$500 a month? Is it a possible?

I think you can earn money faster with your own product, and setup affiliate program to promote it

The key to good affiliate product is high commission, good content, good customer support and "GREAT affiliate resources!"

Great affiliate resources includes:

1. Ready tons of good seed keywords
2. Ready landing page for different keyword focus theme
3. Ready banner and text links for blogger and email promotion

Just join one of your competitor's affiliate list, and ask them to promote your product, if only ONE starting to do so, you will see many affiliates start to join the game!

Kok Choon

It is very possible. Myself and many others here do it already. It does take work though. I put in lots of 12 hour days. A lot of it can be very mind-numbing ... backlinks, article submissions, SEO work. Some people outsource a lot of that stuff. I do some outsourcing of that but rarely do I find freelancers whose work is worth the effort. The old saying "if you want it done right..." springs to mind

I'd say the absolute most important thing you need is determination. It can seem thankless at first. Three days of work now can mean payoff in a few weeks (but not always...)

You could also learn the basics for free ... try a course like 30 Day Challenge but honestly it takes a lot of constant effort, research, and hard work.

edit - this business is not (usually) a get rich quick scheme....almost every success I read about involves someone who puts the extra effort in. Stay in touch here and you'll be inspired often

It's really unlimited how much you can make your first month. My very first month creating a product online and selling it I made over $4,000 with PPC. But I chose a very hot product with little competition and it was during X-mas season. Get in front of a hungry crowd and give them what they want.

If you need money right now, I would suggest talking to some local businesses and helping them either set-up a website or promote it. You can easily charge $1k for a simple wordpress design with a few pages about their company.

This is what I read as most important in your post -- so the answer still stands as helping out a local business. Most are desperate at the moment and will want your help in getting online and getting more traffic to their business. You can easily walk out with a check of $1k+ before you even do any work.

Nothing is "auto" in this industry. Some stuff lasts longer than others but it all requires work to maintain it.

I have an interesting idea that might make that mma traffic somewhat useful, although I am not 100% certain. Sent you a pm!

Alright, I'll give you a tip to make the fastest $1k in 15 days "only" if you work on it.

1. Make an ebook on what IM'ers would like, something useful for the IM'ers. (Social Bookmarking, Link Building techniques, etc) - a bit research needed
2. Must be a UNIQUE eBook and get the PROOF! Be honest with it.
3. Setup the payment and stuff with e-junkie.com
4. Market it on WarriorForum as a WSO ($20). The ebook should be priced at $10 to get the most value.
5. At the same time, make a website for this, get a cheap design done for less than $50
6. In 10 days, you should have earned about $500. (BUMP it whenever it reaches page 3)
7. Then list the website for sale in Flippa.com with a BIN price of $1000
8. It should get sold in less than 5 days ..

I hope this helped

Hi Justin,

I put my first money site up about a month ago in a particular niche, just gradually promoting it via article directories, social bookmarking, web 2.0, video sites, etc and my commissions up until yesterday were $3000...i seriously can't believe it!

My plan is to find products to promote which were quite high in price and paid high commissions. This way you make much more per sale and you just repeat the whole process with different products.

So yes it is WELL possible.

Hi justinsane187

When I saw the title to this thread I thought I'd pop in and say "yes $500/month is very doable" but after reading the thread I think maybe a little more is in order.

The first thing I would do is make a list of the resources you have at your disposal.

1. do you have time to work on it every day

2. hosting (I do have a server) not sure if that means you have a hosting acct or an actual server.

3. domains...what domains do you already own

4. knowledge...what special knowledge do you have

5. skills...what special skills do you have

6. marketing tools...plugins for wordpress would fall in this category (there a many good free ones)

The list could go on but I think that is enough to give you a good start.

The next thing I would do is read this thread:

Internet Marketing Product Reviews & Ratings

Not to find a product to buy but to find a method that you want to learn so that you can make money online.

Now...research this forum and others and learn everything you can about that method. There is enough free info and tools out here that if you search enough you'll find everything you'll need.


For somebody who is new and trying to learn I suggest using wordpress blogs to get started...there are so many free plugins to help build a good site and promote it.

I do not want to suggest any one method because what works great for me may not work for you....if you are persistent and consistent you will find a way that works for you.

best of luck to you

I have a few blogger blogs that earn decent money, but it's taken 4+ months for them to even get indexed by yahoo and bing. It will take about a year before all of them combined will bring in $500. However when your working with SEO you have to be willing to wait it out a bit.

Free....??? No problem....
1] Use blogger.com to create blogs..its free
2] Find keywords that get a good search volume 5k+ a month using the google keyword tool
3] Check out the competition using the "keyword" method. Anything under 100k is okay, less is faser
4] Register the blog name with the "keyword" in the blog name, blog title, and sprinkle the keyword in the content a few times.
5] Write 1 article seperate from website and submit to ezine articles with an anchor text link back to your site. (Don't use your keywords in your article as that will compete against your site. I use relative topics and then use an anchor text links back to the site....for instance if your main keywords are "dog food" then your relative can be anything about dogs...like "how to feed your dog". example
6] Repeat set #5 but use Goarticles.
Wait one week and check to see if everything is set correctly..site indexed and articles are live.

Rinse & Repeat 4 per day. That 4 free blogger blogs that can earn like $5/day per site...so that $25 /day.

ONce you build up a nice bank roll then you can flip that process into domains and selling them for a heavy profit.

It sounds like you already have some decent traffic. I'd suggest learning more about what your traffic is interested in. VIsit other similar sites to see how people are monetizing. Heck, if you have to you can even ask your visitors what they'd like to see!

Experiment with a few different offers. What types of things are in the adsense ads that are running? This may be a possibility too.

Matt

Here's a great blog you might want to check out. Some great affiliate marketing tips!
Earn Money Online Money Making Tips

Yes its very possible to make $500 a month affiliate marketing even a whole lot more just keep learning, and look to the super affiliates who make millions a year for inspiration! Good luck!

If you're into affiliate marketing I would check out Ewn Chia and Rosalind Gardner. But if you want to make more than that-a lot more- then think about what you're good at, that you love and see if there is a market for it where you can solve your target markets problems. I built a 6 figure income from the ground up doing that with ebooks and teleseminars and it was a lot easier and faster than affiliate marketing for me. I make a few grand a month from affiliate marketing but I don't focus on it- it's more of a courtesy to my students.

$500 a month is very possible just follow simple techniques such as article writing and web 2.0 sites and pick a niche product made by known and established marketers and youll not go far wrong

You bumped a 3 month old thread to say that?

Thanks for the enlightening comment packed full of substance and useful information.

It is possible..... but i think you are making life hard for yourself by solely relying on PPC advertising. How much are you making p/m presently?

And any rise in revenues since you first posted this?

Since you are that experience,have you ever thought that you could go to another field?For example,managing a web server or other things?Or try to persist your business longer and tomorrow will be better.

hi justin
Yes its very possible to make $500
just be positive and work from home