Let's cut the BS - Who's stuff has made you money?

Andy

Without trying to sound cheeky....

Picking one thing and sticking at it till it made me money has made me money.

Jumping from method to method always...always...loses me money.

When I'm making money I decide if my ROI is worth the time invested and if I can scale it. If yes I keep going strong or outsurce. Then and only then do I move on.

Persistant action...makes me money.

Pretty much anything by Jeremy & Don or Kevin Riley will make you money if you buy it and APPLY it.

Top of the list, Jenn Dize's ghostwriting course - responsible for some $12,000 in the last six months.

Closely followed by some copywriting material from Andrew Seltz - responsible for about $6,000.

Both of these were under $50.

Andy, I didn't pay for this, but John Taylor suggested I offer ghostwriting, which is when my online writing business started.

Once we all find the deal that is making money, it becomes saturated. It will never be that easy to just locate the money maker. I don't believe it works that way. And what makes money today, may not make money tomorrow, or at least will probably make less in the future as we reach saturation.

I don't buy Make Money Online stuff. My own products and websites make me money.

Here is some Gurus with the finest stuff:

Go with someone who you are able to learn best from...
many of these, you can even sign up for a buck to try out for a month...


Jeff Johnson
Frank Kern
Perry Belcher
Ryan Deiss
Jeff Walker

When I started out, I didn't know about Warrior Forum, or any IM Products whatsoever. I used to hang out at some other, lesser known forums and read quite a few blogs too.

This post over at The University Kid (one of the blogs I used to read) got me started with Site flipping. Prior to that, I was writing articles, doing blog commenting, etc and earning okay, not very bad.

I took that post as a base and figured out everything else myself. It was no cakewalk, but the results were nothing short of awesome. After a few months (of work) my income shot to mid four figures. And then, devising and applying some of my own strategies, I shot my way past five figures.

So yeah, Jason's stuff got me started at that time and then, after I came to know about these forums 'n all, and buying and implementing some other stuff, I added a couple more income streams and is doing cool now.

For me, it was Jason and George (Google Sniper). Their stuff made me very good money, and continues to do so today.




Swastik

Andy,

Aren't you being slightly harsh on one or two here. Yes they are being a little too general, but you too in your OP said something that hasn't yet made you money.

You said:

"I recently bought Terry Telford's retirement package and that just arrived in the post (lots of DVDs of stuff), and I have no doubt that I can use a lot of it next year to make money."

You haven't even tried it yet you are confident that it will help you make money.

Nothing wrong with that, but you aren't applying your own rule to this thread.

I've bought many products over the years, but two fairly recent ones that helped me increase my income were Mike Hill's and Eben Pagan's Guru mastermind DVD's.

Mike Hill is a good guy. In fact both are, but I'm not particularly a fan of Eben's psychobabble regarding the mind and falsely talking about being an animal etc. But some of his stuff on marketing does help make money if applied.

Sam

My answer to your question is none of them.

Now I probably only bought 3-5 information products. After I paid for them I read it and never applied the technique because it was useless. Never really found a product that will make me money, and most likely never will since I won't buy anymore.

The only product that will actually make you money is one that tells you "Get off the forums, stop reading, stop buying informational products, start working, then work more, then work more, then work again".

Hi,
Ed Dale's 30 day challenge made me some money. It's free.
Cheers,
L

Jim Edwards - Attended a workshop of his and bought his mini-site course. This was the basis of my online ebook business which has made me good money.

Neil Stafford - Bought his membership site course and have applied it to set up a successful membership site.

Merry Xmas

John Hillage

I made great $$$ with BlueFart stuff, but that was before I knew what that was, and I bailed out ASAP as soon as I realized that it was bad news.

I bought the Affiliate Black Book.
+ I took up the "Apostle" monthly
membership option with it.

I am making money by applying
the information I specifically
learned from this investment.

The one thing that has consistently made me money over the past year is CPA marketing. I have made it a point to learn anything and everything I can about this, and it has paid off richly. I was just lazy to begin with, and wanted to see quick results, and CPA gives you results faster than just about any other area of IM that I know of. That being said, now that I've built my CPA machine consistently over the past year and things are running smoothly, I really need to graduate to list-building, which is something I've avoided like the plague for the longest time. It's time now to conquer my apprehension about it!

Mike Filsaime - for taking me under his wing back in 2005 and teaching me how he used viral marketing to build his empire so I can use the same tactics to launch successful sites of my own... then letting me help further build his business to the point that he trusts me to run crucial parts of his business without even questioning my decisions. Butterfly Marketing certainly has made me a boatload of money.

Ewen Chia - his content is great, but how he markets his content is where I learned the most from him.

Perry Belcher - for the PPC stuff I learned from him in Wholesale Traffic System and for his Social Media Marketing video on YouTube

Ryan Deiss - for his ability to use several front end products to get people into one universal back end continuity program. His entire continuity blueprint, mainly The Publisher Model, is serving me well in a non-im niche.

James Grandstaff - for being the only person inside of my personal mastermind and for all the late night talks where we gave each other key insights to help us grow our businesses and just be better at achieving in general.

Joe Karbo and Richard Gilly Nixon - for spurring me to take massive action following Joe's Lazy Man's Way To Riches and virtually tripling my income in a matter of months after putting it into motion.

Napoleon Hill - for getting me to realize that we can harness the power we have always had inside of us and have used several times without realizing it if we follow a simple plan that most people are too insecure to do themselves. ( Auto Suggestion )

Joe Karbo again for putting me back on to Napoleon Hill's philosophy for achievement.

There are many more marketers that have had an influence on me, but putting into action what these guys taught me has made me the most money.

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays

Jason Dinner

I want to throw some love to Angela Edwards. I had a site in a tough niche and just could not crack the Top 10 at Google for the 2 main keywords for nothin'. About mid-year, I got a couple of her link packets and within a few weeks the site was Top 10 for both keywords. I know those packets have lost their "charm" because too many jackasses abused them since then, but there's no doubt that Angela is/was onto something great there.

EDIT: I also want to give Tony Shepherd props. I didn't buy anything from him that made me money directly, but I learned from him about the basic way he has his business set up and his overall mindset. I can point to some intangible things that have changed for the better in my own business and thinking that have increased my income in the 2nd half of this year. If you're not following Tony, you're missing out, seriously.

John

I can't forget the great Dan Kennedy

His stuff is gold too..

CDarkLock... Just sent you a pm...

Dan Kennedy in some way, shape, or form is responsible for most of the money I make. 99% percent of what I know about marketing was either learned directly from him or from someone who learned from him.

If you want to learn about marketing, I'm talking REAL marketing, do yourself a favor and buy and read everything Dan Kennedy has ever written.

Angela Edwards link packets worked for me. I was asked by one of my design client to get some backlinks for their site and by using those packets i earned some money by creating some backlinks. So from 5$ packet, i made 30$ in a day. Not much i know but it counts when it comes to paypal counter.

Merry Christmas from Greece Everyone!

I gave up on buying info products a long time ago, because I never found anything that was a good fit for my particular business model or other interests I had. I do buy products related to SEO/Traffic Generation now and then, but it's tough to say that any one of them made a clear difference - it's more a case of the sum of the parts.

That said however, I'll share a couple of things that have made me money...certainly far more than the investment I made.

I paid my way into the WF through H4P, and after spending 6 months or so reading and participating in the forum, I launched a WSO based on my "Market Research" on what Warriors wanted. That WSO netted an average of $1K per day for it's 67 day run.

If I remember correctly, I was spending $24.95 per month for H4P and the WF was a bonus. By using that "Bonus", investing the time and effort to learn, studying the trends I saw in the WSO section and listening closely to what members were talking about, I just acted on my research and made money hand over fist.

I became a member of the War Room when it first launched, and in perusing the initial few threads, I came across a post Allen made about product development. Three hours later I emailed my primary list and generated a couple of thousand dollars in just a few hours.

If anyone wonders why I invest my time here, it's because over the years, my participation in the WF has earned me well over $1M.

While I am not an Internet Marketer per se, the value for me comes from picking up nuggets here and there and integrating them into my own business model. I've learned from the top guns and newcomers alike, whether through specific tips or rethinking the solution to someone's question.

For me at least, the single most effective "Info Product" I've ever paid for is the Warrior Forum

Some of the best ideas i have put into place is thru perry Marshall - the adwords guide, he is a proactive marketer. James Martell in the old stuff helped me learn about internet marketing. However of the best methods i have ever used to grow my business was direct mail thru Troy white- Merry Christmas Warriors

Sites that I have set up and promoted based on Steven Wagenheim's Niche Research Revolution packages consistantly make money for me.

Taking action on "stuff" I have learned in Don and Jeremy's bootcamps has also put cash in my pockets.

John

7 Steps to Freedom, in the 80's and then...
7 Steps to Freedom II: How to Escape the American Rat Race, in the early 1990's.

By Benjamin D. Suarez

These were the first books that exposed me to direct mail and mail order. They also helped me start my own mail order business back in the late 80's, out of my bedroom.

When I first got online, in 1995, and realized you could do email marketing for ZERO dollars, I literally couldn't sleep at night. Would lay awake till 2 or 3 am in the morning.

Other than that, I pick up some solid stuff from many marketers that I am able to add to my overall system.

Allen Says, Paul Myers and Jonathan Mizel had probably impacted my online business the most. And I mean in terms of actual dollars earned.

There are others too that I've learned bits and pieces from which I incorporated into my business and saw an increase in profits. Dan Kennedy, Gary Halbert, John Carlton, Harlan Kilstein, Kenrick Cleveland, John Reese, too many to list really. There are so many little bits of wisdom out there that when applied can make a huge difference to your bottom line.

Bryan

Merry Christmas and/or Happy Holidays to everyone!

PPC Classroom has helped me make more money

Jeff Walker's Product Launch Formula helped me achieve my first $2500/day (years ago), my first $10,000 day soon after... and my first $250,000 week about a year ago.

This thread is so frustrating. After reading the entire post, no one added anything of value. It seems to me that everyone makes money trying to sell others products to make money.

I bought a small $19.95 mail order product from Jeff Paul over a dozen years ago called, "How to Make $4,000 Per Day Working From Your Kitchen Table in Your Underwear." The backend was a $500 deal. I also picked that up and set about following the instructions. Within 12 months we were doing six figures from home via direct response marketing. Later we migrated to the internet and started a custom hosting business that did multiple six-figures within 2 years.

I always jump into these things late. Anyway, as per usual, I have a completely different opinion than nearly everybody.

Over the past few months I've gotten to know a lot of people - people who make so much money it quite literally blows my mind.

These people make what Frank Kern, John Reese, etc look like nothing.

They all have one thing in common. They all started the same way. They started with little to no knowledge, they just kept trying, tracking, testing, and re-peating until they finally got it.

They knew PPC involved paying for clicks - nothing else. But since they didn't bother going to forums, buying products, etc they had no other choice but test, track, and keep trying and let me tell you that they'll tell you it was the best choice they've ever made.

We all have a fear of jumping into something unprepared. Jumping into something and failing - but truth be told we are all going to fail when we jump into a certain area a few times because no real e-book can prepare you for the random twists and turns your online journey takes.

Clearly I'm not one of those guys who started off, right out of the gate, testing, tracking, and trying. My post count is really getting up there - but I'll be the first to agree that when you get your ass off of every forum you partake in you will succeed.

I have bought my fair share of products - and some have genuinely helped in at least helping me to understand what certain things are. (SEO, PPV, etc, etc.)

But I've also talked, and chuckled with a few so called "gurus" about the sheeple who buy their latest $97 product packed full of useless, old, regurgitated, methods. Like it or not this is the reality of the situation - want to know why 99% fail? Because the information is terrible. And in the information age where information is the single most valuable commodity that is something you desperately need.

The guru's have really carved out the internet marketing niche as if it's something totally ground breaking. Is it? Of course. But why SO many people fail is because they fail to understand the fundamentals. They fail to understand marketing at it's finest.

Everyone needs to understand what turns the brick and mortar world round and how they can apply it online - that is how you can succeed. (Buy Dan Kennedy stuff.)

It seems everyday we hear, "Oh this is the best time to jump into internet marketing!" but guess what it isn't at all. Traffic sources dying, tighter regulation, algorithm changes, etc it all adds up to a lot of headaches and if you don't treat what you do like a business, if you don't re-invest and market and work your ass off like you would offline you're going to fail.

Relying on one thing is dangerous. Imagine starting to bank $300/day profit on Adwords, which seemed like all the money in the world, and then having Google slap re-bills to s.hit - welcome to the fall.

All it takes is one new rule to kill your "stable" income when you rely on making your income from simply another company (Google).

To answer the original question:

- I spend 70 bucks on UAW every month.

- I spend 30 on this blog commenting thing that's hosted online I pay someone overseas to do every now and then. (Could go without it as it's not that effective but whatever.)

- I spend, much more then I'd like to publicly admit, on outsourcing. Everything from link wheels to wiki link wheels to copy for some landing pages.

These are my basics. I'm not subscribed to any newsletters anymore, no e-books, membership sites, etc. All the money I pay makes me money back - that's what the key is.

People will knock what I've said. Some may say you need to understand the basics - and that's fair enough. Buy a few e-books telling you what the area you're interested in involves. But after that, after you understand the core, do your own thing test, track, and keep trying. (You'll learn so much more that way.)

If someone making serious money wants to step forward and tell me that buying the latest over hyped guru product was the best choice they've every made then be my guest.


On a side note this is also something I've been thinking about. (And Andy's original post just reminded me of it.)

So many people get wound up in the online world and forget about the offline world. Like it or not we are all paid in USD, unless you're in EU based CPA networks, and like it or not the United States is in some real trouble.

Don't want to make this a political thread - but when we have so many liberal laws coming through, when we have the government tightening it's grip on everything and trying to control the forces of the free market, bad things will happen.

And the implications of this affect all of us. (Where ever you live.)

Chances are, if your like the average IM'er, you don't spend all your money. You recognize that traffic sources die, you know you can go from making a few million a month to nothing with one rule change.

Sitting on currency is dangerous and what is even more dangerous is not knowing how volatile it can be. Not here to give any advice, just saying think about the money you're sitting on and where it should be placed.

I enjoy coming to the forum - I'm not knocking it. I wouldn't have taken the past half an hour of Christmas to write this if I didn't care about this forum, whether I like it or not without meeting people when I first started like Ron Douglas I would've given up long ago. But what people have to realize is that methods come and go, fundamentals like SEO or PPC stay.

Understand the fundamentals and success will come easy. Test, track, and keep trying and one day you'll look at your Clickbank, CPA, whatever account and you'll see money and that'll be all the motivation you need to keep on going.

Zach

I haven't yet bought an information product or course that I could say has really worked super well for me. I've pulled out some handy bits and pieces but nothing to write home about. The really effective info products are tricky to find, with every person's experience level and goals being so different.

What has worked well for me has been more practical purchases. Big Mike's SocialBot has made money for me, as every site I have applied it to has made good affiliate commission and then been flipped for a good amount. The other item that falls into this category is the paid version of OnlyWire. I use both in tandem and results have been great.

I have also purchased some modules from the WP Robot suite, and those have made commissions for me also.

Apart from that, as has been said already, the War Room is the best set of information I have purchased access to, when measured by how much I have earned from it.

Andrew Hansen's Niche Marketing on Crack.

I applied the strategies and I got my first commission in Sterling Pounds.

I am even working for him as a Virtual Assistant now.

Hope this helps.

Ive only bought a few products.. several from Warriors and none of them have ever really helped me. It was either stuff I already knew or hyped up BS promising a quick buck. I havent bought a WSO in a few months now... and I dont really intend to unless something really special comes along.

It was not anyone's stuff that made me money.

I made a fortune becase I had an offline business that was making money and I moved it online many years ago. Then I sold it.

For the last few years I do my own products, both digital and physical.

But there was no "system" or stuff that has made me money.

It is understanding marketing as well as seeing opportunity and acting on it.

However there are definetly people who have influenced me.

Bill Myers was a huge influence, but I did not sell his products.

Ironically the biggest influence was a free seminar that I went to for a place that I think was called "Stores Online" or something like that.

It was day long seminar and out of it I got one fantastic idea from it. I never signed up or believed their pitch...

But that one idea is one of the foundations of my IM business model.

I do not sell affiliate products or have affiliates for my product.

I have however had people design affiliate sites for others, just so I could help them out. But the product they were trying to market was their idea, not mine.

You will make more money controlling your product, in my opinion.

But what works for me, may not work for you.

Wish you all the best.

I have made money with IM every month since I started in 2007. Something to think about, I used my IM skills on my girlfriend's Real Estate Business. She has been one of the top agents in her office for the past year and one half. Once you master Internet Marketing, you can apply it to retail and offline business as well.

Great thread Andy. All too often products are sold, there's artificial scarcity, and the program is closed before anyone can come forward to say if they've made money or not.

XRay Domination stands out for me. Cost about $2500 but has returned 100x that to the bottom line.

A recent purchase, Linking Loophole is demonstrably making me money by single-handedly improving the SEO positions of numerous websites.

Products I use all the time, and thus are something I consider to indirectly be making me money, include SubmitEaze and a couple Incansoft Titles: GFX Writer and RSSBot.

Connecting income to a specific product can sometimes be difficult - as compared to building up general knowledge. The best general knowledge I've read is from Allen Says, Terry Dean, Frank Kern, and Dan Kennedy.

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Using Kevin Riley's Low Hanging Fruit I made my first sale.

I've made money using the Conduit Method coupled with the HTML templates from Chris Rempel.

Earnt with Jimmy D Brown's Short Report Profits then his Affiliatenaire ($27 monthly) got me started with affiliate bloging but Jason Parker's 'Speed Affiliate Marketing' took it to another level again.

All are relatively low-ticket items (or were when I bought them - Speed Affiliate Marketing has rocketed in price).

Now that I have systems in place just watching top affiliates like Jit Uppal and seeing what others do, being curious helps me more than anything else.

Go to the sales and marketing section of your library and you'll learn TONS more than you will from ANY internet marketing course/ebook (and for free).

I would say that two people I have learned from and personally made money from their products are Travis Sago and Casey Gentles. The ironic thing is that I did not pay money for either of these products, they were both free reports for getting on their lists. I am still fairly new to IM, making a couple hundreds monthly. Howevever, I am confident that I will crack the four figures per month barrier very soon.

Ok, gotta throw my 2 cents in too.

For me, I've done a lot of the course/wso and such. I wanted a well rounded education and I find that a lot of warriors do have something to give.

But what was the best of the best?

Just taking action! I am making on average about $50 per day in multiple revenue streams and I'm going to be bumping that into overdrive this year to make $500 per day.

Won't take much. I've tried various things and found a few things, by simply taking action, that have proven to me that I can earn $500 per day without breaking a sweat!

So, there is no one course for me. It's been the university of internet marketing and a ton of risk taking!

So, no self promotion on the go, just a good old testimonial.
(Even removed my sig line as proof!)

Cheers and good luck to all!!

Frank

A couple of years ago when I was just starting to dabble in IM I came across BANS (Build A Niche Store). $97 was a huge investment for me back then, put it has paid off tremendously. I don't build ebay aff sites anymore because EPN sucks, but those sites I built continue to bring in cash each and every month... for now. I probably just jinxed myself ;-p

More recently, and without sounding too spammy because they are going through a relaunch of their product and I am promoting it as an affiliate, is Niche Blueprint. I bought the course in Jan. 2009 and I built successful ecommerce stores following their program.

Other than that, reading XFactors adsense thread on this forum has also opened a couple more doors for me and boosted my adsense income. That is probably the most informative thread I have ever read. It has a permanent spot in my FireFox bookmarks ;-)

Every penny I had made last year all goes down to Saj P all his product made me who I am today. Saj P Product is a path to the gold pot

All products and services released by the most popular internet marketing personalities in today's modern time allows me to make a living.

It's not a matter of whether it can make you money, it's whether you have a brain and know how to implement what you've just learned.

A lot of infoproducts, services, and software have made me money. I'm going to list the top few since they have accounted for more than half my profits:

Frank Kern and Ed Dale's Underachiever Course - No longer on the market, but I've added my own twists to it. I went DEEEEEP with this bad boy and scaled it up like a mo'fo.

John Reese's original Traffic Secrets - I ran with this one when it first came out and quadrupled my income that year.

Perry Marshall's Adwords Course - Coupled with Traffic Secrets, it sent my PPC ROI through the roof. The most recent version that recently came out is a must read for anyone thinking of jumping into Google Adwords or PPC marketing.

More recently, Don & Jeremy's CPA Marketer's Bootcamp - Don't let it's simplicity fool you, it's a formula that works. I've got a fulltime VA that is dedicated to what is covered in that bootcamp.

I've made it a point not to buy that many infoproducts anymore other than a WSO here and there since my businesses have a very solid foundation already. Though I'm willing to admit that it's tough to resist some of the new stuff that's come out.

RoD

Going thru posts,
have to say tried (bought) some stuff,
most of them nevew applied, (waste of money)
but one thing that was and still in use
Joel Comm's adsense

Just like Suzanne posted I do not buy products ... My own products and websites make me money ....

James

Andy -
Yes, I know what you mean about purchasing high ticket IM products. I must say - we've ordered and reviewed many! Very few of them actually did exactly what the "gurus" said it would do. Mostly exaggeration. Your best underground trainers if you can find them are "underground" and earn money from actually using Internet Marketing methods that work - but these guys are the hardest "gurus" to find.

With that said - we have earned significant amounts of income by using the right mentors. But you must know who they are.

I MUST say: learning + Implementation + testing + tweeking

Kevin Riley#s stuff has already been mentioned, but I'll second that statement. I spent the best part of two years online struggling with affiliate marketing. I then discovered how to make my own products which was taught to me Kevin, and that was the first time I started to make consistent money, and it's a lovely feeling when somebody buys something you made yourself and they're happy with it.

it seems odd, but it is real , I am standing on free things ,although it is not giving me thousands , I am still happy because I can do it.

I'm not sure what to say, I started a long time ago selling a friend's shareware products. I think it was due to an article in the London Times hyping up the launch of Windows 95, and it had a wee section on marketing software.

Allen Says - Everything i've learnt, implemented and earned (from IM) was as a result of being a member of this forum.

Riz

A lot of stuff from Chris Rempel.

The conduit method
Rapid List Formula

I'm also getting into Info Product Killer, so I'll see what happens with that.

Most everything has the potential to make you money when applied correctly. The issue is simply this: there's no silver bullet (no matter what "they say".) There are however, literally thousands of bronze bullets ;-)

Mike Filsaime's Carbon Copy Marketing (no longer available but following this course I added my first 7000 subscribers to my list in about a year)

Mike Filsaime's Butterfly Marketing (still making me money to this day - one of my butterfly sites has made well over $50,000 on autopilot since I launched it. Here is a video I made of one of my sites when Mike was giving it away last year)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUyz6f_FQcQ

Ryan Deiss & Perry Belcher's Wholesale Traffic System (PPC Training that helped me actually start making money with PPC. I am proud to say that I am averaging 500% ROI on 90% of my campaigns Thanks Ryan and Perry!!)

There are more, but those 3 in particular have helped me the most.

All The Best,
Jason

I have bought a couple of products that made me money but these 3 stand out :

Dean Shainin's article ebook
Jason Pereira's site flipping ebook
TommyG's site flipping ebook

Nothing... Nothing at all.

There is no product that I can point to that has made me money.

There is only one quote, and I don't even remember who said it.

"Successful people are successful because they have developed the habit of doing what unsuccessful people don't want to do."

I just started to do what I had been afraid of doing all along, building a squeeze page and a list. Now I do only 3 things, drive traffic to my page (using a number of different techniques), create products, and market those products to my list.

That having been said, I think it is possible that no one can point to a single product that made them money. I still buy products and I look for just one thing that I can add to my business model. If I can do that, then that product has made me money.

I've made money from Clickbank products, Copeac and others.

You really do have to pick the right product and then you have to market it right as well.

The product I have purchased and actually implemented have made me money. I think most peoples problem is buying and not following through. Most people want to spend $50 and have it run autopilot making them a full time income. Those that have that sentiment are flat out lazy and will never be successful until they change their attitude.

The best product I have ever purchased has to be Kim Roach's

http://www.superaffiliateclub.com

One Word = Fantastic.

Props to Kim on this product.

Hi all,

This is a great forum. I'll be posting here a lot in future.

Anyway, to answer the question, every piece of software I've ever written and put up for sale has always sold a few copies. Even rubbish little JavaScripts sell a few copies now and then. I found a nice niche selling software developer tools at $30 - $70 a go. To date I've almost hit $100,000 in software sales since 2002. That's been a nice 2nd income.

The good thing about having my own software range is that I've got 1000's of backlinks from software download sites, which helps any other IM ventures I choose to launch.

I've also sold a few copies of other people's software using affiliate sales. Creating pages that review the software works well. The problem is finding decent software to review that has a high sales price and hence good commission - to be brutally honest 95% of affiliateable shareware is total junk.

Adsense earns me enough to pay for my website hosting, but nothing more.

Amazon associates has been pretty rubbish.

I'm a bit fed up with software now, so I'm looking to expand into other areas. I've just written my first eBook and I'm currently tinkering with Hubpages to see if writing about stuff can earn cash.

Good luck all!

Andy,three weeks ago a good friend of mine passed me an ebook called "sensationalist crap" that is basically about how to form a group on facebook and then monetize it.It took me two weeks to create the group and the targeted blog but it was worth the time really.I've made around €120 the first days of promotion and honestly it's a good sum.

This is some of the stuff that made me money

Google Cash Detective - made me $5000+ (2 days)

Adeel + Bobby software package - make me $500+

Frank Kerns 3 day cash machine - $1,000+ ( in 1 day )

SENUKE gets me top 10 rankings. consistantly

CPA Ninja course... a sad $300..

hmmmm.... there is other stuff, but i can't remember at the moment.

Sorry if I'm being too general here but I saw this myself. antique's, old items, and "stuff" sells on ebay. I know of hundreds of thousands that have been made by M A N Y. Nobody is going to disagree about that. All you have to do is get it up there consistently, develop a good looking auction template and be consistent. Once you develop a following keep the pace. Some people sell liquidations, You can find them right on ebay (buy for a buck sell for 15.00), some people arbitrage buy something low on ebay fix it up, or not, sell it higher. People are still pushing digital stuff like crazy on cd. You want money thats still the way to go it doesn't take very long to get known. You just have to deal with a few loony bins but ya know they're everywhere lol. As far as work is concerned its pretty easy once you get in the swing. Of course it doesn't compete with that kind of success spazz896 jimminy crickets

Hi Andy,
what we are interested in is how to make money and good products that will help us to achieve this dream.i can show you products that can make you good money.

Didn't pay but on the contrary got paid by the "thing" which pushed me to build my company from the ground up and implement my plans from the top down without any resources other than my own time and skills (with my eyes closed):

---> my former employer (an outsourcing firm here in Manila), and...

...a good friend gave me this audio book as a birthday gift, which made me earn more:

---> Kiyosaki and Trump's "Why We Want You to Be Rich".

- Alex Goad's Google Conquest 90 day challenge, made me some good money (thanks Brian) until I got careless and my blogs went rigth to the google sand box (from page 1 to page 233216500316)...
- Day Job Killer - I made a couple of hundreds on profit until google slap - then I quit PPC for good
- Michael Jones's Affiliate Code - I've made 10 sales in three weeks using it so far $970
- Sean Clark's ADE Resellers-Heaven - I've made some sales (50) so far $500 (spend $200 on ads).
- TAP funnel profit - 4 weeks implementing it and I have about 700 followers and made $200 in sales (4 sales of $50).
- Copy and past system - made 1 sale $12 (and spend $100 on ads)
- Adsense ready sites - $1,08!!!

Not nearly enough to make me quit my job, but in six month I think is a good start.

In the beginning you need some kind of IM foundation... for me it was John Reese's Traffic Secrets, it showed me how all the pieces can fit together. Through trial and error I created an non IM info product that consistently makes money.

I have spent other money on "complete systems" and been underwhelmed.

At this point I look for "tools" and "services" that solve specific problems. I am interested in things that make me more productive.

I find them to make me more money than the theoretical stuff..... or latest " IM ... crusher.. exploder...dominator....( insert your favorite superlative here) that is going to have the bank begging me to stop because they have no more room for all the cash I am shoveling into my account.

There are several products which helped me to make a bunch of money when I first started out.
Those products are not relevant today anymore but the rich jerk ebook really helped me out allot.

It opened my eyes to how people make money online and how I can duplicate it.

Made money (& still am) from "Your Net Biz", Lauryn Herbert's "Effortless Web Cash Formula", Mike Dillard's stuff & also Clickbank products.

There are lots of legitimate ways to make money online & also what's been said in previous posts is true....find yourself a good, successful mentor to save you alot of time, money & effort.

Cheers

Barry

We (my business partner and I) started out with James Martell many years ago before we knew anything about internet marketing. He's an excellent teacher and the method was simple to follow. At the time, we were caught up in our 9 to 5 jobs and didn't really get into it on a serious basis so although we made money, it wasn't enough for us to leave our full time jobs.

It was only in the past year or so that we started to take it a little more seriously and it has paid off. James Martell has a slightly different model today than what we started on and I must admit I prefer the older method which to me is easier to follow and less work.

I think though that it wasn't just the James Martell method that took us to where we are today. We have purchased a lot of other ebooks and membership courses over the years and each has provided a little more info to help us on the way.

As a result we now have our own model that we follow and it works extremely well.

When it comes down to it, most methods work...it's just a matter of sticking to it.

When I first started IM - I bought into a lot of TimG's ebooks (small time adsense publisher). I also bought a few generic SEO books, can't remember what their called but their probably free by now. I applied all the techniques and worked really hard for about 1.5-2 years and ended up making $8-10k per month in adsense alone and still do.

Recently though, I've branched out into CPA and Clickbank and have made a lot of money - a lot more than I've ever made with adsense. I didn't buy any products to learn about those, just used the same adsense site tactics to my cpa/cb sites and things took off.

I'm sure I've bought info products that added to my knowledge over time, but nothing else got me going until I applied a lot of TimG's old techniques - not sure if they still work today though - it's gotten a lot more competitive.

In the beginning James Martell's advice made me money. The next marketer whose advice worked for me was Dr. Andy Williams. The Keyword Avalanche forum helped further increase my income.

Right now I've been studying James Penn, Lee McIntyre and the Rhodes Brothers plus a few other marketers.

However, I personally believe that my next income increase will come from the advice of Mike Long whom I have been trading emails and phone calls with for the last few months.

Respectfully,
Tim

I've seen results from using Tristan Bulls stuff.

Nobody's stuff made me money . I made myself money. Somethings are good read but only you can really make yourself money. The point is mute. Only if you have a good product will you actually earn money. If you have crap no matter how many tips and tactics you use , you will not earn.

Personally, I've picked up different methods, strategies, and ideas from different products. I think that for the most part, it's all good information, it's about how you apply it.

Interesting post guys.

The only product I have bought is Mike Dillards Magnetic Sponsoring. It's a good ebook but to be honest, I knew most of it anyway so it certainly hasn't made me money but it doesn't mean I don't value the product.

My opportunity makes me money. I wouldn't do it otherwise!

And no, I don't have a sob story of how I came from nothing, because I didn't. I sold my business last year and applied my marketing background to my current opportunity and it works very well.

That said there are some great products out there, with some big names and I know that a lot of people do find them useful.

But how can you honestly tell if they make you money unless you are an affiliate and make commissions from them?

Lilach