a tool to do so. Here's a piece I'm working on to include as an appendix in my book, because I'm so sick of being asked what magical forces allow someone to make money online.


Appendix 3: Making Money �"Online”
Despite the hype, doing business online is not fundamentally different than doing business offline. The internet simply offers a new, rapidly evolving venue to promote and operate your business on.
What the internet is NOT:
A magic button for generating cash for little or no work.
A shortcut or substitute for building a real business model or creating real value.
A passing fad for business.
Something requires a highly technical skillset that only geniuses and geeks can learn.
Websites used to be very difficult and expensive to build. Now, there are platforms which will allow you to host and maintain a basic website for free, or a more dynamic one for a small monthly fee. Wix, Weebly, and Squarespace are some of the most popular simple website builders with drag-and-drop functionality for non-designers. Wordpress is a popular content management system with greater freedom in design and function, but which is also more complicated to use. These, and other tools, hade starting a professional-looking website very affordable and easy for most businesses.
Your website is simply an interactive representation of your business. At the very least, it should communicate the products/services you offer, the values you stand for, and a very easy way to begin buying from you. The most basic ones are essentially glorified business cards or brochures, with the sole purpose of getting a visitor to call or email you. A website can also be an entire portfolio of work, or a thriving ecommerce store with many product offerings, a shopping cart, and payment processing capabilities. When most people complain about building or designing a website, they are really complaining about not having a clear vision for what their business should look like.
Your website will need at least a small amount of written content and other media to make your business look like a legitimate professional entity they can trust. Many new entrepreneurs overthink this problem, wanting to capture the minutia of who they are and what they think makes their business so special. They also don’t understand what a typical visitor is looking for when they click onto their site. The way people use the internet these days often gives you only a few seconds to capture interest and convince a visitor to keep reading.
The home page of your website can be as simple as a single tagline and paragraph of exposition summarizing what your company does, what makes it unique, who it’s for, and what you want the reader to do next. It can also go on much longer, detailing some of the values of the company and selling points of your flagship product to entice further reading. Depending on how much you have to say, you can expand your message on your About, Products/Services, FAQ, and other pages. You either need to spend enough time online to familiarize yourself with modern trends and practices, or else pay someone with expertise in this area.
Internet marketing is about getting strangers to pay attention to you. That means you have to go to where they are already spending their time, and giving them a compelling reason to divert their mind towards you. Even in the relatively young context of the internet, there are many ways to do this, and the opportunities continue to grow every year. Here are just a few categories to pay attention to.

Paid Advertisements
The most common forms of online paid advertisements include banners on websites, sponsored posts on social media, pre-video ads on Youtube, and so forth. They are most effective if you have a very short, clear message, and a very well-defined target demographic. You do not want to pay for a general advertisement displayed to completely random people in the hopes that a few of them will actually be enticed to click through to your site. That’s a quick way to blow your advertising budget.
Content Marketing
Another way to get people’s attention is by having something valuable that they will actively be looking for. Social media, blogging, podcasts, and Youtube channels are all very effective ways to organically grow a following through the production of valuable content. For the right personality types, this is an excellent strategy, but it does generally take a long time to see meaningful results.
Cold Outreach
The previous examples require waiting for someone to notice you. They can be considered passive or indirect ways of marketing. They are analogous to setting a trap, making it as appealing as possible, and hoping the right prey will wander into it. A more direct approach would be to go hunting, meaning to reach out to people where they aren’t already looking for you. There is nothing stopping you from calling, emailing, sending physical mail, or even going door to door promoting your business to anyone who publicly lists their contact information.
Showing up out of the blue in someone’s email inbox or on their phone is a daunting task for most people. They don’t like the prospect of chasing a target down with spear in hand, relying only on their strength and wits to bring it down. With practice, you can learn how to present yourself in such a way that they will make even complete strangers want to keep talking to you.
Third-Party Platforms
You can use third-party platforms external to your website to advertise, build a reputation, and accept payments. Freelancing directories like Elance, People Per Hour, Fiverr, Odesk, and others like them have the advantage of already having cultivated a large qualified audience, and will gladly put you in front of them for an upfront fee or a cut of what you charge. For physical products, ecommerce sites like Amazon and Ebay are an excellent way to showcase what you have.
These can work extremely well because people are already actively looking to spend money on them, and most of them allow you to build up feedback based on good transactions. The downside is that you are ultimately controlled by the policies of the sites you sell through, and they usually take a 10-20% commission on everything you charge. That’s a small price to pay though for a beginner with no following of his own to get started.

This is such a broad question. Making money is making money. The internet is just a tool to do so. Here's a piece I'm working on to include as an appendix in my book, because I'm so sick of being asked what magical forces allow someone to make money online.


Appendix 3: Making Money "Online"
Despite the hype, doing business online is not fundamentally different than doing business offline. The internet simply offers a new, rapidly evolving venue to promote and operate your business on.

What the internet is NOT:
-A magic button for generating cash for little or no work.
-A shortcut or substitute for building a real business model or creating real value.
-A passing fad for business.
-Something requires a highly technical skillset that only geniuses and geeks can learn.

Websites used to be very difficult and expensive to build. Now, there are platforms which will allow you to host and maintain a basic website for free, or a more dynamic one for a small monthly fee. Wix, Weebly, and Squarespace are some of the most popular simple website builders with drag-and-drop functionality for non-designers. Wordpress is a popular content management system with greater freedom in design and function, but which is also more complicated to use. These, and other tools, hade starting a professional-looking website very affordable and easy for most businesses.

Your website is simply an interactive representation of your business. At the very least, it should communicate the products/services you offer, the values you stand for, and a very easy way to begin buying from you. The most basic ones are essentially glorified business cards or brochures, with the sole purpose of getting a visitor to call or email you. A website can also be an entire portfolio of work, or a thriving eCommerce store with many product offerings, a shopping cart, and payment processing capabilities. When most people complain about building or designing a website, they are really complaining about not having a clear vision for what their business should look like.

Your website will need at least a small amount of written content and other media to make your business look like a legitimate professional entity they can trust. Many new entrepreneurs overthink this problem, wanting to capture the minutia of who they are and what they think makes their business so special. They also don't understand what a typical visitor is looking for when they click onto their site. The way people use the internet these days often gives you only a few seconds to capture interest and convince a visitor to keep reading.

The home page of your website can be as simple as a single tagline and paragraph of exposition summarizing what your company does, what makes it unique, who it's for, and what you want the reader to do next. It can also go on much longer, detailing some of the values of the company and selling points of your flagship product to entice further reading. Depending on how much you have to say, you can expand your message on your About, Products/Services, FAQ, and other pages. You either need to spend enough time online to familiarize yourself with modern trends and practices, or else pay someone with expertise in this area.

Internet marketing is about getting strangers to pay attention to you. That means you have to go to where they are already spending their time, and giving them a compelling reason to divert their mind towards you. Even in the relatively young context of the internet, there are many ways to do this, and the opportunities continue to grow every year. Here are just a few categories to pay attention to.

Paid Advertisements

The most common forms of online paid advertisements include banners on websites, sponsored posts on social media, pre-video ads on Youtube, and so forth. They are most effective if you have a very short, clear message, and a very well-defined target demographic. You do not want to pay for a general advertisement displayed to completely random people in the hopes that a few of them will actually be enticed to click through to your site. That's a quick way to blow your advertising budget.

Content Marketing

Another way to get people's attention is by having something valuable that they will actively be looking for. Social media, blogging, podcasts, and Youtube channels are all very effective ways to organically grow a following through the production of valuable content. For the right personality types, this is an excellent strategy, but it does generally take a long time to see meaningful results.

Cold Outreach

The previous examples require waiting for someone to notice you. They can be considered passive or indirect ways of marketing. They are analogous to setting a trap, making it as appealing as possible, and hoping the right prey will wander into it. A more direct approach would be to go hunting, meaning to reach out to people where they aren't already looking for you. There is nothing stopping you from calling, emailing, sending physical mail, or even going door to door promoting your business to anyone who publicly lists their contact information.

Showing up out of the blue in someone's email inbox or on their phone is a daunting task for most people. They don't like the prospect of chasing a target down with spear in hand, relying only on their strength and wits to bring it down. With practice, you can learn how to present yourself in such a way that they will make even complete strangers want to keep talking to you.

Third-Party Platforms

You can use third-party platforms external to your website to advertise, build a reputation, and accept payments. Freelancing directories like Elance, People Per Hour, Fiverr, Odesk, and others like them have the advantage of already having cultivated a large qualified audience, and will gladly put you in front of them for an upfront fee or a cut of what you charge. For physical products, ecommerce sites like Amazon and Ebay are an excellent way to showcase what you have.

These can work extremely well because people are already actively looking to spend money on them, and most of them allow you to build up feedback based on good transactions. The downside is that you are ultimately controlled by the policies of the sites you sell through, and they usually take a 10-20% commission on everything you charge. That's a small price to pay though for a beginner with no following of his own to get started.
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I think you may have a hard time getting specifics out of anyone, because most will probably look at it as possibly creating competition for them self. I personally will answer almost any questions someone asks, because the market that I'm in, is so large and next to impossible to hurt my income.

I've been monetizing purchased data(email lists) for 16+ years.

To do this, I heavily promote PPL (pay per lead) offers because there in no credit card required to complete an offer. All a user has to do is fill out a form to make money. So conversion rates are typically much higher than offers that require a purchase. Basically I'm just generating leads.

I favor offers that have a make, get or save money angle to them, as they overall have worked the best for me and tend to have the greatest mass appeal. So the potential exists to produce high volume. I will still promote offers that don't have that angle or even some that require a purchase, but I still look for mass appeal to exists. Having mass appeal has really been the key.

There are many PPL offer that pay $20-$60 (some higher depending on the vertical) that work well on front-end campaigns. Offers that a much less or require a purchase, I will promote on the back-end.

Now, you can have a great offer, but if you can't drive traffic to it, it's not going to matter. When it comes to generating traffic, this is where I don't follow anything that the masses do or what the experts say to do and why I have been so successful.

As I already alluded to, the way I generate traffic is through purchasing data. I purchase fresh/targeted data that I know what the users are interested in and that there is a ppl offer that matches their interest. I generate real-time co-reg and target specific PPL offers. I also purchased aged data, which is a bit more complicated and some additional resources are needed to do.

So essentially I'm spending the bulk of my adverting dollars on data, rather than paying for some form of advertising/traffic. So I'm building assets, that I then own and can market to them over and over at low cost. Where most others are just generating clicks, that they can't continue to market additional offers to.

Many are going to say to never buy a list, However, there is a big difference between buying a list that you are then going to try and sell a very specific product or service, compared to strictly monetizing the data, using free offers that have mass appeal and pay well.

Any data that you purchase isn't going to be nearly as responsive as a list you personally developed. But you compensate for this with large volume, which is perfectly fine, because you can acquire it much quicker and much cheaper than if you developed it. The key is to then, clean and prune the poor data out and segment the remaining data into responsive and targeted subsets. So you are then mailing much less, but making much more for it's volume. Which you just keep repeating until you are capable of driving massive traffic that you own the source of.

Obviously it's more involved, but it really does work. Everyone that I know that is in the business and knows what they are doing, does 6-7 figures. While that's a huge range, much comes down to ones ability to scale and effectively managing the infrastructure that comes with scaling.

The only downside to this that it's a business that takes money to make money. You need to acquire tools, resources and data and that all adds up.

For those that don't have the necessary funds to start, I would also recommend that they look into building their own PPL offer and get buyers for the leads. As you can do this even with a limited budget. I'm sure many are probably worried of the idea of having to find buyers, but it's really not that hard to find them, as leads are the lifeblood for companies.

You have to keep in mind that so much traffic these days is coming from mobile devices, so it has to be mobile friendly. Optimizing the page and the form is key, as the better it converts, it will become much easier to get affiliates to send traffic to it.

There's lots of big affiliates out there capable of producing $10K-$100K+ per month in commissions and if you have an offer that converts really well, word will get around and they will seek you out and that's no BS. Your hosting is also going to be key, having fast/reliable hosting can increase conversions as much as 10%, by just that one factor alone in some cases.

One big advantage to owning your own offer, is that you get to monetize all the thank you page traffic and you get to keep a copy of all the leads generated, that you can monetize as well. Which you get to keep 100% of the profits from both.

You want to build this slowly, because you need to build up your cash reserves for paying affiliates. If a buyer is late paying or worse, doesn't pay...you still have to pay the affiliates and do it on-time. Never extend a buyer more than a week of credit and have tight terms on when they pay. So if you going Mon-Sun, you want them paying Tue or Wen and pay your affiliates Thur or Fri.

Now with new affiliates, you may not want to start them off paying weekly(but paying weekly is a must to keep them happy), just to make sure that they are not trying to submit a bunch of bogus leads, trying to rip you off.

Obviously with this too, there is more to it as well. I'm just outlining the basics.

However, once you fully build out one offer and have it running, then build out another and another, etc... and you could potentially build a huge business that's not going anywhere, as lead generation will never go away. Now you combine this with data monetization, then you own your own traffic(which you can build into massive volume) and your own offers and the income potential becomes substantial!.

Just keep in mind that neither is a get rich scheme, even though both can be very lucrative. They take time and effort to build.

Anyway, something to think about.

Great feedback to the question. This thread is a worth reading. Thanks everyone (includes OP).

There is a world of difference in just these two examples.

When you sell a domain that is a one time event. You sell and you're done. You get paid once and you're done. If you do not have another domain to sell then you're done done.

When you sell an ebook that is a product which can be sold over and over. You sell and then you can sell it again without having to start over again. It may not cost you any time or effort to make multiple sales.

Big difference.

My suggestion is to evaluate strategies that leverage your time, such as selling ebooks instead of selling domains.

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Here's the deal. None of this is easy, and there is no such answer to be given to 'how much of a budget to make x in y amount of time'. Further, it is a LONG LIST of people who have spent $XX - $XX,XXX on some combination of info products and trying to implement various business models, who have FAILED at Internet Marketing. The list of people who have lost, made none, or made little money is waaaaay bigger than the list of people making a full time living in IM.

Nothing wrong with goals or trying to make IM work for you, and I am not trying to be insulting, but it is stuff you need to think about - the odds are that you will spend $3,000, lose it all, and walk away from Internet Marketing dreams. That is what is MOST LIKELY to happen to anyone who attempts this, including you. It is obviously possible, but you are MORE LIKELY to lose $1,000 in Internet Marketing than you are to make it ...

Man I wish you the best and good luck if you can make $1k a month fast. If you have a nice investment maybe so but with little funds and even a lot of time GOOD LUCK.Again I am not saying it can’t be done because everything is possible but for most(MAJORITY) it’s a lot of hard work and time. I know this thread/forum is all about money, but I was tell you to FOCUS on fixing problems that may come easy to you and difficult to others. This can be via product or service.But I will give you some of the ways I make money online daily:

• I run a music blog and I charge artist to post/promote their material
• I create eBlast for artist as well for a price
• My adsense account
• I consult w/ artist on projects
• Whenever I manage a full project album/single I get a percentage of the royalties
• Working on a eBook
• Products on eBay/Amazon
• I am a videographer (Not Online Obviously): But I sell stock footage/photos on the side when I am not shooting a video, commercial or interview.

Again it took me a while before I made a $1k strictly online, because I got to these points by doing a lot of the ground stuff on the street. Which for me was perfect because I like talking to people and since a lot of people prefer to work from a computer it helped me standout a little in my market.
Again wish you the best of luck!

I am finding great success in one revenue sharing program that I joined last Sep. It was kind of strange how I ended up making money in such an industry that I once hated to get myself involved in. The revshare industry is still relatively new and there were more horror stories than I cared to remember. So it took me a while to get my feet wet on one. I was showed this business from a good friend in the soloads business that I belong to. I joined in Sep 2015 just to test the program and understand I can make money in this industry on a long term basis. I did extensive research on the program and my studies showed that 2 important factors will make a good revshare program work. One is honest admin and the other is what improvements have been made by the company to make its program and business legally compliant with local laws that the company registered in and how the website has been structured to sustain business for long term of at least 5 years.

Well this company that I joined passed all my requirements and after 1 year it is still going strong with now 138K members and paid out $6.5 millions in commission to members. I am making >$1000 in monthly earnings from 2 avenues - hourly earnings from revenue sharing of company's profits and affiliate sales commission from advertisements in the Traffic Exchange. Anyone wishing to learn more let me know and I will share more information.

Whatever you do, dont run behind the hype.

Thats all i can say.