Realistic Ideas Please - $20 per day??

You can continue to make sites, develop traffic to them, and
then sell them.

Have you tried developing your web design skills into a design
business? You could market your self to offline businesses and
build sites for them.

if you have 10 websites, that means you earn $20 isn't it?

Thanks for the prompt replies

The £2 adsense is across all the sites sadly though to be fair I haven't promoted a lot of them. I use Keyword elite to find the keywords with decent returns. I think my designs might be letting the adsense earnings down.

Advertising is a very interesting idea, I think i'll pursue that one further... I could always offer some ad space for sale.

As for selling designs/sites I think I get too attached and therefore want to much in return. i suppose selling them is an option but i'd love to see them established and earning a pound or two a day

What techniques would you use to make a realistic amount a day?

You are focusing on too much. Ten websites is way too much for one person to handle. You really only need one page of content to make a full-time living online. We have individual pages that are making over $500 a week.

Focus on one thing only until you are making a decent amount of money from it and then and only then move onto the next thing.

You have some nice websites but you are stopping at the most important bit - and that is the backlinking/traffic generating part. If you can just stop playing around with the look of the websites for just a month or two and completely focus in on the traffic/backlinking part then you will start seeing some action.

Just choose one website and on that website choose three pages that you think could make you money and get traffic to those three pages. Do nothing else but that and see what happens.

You might wanna check out my report which I am about to sell
to my list. I need some reviews/testimonials

Check it out!

Good site !

LMAO - Tim, don't listen to this. All I have are WP sites and believe me, they convert juuuuuuust fine.

Most people just launch sites like crazy to make their goal but I have had much better success with a few quality sites instead. Use your design skill to make some very appealing sites. Create good content and put effort into promoting your sites. That way your business will be much better of against changes in the future.

Unless I missed it, I didn't see any opt in newsletter boxes...........you're leaving lots of coin on the table if you're not building lists......thats a must, in almost every niche


Peace

LOL me too, I never underestimate the support and diversity of this place...

i think i'm close... I have the technical ability, the design ability.. I just need the right direction

Hopefully get there soon

If your goal is $20 a day and you can find, for example, a Clickbank product that pays out $40 a sale, then you really only need 3 or 4 sales a week to achieve your goal.

So if I were you, I'd pick a product I knew was selling, build a basic website around that topic whose sole intention is to get subscribers, and start sending traffic there with as many articles as I could write in a day. Then follow up with the offer.

Trust me on the list thing. Start building one now.

Your sites look great. Have you ever thought about selling XSitePro templates or WordPress themes (with each site containing a mandatory link back to your main site).

In particular, there aren't that many good XSitePro templates available, compared to WP.

I'd recommend running ads on your site, maybe such as google adsense or affiliate type ads. It shouldn't be too had to generate that amount.

i would offer services like writing, SEO analysis, backlinks, article submission. Easy money.

really great ideas coming up from all warriors.But is there any one already who had laid down a business plan for online ventures, which may be a basic idea?

Tim

I have only visited the Black Basque site, but here's my advice: if you are trying to monetise via adsense, then swallow your designer pride and put one single big Adsense rectangle right at the top of the page content, under the Menu, where your description is at present. You will definitely notice your CTR improve and hence your income.

Will

Tim you can easily achive the target of $20 a day but for this you should atleast devote 2-3 hours a day to promote it see if you want to make money online the only thing you need is traffic..

If you continue your hardwork+smartwork to promote your sites you can make $20 plus on one site per day so just think if you devote your time for 3 to 4 sites what will be your daily earing single from adsense , it will rock friend.

Good Luck

Let's see.......

You want $20 PASSIVE/RESIDUAL income...YES?

After all, anyone can make $20 ACTIVE income can't they?

Best thing you can do is keyword research and domain selection.

Then add good content and good backlinks. Do this and you will be humming.....

There is one thing I've learned. It is all about math and probably every method works.

Here is a small short plan you can follow!

Create money page: such as review of a "product"

Your money page has to have min. 20% click through rate. Some pages WILL convert higher.

You will need to send at least 100 visitors a day to that page, to get at least 20 clicks (most products convert between 1%-10%). So send a lot more visitors than 100!

You will achieve that goal for sure.

Oh...And before anyone yells at me...Yes you can have 50% conversion rate , and your traffic has to be targeted and interested in what you are selling, but that is to sum up on how it works.

Thank you all so much for your input...

It's clear i'm trying to do too much at once... i've made a pact with myself to not buy another WSO etc. until I can make what i've got work (or at least give it a fair chance!!).

I'll write myself an action plan and stick to it like glue.

'Swallowing my designer pride' is a key point... i've done it and implemented the ads above the content

I also have a concern about my amazon widgets... they were placed on the homepage for a bonus income stream, however the main focus should really be the adsense, as they essentially take the user away from the website they might not be a good idea (as one warrior said - how many people by sinks from amazon!)

From now on i'll focus on one site, and build backlinks to it.. however this raises another question. Should I focus on links that will increase SERP, or links that will be read by real people? For instance Angelas links etc. aren't going to be read by anyone, however articles etc. might.

Or both!

Hi Tim,

SteveW's advice is a great plan so consider that.

Also, consider setting up to use your skills to feed yourself instead of your love for your sites standing in your way, turn that love into cash by building sites you would be PROUD to show off in your portfolio but that will earn you cash upfront. Do that for a while as you do what SteveW adviced.

What's funny is that I design sites and I'm not half as good as you. I know am not. Yet I routinely command $500 - $1,000 for a job that takes 5 days - 2 weeks to complete and I even have to turn some clients away because I don't get what they want or I don't have time to build for them even when they are willing to pay.

If I had skills like yours I would not be looking for $20 a day... that's laughable and very sad to see when you have the potential to earn 25-50 times that from one project you do within a matter of days and you can easily do many in one month nas a talented designer.

There's a saying where I come from that goes something like...

It is those without heads that have hats and those with hats that don't have heads.

It applies here... you've got great design skills and are looking for small pay while people out there with far less design skills are cleaning up daily. Ironic.

Also you're committing a cardinal sin in business and sales... NEVER FALL IN LOVE WITH YOUR PRODUCT... the reason for that is what you're experiencing, you're so attached to non-sellers and it makes no sense business-wise. I've been there before and in fact make this mistake from time to time so I'm not dumping on you, just giving you blunt advice.

I can afford to make that silly mistake because I do make money from other sources, but when you don't make money and you're so in love with your own ideas and products, you will usually only end up failing, permanently.

Hope you take the advice you've heard about moving on on board. I'm pretty sure you can flip those 10 sites within the next month for a tidy sum that far surpasses $600 you're seeking for. And build more like that and make triple or more that amount monthly.

Later, when you're rich from designing for others or designing for sale, you can afford to indulge yourself and build the sites you want to keep and be passionate about.

All the best to you.

Kunle Olomofe

I should probably point out (an should've done earlier i'm sorry) that I actually have a design business and make websites for clients.

The focus for these projects is to have a steady stream of passive/residual income.

Without wanting to sound cocky/arrogant these sites are unbelievably easy to for me to setup, and I could make at least one a day. So it makes sense to have a good business model that I could repeat if necessary.

I'd like to personally thank you all for your constructive comments/criticisms... i'm thick skinned and eager to learn so son't worry abuot offending me!!

Tim

Hi Tim,

Well done for being such a good sport and thanks for clearing up the facts about your design business. I'm very happy to hear that your skills are making the money they deserve.

With regard to passive income, let's see...

1. Your horse site looks great and in the UK should be a good seller so work on advertising that offline to horse and pony owners and horse and pony prospects. You should also set up an affiliate program for this... you'll get affiliates bringing in traffic and sales for you while you sit back and cash in. You'll work first off to get it going of course

2. Join affiliate programs by companies like Amazon and Walmart and other relevant sites selling products like your two way radio and kiddies walkie talkies and link to those products from your content sites.

3. Back to your design skills... since you can build these at one a day if you wanted to, why not do so and sell off those sites quickly for $100 - $300 a site and then use a percentage of that income to buy ads or outsource to promote your sites that will make money in the background.

Cheers

Kunle Olomofe