100/month input please

by ttcbird

Posted: 14 years ago 16 replies

INTERNET MARKETING

Hey all,

I'm trying to set a realistic goal for myself. I want to know how hard/long it would take to make an average $100 a month from a micro niche. I have already started working on it.

I spend about 3-4 hours a day working on it. (I treat it like a part time job)

I have never made a sale in IM before. (So im pretty much a newb i have done a lot of research probably too much)

I'm working on getting quality back links, and writing articles.

I know everything depends on my determination and how fast i can write articles and such but if anyone could give me a ball park number. For me if i have a goal or set date i try my hardest to reach it and thats what drives me without a goal i just do too much researching and wasteing time and getting upset that im not successful but i want to change that.

I figure if i can master one site making $100 a month then eventually some day i could make 10 sites making $100 a month.

Also how do you know when to give up on a niche? Like how do you know when a niche doesn't have a starving crowd or a crowd interested in buying?

Thanks so much guys,

Travis

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dvduval 14 years ago

The way I look at it sometimes is a domain name costs $9/year. You need to make at least that much over the course of a year. You'll have lots of micro niche sites that make far less than $10 but more than that annually. You'll eventually hit on something that does much better than $10/month, so keep going.
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Rukshan 14 years ago

Hey
First try to make $10. Then scale it. If you try micro niche sites, use SEO to improve your ranks. Then you can earn with Adsense and CPA. You must track details.

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sahi

14 years ago

Better to make micro niche sites targeted on products that people are buying and searching for online. You can use use micro niche finder or market samurai if you can afford them but if don't then just use some of the methods described here on the forum about finding good niches. You can then easily make around $100/m.

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ttcbird

14 years ago

Originally Posted by sahi

If people are searching and buying a lot of a product wouldn't that mean i would have a lot more competition? I'm REALLY new to SEO not so much IM. So far i have wrote two articles and submitted them to Ezine (I know its not alot but its not my strong point and i don't want to buy them because i want the practice) I also have started looking for blogs relating to my micro niche and posting comments or helpful tips in my niche and leaving a backlink.

The articles i wrote were all keyword optimized. Also the guide i read said to use a squidoo page as a landing page for my affiliate. I'm trying to follow ONE guide and advice on here. My biggest problem was following to many guide at once and going in too many directions, so im really trying to follow it. Would you not recommend squidoo as a landing page?

Thanks!

Travis

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Vincenzo Oliva 14 years ago

Find and read a copy of Dennis Becker's classic, "$5 Bucks a Day" it inspired me to a whole new mindset and much better planning.
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- ttcbird 14 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by Vincenzo Oliva
  
  Find and read a copy of Dennis Becker's classic, "$5 Bucks a Day" it inspired me to a whole new mindset and much better planning.
  
  Thanks i might look into that, i actually think i saw it on here forsale or somewhere once. Although i can't keep switching guide i should follow one, unless the one im following isnt good.
  
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  ttcbird 14 years ago
  
  How does this guide look in your opinion?
  
  Basically in a very short version:
  
  1.)Go to CB and look through all the product write down one's you like or think will be profitable. (should have 15-20)
  
  2.) Do keyword research on all the products (get 3-5 keywords and 1 main keyword)
  
  3.) Then go back to google and research competition using the " " and allinthetitle: " " (and also look to see who is on the first page to see if you can even compete with them)
  
  4.) Create a squidoo landing page with you main keyword as the url and title
  
  5.) Then write 3 articles a day for at least a week and submit to ezine
  
  So what do you think?
  
  Let me know if im heading no where fast before i go writing a bunch of articles
  
  Thanks,
  
  Travis
  
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gtgart 14 years ago

Here is a way I make $100 a month via Adsense.

1. Buy aged domains with some PR maybe 3 and indexed pages and baclinks

2. Use keyword tool to locate longtail keywords in a micro niche with 1000+ searches per month

3. Get good blog content via auto blog software

4. No need for seo

5. Repeat first 4 steps

Most sites I have about 10 that make money each day add up to about $3.5 per day.

This is simplified but it works.

Good luck.

Greg
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socialbookmark 14 years ago

But i don't think affiliate be good suggestion for you if you are not experienced enough.
Affiliate can make a lot of money for you if you know all things about it and about seo.
I think blogging is a good suggestion for you. Write unique content ans publish it. Also you can submit your articles to Squidoo too.
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Scott Million 14 years ago

Hey Travis,

Good for you setting goals. Don't get me wrong, it's great to have a vision and implement it, but I challenge you to set your income goals much higher (like $50,000 /mo)

Here's why:

- You realize that it will take years to get to $50,000 / mo (w/o outsourcing) following your current model... all of a sudden it's back to the drawing board... you now need a model that has a much higher ROI in a short period of time...

- So you start to think about the volume of traffic you'll need to make that happen, and how in the world you're going to get it.

SEO doesn't seem likely, and you don't know much about paid traffic... so you rack your brain a bit harder and this pops in:

How about getting someone (or many people) with a big email list to mail for me? and the gears start turning.

But why and how would someone with a big email list ever mail for me? What would I need to do to make that happen?

All of a sudden product creation starts to make sense. And if you're not comfortable creating products outsourcing or interviewing experts comes to mind...

...I'll let you fill in the rest. Product creation isn't the only way, for example, you might start creating a bunch of local portals for niches that buy leads at $30 - $100 a pop.

I don't want to shove you off your path to $100/mo, but I really, REALLY urge you to consider setting a much higher bench mark... even if your goal was $1000/mo, now just focusing on one website doesn't make sense... you'd already be creating mass sites to head toward that benchmark.... or finding a way to get others to want to write content for you, for example.

Best of luck. You can do it!

Scott
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cashcow 14 years ago

I don't think anyone can answer this question for you because the answer is different depending on so many different factors.

It would be great if there was one set formula to get to $100 a month and you could know that it would take 10000 hours or 300 article or whatever, but there is no such thing.

The best you can do is keep doing what you are best at and see how much money that makes you. Then take it from there.

1. Buy aged domains with some PR maybe 3 and indexed pages and baclinks

This is very good advice - gets you right to the top of google quickly if you can target the same keywords the domain was targetting.

Lee
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Rinz 14 years ago

$100/month can easily be reached by anyone using CPA. If you need help to get a quality CPA account, just PM me.
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- ttcbird 14 years ago
  
  Thanks for all the input guys, im now debating if i should invest a little money into ppc. I would like to make a few hundred dollars so i can invest in a site and aweber for one year. My main goal is to eventually build a list, i always had problems driving traffic to a website thats why i decided to do article marketing for free until i started to build traffic to one site. I hate writing i really do i hated english but i treat this like a job i love IM and all the things about it but when it comes to writing i dont like it. My father always tells me that it doesnt matter what job you do, someday you will get bored of it and it will become a job. It's not the case for everyone but there is some truth to that.
  
  I'm just not sure if i should get into PPC if i cant even do seo on my own? Is it common for internet marketers to not know how to do seo? thats why i chose to do BUM marketing, but i really want to work on a list for a year and see how many quality relationships i can build. I built a list when i first started using safelists to get subscribers, but i didnt know what i was doing and i was in the wrong niche my niche was IM, and now i have learned that IM is not for beginners
  
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  ttcbird 14 years ago
  
  Also even if i started a website and started working on a list instead of BUM marketing, would i still be stuck because i didn't know how to do SEO.
  
  I looked into age domains and they cost a lot, and how would i know what keywords and stuff to use if i never saw what the domain was used for?
  
  Thanks,
  
  Travis
  
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Tomwood

14 years ago

Travis I think your on the right track I like the plan you have outlined but I would not put all my eggs in the squidoo basket.

I also like your idea of treating your project like a part time job I suggest you make yourself a rota don't forget to include a day off, then stick to it just like you would if it was posted by your boss at a regular job

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ttcbird

14 years ago

Originally Posted by Tomwood

Thanks for the help, what do you mean by not putting all my eggs in squidoo basket? Where do I put them any examples would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Travis

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