Where are the money these days?

It is in the same place it has always been. Where would you think it would be.

al

It is simple, really. Find a hangout of people who believe there is always easy money to be made, say a place, um, like the warrior forum. Look for ones who share your dream of independence.

Then, Claim you have discovered the laterst and greatest NEW THING, NEW way of making easy money. Maybe use a WF WSO.

Since you have observed this for two decades now, watching where the money is going and all, you are in the right place at the right time.

There exists a no larger congregation of people in the world looking for the IM easy money, here they are, right here at WF, very low hanging fruit ripe for the picking.

GordonJ

That's just a big, boatload of hooey! 'Easy' is a relative term. If what you stated was true, we'd all be in Tahiti.

Frank

I started in the late 90's and I'm still doing the same thing as I did back then.

I promote PPL (pay per lead...lead generation) offers. The key reason is that there is no credit card / purchase required to complete an offer. All a user has to do is fill out a form, so conversion rates are typically much higher than offers that require a sale.

Bottom line and especially in theses times, it's just far easier to get someone to fill out a short form than to take out their credit card and make a purchase. So why struggle with trying to sell them this or that, when you could just provide free information to users that they actually want/need and get paid well doing it. I was just lucky that this is how I started my internet marketing career and there was never any reason for me to change it.

The first few years I actually developed my own offers and sold the leads directly to end buyers. Then once CPA networks started to pop up, it was much easier to just get the offers to promote from them. Which is mainly what I have been doing for the past 16+ years now.

I favor offers that have a make, get or save money benefit to them, as they have overall worked the best for me and tend to have the greatest mass appeal (will be of interest to a large general audience). So the potential to generate high volume exists and cross promoting offers is fairly easy.

Some verticals I have done extremely well with are education, insurance, debt, mortgage, discount offers, assistance, credit, loans, homeowner offers. etc...

To generate traffic I acquire fresh / targeted 3rd party data (email). Which is data that the user have provided permission to receive messages from third parties. Which is 100% can-spam compliant and has absolutely nothing to do with spamming.

Which then based on the user's interest, I match it with a relevant offer. So if they are requesting info about life insurance, I send a life insurance offer. If they are interested in furthering their education, then I send an education offer, etc, etc...

Basically, I'm monetizing the data by sending PPL offers, as they offer the path of least resistance to generating conversions / $$$ and converting the data into cash producing assets.

Obviously, there is so much more that goes into everything. But it really does work and can be extremely profitable done right. Everyone that I know that is in the business and knows what they are doing, for the most part, does 6-7 figures. While that is a huge range, much comes down to one's ability to scale and effectively manage / build the infrastructure needed to scale.

While it's not for everyone, it's something to think about.

Most of my personal exprience comes from mouth to mouth and networking in the area

Where are the money these days? Very simple - the money is between your ears.

That question sounds like you just came out of a cave from the past ten years. Just saying....
The question to ask is where is the money NOT AT and do I dare to enter.....

Kinda like Google and putting the Internet everyplace it is not at.

Find a group of hungry people (who want to MMO), figure out what they want (shortcuts to MMO), and give it to them (affiliate sales, CPA, your own product).

If you're ready to invest some money, put in the work and advertise, there's money to be made.

What you mean is "from the sidelines, it looks like easy money has existed"....because it doesn't sound as if you took advantage of any of those "easy methods" you noticed. Had you tried those methods over the years you might have found it's not as easy as it "looked" ...or... you might have done very well had you jumped in to be part of any one of those 'methods'.

Except - there weren't nearly as many people online....no Paypal to process payments....people didn't trust buying online. Every period had its challenges and the "easy money" has been a rumor passed down for years.

People that stay on the sidelines are 'spectators' - and that's a job that doesn't pay.

Hi Simon,

The money is in your fun Or, what you have most fun doing.

For me that means blogging about blogging tips and working in my travel stories.

I monetize through selling my 126 eBooks, selling my 4 online courses, my audio books, paperbacks, offering coaching and freelance writing services, sponsored posts, affiliate marketing and various other income streams. Because I have fun working these channels.

But the love I feel creating stuff for others is the prime monetizing factor, because this fun/love detaches me some from money outcomes, which allows me to prosper.

Ryan

We all know what people are spending their money on online.

A simple Google search will tell you that.

Here's hundreds of successful eCommerce sites selling products I didn't even know existed.

https://www.shopify.ca/success-stories

And info products if ecom it's your thing.

Success Stories - NicheHacks

It's never been easier to make money online.

You just have to pick away at your own little piece of it and not get bogged down and overwhelmed at the shear size of your question:

My question to you guys is: where is the money to be made these days?

There are people getting rich selling pretty much everything and anything online.

Making your own products.

Being an online teacher seems to pay really well these days!

In my opinion its that money are in "trafic mastering " If you know for example to master paid trafic you can get a lot of tafic and conversion and you can promote everything like affiliate offers cpa etc .List building its also profitable but it takes time you must add a lot of value etc

Not to sound silly,

But the money is where it has always been, in whatever niche you can enter, drive traffic in, build a list in or simply convert that traffic into sales.

I know I sure made this mistake when I first started out, always looking for the easy money.

When what I should have been doing was establishing myself as a an authority in my niche--instead of chasing the easy money.

Which I never got anyway.

There is good money in almost every niche today - but it is only given to those with businesses that go after it and provide something in the niche of value to their prospects.

People who sit on the sideline and watch the parade as it goes by don't get any of it.

Simon, you are not in need of an "easy money niche." You are in need of the motivation and work it takes to set up a business online and present some offers that will help prospects in whatever niche you choose.

The game of online income is really simple . . . you put yourself in the game and become a player rather than a fan watching from the sidelines.

The best to you,

Steve

Nothing worth having comes EASY. With that said, you can still make a great income by putting in 2-3 hours of work on a daily basis. There has and always will be money in list building, so long as you're getting quality traffic and high opt-in rates. Quality paid traffic would do just that

Also, the real money is in providing VALUE to other entrepreneurs like yourself. By providing insight and true value, you can be viewed as an expert which will in return significantly boost your income if managed properly. What do most people get online for? INFORMATION.

You're welcome

No, you need to offer something for sale that people actually want or need to buy.

The whole "be a guru to a tribe" is mostly just marketing hype in the MMO space. Many thousands of people earn fairly anonymous incomes online without telling any stories.

I think in most cases, many of the same strategies stay the same, just parts change.

Building a blog or website with quality and unique content will likely always be in style and you will likely always be able to make money from it.

Creating your own product and launch it if its done properly can bring in some signifact amounts of money

You're right mate. You used to be able to drive traffic from paid ads and make a killing.
The problem is now the price of acquiring a customer is more than the product!

It just doesn't work anymore.. Unless. You have a lot of high converting products and a multitude of various high-ticket services/products for sale.

If you have this and earn 90% commission on products, and once a front end product has been purchased that customer is taken off your hands for a team of professionals to call and upsell, whilst still always making 90% for that customer on every sale in the future.

Then... it's a profitable business model

The Internet is still a gold mine. I spend a couple of hours most nights watching my favourite GTA vlogger. He has made a substantial income from a $300 investment in a games console.

B2B is also an untapped gold mine - stop focusing on consumers people!

Do you all believe it has never been easier to spend money? I think mainly because of tech efficiencies and crypto-currency. But I'm fairly young so I don't know if credit was easier to obtain in the past. It seems like the gaming app industry has hit a jackpot. Fantasy sports apps as well.

Kids sit on their ipads all day loaded with their parents' credit card... The company Supercell who made the game app Clash Royale was reportedly raking in over 100m a month through in-app purchases. Now obviously they're a major company with staff and infrastructure in place but it's crazy to think that they offer no physical product, well besides software, and make that much.