What should I do to make some money

by D37
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Hello I'm quite new here. I do know a thing or two about the web. I have a few forums that I run. They aren't active though. I'm looking for a way to earn some money.

I'm spending my time now learning all I can by reading a whole bunch of marketing e-books as well as books from the library and any online information I can get my hands on.

I was looking into Auto Blogs. I'm thinking maybe I should start a blog or a online store or something....

I really need to start making some money.
#make #money
  • Profile picture of the author mjMONEY
    I recommend CPA lots of way to get revenue with that.
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  • Profile picture of the author danes1
    There are many options out their, but I suggest that you start with something or a "niche" that you are interested in. Online business takes work so you will want to have an interest in any industry you choose to be involved in.

    Blogs can definitely generate money, stay focused, learn all you can, and pick a topic of interest to you!
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  • Profile picture of the author ryanbiddulph
    You took the right first step.

    Study your books and more importantly, put the concepts into action IMMEDIATELY. The biggest error I made as a newbie online entrepreneur was standing on the sidelines. Get your book smarts but turn them into street smarts immediately by experimenting with what you've learned.

    As for how to make money blogging is a powerful tool to develop authority. Whatever niche you choose - some strong possibilities listed by my fellow warriors above - considering running a blog to help with your marketing and networking efforts.

    All the best!

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    • Profile picture of the author IsraelAlarid
      I would try a niche site with cancer and/or related things.... Medical sites pay well with google adsense and other contextual advertisements on the pay-per-click schedule - up to $2-3 per click.
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  • Profile picture of the author Thomas W
    One thing I learned is to Pick one niche and stick with it. In due time you can dominate your network in your niche.

    Pick like one of those micro niches that have small but tight communities. example
    People that BARBEQUE, Bird Watchers, Hiking Group.
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    • Profile picture of the author D37
      Originally Posted by Jeremiah Walsh View Post

      Have you tried ebay?
      I don't know how to start an ebay business. What are you suggesting?

      Originally Posted by mjMONEY View Post

      I recommend CPA lots of way to get revenue with that.
      What is CPA?

      Originally Posted by danes1 View Post

      There are many options out their, but I suggest that you start with something or a "niche" that you are interested in. Online business takes work so you will want to have an interest in any industry you choose to be involved in.

      Blogs can definitely generate money, stay focused, learn all you can, and pick a topic of interest to you!
      Thanks for the advice. Where would I find "niche" ideas to write about?

      Originally Posted by ryanbiddulph View Post

      You took the right first step.

      Study your books and more importantly, put the concepts into action IMMEDIATELY. The biggest error I made as a newbie online entrepreneur was standing on the sidelines. Get your book smarts but turn them into street smarts immediately by experimenting with what you've learned.

      As for how to make money blogging is a powerful tool to develop authority. Whatever niche you choose - some strong possibilities listed by my fellow warriors above - considering running a blog to help with your marketing and networking efforts.

      All the best!

      RB
      Thank you for the advice. What are some good books I should read?

      Originally Posted by IsraelAlarid View Post

      I would try a niche site with cancer and/or related things.... Medical sites pay well with google adsense and other contextual advertisements on the pay-per-click schedule - up to $2-3 per click.
      Thanks for your input.

      Originally Posted by Thomas W View Post

      One thing I learned is to Pick one niche and stick with it. In due time you can dominate your network in your niche.

      Pick like one of those micro niches that have small but tight communities. example
      People that BARBEQUE, Bird Watchers, Hiking Group.
      Thanks for your advice. Where else can I find ideas for "niche" topics?
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  • Profile picture of the author aldovacano
    If you run forums, you could start there, but first you need to make a big effort to make that forum very informative when your forum grow the members will help you on that hard task.

    Then you coul market some relevant product to the forum.
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  • Profile picture of the author Marvin Johnston
    Wow, I'm not sure if you are pulling people's chains or being serious with your questions.

    Assuming you are serious, go take the free course by Ed Dale and crew:

    The Challenge

    You can take it at your own pace (be it hours or months) and it will give you an understanding of the IM space.

    Marvin
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    • Profile picture of the author D37
      Originally Posted by Marvin Johnston View Post

      Wow, I'm not sure if you are pulling people's chains or being serious with your questions.
      What would I be pull people's chains? That is not the case.
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    • Profile picture of the author JamieSEO
      Originally Posted by Marvin Johnston View Post

      Wow, I'm not sure if you are pulling people's chains or being serious with your questions.

      Assuming you are serious, go take the free course by Ed Dale and crew:

      The Challenge

      You can take it at your own pace (be it hours or months) and it will give you an understanding of the IM space.

      Marvin
      I second this - The Challenge is a great place to start when you are completely without direction
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      • Profile picture of the author KevinTorrence
        Not sure what niche your forums are based on ... but if there's money in those markets ... why not market them since you already have them?

        The people should already be talking about their thoughts/desires/wishes/wants on there anyway ... get more people visiting your forum and put up ads/offers that are laser targeted to what they're all talking about. Make it "THE" forum to visit & monetize it with what the members want.

        That could be contacting others & selling them ad space on the site ... it could be your own affiliate links to related/desired products ... you could develop products they want or even make it a paid membership forum with killer content on there if the niche is the paying kind.

        Anyway, that's just a few ideas there to expand what you already have on the web.
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        • Profile picture of the author digitalguy
          Hi all,

          You can join the affiliate marketing for the getting the money online also use the forums posting ,blog posting ,blog commenting ,press release ,artisle submission,also post some advertisement in the site and post that get more visitors to the site also gets mere traffic that helps to make money online.

          Thanks.....
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  • Profile picture of the author Mehak
    if you have traffic maybe try adsense? or promote other people's products on your site either marketers or clickbank?
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    • Profile picture of the author D37
      Originally Posted by Mehak View Post

      if you have traffic maybe try adsense? or promote other people's products on your site either marketers or clickbank?
      I have adsense on a few of my forums (which are not active at all).

      What are other monetization tools out there like clickbank?
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  • Profile picture of the author Goliath
    The most important thing in IM is TRAFFIC.

    If you're serious about IM, then I suggest you get a course on traffic and shut yourself out from your world (for a week or so) to STUDY IT.

    DON'T EVEN THINK ABOUT GOING FOR ANOTHER TRAINING.

    Stick to it like glue. TAKE ACTION and implement every detail you learn.

    Trust me... you're gonna be making a ton in income!
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  • Profile picture of the author Darla
    I am tapping into already established sources of traffic, e.g. banner ads on niche sites that are already generating traffic, guestblogging and ezine advertising. The ads cost some out-of-pocket expenses up front, but may be worth the quicker than usual result, plus they are much "safer" than PPC for me.
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  • Profile picture of the author iwtmmo
    I am a newbie too. Now I am looking for "complete website for sale" on this forum.
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    • Profile picture of the author cbrauer
      Originally Posted by iwtmmo View Post

      I am a newbie too. Now I am looking for "complete website for sale" on this forum.

      I will not sell you one but I will give you one. I will give you a site with 5 products to sell and all you need is hosting and a domain. In return when you are marketing your websites you market a couple of mine at the same time.

      Sound fair?

      Now, to make sure we both get traffic and you start earning income for yourself and me I will give you more products.

      You can keep 100% of the money you earn from the sites, these sites will be all yours hosted on your domain to the payment gateway of your choice, all you have to do is market.
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      • Profile picture of the author TomVa
        Originally Posted by cbrauer View Post

        I will not sell you one but I will give you one. I will give you a site with 5 products to sell and all you need is hosting and a domain. In return when you are marketing your websites you market a couple of mine at the same time.

        Sound fair?

        Now, to make sure we both get traffic and you start earning income for yourself and me I will give you more products.

        You can keep 100% of the money you earn from the sites, these sites will be all yours hosted on your domain to the payment gateway of your choice, all you have to do is market.
        I ll take you up on this offer! I have servers,traffic etc.. just no mainstream site! You can contact me by email knockboots@knockboots.com
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        • Profile picture of the author cbrauer
          Originally Posted by TomVa View Post

          I ll take you up on this offer! I have servers,traffic etc.. just no mainstream site! You can contact me by email knockboots@knockboots.com

          Email sent.
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  • Profile picture of the author celente
    step 1) Use this forum. it is a dooozy if you want to be successful online.

    step 2) Implement what you read in this forum.. yes some info in here is utter crap. But there are nuggets and bits and piece from time to time that has made me some nice coin.

    Step 3) Rinse and repeat.

    It sounds simple, but it is really up to you and the hard work you are willing to put in.
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  • Profile picture of the author jushuaburnham
    That is not our concern that's yours. Actually dude there' a lot way to earn money, and online is the best place to be. Learn some money making business online like network marketing and more.
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  • Profile picture of the author Jerryl
    Well hell, I might as well throw my 2 cents worth in;o)
    You could run some solo ads in some ezines, that could make you some quick money. I like it better than PPC cause at least you know how much you could lose lol
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  • Profile picture of the author EnlightenMind
    Learn to market, advertise and promote. Build your list and offer value. Provide a solution to people's problems.

    There are no shortcuts.


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  • Profile picture of the author DIGITALCHAMELEON
    If you really want to there's a lot of opportunity to make money on the internet you only need to do is to choose which suit for your talent and expertise.
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  • Profile picture of the author pethanks
    Learn about SEO and work online. That is the best way to earn money.
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    • Profile picture of the author Hooda M Kismet
      If you have a website, learn how to drive traffic to it. But make sure you drive the right traffic. If you don't have a website, try affiliate marketing to start with. With affiliate marketing you don't need a website. All you do is promote someone else's product and make commissions out of that. You can earn a lot of money just doing that!
      All the best.
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      • Profile picture of the author cosplay1
        Its not easy to learn money without doing hard work, so its important to do hard work to gain anything. lolzzzzz

        You can make blogs and websites and put google adsense there. you can work as a freelancer. there are lots of ways.
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  • Profile picture of the author sunia
    i m also facing the same problem
    i don't have adsense account i applied infolinks account and now my blog has 500 impressions but no money............
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  • Profile picture of the author gittar1122
    You have spent a lot of time in learn about Internet Marketing. Read threads on this forum and analyze how people are making money here. Get some ideas from them. There are many experts offering their advice without any charge so feel free to ask any IM related question.
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  • Profile picture of the author clever7
    I agree that you should learn everything about internet marketing in this forum without spending any money upfront. The Warrior forum is a true school for all newbies.

    The Squidu forum is also excellent, and everyone there is very friendly.

    You should learn how to easily create many Squidoo lenses and make money with them, without any cost. Here is lens that teaches you the basics:

    http://www.squidoo.com/passive-income-website-traffic-squidoo-beginners-guide

    Visit the Squidu forum regularly; you'll find many interesting lessons there.
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  • Profile picture of the author Jayzee
    Try mylot, triond, bukisa, wikinut and try blogging if you can.

    Do some online surveys, Memolink is a good survey site.
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  • Profile picture of the author Andrew Rodney
    If you think about it what is money and what it means to be making money? Money is reward received for service rendered. If you want to make money you have to provide service. Don’t think about what you are going to get focus on helping other people and the money will come automatically.
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  • Profile picture of the author l23bc
    My 2 cents...

    Firstly had to apply because you say you run forums. And your in need for quick cash.How about the following.

    1)making Advertisment space within the forums, and Google Adsense/Cpa offers which pay good money for leads. No surprise if the forums are active peoplle will click on a offer when topics seem less intrested to them(we all do it) which can lead to a few dollars by adsense or Cpa. Here is some tips

    When you have the offers by banner advertisments on your page or forum. It all comes down to getting traffic(ill explain that bit in a moment) here is a few places u could try such as link swapping with other forum webmasters who may have the traffic already. You could look on Google at the same competition you have and just shoot a few emails saying who you are and how you would like to work with them for a small fee could they advertise your forum on site of theres and cut a deal to them also you do the same (link swapping ect)

    Other ways also are link directorys.Aviod the ones on Google that say link swaps for 100 dollars 10000000 sites ect, most harvest the links and hardly ever send the link to any site, There are directorys with a brief explaination of your forum and site and link will place it in directorys which Google loves (Oldest one i know is dmoz.org) but very hard on that i mentioned to get into.

    2)They aren't active though. I'm looking for a way to earn some money.

    suggest you take time away from the ebooks And make a dairy for activaty for the whole day,A business plan.Write down what you are going to do to get them forums packed form the wrafters of people chatting away.

    If your stuck for traffic

    write about the forum as a news reporter and not a salepage and sent the article up to The Following places
    Prweb.org
    Bignews.com
    Reddit.com
    Stumbleupon.com
    Mister-wrong.com
    Enzine-articles.com
    Articledashboard.com
    articlesally.com

    Or just use a Article Submitter and change the article a little to pass Enzine's approval and press realease,

    If your no good at articles then cyberhubonline.com is a great place to get articles wrote on your forums for cheap price or here in warriors for hire on the warrior forum. With every Article you submit you get backlinks back to your forum making it easy to see in the search engines like Google.Meaning free traffic also.

    hope that helps any more info needed please drop me a line
    andrew
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  • Profile picture of the author paulie888
    Originally Posted by D37 View Post

    Hello I'm quite new here. I do know a thing or two about the web. I have a few forums that I run. They aren't active though. I'm looking for a way to earn some money.

    I'm spending my time now learning all I can by reading a whole bunch of marketing e-books as well as books from the library and any online information I can get my hands on.

    I was looking into Auto Blogs. I'm thinking maybe I should start a blog or a online store or something....

    I really need to start making some money.
    First of all, stop thinking about auto blogs. They are not automatic, and they do not generate money quickly. I know that autoblogs seem to imply quick and easy implementation, but they're anything but that, especially if you want to develop a significant income from them. Please trust me on this.

    Since you seem fairly new to IM, I'd recommend sticking to one method for now to avoid getting distracted by information overload. I'd definitely recommend getting into the 30 day challenge as mentioned above, because it is structured and very focused, and I feel that this is exactly what you need at the moment. In addition to that, it deals with setting up blogs quickly and effectively (this is definitely not autoblogging), and you have stated above that this is the area you're interested in. This challenge will give you the perfect foundation to get started off on the right foot in IM, so I'd suggest joining it right away.

    Paul
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  • Profile picture of the author arcadiasmith
    Try ebay.. There is a lot of money to be made as a seller on eBay. Thousands and thousands of sales are made each day, resulting in a lot of income for a lot of sellers. And there is still room for you if you want to get involved - whether you want to earn some part time cash or set up a whole new full time business on the side. It's easy work to get started earning money on eBay. Once you've signed up for your free account the best way to get a feel for what selling is like is to auction off some of your personal items that you no longer want. If you are going to start buying stock to resell, you'll do better by getting some basic selling experience first.
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