What Did You Do To Make Your First Dollar?

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What Did You Do To Make Your First Dollar?

How did you make your first dollar? What niche? What type of marketing?

I am sure a lot of people can benefit from this thread.
#dollar #make
  • Profile picture of the author Rich Struck
    Mowed lawns when I was in about 3rd grade.
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  • Profile picture of the author Louise Green
    My first online money I made was probably from Adsense.. seemed like a good idea at the time and probably was.

    These days I don't even check my Adsense earnings anymore.
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  • Profile picture of the author jasonmorgan
    From the grandaddy of IM... Porn, and I still get checks every month.
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    I'm all about that bass.

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    • Profile picture of the author SantiSantana
      affiliate marketing. Bought a course and affiliated myself to it and promoted it for my first ever clickbank cheque.
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      No longer a writer for hire. I now help small owner/operator service businesses find opportunities for growth.

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  • Profile picture of the author rapidscc
    When I was in the 5th grade, I sold cigarettes on a shoot location of one of the
    country's first drama series here..Earned more than a dollar then..

    I even bought junk when I was young, going house to house and then
    reselling them to the junk shop for profit..

    Also had several money makers..during my teenage years, my dad opened an eatery..I volunteered to help and would buy bread and other stuff and sell it in the store, take the profit from it and buy and sell more stuff

    Man, my childhood was interesting..I was so entrepreneurial back then
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    • Profile picture of the author All Night Cafe
      Adsense, back in the day when you could make a
      killing. I closed all of my accounts around 2006.

      Haven't uses used Adsense since.

      But in the beginning Adsense rocked.
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  • Profile picture of the author SuiteJ
    I had an eBay biz and design service for a few years in late 90s and early 2000 but my first "IM" dollar was made promoting adult sites.

    I actually can't remember what my first "mainstream IM" sale was cause I started doing a bunch of stuff at once. It was probably Adsense though.
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  • Profile picture of the author Arun Pal Singh
    My first online check was for 1.62 dollars. It was from a Paid to click program. After I understood the big picture and meager incentives, I left.

    It was 5.5 years back.
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  • Profile picture of the author frqhuss
    I maked my first dollar in google adsense after 15mins of my account approval...
    on first day $14.72
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