How Did You Make Your First $100?

Ahahh! Epic!

My first $100 as I remember... AdSense check when I was 13 years old (on my mom's name ofc)

Wow! lol!

I made mine through CPA marketing.

Liz

What happend to "scaling up" & "rinse and repeat" ?

Stumbled in here & still LMAO @ selling pot in high school. Thanks, I needed that laugh!

Wasn't expecting this kind of response. Love it!

CPA networks. Basically using PPC/banners ads to send traffic to a cpa offer.

Mowing neighbors' lawns at 9 years old. :p

kindle was by far the quickest earner for me to begin with but that's mainly because i sucked at the other forms of marketing, they just require a slightly more sophisticated approach to get right and as ever I live and learn

I talked to a couple of friends who had a real estate agency who had been at the top of google but were having trouble with their rankings.

I offered to do them a couple of online press releases and a couple of lead generating reports for a price around $1,200.

That was many years ago and I knew that online press releases submitted to certain sites would rank very high in google if you used the search term you wanted to rank for as the title.

The reports were along the lines of "how to get the best price when you sell your home in xxxx" and "How to get the perfect home for you at the best possible price in xxxx".

The online press releases drove viewers to the site to download one of the free reports.

Ironically it was using the reports with prospects OFFLINE that made that agency the most money.

Kindest regards,
Andrew Cavanagh

Offering services. The very first job involved writing articles. I was ecstatic to get that first $183 payment.

I did it using fiverr and it just took me 10 days to achieve my first $100.
What an experience was it

Blogging and Bum Marketing.

Web design for a psychic using dreamweaver & Craigslist. (Wordpress wasn't a rage then..)

My brother had a paper route at about the same time. We used to help him, sometimes. Those papers in the paper bag that goes around your neck are HEAVY. There was a sweet old lady whose son was pretty well known in that he was an elected official; the coroner. She used to give us a dime every day for a tip. It was super sweet.

I never made my first $100 : )

Instead, I made my first $397 by selling a famous course 'You Can Make Yor Living Online' on DVD by David Vallieres, as authorised reseller.

When I was starting I actually invested quite a lot of money in several expensive products with master resell rights or resell rights.

Since I was sitting with those products on my computer and with a big hole in my bank account after my investment, I felt that selling those products was a question of life and death.

I worked like there was no tomorrow for several months, building mu website, building links, getting traffic... all alone. I didn't get help from anybody, but I managed to get my site on first page in Google for 'resell rights', 'resale rights' and some related keywords.

And one day I got an automated email message from my sales management software: 'A product was sold...'

BOOM! ... A well-known marketer from Germany purchased Master Resell Rights for 'You Can Make Your Living Online'

He even sent me an email message wandering who I am, because he coudn't find the 'about' page on my site (because there was no such page : ) And that was my first sale.

I was selling 4 premium big-ticket products on my site, the lowest price being $97, and the highest $397. Since I purchased the strongest reseller license, I was able to offer master resell rights, resell rights or personal use for those premium big-ticket products. And I was shipping them on CD/DVD via Kunaki.

Few days later I sold another product, and then another, and another, and another...

I made $3000 within 4 weeks and that was the time when I realised that you can't go wrong if you are selling high-quality stuff.

After 1 month making sales, another well known marketer from USA (also a Warrior), who was on the way up in his carreer at that time, silently registered as my affiliate. When I saw his name I couldn't believe my own eyes! I was total, absolute nobody who didn't even have an 'about' page on his site, and he! registered as my affiliate : )

I was offering 50% commision on all sales on my affiliate page and he referred over 50 customers within one month. That month I paid him around $5000 in commissions and I made $9000 in profit (after paying his commissions and all my other expenses).

Oh, and I didn't have one single refund request during my 18 months of selling those products.

Long story short, I was making a lot of money, so I puchased even more products and made even more money. Not because I was especially smart, but because I was selling top quality products created by big names in the industry. Those products were selling themselves.

Things that I made right:

- I had the guts to invest several thousand dollars in reseller licenses for premium products
- I worked very, very hard and managed to rank my website in google
- I created new, original graphics for those products which made them even more attractive
- I decided to ship them on CD/DVD which increased the percieved value
- I had an affiliate program on my site

Starting as an affiliate and/or selling pdf reports for $7/$17 is not the only way to make your first money on the Internet : )


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