Are you seriously making 5 figures per month?

It's the best to start when something is fresh, especially internet but nowadays there are tons of competition.

Umm, so making 5 figures a month is a 'regular job'? What job, an attorney?

Vast majority (in the US) make less than $12 an hour. I am not
sure what Harvard or Yale grads are making, but 5 figures is DAMN good.

First hit 5 figures before you worry about 6, 7 and 8...

This place makes me laugh sometimes

Yup. It works. You got to find something that you are good at and then scale up.

Great response and information David. Thank you!

Anything is possible. Be like a sponge and absorb everything you can. Learn what to do, what not to do and when you find something that works - scale it.

I absolutely agree. I do make anywhere from 4k to 7k a month and I only started 2-3 years ago as a total newbie. So I can see how you could make way more than that if you have been doing it for a while.

However, unlike many so called "gurus" and people selling products and reports claiming that they will show you an easy and quick way to get there, I believe it takes a lot of work and determination to get there. And I really mean hard work and not working for 1 hours and then lurking on forums and blogs for hours and counting it as work. I mean working 8-10 hours a day and maybe even more especially in the beginning.

So, in many ways, its a lot more hard work than working in a day job. But if you are determined and are really committed to work hard, I do believe you can get there even if you dont know anything right now about any of these things.

Believe me, when I started 2-3 years ago, I didn't even know what (SEO) stood for. I though I would build a site and them magically people would come and I make money, lol.

is this a typo?

3-4.5k a month does not equate to 6 figures?? :confused:

if it's not needed, make it needed....

nope, unfortunatly that is not gunna work.

Too many times I have seen marketers think they are gunna kill it with a product, without doing any research....very easy way to fail quickly online!!!

How true this is concerning Google...play by Google's rules you win!...cheat you lose, simple as that

I agree start small. Make a game plan and then that small system works duplicate it over and over and you can reach those figures. Don't rush though. patience is key and focus.

Wowwser...

I sell (mostly) ClickBank products, by article marketing. Nothing unusual, really: I just get my traffic (mostly) from the articles rather than through SEO. I've found that this way, it's better targeted traffic, there's a lot more of it, and a higher proportion of people opt in and buy, than with "Google traffic" (and of course it's more stable and secure).

There's a one-post description of "what I'm doing" here (also explaining why it's not SEO-dependent): http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post5035794

For me, getting to a steady and safely growing $10,000 per month was hugely "serious". It was a life-transforming triumph: it meant I was never going to have to get a job and go out to work, and I was going to earn more than about 99% of my fellow students at university. It doesn't get much more "serious" than that.

I feel your pain, I too just want to get my first 5 bucks. Reading some of the posts here helps. Knowing to find something and stick to it just makes perfect sense, thanks for the info!

just to refresh your memory........................... lol

From reading the threads here....SEO is not how marketers are making most of their money. Yes I own a few sites and went the adsense way to make money. I have an average of 50 views a day on my ads but the clicks are really low. To make my first $5.00 looks like it will take a bit. So do I build more sites or drive more traffic?

Yes...Innovate!! I have found many open opportunities that promise a good amount of income. What ive noticed is that these IM professionals don't focus on dynamics. Usually everyone just builds what is known to make money quickly NOW and not later. There is so much you can integrate with these open doors, people just don't care to look. My problem is that i don't have any partners. I am only one web designer and these sites require (id say) level 2 management "almost a full time job" some being more than a full time job.

But you'll see them slowly emerge...but yes it is very possible to make 5 even a consistent 10 figures online. I watched a webinar from some guy who said. "make a site that makes $5 a day and then make 100 more of them" obviously these sites are like 7 pages but its a quick way to make cash and you can always flip them later or make them better.

I personally feel the design of the site has a great deal of how the site performs. Depending on what it does. As long as you can keep your visitor on your site for long periods of time then your chances of conversion get higher and higher each minute. Look at other websites like yours and see what they aren't doing that people want. Think freedom!

Sometimes I break 5 figures a month, but most months it's high 4 figures. SEO is to blame for the constant fluctuations these days.

First of all, take what you read about incomes with a grain of salt. People lie.

As far as potential goes, it's there. It's just not as easy as some people make it
out to be. There is a lot of work involved...more than most people are truly
capable of comprehending and executing. Most who say they can do what it
takes really can't. That's just the reality.

Best advice I can give you is this.

Think about what you KNOW sells and WHY it sells. Research that niche. See if
it's viable to get into. If you feel it is, develop a business plan for tackling that
niche.

The specifics of how to actually do all this are mind boggling, which is why when
most people go about "conquering" a niche, they give up shortly after. Some will
keep at it for a few weeks, some a few months, and some for even a year or
more.

Very few follow all the way through.

That's just the nature of the beast.

No, this stuff ain't easy.

If you can make $100/month, it's usually pretty simple scaling up to 5-figures or 6-figures a month, in my experience.

Dan

How I Hit Six Figures in My First 7 Months:

Nov. 2010 - Created a relationship-based Clickbank product @ $197. Listed it in the marketplace with sales copy I wrote myself.

Dec. 2010 - Affiliates discover the product and start sending me traffic. I'm now making about 4 sales per week, which is about $400/week, or $1200 a month.

Late Dec. 2011 - I discover how to get one-cent clicks on Google and re-invest my earnings in paid traffic.

Jan. 2011 - Traffic to my site explodes. I do around $13,000 for the month. My mind is totally blown. I wander around in a daze.

Feb. 2011 - I launch my first WSO about PPC. I get WSO of the Day and make $14,000 profit. Shocked again.

March 2011 - I upgrade my PPC WSO, add value to it, and book a webinar tour with E. Brian Rose. He books me on webinars with some of the best people in the business, which creates a ton of new JV relationships. The webinars convert at 52%. I make another $20,000 or so. Note: this was before Webinar Swaps.

March 2011 - I launch my second WSO, Video Sales Firestorm, and do $30,000 in one week. Five days later, I offer the buyers of Video Sales Firestorm a VIP Coaching Program at $197. 140 people sign up, and I earn another $30,000 or so. In just 8 weeks, 60% of the people in the coaching launch their first products. :-)

April 2011 - PayPal freezes my account with $25k inside. I freak out.

May 2011 - I form an LLC, get legal protection, and get "serious" about my business. The PayPal freeze ends up being a major learning experience.

...that's pretty much how the first 6 months of my IM career unfolded.

Since then, I've continued to launch WSO's and Clickbank niche products and all of them have done really well (thank God). I've been doing $40,000+ monthly ever since, and I'm spending January doing a top-to-bottom re-think of my business model to take things to the next level.

What I know FOR SURE:

- You must over-deliver, EVERY single time. Make your customers happy and your affiliates rich.

- Everyone I know who's rich in IM is a product creator, not an affiliate. Create your own stuff.

- Depending on SEO for traffic is just silly. Own your products, and show affiliates that by sending you traffic, they can make killer ROI. Use affiliates and use paid traffic, don't depend on SEO.

- WSO's are how you get paid to build a list and generate leads. They're awesome for lead-gen, but they are NOT a complete business model.

- Higher prices = better customers, less headaches, more customers that get results, and more money for you. Price high and then justify. Webinars beat the living Hell out of anything else for converting higher-ticket stuff.

That's about it! This first year has gone really well, so hopefully a glimpse into the first 7 months or so has been useful for you guys. You can always contact me directly through the Contact Me button on my blog if there's anything else you want to know.

God bless the WF! :-)

Russ

PS: Submitted this from my iPhone off the top of my head, so dates and figures are ball-park accurate.

For the past 15 years or so, I've been using primarily this one marketing method. It's seriously possible to make five figures from writing just one article.

Great Job! I bet half of that is with your coaching you charge

Technically you almost hit 6 figures with your coaching as you had 13 refunds which brought your coaching fees down to $92k.



Still, nice month, 172 coaching clients at $500 a pop, (plus some upsells I'm guessing), is nice.

Lol...I think he wanted to know HOW, not just proof that you can!

Since 1997, there actually have been quite a lot of people here that have shared their system, but the bad side is there are a lot of people who would much prefer to whine about how hard it is. :rolleyes:

The THREAD is almost three years old .... no rush