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From 0 to $30/sec << Started at the kitchen table

by Profit Traveler Banned
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We are asked over and over if there really is money to be made on the Internet, and we roll our eyes and look at our checkbooks, and - yup, there's gold in them thar' sites.

All it takes is persistence, the willingness to study, apply, evolve, and pad our office walls. Wow. That cost more than I planned for.

Income Diary released their list of the 30 top online only businesses, several of which I know had very humble beginnings. You'll recognize them too.

These businesses are so profitable that Income Diary not only listed how much these companies are making per year, but broke it down to how much they are making per second!

Companies like Orbitz, Expedia, and Priceline were started by entrepreneurs who were absolutely convinced that they could do better than the competition. Oh my. Orbitz is raking in $30/second, Priceline stands at nearly $300/sec.

See for yourself: Top Earning Websites | Most Profitable Websites

And please. Don't whine about online money being a scam, a pipe dream, unrealistic, too much trouble, a myth, too hard, only for cronies who work together and exclude every one else (really?) and on and on and on.

Art
#&lt&lt #<< #$30 or sec #kitchen #started #table
  • Profile picture of the author TheGMa
    Oh hey, Art - no kidding. I saw that, too.

    And there are plenty more who didn't make the cut, but aren't complaining. Who would have thought to work out how much you're making per second? That's really cool.
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  • Profile picture of the author jaysolution
    Very inspiring, but these companies still seem distant from us. Most of us want to control our financial destinies, and create something from scratch. We know making money online is thriving. What I am encouraged by is seeing my peers (indivuals implementing systems that provide value to targeted audiences) making a mint. Personally, I like to hear from people in niches outside of the hot topics (fashion, weight loss, debt relief, make money online, etc).

    Good article though.
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  • Profile picture of the author danieldesai
    Originally Posted by Profit Traveler View Post

    Income Diary released their list of the 30 top online only businesses, several of which I know had very humble beginnings.
    The founder of IncomeDiary, Michael Dunlop, is someone I admire very much and he's also doing pretty well with his business ventures.

    Nice list, and I have to say...

    Your headline writing skills must be getting better, this thread title is some serious clickbait.

    Regards,
    Daniel
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  • Profile picture of the author TheGMa
    Hi Jay,

    See, the thing is that so many of the big money makers were just you and me. It's not as if all of them started with some humongous cash flow.

    I personally know some of the big dogs in Internet marketing who do not actually have a major web site. Their mailing lists rock, though.

    And believe it or not, they've all been Warriors at one time or another, most back when.

    They all started from scratch with very little money in their pockets. For most, that was the prime motivation - broke as hell and in debt to Mom, Dad, Sis, Aunt Tilly ....

    Say you push your biz up to $1,000 per month. There are 730 hours in a month (the Internet is up and running 24 hours a day). That comes out to $1.37/hour.

    If you can make $1,000 per month, you can make $3,000/month in time. Now you're up to $4.11/hour. Let's move to seconds.

    That's 28 cents per second. All of a sudden, you're making real money in seconds.

    See, it's not out of reach at all.

    - Annie
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    • Profile picture of the author jaysolution
      Originally Posted by TheGMa View Post

      Hi Jay,

      See, the thing is that so many of the big money makers were just you and me. It's not as if all of them started with some humongous cash flow.

      I personally know some of the big dogs in Internet marketing who do not actually have a major web site. Their mailing lists rock, though.

      And believe it or not, they've all been Warriors at one time or another, most back when.

      They all started from scratch with very little money in their pockets. For most, that was the prime motivation - broke as hell and in debt to Mom, Dad, Sis, Aunt Tilly ....

      Say you push your biz up to $1,000 per month. There are 730 hours in a month (the Internet is up and running 24 hours a day). That comes out to $1.37/hour.

      If you can make $1,000 per month, you can make $3,000/month in time. Now you're up to $4.11/hour. Let's move to seconds.

      That's 28 cents per second. All of a sudden, you're making real money in seconds.

      See, it's not out of reach at all.

      - Annie
      When you state it like that I can see the relationship. I think 24 hours is the perfect amount of hours in the day, this body just can't take advantage of all of them, consistently. Much work to do.
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  • Profile picture of the author Profit Traveler
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    Originally Posted by TheGMa View Post

    Oh hey, Art - no kidding. I saw that, too.

    And there are plenty more who didn't make the cut, but aren't complaining. Who would have thought to work out how much you're making per second? That's really cool.
    Yes it's also great lesson for creating engaging memorable content.


    Originally Posted by danieldesai View Post

    The founder of IncomeDiary, Michael Dunlop, is someone I admire very much and he's also doing pretty well with his business ventures.

    Nice list, and I have to say...

    Your headline writing skills must be getting better, this thread title is some serious clickbait.

    Regards,
    Daniel
    Hi Daniel yep been fan of his for many years he is very generous.

    You know what amazes me is some of the excellent SEO magnet Titles I see here all the time by "total newbies"?



    Originally Posted by TheGMa View Post

    Hi Jay,

    See, the thing is that so many of the big money makers were just you and me. It's not as if all of them started with some humongous cash flow.

    I personally know some of the big dogs in Internet marketing who do not actually have a major web site. Their mailing lists rock, though.

    And believe it or not, they've all been Warriors at one time or another, most back when.

    They all started from scratch with very little money in their pockets. For most, that was the prime motivation - broke as hell and in debt to Mom, Dad, Sis, Aunt Tilly ....

    Say you push your biz up to $1,000 per month. There are 730 hours in a month (the Internet is up and running 24 hours a day). That comes out to $1.37/hour.

    If you can make $1,000 per month, you can make $3,000/month in time. Now you're up to $4.11/hour. Let's move to seconds.

    That's 28 cents per second. All of a sudden, you're making real money in seconds.

    See, it's not out of reach at all.

    - Annie

    Oh no please do not come up with equation of time wasted on net.


    Originally Posted by jaysolution View Post

    When you state it like that I can see the relationship. I think 24 hours is the perfect amount of hours in the day, this body just can't take advantage of all of them, consistently. Much work to do.
    Outsource time! Slight headache in the beginning total love later.
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  • Profile picture of the author discrat
    Wow, Bezos is amazing. And he doesn't seem stuck up. Just a little eccentric
    but a seemingly good guy

    - Robert Andrew
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  • Profile picture of the author Bengood
    If that guy walks down the street and spots a hundred dollar bill on the ground, in the amount of time that he would spend walking to it and bending over to pick it up, he made it already....
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