How and when did you make your first profit online?

back in 99... adult industry... made a killing

been out of it for almost 5 years though, I really didn't like the lifestyle/industry

Adsense... a few years ago That was my first time.

Ebay. Then writing.

Proper IM? Still a newb. Want to go in a lot of directions but can't seem to charge forward with one thing. Partly because I don't want to put all my eggs in one basket, and partly because I'm so distracted by needing cash that it's hard for me to concentrate on long term solutions.

Which is ironic, because had I started any IM thing months ago (when I was also in a cash crunch) I'd be making some dough.

Sorry for the rambling! Short answer-ebay!

Pay per click!

From google adwords in 2009, I sold an ebook about weight loss.... I didnt make a lot though...but still, it gave me hope!

2007 I was making money with forex niche and adsense.

One day I stumbled upon some stupid incentive website thing called "freebie trading".

It took off and I made $20k that year doing "freebie trading".

Thats pretty much all but dead now so I moved on to more permanent online income for offline businesses and CPA.

Sold a subscription to a website back in 2003.

its with adsense in 2007. some cents but it provided a way

I started out designing websites and search engine marketing for clients in 1999 and made great income with that for years.

I had several hundred clients I made websites for and still do and I make good money till today charging them for hosting fees.

I am also doing fairly well with adsense and affiliate sales through content writing on sites like Squidoo and others and through several of my niche sites.

I made my first income from Adsense.

I made my first profit online when I advertised an offline affiliate marketing opportunity on a job site, and my voice mail box blew up the next day with people wanting to give me money to be a part of my opportunity. So it was hybrid between offline and online.

My first and LAST clickbank check of $36.00 took me two months and about $1500 in trial and error to make.... Although today I could pull it off Im sure, but I dont like click bank.

Hmmm... then I tried ebay with a modicum of success... too much like work though...handling physical products, and always having to update listings and manage auctions... Made money but not enough to make it something I wanted to keep doing.

I have represented large manufacturers online with thousands of units of distressed inventory that they wanted to sell overseas in bulk, after I discovered how badly that service was needed, and since I have made thousands in commissions flipping their deals on Alibaba... and have several manufacturers who contact me when they need to move bulk now.

Take your pick... What makes you feel passionate?

Making money can be translated to just "Making a transaction".

"Getting in on all the commerce, millions of dollars worth, that are ALREADY going on around you, and opening a channel for some of those transactions to flow your way, through your "idea".

For Surefire Business:

"Offline" never fails to make money, its as sure as you are ALWAYS, and "Only"... You can always fall back on that, because the principles of selling services never change... people "need" them.

Hope this helps.

As with a lot of people it was through ebay when ebay was easy to make money with unlike now.

Adult with avs sites, then got into email marketing for big money, then adsense. I made good money, but got tired of the roller coaster so I got a job and take classes. Right now I might outsource and try and get back to making money online.

My first profit is through clickbank. The product is a simple product about lovebirds. You can see the product in my blog- Absolutely Adorable Lovebirds

From a paid to click site a few years ago. It was nothing big, really. But that have proved to me that it is really possible to make money online.

Andrea

My first online profit was sep. 2007 by seo

I started as a writer. I made my first payment by writing few articles. Right there i got few works online. And later one i started my own online business.

I am active in Ebay before. I used to "buy and sell" mobile phones of any kind. But I do the selling locally because I'm more on meeting my clients than delivering the units. In this case, I can see their reactions face to face and to also double check if the units they got are working fine.

I sold designer jeans on eBay in 2007, however, that fell apart when the wholesaler I dealt with was bought out and the prices jumped. So I went back to the corporate world... until now :]

I made my first profit on ebay in 2002, stayed offline for a few years (got married) then ended up needing a way to work from home after having to move (got divorced) so I started freelance writing in 2005. I haven't been forced to deal with a commute for years .

Hi there
Great question and hope you are getting some ideas from this thread now!

I made cash from creation. Creating videos, creating articles and writing reports.
The more you love it the better you'll probably do as you will work hard at it and get the job done and stay hungry to make money.

Keep it up!

Tonio

I made my first profit online about a year and a half ago by selling information ebooks on how to hack on a hacking forum.

However, my first legitimate IM income was from about 6 months ago when I started my first CPA campaign. I used article marketing by finding offers in the electronics niche (I am an electrical engineer and a big nerd) and wrote about the offers. I linked my domain redirect to the cpa offer, and just watched the money start slowly trickling in.

Started in article marketing promoting some Clickbank products. Took a LOT of hits to my websites but I did make a few hundred dollars in commissions. I'm finding that writing online content for others (like articles and blog posts) is more in demand.

March 2011, Clickbank $56, mens health niche..using 10 article on ezine :p

Some good stories in here love it!

Spamming Facebook fanpage walls with CPA offers, back when Facebook was spammable. I've slowly migrated to pure white hat techniques, to avoid sue-happy companies like the aforementioned.

The very first day we had our product for sale...on Ebay actually! That was about 2.5 years ago!

Ahhhhh I remember it well - it was about 2003. I got a $64 check for selling a piece of software for stopping junk e-mail - well 3 copies of it. I felt like I'd won the lottery because it was proof that affiliate marketing works :-D

The worst part is that as your income grows you can get really complacent about what you're earning. Never get complacent and NEVER rely on a single source of online income because it can vanish overnight if things change.

by writing original articles for an online employer... much gratitude to you sir!

30 years ago into the mobile industry from being a cheerleader.... and thus now I am the "Mobile Marketing Queen"

Back in 2004 .. first time ever, when I was 14 .. I made a website for a club in Dallas. They paid me 350 bucks. Exciting and unforgettable memories.

eBay selling certified pre-owned (aka used) computer and networking hardware plus some gov surplus.

i was 14 spamming aol. i had created a program that would scrap chatrooms and email them adult stuff. made $1000 in a week, got freaked out after my parents asked where i got the money from and then just did programming.

PPC with the crappiest way ever! haha

I would direct link an affiliate link and lets say you had a brand name such as warriorforum, Id switch it to forumwarrior. it would cost me less than $0.05 a click and convert amazingly.

damn I miss those days when it was so easy to make sales.

i made my first profit online by using Microworkers and PTC (Paid To Click). It was 2 years back. I'm still continue using them.

How did you do this Canhdong90?

I think it was an e-mail submit through MSN adCenter... oddly enough. lol How times have changed.