What does it take to earn $4000 a month?

Hey Salman,

What haven't you been asking me stuff on Skype??

I'm not an expert when it comes to SEO. But for me, if I want to make at least $4,000/month, I'll work on building my list. You can earn $4k in a month doing some other things, but the question is, can you sustain it on the following months? If you have like 6k of 10k subscribers, then sustaining your $4k a month income would be much more easier.

Set measurable goals as well. Don't just jump in and say "how can I earn $4k a month"? Take it one step at a time. Earn your first $100, then $500, $1,000 and so on and so forth.

Be meticulous about details. Double check everything.

ie, your signature link doesn't even work

One thing you do need to do, (and this is fundamental) is focus on whatever you decide and not jump about from one project to another. It's the main mistake many people make

Kim

Have a look at it again Afaq =)

Hahaha well not really =p

It is a lot of money if u are in Afghanistan.

Okay okay it is but see if you are determined and if you work hard then nothing is impossible =)

This might be a long-ish post. I hope it reads well and isn't disjointed etc. Plus I don't mean any of this in a bad way, by the way Anywhoo, the best guide you can ever have (and this is for free, too ) is as follows:

1) Get a good idea, and research it to make sure it's not a pipedream

2) Work very hard to implement and maintain that idea

And as said above, don't change from idea to idea. </end of guide>

Without wanting to sound ackward though, you say that you want to earn a fairly sizeable amount of money, and that you have the relevant skills. But you also say that you need someone to tell you exactly what to do.

Surely (and I mean this in a good way) if you want to earn a fairly big amount of cash and have the relevant skills, you won't need "an expert" to tell you exactly what to do?

Personally if I wanted to make that much cash, I'd ensure that I knew most of the skills I'd need in advance, and then do it myself. Having to keep asking "an expert" for a guide would probably slow you down. Plus if someone was going to show you exactly how to earn $4,000 per month, I'd assume:

1) That they'd be earning much more than $4,000 per month
2) They'd therefore want a pretty big helpers fee/commission etc

And if you already know the skills you need, why would you pay someone a potentially massive helpers fee/commission to tell you what you already know? (I.e. since you've said you already have the skills you need)

(And as a quick FYI: the reason I say "an expert" is because you don't need to be an expert to make websites, nor do you need to be an expert to be good at SEO. And all you are really asking about is making websites and SEOing them to get $4,000 per month, thus it doesn't really sound like you need "an expert" )

Anywhoo, for what it's worth: if I was wanting to make $4,000 per month from a website development point of view (since you are mentioning SEO), I'd probably roughly do the following; this is from a web developers point of view, not a IMers point of view by the way

1) Plan to make one big website (at least at first) on a particular topic

2) Thus I'd research a bunch of keywords and topics, and find a topic/niche which I could make a big, authority site from

3) I'd also be sure that the topic I choose is free from potential legal problems, i.e. I couldn't get into trouble for selling products related to the site (an example of a no-go topic would be a site based around another company's intellectual property, e.g. a site based around Lord of the Rings might be a no-go since you couldn't sell products since you don't hold the IP for LotR)

4) Once I've found a topic which is 'free' from legal issues and thus allows me to create and sell products (e.g. e-books) via the website, I'd get to work on setting up the website

5) I'd aim to add dozens of pages of good content (focusing roughly on keywords, but not keyword stuff)

6) I'd then start SEOing and driving good traffic to the site (by good traffic I mean traffic which will return, not simply 'targetted' traffic). Perhaps adding a message boards could help with keeping people coming back

7) Once traffic starts coming, I'd put up some adverts (but not too many), and also get to work on coming up with products (e.g. e-books) which could be sold

8) Keep repeating the above (i.e. hard work, driving good traffic to site, SEOing, adding good content/articles, creating e-books etc) until traffic and revenue rises to your desired level

Clearly this 8-step 'guide' is fairly rough - and from a web development not IMer point of view - although it's what I'd do to make an authority site which has a good income level.

The main point of all of this, though, is: hard work is key.

I hope this post helps and doesn't seem like I'm being ackward. As I say, if you truly have the necessary skills and are willing to work hard, you won't need "an expert" to give you an exact step-by-step guide

Best of luck with whatever route you take!

you know how rank well ,you have the tools to drive traffic?Can you share？ I am really struggling now

First of all, read what I posted:

Now, I really didn't mean to tell him he can't make 4k a month online but instead I was advising him to set small milestones.

If you already know SEO.. I'd find low competition keywords with around 5k or more searches, rank the crap out of them for it's main term + LSI, monetize with adsense and CPA. Doesn't need to be about the offer either, just anything that gets searches. Start building an adsense empire man, wish I didn't get banned when I was a noob..

Since you're very experience in SEO. Why don't you start building your own online virtual real estates such as blogs, Adsense sites.

Furthermore, List building is the fastest & consistent method for you to earn more than $4000 every month consistently.

Since it seems that driving traffic and optimizing and ranking webpages is something you are already very good at, why don't you just go with that?

Look for offline clients (or online, whatever) and do their seo for them, and in between clients and other downtime rank small niche blogs and flip them.

Here is some advice - your Ipad site, infringes heavily on Apple's copyrights. If your serious about making money, drop it or change the design, as your asking for trouble in the long run. Your Twilight site is also illegal, read the news, USA shut down loads of these sites a few weeks ago, and is trying to get them all down.

Get yourself a mentor who has the life you want and can teach ethics. You claim to have skills, but your sites are showing a little lack of judgement, and it's looks like 'im here to make quick money and not build a relationship' type marketing. Which is why you would never make it to my coaching programs (unless you could show me you stopped all that)

Sorry if that is harsh, but it's true.

All you want is one page, one good keyword, one product, #1 spot in google

If you can rank for highly searched keywords then promote clickbank products and you will make this amount of money.

The right SEO technique can make you rank for any keyword you want

The keyword you are ranking for with the articlesbase article receive only 58 searches per month, you need to choose the right keyword before doing anything and make sure it is very relevant to the product you are promoting e.g. if your product is about "losing thigh fat" your keyword may be something like "How to lose thigh fat" according to google keyword tool this keyword receive 14,800 searches per month and 9 of the pages ranking in the first page of google receive less than 500 link (so only need quality 500 links to rank in the first page) and if you are promoting a product very related to it (i think there is one on clickbank) you can make a lot of sales per month with one article.

Best wishes,

Mohamed

A viral marketing strategy could easily bring in $4000 a month. Alternatively article marketing with massive action could work.

Thanks Martin for your optimistic and straightforward advices
I guess I see 3 options for the 4000$ target:

1)Products- get 1-2-3 products, build 1 blog/site (later others) laser targetted and reach for 130/day with all of them

2)Continuity- if you're really good at something, offer a continual service (or maybe microc-continuity)- but I presume this is not what you had in mind, since it requires a little experience with setting up such systems

3)List- build list, build relation to list, offer value, brand yourself, and every now and then send affiliate links to them. Transparency is the key.

The key, as some of the guys said, is constancy, stay with the chosen niche until the initial difficulties pass so that you can enjoy the later success.
SEO is the strategy of patience, even though se's have been every time faster in indexing and re-positioning pages.

Money as an initial target is good and nice, but the important thing is to Build a Business, and have fun running it. I personally don't believe in the "chasing the gold" race, guru race or whatever: just a nice living, which allows one to do that which s/he is passionate about, and earn a nice living while doing that.

Decent niche and "stick-to-itness" to make 4K per month. Git-R-Done

In my mind it takes a lot of dedication. It's a path to making money online that many people don't want to take. They want that one answer, or click and go method. Unfortunately there aren't many, if any of those, out there.

You just have to want to succeed. If you desire enough and can learn to set goals effectively then over time you will see your results start to improve.

As your results improve your motivation increases.

As motivation increases, productivity does.

Productivity = Profit.

Formula for success

Isnt that what facebook is? I have a friend who started a "legalize marijuana" fan page... and effortlessly achieved 75,000 friends in virtually 90 days... I would think he could easily monetize that... I think he's starting to post amazon links to books now and stuff.

Oh I guess that post got cut... in any event I believe the term is "social marketing".... really interesting field... Im sure alot of people make money with it here.

Definitely could monetize that.

Sell informational products on the "Truth Behind The 'Drug'" and watch the money roll in. 75k in 90 days? Sheesh, easy game.

Yeah its amazing. I have another friend with a facebook page that caters to actors and actresses... he's got a ton of friends too... it amazes me how those things grow. Im tempted to start one... it just seems to good to be true.

Give this a read, and this is for $100k a year...

http://www.warriorforum.com/ad-netwo...bers-game.html

if I had a list of like, lets say 20,000. would it be better to sell the list or to just work the list?

i keep them vary happy with new info all the time,dont always send them to pages to buy things too soo they know I dont just send junk...the niche is a money maker.i only make like a 1000 every two moths so far, from them. so thinking to sell just not sure what to selll something like this for?