How Would one profit from making a web comic?

If you've got traffic then of course you can place advertising on your site.

Use an opt-in form to collect emails so you can let them know when the next installment is out, and send them offers - perhaps for gaming, or courses on how to draw comics, etc.

Do you have authority about this comic?

There are tons of method you can make profit on your site.

1, Email Marketing
you can offer a free cool comic to your reader and they opt-tin
their email, and then you can sell your comic to them.

2. PPC ( pay per click), CPL(pay per lead)
If you can add some banners to your website.
It could be some game offers that related to your comic.

I do suggest you invest sometime to learn, because there
are lots of skills and strategies you need you know.

Hope this help!

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How to Make Money From Your Comic (Part 1) :: PWP #15

It could be, but struggled in PPC

I would probably start looking into what kinds of things the people that come to the site are interested in. It would have to be closely associated with the subject of the comic. I'd then place relevant ads on the site, which would be for affiliate products if those were available.

But as far as making a living from it, I think you'd have to have an absolutely amazing amount of traffic to even approach earning that kind of money from that type of site.

Once upon a time, a few friends and I created a webcomic. This was before we had an inkling of IM, or warriorforum, or automation, or living the awesome life that we have now that we understand how internet marketing actually works. We just wanted to have fun, and hopefully make some cash too.

We couldn't draw, so we used legos that we took photos of, and then we used photoshop to add dialogue bubbles to the photos.

We then built a video tie-in, using stop motion photography, and put that video on every forum we could think of - comic forums, lego forums, stop motion photography forums.

I won't link to the video, because it's a little embarrassing. But if you want to find it, search our Best Lego Fight Scene Ever on Youtube. (The Webcomic is down now.)

The thing is, we made like $20 one week on adsense - a week that we got thousands of views of our video. That video now has 750k views (6 years down the road...)

But we were never going to get much more money than that. Not for a long time, anyway. I hate to be a downer, but unless your comic is niche, or you work on it for years, you're just going to build an audience very slowly, and it will take an extremely long time before you profit.

Still, while the video tie-in was, frankly, years ahead of its time, that was our only successful endeavor. My time in the IM business since then has shown me what I did wrong - I didn't stick with it, I didn't get an opt-in list, I didn't do any SEO. For a webcomic to be successful and profitable, you need it to be long-lasting, well-written, and about a subject that people care about - period. There's not really a way to game the system, IMO.

That's why we stopped doing it. It was way more difficult to make money writing a great comic that's free for viewers than it is to sell great software that costs money to use.

Definitely interested in other opinions.


Seth