How many of you have yet to make a single dollar online yet?

hmmm. well i started off in ebay. like a year ago i wrote a guide on how to add free pictures,videos and templates on ebay. as well as a wholesalers list amongst other things. it was a success..i made like £50.but in 3 months.though this was a low return i saw it as making money from nothing so that is why i joined this forum. it gave me motivation after seeing the potential of selling on line. i joined 1 month ago. i am at the learning stage and have not made any money. mostly because i haven't done as i do not have money to invest. but i am hopeful and determined. i am looking for a job to fund my IM ventures as we speak.

I have made money online, but I would just like to answer your third question. I think that the two reasons that most people are not making money is very simple:

1. They do not have enough time.
2. They have enough time, but either do not know what to do, or just don't do anything (this is probably the more common issue).

You need to actually DO something to make money online. Reading these forums is great, but at the end of the day, reading is not going to make you any money. You have to promote something to make money.

There is no "get rich quick" method. At first I was amazed about people making so much money just on autopilot. But, it isn't really autopilot. There is a TON of time and effort put behind something before it becomes an autopilot source of income.

People are looking for the next "secret" method, but there really isn't one. You can truly read more than you need to know about Internet Marketing just on these forums. But there is also an information overload. I would highly suggest just picking one method and STICKING WITH IT. Otherwise you will do what I did. Sit around reading more and more and expecting the money to starting rolling in. IT DIDN'T. I had to start creating websites and promoting them before and money came in. It took hours of hard work and research. But in the end, it was definitely worth it

I'm trying to recall making only a single dollar. I don't think I have. It is always more than one.

I'm not ashamed to say I've yet to make a dollar online. Every business starts with zero.

What's stopping me...?

Nothing. It's just taking me time to build the knowledge & skills to create my internet marketing business.

One thing that is slowing me down though is direction. I have learned alot but I now need to put a solid plan together & action it.

There is no doubt that I'll make money online, it's just a matter of time & making best use of it.

I have an unstoppable determination succeed.

I already made several with my blogs.

If you haven't made any money yet you could try fiverr.com. You could offer to write headlines for $5 each, or you can offer what ever service your good at that you think someone would need. It's a quick and easy way to get started

well guys i havent even made a dime never mind a dollar. ive spent hundreds of dollars trying to make that $1. My wife thinks im nuts and i hardly get to spend time with my children. this has taken over my life but im not going to quit. ive been trying to do this for months now but i just cant get my head round it. ive tried list build, article writing, making squeeze pages, doing blogs, wordpress etc etc etc. All i want to do is prove to my wife that there is a way to make money on the internet. I will not quit guys and girls, one day i will get my first dollar and it will be well earned. im getting goose bums just thinking about it.

russell

I wonder how many people who post on this thread saying they haven't made any money will suddenly receive a full inbox of PM's?

Except for article writing, I haven't made a dime online yet, and I don't consider my article income as online income.

What's stopping me?

1. Not enough technical skills.

2. Not enough money for software tools.

3. Information overload...I've bought so many reports and courses I don't know where to start.

4. Doubt. Sure, it's worked for others, like gangbusters in some cases, but it probably won't work for me. If it does, it won't work for long.

At least those are the excuses I console myself with whenever I start thinking about my lack of success in making money online.

Then I read a story about a 15 year old girl in Iran, where PayPal is blocked, and many other necessary websites are blocked, who doesn't speak English, and who also faces a a large number of other seemingly insurmountable obstacle, who is nevertheless making money online.

Then I read about a blind musician who is now making more from his IM projects than his music tours.

Then I read about a 26 year old single mom with 4 kids, two jobs, who didn't even know what HTML means, who now makes 10 times as much as she did at her job after only 2 years of IM.

And I realize that I could come up with a hundred reasons, but they would be nothing but excuses.

I have made money from IM; the real question is, have I made any profit?
The answer?

nope

striking good looks

I've been doing IM for the past 6 months, and I have made money from affiliate marketing on Clickbank, though I haven't yet made enough sales to get physical check.

I know this wasn't asked but I will assume it's a logical extension: Why I haven't made more sales yet? I will answer that I'm still learning. I do take consistent action and I believe that I'm building a foundation. I've just started building a list, and what I need to work on now is driving traffic to my squeeze page and traffic conversion, which will mean I need to up my copywriting skills. In due time, as I stay consistent, continue to learn and provide value, the money will come.

i have made some money on some networks but left the work before i was able to reach the minimum payout required.. i have not been consistent in my efforts.. so i would rather say that i have made some money but was not able to get it..

Me...technically i am quite good with SEO and blogging stuff but i havent tried the ads on online earning stuff yet. My friends say that these techniques dont work.

Hi,

I haven't made a penny. I have been pluggin away, for a couple of years - but have got no where. I lack traffic. Have domains and start sites. Currently I have hypnotic-therapies.com up and running, but have no traffic or lists.

What do I do wrong?

Jane

Nickitta -

Congrats. Every time I get a sales notification I still smile.

I have no shame in saying that I have not made a single sale online yet. I am still learning. I have made it past the stage of just reading wso after wso or ebook after ebook and I am actually trying to implement things now.

I am now working to stop jumping from thing to thing online and just focusing on one thing now. It is hard though

I am finding it very difficult to make money online. I just keep paying out but not seeing any return...yet.

I am hopeful though and I'm not going to give up

By not putting up very much content I have hampered my earnings to date. The more you do the more you will do.

I made my first sale on a trading site years ago... I sold some silly magnetic drawing board for $1.50!

I still remember riding to the post shop on my bicycle to send it away.

Good times

- Dean

Fortunately, I have made money from internet and if I have to conclude the reason why people keep failing in internet :
1. do not focus. buy 1 ebook of affiliate marketing and before implement it, they move at google adsense...
2. no investment. the most important investment in IM is knowledge. newbies just want money without considering that it needs basic knowledge suc as : simple HTML, FTP and wordpress..

I've made a couple bucks, but not nearly enough to begin to cover my costs. I'm lucky since I have a background in IT - I didn't spend anywhere near as much getting my sites up and running as I would have if I outsourced it. Still nowhere close to breaking even, but I will persevere - I've got all the time in the world.

I have no shame admitting that I haven't made my first dollar. First program I got I never took action second program I tried was tycoon cashflow. I did try it but it didn't work do to google. Now I have EPF though I haven't gone through in detail. What's holding me back is time(I'm a university student), procrastination, but the main thing holding me back is FoF.

I've sold a few things on eBay but I consider it more of an asset exchange post.

I wonder why people say that they sell things on Ebay or they do article writing or something like that and then discount the money they make from that as being money earned online? Correct me if I am wrong but I thought the question included all methods of making money with the emphasis on "online" - well if you make money as a freelancer, or an article writer, or sell your bits and bobs on ebay you are still making money from an online source - if we all took that perspective and appreciated those dollars, instead of dismissing them because they do require work then there would probably be a lot more success stories on this forum

My 2 cents
Lisa

Making money online is getting easier every year.

But people expect too much in the beginning i.e earn $15 billion dollars with my 2 click push button software.

Setting realistic goals is key.

My first $100 day was a huge milestone for me and I noticed how easy I got to that point.
Once you make that first paycheck online...trust me...you will never think about quitting again!!

I guarantee you that.

I am making a good earning online. Enough for me and my family to survive.

I havent made a single dollar too. But now im starting to write down and actually implement some of the methods picked up so far from several WSOs. Had the same problem with the majority of beginners, losing focus easily and keep jumping from one method to another. Now i realize i have to stick to something, and i will not quite until i succeed. Nice thread Tim! Its reassuring to know that there are many others in the same shoes as me. All the best guys, success will come if you believe!

The nice thing about making that first dollar, is that it proves that it works, and it gets you excited. Then it's just a matter of doing more tweaking, and refining, and doing more of what works.

Ironically, it can be a setback too. Everyone talks about their first check and how excited they were to see that $1.50, or whatever amount it was. My first check was for something like $369, from an affiliate sale. Naturally I was excited, but I was stupid too. The first thing I did was remove the adsense from the site and put up more affiliate links. Then I just sat back an waited for the money to roll in. Well, I didn't get another affiliate sale for a year. :rolleyes: When I put the adsense back up, it started generating about $25 a month immediately.

It took me about 6 months, before I gave up waiting for the big affiliate sales to start rolling in on a regular basis, so I lost a good amount of adsense traffic, but I did learn 2 very valuable lessons. The first was to not rely solely on a single monitization option and react quickly if it isn't converting. The other was that sitting back waiting for the money to roll in was doing absolutely nothing for me. That first big sale made me complacent. I should have been creating backlinks and driving more traffic to might site during that time. More traffic=more money.

Hi, all. It has been a long time since I started blogging and making web pages. Now I help others with their web pages, and I am learning all the time.

I have sold things on Ebay and on Amazon and learned a lot. You do not have to pay to join these sites. It is a good way to learn about e-commerce and what others are doing online too.

I am on Twitter and Facebook too, and I think these sites help me learn more about what people want to hear about and learn too. I think if you start having a helping mentality it can give you a leg up too. What can you offer others? What do you know about that others might not know? These are questions that can help you zero in on your niche.

I have made some free ebooks, and plan to make some to sell soon. I also plan to open a shop or two online this year. It is still a learning curve, but I am still excited about working online.

I do make money online, but it took a long time to make anything like even a part-time income. But I have read from others that they took a long time to make any money, too, so don't be discouraged.

You can get great free advice online. Most marketers and SEO people give out free ebooks to get started. You can easily read these pdf books for free. You can also get an audience by making articles at places like Squidoo, HubPages, and Blogger blogs. Some people that have good free advice are Steve Weber and AnnaLaura Brown. That is my two cents.

Too many people trying to sell the same stuff!! Thats why it's hard to make a dollar.

From someone who has been studying IM for far too long....I have deduced it all comes down to four thing:

Study: Join Successful IM Newsletters i.e. people who have been around the block
Focus: Visualise and write down your ideas/plans
Take Action: Write articles , record audio/video , create products , etc
Promote: submit articles , take out adverts etc

All these things can still be done for free , all it will cost is time.....

Whatever you decide to do , don't take 12 years deciding to do it....lol

Steve

I think the biggest hurdle to many is of a lack of solid focus and if they do have the focus, its a lack of something else, traffic generation, actionable skills, afraid to implement e.t.c. Yes, I have definitely made money online but know that even I would be more consistent with the right focus and implementing the 'money tasks' first and foremost.

As of today, I have made more than $4 online. The important thing, I guess, is that I learned quite abit about online marketing

I've made $60 USD so far, and wasted probably 15 times that much. Although in saying that I must also comment that I procrastinate way to much. I'm just starting to cotton onto the idea of actually following through with any one thing. I tend to jump from here to there a bit too frequently and that usually means I get no real result.

I'm lucky in that my wife understands my 'madness' as she too is attempting to set up a clothing business online... although the 'Internet Marketing' side of thing totally eludes her.

So far I've written a few ebooks, I've done the whole eBay thing and also looked into setting up a drop shipping retail business that sells pet supply products - that one was really hard and expensive to get going... ergo, I stopped.

I've spent a LOT of money on various eBooks and guides myself, so I know people DO spend money on these type of things - I mean I'm pretty stereotypical I guess.

I hope things get a little easier on my learning curve that I perpetually climb.
All comes down to follow-through with me.

Cheers
Mark.

Hi Tim,
I would like to share my experience about making money online.

First of all, I just started making money online on the 29th August 2010.

But I started learning internet marketing on 19th March 2007.

What happened to me during this 3 years?

In the beginning, my friend invited to attend one other IM workshops in Singapore.

I attended, was confused and he invited me to join an affiliate program called Success University.

Looks cool to me in the beginning as I am a big fan of personal development and self improvement.

But the monthly subscription is no joke man, $39.95 per month and I was paying them for 8 months trying to figure how to promote the membership using article marketing.

For the whole year of 2007, I was struggling to learn what is keyword research and article writing and article outsourcing and subscribe to article submission service which costs $79.95 every 3 months.

Still, I didn't make money online.

What is the problem?

I thought to myself.

So I began to buy lots of products.

Still nothing happened.

On 26th Oct 2008, I was so frustrated that I contacted one of the Singapore IM Expert for an one on one coaching session which costs me $100 per hour.

He taught me about List Building and offer to set up a marketing system for me for $200.

I accepted it and started driving traffic and made 1 sale.

Yes, I have 100 subscribers and 1 sale on March 2009.

But it didn't help me much.

My 1st mentor was so difficult to get him at that point of time and I got frustrated again.

I started to look for answers.

I started to buy tons of WSOs.

Nothing happened.

So I began to search for a 2nd mentor.

And I found him and signed up to his mentoring program on 26th June 2010.

Before I signed up, I make the most important decision in my life.

I told myself, no matter what happens, I am going to make this work.

I will take whatever it takes to make passive income online.

I take 2 months to set up my marketing system.

On the 29th Aug, I started to build my list.

And as of today 7th Oct 2010, after one month of hard work implementing what my mentor taught me, guess what?

It works! I have a list of 2400 subscribers and make $900 selling my own products.

See this carefully, I make most of my money selling my own products.

That is the secret to success in List Building and it works for me.

It is not just determination and hard work.

We need to have somebody to guide us to make things work and right.

We must admit that only through professional help from mentors, it is almost the sure-fire way to success instead of re-inventing the wheel.

I would to quote what Jeff Walker once said in this pre-product launch videos, "Model What All The Successful People Are Doing And Don't Re-Invent The Wheel, Build Your Business, Make More Money and Enjoy More Freedom!"

And the model is product launches. Internal product launch and Jv launch.

But before doing any launch, you need to have your own list first.

Start building your list and launch your own products.

It is the baby steps that you take and never give up that takes you to your destination not will power or affirmation.

It is those baby steps that you take, each and every single day.

Never give up till you achieve success.

Winson

There is a saying amongst Internet Marketing "Fake it till you make it"

Quick and simpel tip to make your first money online (10-15 dollars).

1) Write five articles on weightloss (unique)
2) Write to 5 blogowners with WL blogs and offer articles.
3) Make an auction for the articlepack
4) Money transfer through paypal

Now, you have made money.

regards, LASSE

I think if you understand the importance of " the numbers game" you will find your IM revenue increase. Im new to internet marketing but im a seasoned ebayer. If you grasp the concept of the numbers game then you may find it easier to start achieving IM earnings.

Everyone wants to earn 6 figures a year but not many people know how much you would need to earn per day to do so. So these people end up chasing 6 figure income ideas/ebooks and never get off the ground because of the amount of work involved to produce that income in a little amount of time, although it achievable to earn 6 figures off the back of one email. If you had 100,000 subscribers on your list then you could make £100,000 a year pretty easily but its going to take you time to build that list and to be able use it effectively.

The easiest way to achieve a 6 figure income is to break it down. You need to earn £274 per day every day to make 6 figures a year. Now your probably thinking £274 a day is a feat in itself let alone earning that every day. So what do you? You break it down even further. If you have a regular job, that might make $50 over a 7 day week already, maybe more so thats brought your 6 figure daily down already to £224. So add that to IM techniques and strategies and you can start to get closer to that £274 target. Article writing is way you can make money online and is talked about alot but probably overlooked a lot by newbies becasue the earnings can be small but it is free to do and you can make money from it instantly. Lets say every one of your articles makes you £1 each day which is pretty achievable the more articles you write the more money you will be making each day. So if your wrote 100 articles, each one making £1 a day your already making £100 a day and that is everyday after you wrote them add this to your 9-5 earnings on top Your starting to get closer to your your £274 a day target. Just by learning how to make an article earn you atleast £1 a day will give you the potential to achieve your 6 figure income just by one IM technique! You can sell CPA offers off the back of your articles, bring more traffic to your websites and build a list and this is just by using FREE article websites. You could make £1 a day per article just by google adsense earnings thats without anything else thrown on top.

Rather than looking for 1 way to make 100,000 grand a year break it down in managable chunks, This will give you direction and also give you achievable goals making you want to keep on with your desire to be an internet marketer.

Now Im very new to new in to internet marketing but it is very achievable as a newbie to be earning decent money in a year. ( I bet you'd be happy earning £500 a week from a passive IM income )

It will take some knowledge, time and effort to achieve this. You will also be introduced to the snowball effect. To see people been doing things for months and not earning anything is quite horrible to see. If you looked for smaller ways to achieve making money online that you can multiply over and over again ( like article writing ) then you can start earning some money and then A LOT of money.

Then once you've got some money in your back pocket you can start playing with the bigger boys and Using CPA, Mailing Lists and starting ad campaigns to be making big money.

( Didnt mean for such a lenghty first post )

@macchiavelli I completely agree! People expect way too much in the beginning and quit before they see any results. People just dont have the patience these days! They need to understand that everything is a process. My first $100 was a great feeling, then my next $1000 was even better! But you know, it takes an excessive focus and requires you to think of this as a business instead of a hobby. Otherwise you will make hobby income.

Making Money Online requires a someone who knows what theyre doing to teach you and you follow it then you'll experience similar results.

I belive more of the people have problm making this first dollar because they try begin in the make money niche. My first dollar was on ebay, and i belive it was the best. I'm new to this forum and i notice a lot of newbies try to make money in the same niche. I recomend to start in other niche. I'm doing that for some years and its good for me.

Xor87 that's great you not only have an achievable goal but you will also learn alot in making it happen which will in turn make you more money later on as you piece together what you learn.

If you remember that your goal is $50 passive income every month you could achieve this quickly. Many marketers on here could make $50 just by turning their computers on but were not at that level yet they have implamented many other things can give them instant cash at the touch of a button. Just start at the bottom and work your way up if you do this you'll get to making big bucks alot quicker than someone always looking for the next thing.

Now I could say $50 passive income easily achievable on Ebay which it is but that only because I know how. There are many ways to achieve $50 that you can expand on and make more and more. You just have to have a different way of thinking.

Just like I said about the numbers game rather than think of earn $100 one way could you think of 4 ways to make $25. $100 extra a week can pay for a lot of things.

Article marketing is a great way to start earning money online for free it is where Im starting to impament what I know. Because I've been learning alot about IM I know that I could make a decent amount of money from something that is a very basic concept.

Some people are saying that they haven't earned a single cent with their efforts. I've earned google adsense earnings within a couple of weeks of article writing on free site. I haven't used any backlinking as yet and I don't have high traffic yet and I've only just started adding affiliate offers to them in the last couple of days. So my earnings are just on pure writing. The techniques I know will be implamented very soon which should increase my earnings.

document everything your going thru now and when u finally breakthrough. Sell your story. You will make $$$.

Hey,

I started making money online by dropshipping but that was quite a pain since my there was a lot of things to take care of. Not just in the customer service side of things.

Which is why I moved to the more auto income side of things. Haven't made thousands yet but set to launch my own product soon so that should get me something.

Recky

I am making money online for about 4 years already. Frustrations and failure is always their but this did not stop me to learn more and discover the best techniques. So I think it a matter of perception towards life challenges

I have about $50 to show for about a years dedication.

I started about 2 years ago with articles promoting CPA offers. I bought a generic domain name and used a simple redirect. Some of those offers are still converting to this day. Really easy and cheap method.

Before I read every comment I would like to answer the opening question. I haven't made money yet. But, I looked at my post history and I joined this site (and the career field) on Aug 23, 2010.

I jumped in with both feet and bought an excellent program a little prematurely...but I will use it with a month.

I read a thread on something to do with "Desperation" in the title. The first post that hit me like a brick was by George Wright. Then the next post was by TheRichJerksNet. Between the two of them a light bulb went on.

So, I've decided to go at this with a multi pronged approach:

1. Google Local (which I bought Mario Brown's program Thursday night) for myself and local companies for offline mkt

2. a Clickbank affiliate program where the customer will come to my site and it will have various banner ads from CPA's

I'm determining domain names right now and hosting/sites will be live by next weekend. (I'm trying to do this all for under $60 for 3 domains and hosting for 6 months.)


Then, Travis' 28 day program to insanity or divorce goes into effect.

Hello,

I dont want to sound like an echo but its true! It takes time and research to make money online. I have just started my own blog and have only had for a view months and made .13 cents...why?? Because i made hte mistake of getting traffic before i did more research on what it should be as far as layout, that was my biggest mistake.

I feel people starting out find it tough online because they will have a rat race job that take a lot of their attention away from their online learning. Then while they are trying to find a system to follow, they end up entering their email address to many lists.

Then the auto responder list trap takes place with the creative written copy takes over confusing the new people and all they do is spend money on each email received.

Yes this is from personal experience a couple years ago and finally I removed my self from all the lists and focused to find one system that was getting good feedback through forums. Once I found it I made a commitment to sticking with it until I made a profit before looking for the next system.

I followed through and still these original sites are making me residual income and I have not even touched these sites for the past year or so. Hmmmm sounds like I have some site updating to do!

I launched my own product 5 years ago when I did the original 'Underachievers Course' with Ed dale & Co. That site still brings me in a weekly income today (with no work to it). Then I went to affiliate marketing & adsense sites which boosted the coffers.

I gotta say though that what has hit the jackpot for me is Online marketing to Offline Local Businesses. I have a 6 figure business that employs 14 people in it and it grows organically now 100% via referral.

Anyone that has even the basic skills of online marketing should really give it it a shot.

Local SEO Goldmine

I have made money online, but not with "Internet Marketing" as I believe it to be today. I have made a few sales on craigslist, following the ideas of it being a giant 24/7 garage sale to get rid of junk in the basement. I also made $40 years ago by signing up for free trials and getting paid for it.

I want a source of income that I can generate anytime, instead of just when I have something in the house I don't want anymore. So in my eyes, I have not made any money with Internet Marketing.

What is holding me back? I have always been a talented writer. In my younger years I was picked on and told I would never amount to anything, and that my writing was garbage. This is something that has stuck with me for years, and is something I have recently started breaking away from. In order to break this mindset, I have used my WF Blog space to create a blog about writing, and I hope to teach what I have learned, while building relationships that could lead to profits.

I do have a few websites around the web. An aweber account with a few opt-ins, a few bloggers that have been left to their own demise, and a squidoo page that is under par. The only thing holding all of these back... Traffic generation. I have yet to be successful in generating traffic, and that is also holding me back.

In the last two weeks, I have taken more action towards building my business than in the last two years. I created a daily checklist of things I need to work on, things I need to research, and a small bit of time to check the Warrior Forums for ways to get my signature seen.

I DID IT!

I MADE $1.54 IN ADSENSE YESTERDAY!

I haven't made a dollar yet, but then again I just started this week. I have an amazon affiliate page with some reviews, but no sales yet. I'm going to keep at it though.

Hang in there, Rob.

Look who's talking...

But I think it's no coincidence that I finally made my first buck online after I decided I wasn't going to buy any more training material until I had made some real money.

When I was first starting out, I think it took me 2 weeks to make my first $, I still remember, $1.36 cents in my account.... and it snowballed

I have and do make money online. I just have not made the amount that I want to make yet

I've made a little money from affiliate marketing, but I spent most of it on ppc. I haven't made ANY profit yet. I've got a product, a site up, and am in the process of trying to get traffic there. I think what's stopping me is not knowing what I'm doing, and just having to learn as I go. What I think is the right move, very well could be the absolute wrong thing. However, there's no way to know except by trying it and seeing if it works, unless you find someone to talk to/work with that has had success already.

None - I'm guilty of being a 'stupid little kid', always chasing the latest bright shiny object - just can't get momentum.

How can you find water if you dig 100 1-foot holes instead of 1 100-foot hole - that's my problem in a nutshell - hope I wake up soon.

I would love to have a mentor who was interested in my success rather than obtaining my credit card number!

I have to admit it Tim.... I have never made a "single dollar" online.

Hello everyone I must say I'm a newby I've made just about $160 in the past two years of IM. I wish there was a way to start over because I think I looked so hard and read so much I'm lost. Information overflow
bits and pieces of every thing I learn but no order in how to use them.

:confused:

I am making money online for about 4 years already. Frustrations and failure is always their but this did not stop me to learn more and discover the best techniques. So I think it a matter of perception towards life challenges