I'm not making money and it's all my fault... Asking for some help.
My Goal
My goal for this is to just bring in some extra cash for my family. I know there isn't a a real way to instantly make $3000 in 2 hours without working hard for 6 months previously. In other words I know there isn't a get rich quick scheme and I'm not looking for such. I just want to work and have a secondary stream of cash flow for some 'extra' in life.
Current Situation
I have a full time job as a graphic designer and work with sales people all day. I design signage, t-shirts, and other things to sell in retail outlets. I have just started this job on monday after being out of work for a while. No sad story here as my life is controlled by me. I don't want to settle for just one stream of income as we all know how the job situation is.
Also I do design websites and develop in drupal and have made a pretty good second earning stream until I had to move cross country for work. Since I moved I lost the local contact I had to build these sites. I host a couple clients that basically pay for my years worth of reseller hosting.
What I've tried in the past
Created an e-book
In a past life I was a club DJ so I wrote a book on how to promote yourself as a DJ. Sold about 6 books but when the content was outdated, I pulled the site.
Adsense
Using the knowledge from DJ'n I had a separate website in a related nich with adsense. I made 20 bucks. I had a local forum though that brought in a couple hundred in adsense - over 3 years.
Selling Templates
After I bought Artisteer, I sold templates online. I think I sold 5 templates over a year and ended up selling the website and templates for $20.
What I am pondering now
Selling goods from a drop ship site
Making microsites for niche products to sell through a drop shipper. I'm not sure how this works online with taking orders, so I need to research this more.
Local Sites
I live in a town of about 50,000 in the middle of the desert. We are a tourist town but the local internet presence, even for tourism, is poor. I was thinking of designing some 3-5 page websites - getting them to rank - then trying to sell them to local business.
Adsense
Thinking of making a few dozen blogs/pages on sites that allow adsense (like blogger) for some niches.
Affiliates?
I'm not sure about this one -seems it's getting harder and harder to promote affiliate items from CB
I don't mind doing the work - I'm just not sure which direction to go.
I own Market Samurai, Scrapebox, and will be getting Scrapeboard. I also have various products from Incansoft. Not that software makes you better, just letting you know.
Where do I focus? That seems to be my issue is focus. What would you do?
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