How Do You Guys (Actually) Make Money?

Hi GoogleWarrior,

It all comes down to two things: having a system and focusing on the system. There are great methods out there and you don't have to go all over the place. Start with some great threads in the main forum or on the War Room that talk about the methodology. Then adapt it to your own style but stick to the basics of the system. Don't get tempted by other things while you are implementing one system. Just do it and just STICK to it.

I always tell people, start with the 5 star threads. There's lots of information there that you can really run with. Good Luck!

yea its really hard to find the right method, most of the real methods are private because people don't want to give them out

I make money by Google Adsense ads, providing services to other marketers, selling PLR articles, selling affiliate products (both physical at Amazon and digital at Clickbank) and recommending certain programs to people who follow my IM journey (Aweber, Wordpress themes etc).

That's just a small section of the many ways in which people in this business make money. I think the main question should not be to ask others how they make money, but to find out what the best way is for YOU to make money. I know I'm not good at some of the things other Warriors do to make money, so I do the things I can do with my skills at this present time.

And yeah, I know what you mean about people selling systems but not actually making money off the stuff they're teaching. The only way a lot of these people make money is from the guides themselves! Sad but true. Fortunately there are plenty of systems that have proven results behind them too. You just need to find the right one and stick to that one.

~Ruth

Nobody "makes money".

They create value and get paid for the privilege.

When you focus on the money you never get it. When you focus on the outcome, solutions etc. you always do.

It all revolves around the selling and buying of goods/services...no magic system, the same as it offline (in essence)

Help a group of people solve a problem -> put the solution in front of them -> give them good support - > live well.

That's really how easy it is. All of these assorted methods for getting traffic, converting traffic, etc. are worthless unless you solve a problem and take reasonable care of your customers.

That is pretty awesome Brad. I have to agree that there is not much ordertaking online (not for me anyway) you need to somehow give to get. You don't deserve a commission for putting up a page, you deserve it for helping people

One more thing...I'm reallllly trying not to be rude, but I hope you'll take into consideration that you've started 90 threads in the first 30 days of your time here on Warrior Forum.

I think it would be a GREAT idea for you to do some research and read through older threads on here to learn a whole lot that's already being shared instead of asking the same things again. Not saying you shouldn't ask questions, but just hoping that it might help you out if you take some time to search...plus you'll probably find a whole lot more info than just the few responses a lot of your threads are getting. Just my 2 cents....

I create my own products, I flip websites and flip domains. Other than that, I've got some Adsense and miscellaneous affiliate income

I find what people really want, then I sell it.

Hi,

That's a very interesting question and perspective.

What are "These Methods," and how do you know they (the people) haven't made money by their own methods?

If you are trying out "all of these methods" that might be a problem in and of itself. I don't know for sure but it's suspect at least.

Without telling the names of the people and the exact names of the products, what have you tried and found not to work? In other words what have you done.

I earn money by creating products and by selling (a lot less now) offline. What do you do?

George Wright

I make money in lots of different ways, I write books (physical and digital) so there's always sales of those from my websites, clickbank and amazon, I help offline businesses, I own a software company with a high ticket product, I do affiliate marketing, have some sites focused on Adsense, sell information products in several niches, run a coaching program, give drum lessons, and a few other things - basically I just help people in whatever way I can and see if I can make money while I do it.

There are lots of ways to make money - there is no right or wrong way and most people who say they're struggling and are not successful quite often aren't actually putting the time in that they'd like to think they are.

Most of being successful comes down to developing good habits and working hard on things that help people - the actual methods are less important than the approach and commitment.

Andy

I make money by writing articles, ebooks and sales messages. Also sell on ebay and half .com

Also make money from blogging through adsence and my local market from my plumbing blog and helping local business create a presence online.

My best advice is to find a niche and set up a system, then start marketing that system.
Hope this helps.

P.S. Since you are a war room member, why not go to the war room and get your hands on Allens' ebook "Private posts" it is a fantastic read. If you follow it through then you will understand how to make money online.

At this time Iam writing an ebook on how to make at least 100 online. In the book there are 52 diffrent 100 dollar ways. That is 5,200 worth of idea's. All of them I have tried and 100 dollars is the least amount I have made from them.

It won't be finished until November. If you PM me I will send you the ebook once it is completed.

Or you can simply click on the link in my resource box

If you haven't seen it, this is probably what you are looking for...

http://masscontrolsite.com/blog/?page_id=9 (no affiliation...obviously)

Hey, that's a very good question. Of course it would take all night probably to describe the entire process. The best way in is to get a mentor, some training and that way you'll start to see how it all works. I've got som efree training on my site if you want to check that out. Quality stuff, no strings, just check it out. Wish I'd had it when I started out. Hope that helps. (see my signature anyone interested)

First and Foremost... MINDSET! Develop yourself before trying to start marketing. I suggest "The Science Of Getting Rich" By Wallace Something...

Then... ACTION!

So What To Do (What I Do):

Article Marketing
Social Network Marketing
Forum Marketing
PPC
Make Videos

How To Do It:

Article Marketing... i write 2-4 Articles per day.. all articles have about 3% keyword density... Submit Original Articles to Ezinearticles.com ... rewrite each article once and submit to a article distribution service. Once done.. Next action to take...

Social network marketing... add 20 - 30 friends that have interest in my niche.. socialize.. key is to build relationship with them. once I have established trust.. i promote. but only promote SOMETIMES... social marketing is called social marketing because you have to socialize.. not sell! (About an hour a day for this.. two social networks per day) once done... i move on to next action i need to take..

Forum marketing.. Look at all the questions you think you can provide great value to. i answer questions for about an hour. once done... move on to next action..

PPC.. spend another hour writing ads... how to write ads... well, have to be creative with it. What would catch your attention in your niche? create about 10 ads... move on to next action...

Video Marketing... make 1 video per day. I look for an article on my niche.. make a video explaining what I had just learned.. then submit to (here's a secret) TrafficGeyser.

There.. i just showed you how... now go TAKE ACTION and stop complaining about how gurus dont explain exactly how to market on the internet....


"Eagles aim at what they want, dive right into it, and take it. Ducks sit all day and quack quack quack (complain) all day."

Are you and Eagle or Duck?

1. Affiliate marketing
I buy PPC traffic (from 2 tier PPCs) and send it to CPA offers in several niches (dating, free offers, games, etc). I work with Azoogle, CJ, Sharea sale and a few others.

2. Google Asdense
I've built a couple of niche web sites, which I used to promote with the most basic SEO methods: original content, catalogs, social media, forums. Then I placed Google Adsense banners.

3. SEO, SEM, SMO Consulting
I help people to make their sites better in terms of structure, design, value, style, marketing, monetizing, etc.

One more thing... Schedule your actions... for example: i do my article marketing in the morning at 9:00 - 11:00 every morning... Then I do My Social network marketing from 12:00 - 2:00 ... then.. you get my point.. Plan out your week before the week plans you...

I make my own products and sell them by clickbank or pay(dot)com, or ebay,
I also do CPA marketing and own a good sports site/directory which sells facebook multi onlinegaming apps with returning visitors daily who pay a membership or donation charge for services in 3 ways. also have staff now to run my other sites so yes i do make money but the methods i use i never tell anyone because im too scared to get them saturated and then having competition in all my niches.

Unique is the word for today since so many relay on Plr Articles and sending the same stuff people have purchased months before it get really lame with the same make money xxx rubbish that clutters the internet.

To any newbie reading this thinking will i ever make money you have two choices,

You could follow what everyone else is doing but dont copy them see whats making them sucessful the applying them to your routine an treating your business online as a business, Not some make money project because thats how alot fail on this internet marketing, They see some big im guru's video and just buy,buy,buy all the stuff and left with just ideas but no action to try them out!

I went and did the oppisitie in my online business, When i first joined the warrior forum I had left the army on medicial health grounds, and have a offline business with family to fall on. But still stuck with debts and problems at the time in 2007 which also left me worse off. I always wanted to do something online that made extra income so i became a ebay seller at first and had done pretty well,Became a powerseller with partner selling vintage Star wars toy Figures to nike trainers and anything else our suppliers at time could bring to the table,

The fees at the time became too high but my partner carried on alone and made himself a millionare doing so, so i felt like i missed my chance on that one but continued in my online ventures. Now i have 4 busineses including my CPA offline business and other projects im working on and yes i make alot of money online auguest alone this month is the best month because i have to find more outscourcer's for my sports sites due to the new U.k premier leauge started this week, But im sorry if this is a long post but my advice to anyone out there is either find a business that has been established and something you are intrested in weather it is CPa marketing,Seo,Internet marketing, whatever that is and learn, Dont follow the emails as marketers we all send to each other on lists and just pick something and follow it through. If you are intrested in the niche you choose you will find sucess,

Remember Keep it simple and stupid, and intrested in your self in the project you choose, and also to the op Money Offline or online is a End product in any business, Like any JOb offline you have to work at it to get the money.

If you like what you have seen please leave a thanks
andrew

I use primarily paid traffic generation methods to CPA offers and as of late to my own products. Everything comes down to traffic, offer, and list. Don't complicate it.

a preset game plan that I follow daily. Various methods to make money..
Regards

I primarily make money providing SEO services for clients.

I also have a programming team that I hire out sometimes to clients.

I think of myself as a IM since I follow that school of thought. Except instead of Ebooks, Affliate Ads and systems I sell a service.

Offline Consulting, Lead Generation, Export Brokering, Recently did a successful WSO

People make money all kinds of ways... for instance I have made significant money on ebay... my project did not fail. It was successful, but it got pushed to the side by other things, and ultimately wasnt a business model that inspired me to devote my whole life to it... there's alot of stories like that. Years before the internet I made a little doing the Don Lapre (infomercial star) classified ad stuff...

I could probably write a report that others could benefit from about those experiences, probably wont... but either way, though I could show someone how to repeat those successes, even though they are currently not what I "do"...

Hope this helps... there are a thousand ways to make money online, you will proabaly experience more than a few of them if you walk this road a few years.
So no, people who write books... arent neccessarily doing what they are writing about... they are just sharing experience that can make you successful on that topic... because you are interested in it, and they know the subject matter by experience (hopefully).

Dude, I know just how you feel...

Here's exactly how I've made money online -- yours completely free!

1) Method known as the "leech method" from Affiliate Project X - pick a high converting Clickbank product that the product name gets at least 30,000 searches per month (yes, there are plenty)

Write a pre-sell page where you start by questioning the product and then warming up to it. End by offering a killer bonus that you've created that helps fill in a gap of the product. You'll need to buy the product or get a review copy to do this well.

Set up a PPC campaign in Google Adwords.

Bid on the product name, product name + review, product name + scam ===>>that's it!!!

Write a negative ad that questions the product's authenticity. Link the ad to your presell page.

I will tell you that this method works extremely well for about 2 months. The last one that I did I was getting a 10% CTR and 8% conversion. After about 2 months with good, solid results Google will send a human to look at your landing page. Your quality score will go from 9 down to 1 over night and you'll have to start all over again.

But doing this has made me as much as $120/day from just one campaign. Soon I'll probably have my Google account terminated because that's how they roll, but this is a surefire way to make money quickly.

2) Article marketing - this is much slower and painful. Here what I do is write articles (or outsource them) based on long tail keywords in big niches i.e. weight loss.

In the resource box I send people to a squeeze page with a free offer - could be a PLR product I bought in that niche or a video or report I made...after opt in I redirect them to a pre-sell page in the niche following the same format I listed above.

I structure a 1 year auto responder with at least 50 messages in it for each niche. The first 7 messages go out 1 day at a time. I answer any possible objections, remind them of the bonus and include a call to action.

The rest of the emails are a mixture of pure content, CPA offers, and other product offers in the niche and related to the niche.

What I can offer you is this:

Think about the process before you think about the product. If you have a killer process for getting people to an offer and converting them, you can plug in just about any product and make money.

I'm not going to say some vague crap like "you just gotta find what works"...that's speak for "I don't know either man..."

I am constantly testing, tweaking, and trying out systems. If you want to see what I'm doing, head over to my free IM training site:

Instant Success Training

I just started this as a free resource to help people just like you because I was there just a few months ago...check it out.

Jason

I sell stuff to people. People who have credit cards. Well occasionally I will let them mail me a check - but I dont like it... Then I have to go and check my PO Box... Pain in the butt... :-)

I write books, have a couple of membership sites and lots of content sites with ads. On occasion I do one on one coaching which I don't like but people ask me to. On a very rare occasion I take on a site design and SEO project for off line clients but I don't like it either - too much work and not as much money.

The trick is also to be consistent in what you are doing. That is what I gather from all these posts which are by the way excellent. Just choose a few methods and work and be consistent

Niche marketing, but is now trying an "old but proven" method to get me to the next level.

-Shaun

I take advantage of the cost of goods from Asia vs the price of goods everywhere else in the world.

With Cpa offers

I create websites for local businesses to help them
attract more customers.

Hugh

I'm totally swearing by article marketing. It gives you free visitors and backlinks for your money site. I recently made My first affiliate sale with this "method" so now I give this my full attention. Don't use spinners, just write... Set a goal of writing 2 articles à day, this should take Max one hour. It may take time but it works.

I make my money online by having passive income channels setup that deliver dividends monthly back to me. It's all perspective I guess. I could tell you it's from having an adsense empire that is oh so nice to have, as well as having a clickbank empire as well where I have a ton of minisites built to fit into a niche and deliver a solution to those looking for a quick and easy answer. And thirdly, I could tell you it's from manipulating users on some of my sites to fill out cpa advertisement offers of which I then get paid handsomely given the amount of traffic some of my sites have. Then i've got clickbank, ebay affiliate income, and my message forum venture which is probably tops in my own involvement versus how much money it makes me month after month versus how much i actually have to "do" in order to run everything.

At the end of the day, how I make money online is picking a system, test and develop it out, and then put your nose to the grindstone and get at it. There really are no easy answers, but if you truly want to make a lot of money, and I'm not talking $1,200 gross income at the end of the month - you need to diversify if you can and are willing.

I have been making a living online for quite a few years and I've tried just about anything - the most success I had with building sites and offering my services to other people and right now I am trying to find the optimal combination of the two. Offering your services will give you stable income, while the sites can give you a decent passive income, but traffic and income from them can fluctuate quite a bit.

This is exactly what I did on one 30 day challenge previously and made a total of $300 in my first month in IM:

1. I registered with clickbank and picked 3 niches
2. I did market research on the niches and found ten keywords worth pursuing
3. Then I went to godaddy and order 3 .info domains and redirected them to my clickbank affiliate link
4. Then I wrote 12 articles each for the 3 niches
5. Submitted the first original articles to Ezine articles
6. When accepted I went on to submit them to these article directories
i/Articlebase
ii/Goarticles
iii/Article dashboard
iv/Amazines
v/Searchwarp
vi/Article city
vii/Affsphere
viii/Ideamarketer

7. Then I social bookmarked the articles

Thats all I ever did and in two weeks I started seeing sales and in a month time, I made $300 in total, It was a great experience to receive my first clickbank cheque and so now I am trying to refine that system into a better and more effective one.

Hope this helps.

I agree with the other threads. Find a system and work work work.....the system over and over again. Try out different things, but first test one system at a time.

I've definitely made the most money from eBay. My favorite way to make money online though, is with Amazon review sites.

I've also made money from Adsense, CB, private affiliate networks, product creation, and by providing link building services to others (<-my least favorite way to make money online, but the 2nd most profitable for me under eBay).

First off, there is no such thing as a "secret method". Anything that is being used to make money online is available somewhere. If you think you have a secret method you are wrong because there are others doing it too.

The key to making money online is taking action with a method that is proven to work.

Personally, I make money with article marketing, writing articles for others, and still a little bit in PPC from a while back. Mainly I make the most of my money through adsense websites, and some with clickbank as well, although that fell off a while ago for me. used to make over 500 dollars a month with clickbank, but now it is less than 100 for some reason. Still make a good amount with adsense though.

Benjamin Ehinger

You already know what your problem is..you said it in your post

you are wasting time trying out all these methods...

so STOP!

you know it's your problem yet you continue to do it. Why?


Personally, I make money online selling services (video editing, graphic design, article writing). In about 3 or 4 months I will be making alot of money from my list, 3 or 4 months after that and my list will allow me to launch my blog.

I have quite a few other things that will be launched as well..but only after I have put the required time and focus into each business model.

The way I build my businesses is by allowing them to build off of each other..this means that the work I put into one business will catapult the next business and then the next after that and so on..

you know exactly why you aren't making money online..so as yourself this question. How much longer are you going to do the same thing and expect different results?


Gregg

It all revolves around the selling and buying of goods/services...no magic system, the same as it offline .

Right now I am making money with Adsense(one website) and CPA offers(two sites). Nearly all traffic comes from search engines. I am working on SEO to improve the results.

1. Create some quality, unique information on a topic you know about.
2. Set up that info in an autoresponder.
3. Buy some clicks from google.
4. Offer the info to subscribers as an incentive.
5. Send the info as a series of emails in order to build a relationship.
6. Sell or suggest other products to the list you built.

There are many other methods....but the above is the only model I've ever used and I've been at it full-time for six years

Who in their right mind would give you their exact $$ making methods. I might as well just burn my bank account.

(Rant alert... sorry this post got so long. Hopefully someone finds something of value here.)

Legitimate traffic generation.

IMO article marketing is mostly for noobs and "social marketing" is just a covert word for spam when defined in the context of most IMer's day-to-day activities (forum marketing, comment marketing, etc.... this is all noobish spam by people desperate for traffic).

Realize that the vast majority of what you read about how to make money online was originally spread out to the noobs by (though not originated by) the so-called gurus. These sellers focus on newbie friendly tasks. They have to. If they didn't, everyone would demand a refund. Eventually these "proven methods" make their way outside of the courses and onto the forums where they become the written in stone laws of how to make money online that nobody dare question (I'm picturing a mass of perpetual newbies at the foot of the mountain and one of them coming down with stone tablets chiseled out by the likes of Frank Kern here - and you must follow them without question) or you risk being flamed or having someone lie about the gazillion dollars they are making off of it and how they work only 1 hour a day. This goes on all day long at this and other forums. It's ridiculous, though entertaining.

And now for a dose of reality...

I create websites that people see value in, and thus return to again and again and also show their friends. I try to be original or at least put a new spin on an old idea. Unfortunately this involves a lot more work than just setting up WordPress and installing some plugins.

The downside is that you will have to learn a lot of stuff and spend a year or two really getting things going. Forget about page generation tools. They are mostly for noobs. You need to know the following:

HTML
CSS
PHP
MySQL
Javascript (semi-optional... there are tons of free scripts online, but it helps if you have at least a general working knowledge of them).
XML
Basic to moderate Photoshop skills
General writing
Copywriting
Sales concepts

Since someone is going to chime in on this... Yes, there are workers in the developing world available to do most of this on the cheap, but don't even get me started on them. There is a reason why they live in homes with bare concrete floors and sites with budgets 10x their quote refuse to hire them.

If the work and time it takes to do this stuff isn't a turnoff, you can end up with not only your own traffic sources, but over time your websites themselves become saleable assets in the range of $1 to $unlimited. Whereas when you are a mere article marketer, there is little to nothing to sell because you are the business.

Buying and selling websites, profit from the flips, reinvest the profit in more sites, let many sit in the auction until they sell for 2x what I paid, only sites that generate revenue, so even if they don't sell they're still making money. All sites zero maintenance. Pretty simple. Profit from flips, profit from sites.

Just be more open-minded, try exploring new heights. Upgrade yourself and try to cope up with the latest happening around the web. I guess, Hardwork and Guts would be enough to make money online, add a little interest and read a lot.

I personally make money by promoting affiliate products and also a few products that I have created myself. I drive traffic mostly with article marketing. I also write press releases and do very little video marketing.

It is hard to make money online. Requires a lot of hard work.

I initially became a reseller of products then try to sell them online, selling online is more profitable, I also make money with Adsense, its cool

If you like writing content then pickup a niche and launch a blog. Use adsense and/or clickbank to monetize it. But add content which will be useful to the reader.

If I could offer any advice it's pick something you think you may enjoy (be it designing, writing, making ads whatever) and stick with it. Get good at it and do it all the time, learn a ton about it. Don't dabble here and there wasting time, pick one thing, make sure it's scaleable and scale it up indefinitely!

The richest of the rich have huge opt-in lists either created themselves or bought, yes I said bought. Some of the wealthiest marketers bought and even stole their lists. They then JV with each other promoting each other's courses and products. When I say they can hit the send or broadcast button and make thousands a day from an affiliate product without doing a launch I mean they literally do this. It's not a dream.

1-Get your own line of info products going.
2-Get JV partners big and small(when you first start the big guys wont even look at you)
3-Pre-launch every product like it's the biggest product ever to hit the web(the buzz works)
4-Rinse and repeat

I could go into detail but for time and sanity sake this is it. Feel free to pm me if you want some more advice friend.

Well, I've just done a little bit, but here goes. These are the ways I actually made money online.

1: Invented a product for cars and sold it on the internet. (The Hatchback Helper).
2: Sold Affiliate products by making some videos giving the viewer an inside look at the product before they bought.
3: Bought the rights to some High Quality PLRs and sold them.
4: Put together a small little book for Cat Lovers and put it on Amazon.com

Well, I have a few more things in the works like creating my own products and putting those out there too.

Like other have said in the post above. Just look for problems, and try to find and provide real solution for those problems. Give Value and people will know. And they will appreciate the effort by giving you money.

It's really that simple. Hope that helps.

wow wow first day on this forum and first thing it saved me 30$ i was going to spend on something... now all this good feedback shows that you are all real people with real hopes and real goodwill. This is the way it was meant to be

I summarized everything in my twitter what you guys said Hope you like it
Very good answers, honest too unlike some places where it seems like everyone is promoting another "method" when we ask a question. I usually spend time reading stuff at WF, there is so much to read here and i registered only today after so many weeks. And I am already posting ^^
I have only one question.
Why din't i find this place earlier. All of you are too good at SEO, WF only shows up at the 3rd listing for the popular affiliate keywords.

I make money with my list. I check new Clickbank products in IM niche and send broadcast emails.

I also have some adsense sites that make me money on autopilot.

Plus I have my own products on clickbank that bring me some residual.

Problem with majority of people who are trying to make money online are having many ideas and then setup a few sites which then stretches them, increasing the work load and stress. Its best to constrict yourself to focus on the one site fully and with one method until you start seeing some light.

Thats whats got me through it all, whereas before I would've had about 5 websites setup and stretching myself around them trying to get them all running at the same time.

A lot of things out there can easily confuse you. The best thing to do is to find some thing that you have passion in and channel all your efforts towards it. Stick on it. develop your plans and strategies on it. Then learn more and apply on it.

Just stick around and make it work.

I make money in affiliate sales using article marketing spread across many platforms.

I make money writing articles for other people.

I make a tiny bit of money on CPA offers, I just have not put the effort into this area.

But, I think the question you really need to ask yourself is "How do I want to create value and earn money?" What do you enjoy doing? You seem to like making relationships and participating in forums. Which could become a great conduit for you to drive traffic to a website, create a list, and sell products. But only you know what you will do day after day to consistently create value.

yes people will always sell method which has became too old or which is not making them money anymore, noone will sell you a method making them money.

U can try attend KC Tan's WORDPRESS Blogging workshop. He is really making money from his numerous blogs. I need to stress : he is making constant 4 figure passive income is true, but making 5 figure from Internet marketing, not yet.

Best of all, the workshop is FREE for the next course (2 nights of 3 hours only).

You have nothing to lose, but everything to gain.

http://www.websproutconsulting.com/wordpress-blogging-workshop

This might help, have your own website with your own domain
membership sites make money, subsciption types are best.
traffic sites are good, people are always looking for traffic for their
websites.You can pick up some ready made sites and scripts easy
just google it.

Hi Google Warrior,

It looks like you work hard at posting. I am assuming you are doing the same with Google Adsense and Adwords. I tried for months before I started making money in this business, then I came across three brothers that have really helped me out and provide me with the right connections. Please take a look at their traffic driving system. It does not cost anything to research and listen to them for a few minutes.

Actually, where is a good source to find out what people really want when it comes to solving a problem for them?

Make money through hard-work.

I actually earn using GDI through various funnels. Also Affiliate products only that I believe in and are tried and tested. Having a blog with a lot of valuable content on it is the biggest help as it shows trust and expertese then of course people will buy.

1.Amazon
2.Domain Flipping
3.Adsense
4.Socialgalore / Revresponse

i haven't made money yet but i had a sale from affiliate marketing clickbank and i'm do my best for making more sales.
i wanna to make a squeez page then make money through it.

Brad Gosse's reply is spot on!! Brilliant answer!

Money doesn't make the world go round - value does, and money is a by product of value.

Find a way to create value.

I do this mainly with :

SEO services
Search engine friendly web design
Various web marketing services
Affiliate Marketing
My own eBooks

And when it comes to constultancy services - I find it's far better to market these services offline, and the best form of marketing is word of mouth, by far.

The other thing to say, is that it's profit you want to focus on - don't get too impressed when you hear someone does a 7 figures sales per year - it means nothing when they're making a nett profit of zero or minus! (I'm talking here from experience!)

Some of the "Guru's" out there have built up companies, with staff & overheads, which have to turn over big money just to break even - people look at them in envy thinking wow look at all that money, but there are some who I beleive are making practically nothing or less than nothing, when it comes to the net profit they bank at the end of the month / quarter.

Cheers

Kev

I've built a list over time and I send them free stuff and stuff to buy. When they buy it I make money.

Today I've made over $500 by promoting an affiliate offer.

I also running coaching programs every few months that bring in anywhere from $1,000 - $5,000.

In "idea" land I am working on a system for local businesses that I hope to unveil soon enough with a couple of my friends.

It´s true. It can be very confusing. What works for some people may not work for others.

My first attempt at internet marketing I created an ebook which went on to make well over $10,000

The process was (I was learning at this stage so it was not as precise as this but this is what ultimately ended up working)

1. Market research (how many searches per month for my niche)
2. Ebook creation
3. Sales letter creation
4. Buy domain (keyword targeted)
5. Build sites (I built an auto blog and keyword targeted sites)
6. Build Backlinks
7. Adwords advertising (did make money but cost so much)
8. Created Facebook and Twitter account
9. Set up opt in form

The basic idea is finding a profitable market where people will spend money, finding an entrance point (how you will enter the market), finding the right product/s and then deciding on how to capitalize on it (opt in then email follow ups, direct sales page, product review etc)

1. Find Market
2. Set up product sales system
3. Get traffic

Now there are many ways to go about this and simply could not be explained here.

It also depends on your budget.

If you have any quesitons please feel free to ask

Good Luck!

Find one thing that is working for alot of people and stick with it for a couple of months. The main problem comes from trying to do a bit of everything

The trick is also to be consistent in what you are doing. That is what I gather from all these posts which are by the way excellent. Just choose a few methods and work and be consistent

Affiliate marketing
Auto Blogs(adsense, amazon & other aff products/services)
CPA

Find a method, collect more information, add your creative and action. The important thing is a proper plan and you must follow it day by day. It is not a amateur work. It is a real work and you need finish it before you leave your computer. Do not spend much time to myspace, facebook for chat and post useless think. Keep all of fun stuff for do it on weekend. You may know how to do it, but you need to do it by your investment( time, money, outsourcing). You will make money if you do it.

Hey,

Recently I have been making money online through affiliate product promotion, pretty much what most people have said before me.

I build a mailing list, and send them, mostly free stuff, with a paid upgrade or follow up product.

I am doing this just now because I don't have any of my own products as yet, but I am working on that, just time consuming that's all.

I will continue to promote other peoples related products until I have my own, then switch to fully concentrating on promoting my own.

When I first started online I had no plan, no sales funnel, nothing really and never made much money at all.

This time round I am seeing much better results, mainly because I am tracking what i do now, rather than just stumbling around in the dark.

Testing and tweaking seems to be working for me, hope that helps.

Sally

I focus on less work types of income now. I sell websites, ebay affiliate income, adsense income and get random cash from other affiliate programs.

Sometimes I help people sell stuff and they pay me. Edit ebooks for non English publishers, write reviews on my blogs, create helpful services and much more.

There are so many ways to MMO, if you know how to do something well in IM you can join oDesk or GetAFreelancer to make quick cash to invest in your online promotion or what ever you want.

Mostly by creating and selling my own products (80% of my income) and a bit of affiliate marketing to my list (20% of my income).

Look up books on bootstrapping and go from there.

I personally started making money by writing articles, making my first product and marketing on the Warrior Forum, writing letters, doing graphics and more.

It helped me get the money I needed to start my own website which I will focus on marketing in the next few weeks.

Great thread. Thanks to the OP and the warriors who have shared their success in this thread. I am learning a lot about IM as well sharing. Sharing knowledge is like a charity. It is a great thing

I am trying to make money too online but just trickles in. I have been in business most of my life and I enjoyed what I was doing. Money was the by-product of my enjoyment. I am trying to do that with IM but I find it hard as I am suffering from information overload and going from one direction to another.

So I am gonna stop what I am doing and trying to find my focus and work it that way. I enjoy IM so I am sure the by-product will come eventually. I found that if I concentrate on money it never comes because I am making too many mistakes. If I am doing something as a hobby the money start coming in.

I think that's the key.

I have a few small sites that i make some money on. Thing is, i work full time in my offline local business so i only have time to wirk on my sites in the evening. I think if i stuck at it full time i'd make alot more!

I have a questions to the fellow warriors:

Where do you get the 'free stuff' that you offer in order to build the list?

Well truth be told, if I had it to do all over again, I would have focused more energy on building my own products and inhouse lists than selling via the affiliate marketing model...Or to put it differently, I would have built a list first then sold affiliate products + my own....this is pretty much the best of both worlds IMHO

Ha! Finally after months on the Warrior Forum I finally make a Thread that gets more than 10 views! YEAH!

When I first started I built a blog around one of my passions. This blog attracted targeted traffic - I then created an information product around the subject matter. This started to make sales. And it went from there.

Now I have a lot of different information products in many different niches making sales everyday!

Life is sweet!

I mainly make money from affiliate marketing. I also offer some services on forums sometimes when I need quick cash.

Long term Blogging with constant adding of Unique content with constant SEO in the form of Article Directory Submission, blog commenting, Squidoo lenses,etc....

Best thing is to take some of the great resources here , and mesh it together and form your own efficient system to IM. It takes time but is worth it.

Oh and yeah, be sure to not forget to join the War Room.

I make my own products and do basically what you must have read somewhere in an IM product.

The basic key here is to pick a system and stick with it.

Solve problems, build a relationship and recommend products.

I sell my ebooks directly from a blog, write for ehow, use cpa as a file gateway for some ebooks and use adsense on my blog.

Really lot of stuff here, i am confused now

I am currently involved in a Kick Ass program. After 8 months I hit the "rotation" and my level one was filled in 48 hours. In another 4 months or so, my second level will be filled (252 members) At the rate we are going, I expect my 5th level downline to be filled (9,330 members) within 1 year total. This rules. Check it out below. Have fun!

DUDE! Chill out. Take a breath and relax! You just gotta pug in with the "Right" people. They'll teach ya the ropes.

I make money online by writing articles and e-books and by translation from English to French and vice versa. I also make some money from my Facebook Pages.
I think the hardest part when you start internet marketing is to find out what you -can- do. In the beginning, I saw everyone doing SEO and all the money they earned was from this route, however; I have never really seen myself as a SEO girl it was not like me. I tried to find something else that I can do and it was Facebook marketing and it was when I made my first few thousand dollars online, afterwards, I realized that doing Facebook Marketing is no longer guaranteed because of the many changes Facebook make continually to block the road for marketers so I decided to take a new path in my Internet Marketing career and it was writing.. For now, I am comfortable with what I am doing and this is what matters so focus on finding something you -like- and -can- do.

I *Actually* make money writing freelance, through clickbank affiliate links, and adsense.

My advice:

- Find something that makes a little bit of money (a few cents or a few dollars.)
- Do it more.
- Do it better.

This will require learning all that you can about that "method". We're all still in the process. I don't think any of us should stop learning how to do new things and do them better.

Sometimes simple is best. We try to over think things too much when we should just be taking action.

At the moment I make money from creating websites that are monetized with affiliate marketing, mostly CPA, and Adsense and I focus on getting traffic from SEO and backlinking, cause that's what I'm good at. It's a business model that takes a while to see income, however it's pretty much hands off passive income once you have some good rankings, except for tweaking and testing conversion rates along the way and keeping an eye on the competition.

I'd like to see what I do as building virtual real estate. I build both 'thin' affiliate sites aimed at maximizing conversions as well as foundations sites made to attract links or get tons of content on autopilot.

There's also some snowball effect here as your sites mature and grow, they gain power and you can use that to rank your new sites faster. So I can use the authority from one of my niche sites to boost a related new niche site or a site in a different language.

I've also dabbled in product creation in non-IM niches and learned a lot from that experience. Enough to understand the potential income but also that there was much to learn. It's a great learning experience to write copy that sells for example and it's really a great feeling to have created a unique product that is helpful to other people.

But in order to not spread myself to thin, I have decided to just work on my current affiliate site model for the next 6 months until I reach my target benchmarks. This model works for me, because I know that what I am doing works and the results will be there eventually.

I think most new IM'ers would be best of making a website about a topic they are passionate about and then learning all the different aspects of IM from that site on, like building backlinks, writing good content, capturing leads, trying Adsense and affiliate offers and perhaps eventually launching a product.

I think it is a mistake as a beginner to go with the latest fad in the WSO room, whatever that is, because while you may make money faster, you risk becoming a one trick pony.

Right now I earn money from freelancing. You know, getting other people's business done? Its the fast way to earn money online. The big thing you may want to consider is getting your feet wet and start doing what warriors do, marketing.

Andrea

If you like writing content then pickup a niche and launch a blog. Use adsense and/or clickbank to monetize it.

I myself still asking the same question as you..=(

Hi there,

Well for me I do make money in some PTC sites

making money from online is not as simple as it sounds.
Needs much patience and consultancy.
you can find lots of money making processes and sites choose one that you can handle and be sure that it is not a scam by searching its review.

No fluff, this is EXACTLY how I make money in order from largest to smallest income source:

1) Day job: Direct sales for a large communication company (around $80k/year, quiting soon to be a full time internet marketer)

2) Selling my own products and high commission affiliate products to my mailing lists. (As of right now this is bringing in about $3k/month, once I quit my day job I'm expecting that to at least double from all the extra time I can put into it. I have yet to do a WSO, but I'm working on writing down my entire system of online money making that will most likely turn into my first WSO.)

3) Producing my own art and selling prints/art books. ($5k/year. I went to a prestigious art school and got a fancy degree. Even though I prefer to make my money other places, I still love art, and it's nice to bring in a little extra cash from my favorite hobby every year. I save whatever I make as an artist and use it to pay for my girlfriend and I to take 2 vacations a year.)

I make money mostly with adsence ads. The first month you might get only $1 but don't worry, with some patience after 2 or 3 months you will notice a significant increase. As long as you drive traffic to your site and you get the right keyword, you are on the right way!

Sharon

I make money with Google Adsense , selling my own products , Seo and many others. Little jobs and all that include Internet marketing

no one will tell you what is working for them. they will share that info when it does not work for them anymore. coaches will attempt to coach you but someo have no clue and want to make money from thier coaching.

I currently make money via Fiverr.com along with my PPD network. I also make money via CPA by using different techniques on YouTube and directing traffic to my blogs.

Hello, wow people are making from many different ways.. for my case I did it:

1) WSO: Only 1 wso so far (at the time of typing this msg): http://www.warriorforum.com/warrior-...of-inside.html

2) Website flipping - started 2 weeks ago (at the time of typing this msg): Online Digital Watch Store

3) Online MLM - high commission, strong leverage, great products ahha, this is my main stream.. watch this video to learn more: Affiliate Payout Plan | Affiliate Club

God bless you,
Jeremiah