Please Help! I need some extra income!

Why not come up with a service idea, hire some outsourcers, train them, and charge a premium for their services? Many people do this by marketing it as a "service team".

It's annoying to hear, I know, but Rome wasn't built in a day. I would encourage you to first set a realistic, measurable, and obtainable goal for yourself. How about $10 or $20?

Writing can be very lucrative, but it all depends on HOW you do it. The written word essentially drives the internet, but HOW are you doing it? Are you doing keyword research and attempting to drive affiliate sales?

If your current job isn't cutting it, I wouldn't advise turning completely to the internet. There is alot of uncertainty online, no matter what business model or methodology you choose to engage yourself in online. Some will disagree, but if you don't already have the means to sustain yourself, a second job may not be such a bad idea, while you work on developing other channels of income.

ok...so that's one vote for mcdonalds. any other suggestions?

Why don't you come up with an a real plan for a business instead of just dabbling with amazon or with whatever else. If you can't or don't like to write, maybe you can outsource it or learn another marketing method that would fit better.

It sounds to me you are just kinda going without a clear plan as to where you want to go and finally end up. If you are serious about making money online, you need to have a plan and know what you want to accomplish and how you are going to get there.

Also focus on scaling it up. If you are bringing in pennies, this means that you are not bringing in nothing.

Isolate the traffic sources that are causing you to make pennies, and do 10x as much promotion through that traffic source. This could bring you in dollars.

I have a fairly new site, that now gets about 6 visitors a day without me doing anything. It makes a dollar in revenue every few days. But I know where those 6 visitors are coming from, and how to turn them into 60.

I would just go like that. If you have to get a job in the meantime to stabilize your income, then sometimes that's what it takes.

Best of Luck!

I have to agree with x3xsolxdierx3x - even though you may not like the idea of getting a job it might not be such a bad idea while you are building up your online business. Making money online isn't easy and it's taken me years just to get to where I am at the moment - and that's still not earning as much as I'd like to be.

Get a plan and stick with it - give it everything you've got, but if you have to take another job in the meantime then do it, it might only be temporary until you start being more profitable online.

As for writing being time consuming - any online business that is successful has been time consuming. You need to be willing to put in that time to make it work!

I would agree with what others have stated. If your bills are late, a second or part-time job will help.
I tend to think of my blogs/websites as residual income as they take time to establish. I'm not the first blogger to admit that I would probably make more per hour working at Starbucks or Mickey D's. But...if you need money to pay bills, I would get an extra offline job first.

To answer your question...

No. You DON'T have to resort to working at Micky' D's, and with
that kind of attitude that's where you're headed.

Secondly,

Don't quit your day job unless your business is doing at LEAST 2x
-3x your current income.

Third,

the writing thing DOES work. The problem? You don't. I'm being
blunt.

People on here seem to think a bunch of writing jobs are just
going to show up without any selling taking place.

Yep. I said "selling".

And when you DO get a writing project going, how much you make
is a combination on how well you WRITE, but more importantly how
well you SELL your value.

Unfortunately, most writers here are under the impression that
people are going to PAY your value because you BELIEVE that's
what you're writing is worth, but it's worth what your CLIENTS
say it's worth if you don't know how to sell your service.

I consistently made tons of money selling articles for $10-$20 a
piece, and it wasn't neccessarily because of my "writing ability"...

I know how and understand the "selling process".

It's KEY to getting incredible writing projects you actually look for-
ward to writing for.

Fourth,

I would recommend Direct Mail Marketing (postcards and/or letters),
but the start up costs aren't neccessarily "cheap".

If doing something "low cost" is your concern, than you will never
know how lucrative direct mail is...and most people NEVER will be-
cause it "cost money to mail letters".

What they FORGET is the profit margins, which are insane and un-
heard of in almost any other industry I know (even online marketing),
but if that's something you think your interested in, I can recommend
you to a source to get start up -- it cost money, and I make nothing
from it, but it'll be a good start.

If you DO decide to take this route, you have to make a decision
to drop everything else until your direct mail business is profitable
for you, and with my guidance, you will be making money fairly
quickly.

The choice...is yours. Good luck.

There are lots of ways to make money online. You can work in the internet to have extra income. Study also what are the possible ways to make money online.

How about Data Posting or do a SEO for a company ?

If you need money right now, then I would recommend offering a service like:
-writing articles
-creating backlinks
-building web 2.0
-making videos
-etc...

But if you want to build a business than you can scale a little better (in my opinion), then I would recommend that you get into affiliate marketing.

I personally only make pennies with Amazon too, but make a ton more with affiliate networks and other programs. I really just can't figure out how I would be able to build a business if all I was using is Amazon. I might be looking a this wrong with Amazon, but 6% of selling $10,000 in product is only $600.

Versus me selling $10,000 and making between 20-50%.

Learn to live with crappy situations just to get by and pay the bills.

That's life.

But, in the meantime, work hard on changing it, and that will mean a lot of work but in the end, it's so worth it.

There's not an easy answer as you can see by everyone's replies... If you need money now the only guaranteed way is to get a real job. You're going to have to put in time after your job(s) each day to make this online thing work. There isn't one fool-proof way that you can instantly start generating income with online. Do what it takes to bring in the money you need, put in your time at the computer, and when your online stuff is out-earning your job(s), quit. That's really your only option it sounds like.

I have the same problem as you..need more cash..my gf broken up with me because i didnt give her 900 bucks! So i want to earn more money from now on!

If you can write articles, it means that you have ability to write, right?
Why not you write an e-book? If you are writing articles on getting traffic, then you can write an e-book on getting traffic. Sell it like $17 or $27. You can't sell same articles again and again, but you can sell the same e-book to as many people as you want.

If you are thinking about bringing traffic to your own e-book site, then use your own articles to drive traffic

take an offer in affiliate networks, write a few articles or create a website for local companies or blog about something you love.

That's pretty much what working at McDonalds is too.

With all due respect, if your writing "doesn't pay" your doing something wrong with it.

The fact you think writing is time consuming and doesn't pay, goes to show you've done very little into looking at all the methods of making money with writing. If looked into those methods I dare say you haven't put them into action.

If you're struggling now, do try and get another job or find a way to get back on your feet first.

Wow,

Between 2.5 and just under 4.5 million a year from FB?

Can you elaborate perhaps and actually help the OP and maybe suggest way's he/she can get out of the mess they're in?

With your stratospherical intelligence with FB, you may be the answer to the forums dreams. :rolleyes:

Kea55: I see you already work for Demand Studios and AC. Have you ever thought of Bright Hub? They pay $10 per article, and you get a lot of say in what you write about. Their articles are generally pretty easy.

There's also Break Studios, but I know they don't always have hundreds of titles to choose from.

Just some ideas. Hope that helps!

You might want to find a hot product or service and start promoting on the offline side of things. If you want to make some instant cash, check on the forum for products and services that pay instantly to your paypal account. I will send you the link to my PayPal Directory. You can talk to your friends, co-workers and sell them a product... Do they need to build websites,want to find out about video marketing. Want to start a consulting business?
Several warriors offer instant cash products. The sales page is already created, check some forums and find people who need information that you can provide.

Make up some flyers create a business card and sell something. Selling makes the world go around and will keep you out Mac's hair

Care to expound? This is ALOT of money to be making....the OP could benefit from your help....

soo...I guess writing online wouldnt work even if I were making a lot of money...

Have you tried any Internet Affiliate Training Programs? Without step-by-step training it will be difficult to learn all the tips and shortcuts and best ways to do things.

There are quite a few programs that are very inexpensive and could help tremendously with giving you ideas that perhaps you never would have thought of on your own.

I have some testimonials and reviews on a few good programs and other inexpensive tools on my website that have been very helpful in my online training. Feel free to check them out. I hope you find something that works for you!!

I smell a big pile of cr*p, especially when you refer to Facebook as "FaceBook".

Hi Natwest I tried to have a look at internetmarketrevenue.com, all I get is...

Is it free stuff you're advising the OP about?

I've never heard of the gold rush program.

Natwest,

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Please call me ASAP on 0800-N0-$3LF-PR0M0T10N-A110W3D.

just get a part time job, enough to pay for food, bills and domain names. Go back to basics! I am currently setting up niche sites and can only just about afford to eat. I have been doing this since janruary, with no luxurys. Because in the end it's going to be worth it.

If you have to work a Mc d's for a few months and everyday after work spend 5-6 working on your sites. if you don't have determination then you could be working at mc d's for the rest of your life.

If I were you, I'd continue working on the Amazon method and scale it up.. If you are only earning pennies from your Amazon sites then I think you're doing something seriously wrong..

Go get a good WSO or training program on Amazon and build on what you already know.. form a personal strategy set some goals and don't get distracted..

Sounds like you're trying to jump ship to another method when you haven't fully utilized the one you're in right now.