Telling People How Much Money You Make

Do you???

How much are YOU currently earning, and what did YOU do to get there?


More importantly... what does it matter?

Those that will tell you, are probably "fudging".
You are not them, so whatever they make (or do not make) will have no bearing on you, whatsoever.

You First.

As for me, I make a lot more than you, and I got here because I work(ed) my ass off instead of asking dumb questions like yours.

It's really no ones business how much you earn.

Plus, there are many FAKE "gurus" out there claiming the they are making $1,000's of dollars per month and in reality, they are earning less then $100 per month. They go out and " teach" theories and lying to people. That's why so many are failing. It's the BLIND LEADING THE BLIND.

The anonymity of the Internet allows everyday commonplace citizens to be and say anything they want. There is no way to tell or prove that they are being honest . . . so what's the point? If you have to get motivation from people that you don't know and will never meet who are feeding you malarkey . . . it's a sad day.

Steve

Nobody ever asks me how much I make. I can't see that this is an issue at all.

Not sure why my income is anyone's business. I don't really care what you make. Why should you care what I make?

Gary,
I currently earn around $10,000,000 per month online..... no just kidding, but would you believe me if I told you that? It's okay to tell some one that the potential is to earn X amount per month, week, year, etc. But how much YOU earn is no one's business at all. Each person is different. If I'm earning $15,000 per month that's because of the work I put into it, my skill level, and my level of dedication and commitment. Just because I am earning that much doesn't mean someone else can too. It all depends upon that individual's skill, work ethic, commitment, and so on (as I mentioned above.) So I would still encourage people that they can earn money online, but how much is entirely up to them and nothing online is guaranteed. Anyone who guarantees you'll make a specific amount of money is scamming you.
Hope this helps...

I don't see why it matters. Why do people want to know?

I normally won't tell people. To me it's none of their business.

If someone is wondering about a specific area such as website, traffic source, offer, etc - then maybe. It depends on the circumstances.

Currently im at around 7,000 per month avg. It fluctuates which I totally hate and I find myself on the "grind" harder when I was just starting out.

It started with a simple e-book that I read. It was simply called Network Marketing about 5 years ago. It was a simple book over 100 pages that I just read by accident. I was unemployed, out of work and stumble upon the website by accident.

I do not even remember what caught my eye. It was by accident. But it suggested building a website. What really caught my eye was following my passion and building a business based on that. Thats what I did. I made a few dollars and actually lost money at first, which after reading a ton of books and videos since, many have done that as well.

I found marketing my passion fun. I found trying to rank higher in the search engines fun. I found commenting, doing JV's, and working together on projects fun.

What really made me money was taking advice from a business model that was in place since 1994 - I was like hmm... if this company was on the internet since 1994, most likely many of the businesses, if not all of them, have learned or branched off from the teachings that have been provided by them. Knowingly or UnKnowingly.

I share the website I learned from often, however you get so many jokes from people like this is just a site from the 80's or this information is outdated etc. it' funny to me, the lack of respect for the old school marketers, programmers who have paved the way for us to market successfully.

Then I will create a site under a fictious name, face etc and the people go crazy over it. Just funny to me playing the background and watching people react to truth, lies, etc. Its like they love the lie the most.

Most people are uncomfortable, me too.
I actually don't care how much you make. So, Why should you care how much I make?

I see a lot of people stating the fact that, "you're income doesn't matter to me, so why should mine matter to you?!", and shoving the reason behind the question away, instead of trying to understand it...

Look, everyone has their motivational triggers. If your trigger is what you can do with wealth, or spare time, or bigger muscles, that's your motivation! Obviously, the OP's motivation is money.

Granted, there should be more to it, but by asking "how much do you make", and "what did you do to get there", the OP is trying to create an idea of what incomes are potentially achievable through which means of online business models...

With that said, OP, it's nearly impossible to base a business model with an "average" income. This is due to the fact that each person is unique, their businesses are unique, as well as their work ethic, niches, products, etc.

If you are interested in learning what kind of money you are capable of reaching, I recommend that you pick a simple method that fits your interests and dive in head first! The worst that will happen is you spend some money and build some experience!

I hope that others in this forum remember that newer accounts are looking for answers, even if they aren't sure how to word their reasoning...

We are here to help. The experienced marketers, myself included, should always be willing to help, as well as learn from others! No one is to where they can't learn more, and everyone has some piece of knowledge that others don't.

As far as making good money... Find a niche market, look for problems that are lacking solutions / services, and fix it. If you do this, whether it be through affiliate marketing, product creation, etc., you will make more than enough money, if done in the right niche.

Wish you the best of luck!

Aside from my day job where I work in the marketing/design department, I write articles in a variety of niches. I guess more appropriately "content and product creation" since I do design as well sometimes. Article-writing alone pays quite well. I do articles for a large UK company and it pays 20 GBP per article for about 600+ words. The articles are used by the company for their course descriptions or blogs or sometimes for SEO. As you know, Google loves fresh unique content so lengthy articles are a plus for blogs and SEO.

I am usually asked this question when applying for a loan or mortgage and I usually comply in those situations

al

No I am not a lover of this at all. Because when I read that people made $40K or what ever just posting this what ever it is It is a turn off for me. Most are not telling the truth anyway. Is all I say is that I am a full time retired internet marketer Video Marketer that sells my own products Thats it If I make $2 or $200 even $80K or $2Million will not help the person who is selling nothing. But I have a video course out I give away showing how I earned $400 with proof on a squeeze page and it works very well selling my upgrade So it is how you tell the people that counts. Robert

I don't like telling people how much I make UNLESS it has some bearing over a deal we are in together.

Other than that, money seems to obviously be this 'thing' that people use as an excuse to create judgments, assumptions, and quite frankly, limits on their view of others that may not necessarily reflect the value this person may (or may not) have to offer.

The reason I do not let people know my revenue is because so many people believe that sending out 1 email can get them thousands without even working I do not want them people in my list I want people who can and will work and understand that you have to build up your business. It ill nor come easy as you have to put the hours into it. My income is my Business I will show people how I made $400 on my first sale that is selling my own product or a photo of my first affiliate marking week that is just under $50 because it can be done. Robert

2000 per month from day job... I'm a newbie, paying my dues, trying to sort out this madness but when I do and the money starts to come in, I'm not gonna tell people...

I have no problem telling people what I make. Especially real newbies. It's not a whole lot, really, but it's there and I'm running way in the black. My expenses this year have been something like $250 total, including purchasing software and books.

Of course, I provide direct content services, mostly writing. Most writers won't answer this question directly, which I find irritating. Like it's some measure of their success or creative integrity or whatever. It's not, it's business acumen. I have a friend who is a much better writer than I am, has an English degree, but can't bring himself to "sell out."

I'll be making the jump to just my writing in a couple of months. This time with diversified income streams. I'll also be moving across the country at that point, and making a bunch of huge changes. That's why I do what I do, and if I can afford to do that I'm happy and the rest is just numbers in an account.

Telling people how much you make isn't it weird. Don't you think, Everybody earns for themselves. Keep it simple don't ask, don't tell .

well,

truth be told..

i don't make much more than my friends who have mon-fri 9 to 5 jobs.

that being said, i dont have a mon-fri 9 to 5 job.

-Ike Paz

It is one of those burning questions that people want to know.

That is one of the primary reasons why Pat Flynn's SPI blog is so popular. He is very transparent with his income reports.

Now, I have seen a handful of copycats doing it too. Except they are not making as much as he is.

Their blog is almost like a photocopy of his.

Granted, if I made that much I might show it too. But I do make enough to improve my standard of living.

It's all relative.

I have also seen marketers with videos showing them logging in and showing how much they make and people still say they are lying. Sometimes, you can't win.

For the majority of people, what they are really asking is "how much can I make?"

If they see an average person saying they make 48k per year blogging with no prior experience then there might be hope for them too.

Well i just started one online business that another guy had given up on and we did $5K sales first month. But it was a semi known seasonal product that should do well this time of year.. so nothing great but I must say the first order notification from paypal was exciting.

Now I am looking for an IM type "guru" to help me with a dormant online business i have. This one will be much more interesting.

So, OP, if I told you how much I make, will you believe me?

And, if you believe me, how does it affect you or anyone else, since I'm not going to spend the tons of time required to put it into context.

I mean, $4k a month is peanuts for some, 2-years worth of mortgage payments and groceries for others and the costs to produce similar results to mine are different.

Wouldn't you be better off deciding how much you want/need to make in the next 12 months, in the next 5 years, then figure out what you can do today, a year from now, 4 years from now, so what you want happens?

The amount of money varies so widely, depending on skills, desire, reasons for doing other things you have, etc., that to give someone an amount without giving all of those is just plain meaningless.

I've known people for decades and I don't know how much they make and don't care to know and it made no difference to me or them, even the ones that are doing things similar to what I do to make their money. Not one iota of difference.

I've known people who said, I want to make $20k more a month... I sell xyz, my gross revenue on average is this, my net is that. How can I get 20k more?

At that point, we could talk money in a meaningful (and useful) way.

I don't mind telling anyone how much I make $0.00 it's a brand new blog.

No problems to show what my biz group makes every month

Whether we like it or not, there are people who are using their income proofs to attract more customers to them. Sometimes, the income proof is authentic, while other times fraudulent. The sad thing is, there are always newbies who tend to get attracted by income proofs.

I don't think I am comfortable telling many people how much I can earn off the internet!
Mostly because of the constant nagging I've to face from the people asking me how to make money off the internet and so forth!

I have always tried not to tell people how much I make monthly but there are some exceptions i.e. when I create a product on Warrior Forum and want to give proof

However usually I try to avoid it because that information isn't really necessary to give out.

I make something in the 5 figures every month. I started an SEO company but now have expanded into reputation management and off-line marketing.

I remember back when Squidoo was still around, for a while they had this "box" on the home page which said "Our Top Highest Paid Members". For a long time I was #3 on the list. And for a long time I also did not know the list was there...

but...

I suddenly started getting a LOT of hate filled comments about money on my Squidoo articles and in my email, with people flipping out hysterics, accusing me of being a snob and millionair, etc. I couldn't figure it out, especially considering that my top 10 articles on Squidoo were the "On Being Homeless" series, which was daily posts made during the 9 years I lived under a 8x6 tarp after a psycho stalker blew up my house with a bomb.

I was homeless, living under a tarp, and at it's most my income was $2,000 total per year, so when I was suddenly bombarded with the money related hate I was completely clueless as to what started it or what these people were even talking about!

Then, one day I cleared my cookies/cache on my computer, also erasing my saved passwords, so I could no longer open Squidoo straight to my dashboard and now had to go to the home page and log in... and that's when I saw it. A list stating:

Our Top 10 Highest Paid Squids:
#1 SquidPirate
#2 JaguarJulie
#3 EelKat
...

I just stared at that and thought: OMG! The most I ever made on Squidoo was $249 one month. Most months I averaged around $90 a month. And I was #3 highest paid writer on the site? That was disheartening really. I was thinking I could work up to more income on Squidoo, like the "big members" and here was Squidoo saying that not only was I one of the big members, but I at $90 a month was #3?

Below the list was an article. I read the article and that's when I realized what had happened to cause the assault of hate comments talking about money and accusing me of being a millionaire... the article bragged about how there were many Squid "earning full time incomes on Squidoo" and "making as much as $14,000 a month!"

Being friends with both SquidPirate and JaguarJulie I asked them: "Are either of you making $14k a month on Squidoo? Did you see these bold faced lies Squidoo is telling people about us?"

SquiPirate said he'd had a few months when he got a $300 payday from Squidoo. Then pointed out that he was selling drop shipping items off his Squidoo pages and THAT was the $14k they were referencing. It was NOT money he was making off Squidoo, but money he was making from dropshipping, and he was just advertising his site on a Squidoo page.

Squidoo was bold faced lying to people about how much we members were being paid for writing our articles and were twisting facts to make it seem like they were paying us members huge amounts of money when in fact, not one of us was even making part time minimum wage from Squidoo's paydays. Squidoo was trying to make it look like we had huge incomes to try to attract more writers to the site. It was very deceptive and fraudulent of them and us members who they lied about were very unhappy with it when we found out about the lies Squidoo was spreading about us as part of their marketing scheme. And turns out I wasn't the only one getting an onslaught of hate from Squidoo's misrepresenting the incomes of it's writers. Every member on that list said they had gotten the onslaught of hate too.

Squidoo has been gone for 3 years and I still get people emaling me to accuse me of being "a Squidoo millionaire" and vent hate for "rich folks" like they falsely assume me to be.

The lesson I learned from that is, if people think you make a lot of money, doesn't matter if you actually do or not, they are going to get bitter and jealous and start hating on you.

I've yet to make anything close to a fulltime minimum wage income off the internet and when I finally do reach that income, I certainly won't be broadcasting it - lesson learned from Squidoo broadcasting it, before I even had it!

I have to declare my income every year to the tax man and companies house.

For about 2 anyone can find our how much I earn. It's really not an issue for me. Money doesn't make you rich.......












but it can pay off a lot of unhappiness

I make 1550 to 1750 Euros a month netto. Security desk type of Job in Frankfurt Germany. What I did for it : I went two months to a "school" to get a certificate called Sachkunde 34a and I applied for jobs, first I worked at a company where I was doing tons of hours, cant even write how many as its confidental but I did get paid for all the hours.

I also left home all by myself to go to Frankfurt where I had a friend who did constrution work and lived in one room with 4 people, the whole building shared one huge bath more like a bath hall. It sucked. I didnt even know where I was going when I got the call from the friend and found out there was some type of job out there I can try, making keys, which didnt work out and I spent the first 5 months unemployed.

I got my certificate, went back to my country though I had a job offer but I didnt take it up as I didnt have my own place and where I was was to beat down to go to work from it it was too stressing and ghetto, not enough sleep and always some type of trouble not neccessary criminal just having 3 roomates who disapear and new comes and are mostly construction workers and some criminals and everyone has money problems.

Next I waited 6 months in my original country to get a flat and job opportunity at the same time. The job was the maximum work hours you can imagine ( I mean humanly imagine not legally imagine ok I heard someone do even more) all night shifts and the flat was shared with a muslim 40 year old woman who was strictly religious and borderline abusing.

Now I changed my job, still work a solid chunk of hours however its a german company they are more professional and share a flat with a roomate I can stand very well, actualy we are good friends.

Looking to change my job again to work 8 hours shifts to be able to workout daily. Also for a higher hourly wage though I expect less at the end of the month as its significantly less hours.

There you go.

And to complete the story Im from a second world country, the poorest in Europe however been born in Germany and am speaking it as a mother tongue though my parents arent German. Lived in Germany as a kid.

I think it is wise not to reveal how wealthy you are to strangers. You would welcome unwanted dishonest friends who
can be best avoided. However, I do not find any harm in revealing how much you make, to friends. If your friend
envies you or hates you for this, then that friend is not worth having, in my opinion.

This post was funny. All of a sudden everyone started getting defensive. It was a simple question, are you comfortable sharing that info. If yes... Nobody said, no, I am not comfortable sharing that, instead they went off on how you dont need to ask that question. I guess you got your answer based on peoples responses.

I'm broke as ****, not making a penny. There you go, I told you how much I make. I even made a video about it on my youtube channel, the most recent one with the party dresshirt on.

I'm rolling around on the floor covered in money right now.

Sometimes it helps for marketing purposes to share how much you've made with something in a certain amount of time. But the majority of time, the amount of money I make is between me and my family.

Very few
I had earned money in the past on website

But now ,
almost nothing

Well i prefer to not say all my earnings because people are a little bad and invidious and if you say to them that you make much money they will think that you mak fraud like hack for exmple you know how bad its the world

Honestly, this is a question no one wants to hear from anybody. Ever. It's sensitive... and it's really none of their business.

But if you're in this business (i.e. Internet Marketing), giving a true answer would help... especially if you are selling something!

So, it's okay and it's not okay, depending on the situation.

The only time you should show how much you make is if you are selling your product to the public and you need to show some sort of proof for them to trust you.

Product Proof

Ex. I made $1,014 on FB with my experimental Niche Fan Page, here's is my case study.

Revenue Proof

Ex. Here is my monthly revenue on JVZoo, as you can see I put my money where my mouth is, and if you ask around in the community you will find that I'm a trustworthy marketer that can help you.

This is the way your income should be presented in my opinion.

-Ronnie Rokk Smith

"If you have something good, keep it in your pocket and don't show anyone." ~ Muddy Waters

Yeah, it's safer not to believe any screenshots. Here I got 4 cents higher and $55,000 on debit card... It's not even edited by Photoshop but the basic Windows default MSPaint in just 20 seconds! You can do better than me here...