What is the easiest money you ever made?

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What is the easiest money you ever made, but won't work now or can't be repeated.

One time I got wind of a Pornstar that was about to launch a site. She was smoking hot and I knew she would be a hit. 90% of porn networks don't care if you use their keywords (but always read the TOS first).

I bought the domain: (pornstar name)videos.com I put up a WP blog with one teaser video and an affiliate link (10 min of work). I stayed 1# in Google for 16 months for the keyword "(pornstar name)videos". Just a few back links. I made $5k.

You can't do this now, because everyone goes to the tubes and watches for free.
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  • Profile picture of the author JensSteyaert
    Yes that can work for many things, not just porn.

    Just check google trends for big ucoming events or anything really which will get a lot of searches, create a site, and build some backlinks.

    As it's a new search term, you can be on top of google easily when mot people start searching that keyword. Then it's up to your creativity to make money from this
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    • Profile picture of the author NobleSavage
      Originally Posted by JensSteyaert View Post

      Just check google trends for big ucoming events or anything really which will get a lot of searches, create a site, and build some backlinks.
      I do. But I find usually when google trends picks up on something it's usually too late.
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  • Profile picture of the author jamescanz
    Originally Posted by NobleSavage View Post

    One time I got wind of a Pornstar that was about to launch a site. She was smoking hot and I knew she would be a hit. 90% of porn networks don't care if you use their keywords (but always read the TOS first).

    I bought the domain: (pornstar name)videos.com I put up a WP blog with one teaser video and an affiliate link (10 min of work). I stayed 1# in Google for 16 months for the keyword "(pornstar name)videos". Just a few back links. I made $5k.
    I must say, that sure is creative

    Originally Posted by NobleSavage View Post

    What is the easiest money you ever made, but won't work now or can't be repeated.
    Selling FB Likes on eBay (a good amount of time back)

    There was no work to it, and every time I sold a batch...

    I would keep raising the price

    Unfortunately, it was short lived as eBay didn't allow selling Likes.

    It sure is interesting the stuff you do when you first get online

    The best part, you can now make money even easier (that still works, too!)
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  • Profile picture of the author celente
    I do not think there is any easy money made,

    but....

    I do agree, that you should piggy back of trends and big news.

    We are making money from this FERGERSON saga right now, I am not going to tell you how, but that is ok, because it will probably only last few a few weeks, In a few weeks from now, it will all die down.

    But for the right person if you can find a trend and sit on it, and have an angle, you can make a killing.

    find out what PEOPLE want and give it too them. Pretty simple, but it is complicated at the same time.
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    • Profile picture of the author NobleSavage
      Originally Posted by celente View Post

      I do not think there is any easy money made,

      but....

      I do agree, that you should piggy back of trends and big news.

      We are making money from this FERGERSON saga right now, I am not going to tell you how, but that is ok, because it will probably only last few a few weeks, In a few weeks from now, it will all die down.

      But for the right person if you can find a trend and sit on it, and have an angle, you can make a killing.

      find out what PEOPLE want and give it too them. Pretty simple, but it is complicated at the same time.
      That's awesome...I live in St. Louis, but a safe distance away from Ferguson.
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    • Profile picture of the author Jeff Schuman
      The power of sending out an email to my list and making easy money never really changes. We all read about the power is in the list, but it is really true. Of course the hard part is building the list, but I have found the reward to be worth the effort in terms of making easy money.
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      • Profile picture of the author celente
        Originally Posted by Jeff Schuman View Post

        The power of sending out an email to my list and making easy money never really changes..
        SPOT ON!, very smart comment.

        Hey Jeff did you know I just looked at 6am today mate, and check all our tracking in JAN - JULY and all our sales stats where they were all coming from (as we make about 30-40 sales on digital products a day)

        its funny Jeff cause over 84% off all our Sales on all our products came from having a list and emailing our database.

        All these people that say EMAIL LIST BUILDING DON"T WORK! well....yeah right!! Sure.....If i stopped doing that, our sales would dry up effin' fast!
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  • Profile picture of the author LuckyIMer
    If you are not making money from a business that you have used to make from before, then usually it means your are not keeping your business up to date or running it correctly. Ofcourse this is not always the case, but usually it is.
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  • Profile picture of the author Brent Stangel
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    Took 30 minutes to produce and post a video. Made $88 in the first 2 hours and sold like hot cakes for almost two years. Direct linked to CB pitch page. It still gets the occasional hop.
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  • Profile picture of the author paulie123
    Ebay...and even to this day it is easy, despite how it has new rules every month. The same for Amazon and Craigslist.
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  • Profile picture of the author wentzco
    Originally Posted by NobleSavage View Post

    What is the easiest money you ever made, but won't work now or can't be repeated.
    - Register premium domain names that people/companies let expire

    Back in the late 1990s & early 2000s domain names would expire & there wasn't major competition on catching those drops. There were even new services launched that would provide lists of domains that would drop that day & domainers like myself would seek to register them. Competition grew & grew & grew making things difficult. New dropcatching services would likely use a multitude of computers to register these drops.

    Now you can't do this even as often registrars hoard these expired domains themselves to auction off. Yes some names still drop but backorder services like Pool, NameJet and SnapNames are needed to stand any chance & even then an auction format is put in place (see Place Your Backorders Everywhere | DomainInvesting.com )

    Back in the good ol' days I stood a chance on catching these names and succeeded a # of times.
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  • Profile picture of the author crums1371
    I worked on a blog for barely a week and made $100. It was my first online gig that actually paid more than a few bucks. To say the least, I was hooked after that!
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  • Profile picture of the author TonyAG
    Bought a guitar from Guitar Center for $110, then got a refund for what it was worth at $200 because of missing parts + late shipments shipped to the wrong store.
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  • Profile picture of the author w13
    For me the easiest way to make money is flipping. i've got my first $100 flipping in flippa market place
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    • Profile picture of the author cTory
      Originally Posted by w13 View Post

      For me the easiest way to make money is flipping. i've got my first $100 flipping in flippa market place
      Wow, when I read the title, I had the same thing in mind. I made my quickest money online flipping two websites on Flippa and I got my $100.

      But for the easiest money I have made online was selling electronics.
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    • Profile picture of the author NobleSavage
      Originally Posted by w13 View Post

      For me the easiest way to make money is flipping. i've got my first $100 flipping in flippa market place
      This is supposed to be for something that doesn't work anymore. What does flippa charge for the transaction?
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  • Profile picture of the author David Austen
    Make a Youtube video with CPA offer! It was a killer technique!
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  • For me, the easiest money I've ever made was on the Thank You page of one of my earlier products.

    I stumbled upon a CPA offer paying a $20 commission for a free trial signup (no credit card required) that matched my front-end product PERFECTLY, so I promoted the free trial on my Thank You to anyone buying my product.

    I made tens of thousands of dollars on commissions for not doing nothing except placing a brief promo video on the Thank You page, that's all. Easy money!
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  • Profile picture of the author KatherinePage
    The best way which I found to be productive to earn money online and result in more income than actual job is affiliate program.Website like Travelerrr clearly states affiliate earnings of up to $400 everyday by just attracting 100 target visitors to the website through marketing.
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  • Profile picture of the author Wildfire Results
    I started using Overture in 2001 (the PPC network before Yahoo) to send traffic to a make money website.
    Only cost 1 penny per click and my product sold for $100. I had a 1% conversion so it only cost me $1 to generate $100 sale. I was making $3k per day until 9/11 then the conversions stopped.
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    • Profile picture of the author All About Results
      Thank you for bringing me down memory lane Wildfire Results. By the way, it looks like we have the same last name :-) hehe I had great success with Overture too back in 2001 but I actually made a killing with GoClicks. That was when it was $0.10 per click for the word Weight Loss and for every $10.00's I spent on PPC, I made $90.00 profits. Nothing better than a 900% ROI all done on Autopilot.
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  • Profile picture of the author Ortega
    I register a dropped domain, two weeks later I got a $200 offer for it... send counter offer and finally sold it for $2500. Unfortunately that's happened just once
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  • Profile picture of the author miklanderson2
    I found $50 bucks on the ground once. I bent over and picked it up and made $50 for about 2 seconds of work.
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  • Profile picture of the author pcgun007
    I registered a domain name for free and sold it at $50.
    Little bucks but free , doing nothing.
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  • Profile picture of the author nicholasb
    I created a little info product in less than a day, a big affiliate picked it up a few days later and in less than 4 days I made 6k, that was pretty easy... But not something just anyone can realistically do
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  • Profile picture of the author TrafficExpert
    I'd say CPA marketing a few years ago with google. At my peak I was selling over $10,000 worth of product a day, $5,000-$7,000 profit per day. Although it's gotten a bit more difficult I still think CPA marketing is really easy compared to the kind of money you can make. I'm still making a ton of cash pretty much on auto-pilot, but been striving to hit $10,000 a day again.
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  • Profile picture of the author cyberzolo
    Selling all my crap on ebay was super easy money for me.
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    • Profile picture of the author JohnnyPlan
      Originally Posted by cyberzolo View Post

      Selling all my crap on ebay was super easy money for me.
      Most people can earn some quick money dejunking the closet but it's the rare few who can turn eBay selling into a full time income.
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      • Profile picture of the author BigFrank
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        Originally Posted by JohnnyPlan View Post

        Most people can earn some quick money dejunking the closet but it's the rare few who can turn eBay selling into a full time income.
        Really. I mean how much crap does any one person have in their closet? :-)

        Cheers. - Frank
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    • Profile picture of the author paulch65
      I think one little easy trick ---- and I don't think making money can ever be seen as an easy thing to do (lol) ---- and especially if you work for an ecommerce store or a company that has an online presence (and even for a small list building outfit) is the novel use of retargeting pixels.

      Instead of going to Google or Bing and bidding on lots of poor inventory (not all of it I know!), you could email a large site with a similar audience to what you want to offer, and ask them if they'll let you put your retargeting pixel on their site.

      You could also use the pixel on their email broadcast ---- in fact ANYWHERE you can put html.

      You just need to negotiate a good rate for pixel placement since this is an ad cost proper and should be absorbed into CPM/CPC/CPA etc and so you can see what EPC you need to target.

      And of course you could add the pixel to your own ecommerce related email broadcast. So you could do a single offer for say 50% off a hammer, and then the ad creative that follows/retargets the person who opened the email will marry up to this offer.

      You'd get the retargeting pixel via Google or Bing or whatever ad network you use, and you can safely put a decent CPM or CPC on this ---- since you know it's going to follow decent quality traffic that's likely to respond to either direct linking or a lead magnet to get them in the funnel that way.

      Of course non of this is easy ---- there's a load of learning I'm missing out ---- but if you're into paid traffic you could definately do this pretty snappy ---- assuming you can convince a decent site owner to place your pixel ----- as ever these things are made difficult by the human element! As ever!
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  • Profile picture of the author pulkitlawas
    By just clicking on ads I used to make like 40$/week.
    hope so it starts again.
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  • Profile picture of the author timwal
    Originally Posted by NobleSavage View Post

    What is the easiest money you ever made, but won't work now or can't be repeated.

    One time I got wind of a Pornstar that was about to launch a site. She was smoking hot and I knew she would be a hit. 90% of porn networks don't care if you use their keywords (but always read the TOS first).

    I bought the domain: (pornstar name)videos.com I put up a WP blog with one teaser video and an affiliate link (10 min of work). I stayed 1# in Google for 16 months for the keyword "(pornstar name)videos". Just a few back links. I made $5k.

    You can't do this now, because everyone goes to the tubes and watches for free.
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  • Profile picture of the author Randall Magwood
    Honestly selling on half.com (owned by ebay). My brother had alot of rap CD's that he told me i could have. I downloaded them all to my computer, and then put the CD's on half.com just to see if it would sell.

    Sure enough i woke up, and i generated 3 sales - without doing crap! Here was basically my description of one of the CD's:

    "LIKE NEW condition. Ships in 24 HOURS with DELIVERY CONFIRMATION!"

    Sold baby. Easy paper.
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  • Profile picture of the author Houlian
    The easiest money I ever made was convincing one of my cousins to give me $3,000 to make him a website for his chocolate business. It took me about 45 minutes using wordpress. Obviously, I cannot repeat this because I don't have any other family members to do this for! However, that was the easiest money I've ever made for 'online' work.
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    • Profile picture of the author BigFrank
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      Originally Posted by Houlian View Post

      The easiest money I ever made was convincing one of my cousins to give me $3,000 to make him a website for his chocolate business. It took me about 45 minutes using wordpress. Obviously, I cannot repeat this because I don't have any other family members to do this for! However, that was the easiest money I've ever made for 'online' work.
      You sound so proud of this. With relatives like you, who needs enemies? lol

      Frank
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  • Profile picture of the author GailTrahd
    The easiest money I made that once worked and I can't repeat was getting an allowance from my parents.

    My second easiest and non-repeatable was Adsense.
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  • Profile picture of the author dynamicsuccess1
    Creative Idea, and i think that anyone can make money if they cash in on a trend or can predict a trend about to happen. For example, many products like the Xbox one sell for almost double the amount once it launches on ebay.
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  • Profile picture of the author Chris30K
    I posted an affiliate offer on Craigslist and made my first Clickbank Check
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  • Profile picture of the author gjabiz
    Charged him 100 bux. He liked what he heard, sent me 200. I thought that was pretty dang easy.

    gjabiz
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  • Profile picture of the author Bill_Lawrence
    Ebay! I sold grandfather clocks there back in the early 2000's. I was making nearly $1000/wk. This can't be repeated right now because Ebay has limits for new sellers but if you have an unlimited account you can still do it.
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