How'd You Make Your First $100 Online?

Affiliate marketing: A paid survey opportunity from clickbank in the job section on craigslist back in 2008

Mine was craigslist also... put up a landing page offering a great business opportunity and linked that to a CB product... 10 ads got me 3 sales!

Affiliate Marketing did it for me too. I set up a site promoting a product that helped people drive traffic to their sites. Boy did it feel good to see those little bars grow in the daily sales snapshot in CB. Fun times.

I my first digital dollars back in 2006 with site flipping.

I took a keyword targeted .com domain name, put a nice design from oswd.org around it and grabbed 100 articles from eZineArticles.com and slapped Adsense on there.

After that I wrote 10 unique bum marketing style articles and submitted them to eZineArticles.com myself and then after a month I was getting decent traffic from the articles and I had made $12.43 in Adsense on the site, so I listed the site for sale on another popular webmaster forum and made $200 on it.

Now remember, this was way before site flipping was a household term in the IM community and starter sites where fetching a lot more. Also it was a lot easier to rank for decent keywords back then. Nowadays this way of making money would still work, but you've got to do a lot more to get decent traffic to a new site.

Before you ask, I learned how to do all of that from an eBook I had purchased from the same forum. Up until that point I was on the info product buying hamster wheel with all the other newbies. I know I had at least 10 GB of eBooks and PLR stuff, and about $20,000 of guru courses in my closet paid for with credit card companies money.

I just sat down one day and said, "Ok, the next product I buy, I'm just going to do what it says until I make money, and if I don't make money after 90 days I'll quit this whole internet thing."

Lo and behold, taking action on the information was the key...

Taking action on good information ended up paying off for me and I never gave up, even in the face of all my friends and family telling me that I was being scammed and internet marketing was all a big lie.

I think the reason behind that first success was that I was committed to one business model for long enough to see results. Most people would have jumped to another method before the 30 days were over, but I was dead-set on following what the ebook author told me to do, and it worked.

Now I'm doing great and working from home full time, but it all started with that first $200 Paypal cash. I remember that excitement like it was yesterday

-Garland Robinson

I was just about to say I made my first $100 online from web-hosting in 2003, but then I remembered that wasn't the case: it was actually before then, many years ago - probably around 2001 - from Amazon Associates, with a few referred sales of the DarkBASIC game programming "language".

I guess I've been an affiliate for longer than I thought!

My first $100 online actually came from selling local advertisements for an entertainment site I started showcasing video's and pictures of community events. I remember making that first sale and was shocked I had pulled it off.

When I started more seriously in IM my first $100 came from affiliate marketing. My outlook on how to run an online business completely changed once I discovered I could market a product and not have to deal with shipping, customer service, or RETURNS!

Mine happened to be from putting youtube videos up of music videos with popular songs... they would get over 100,000 views .. I put a direct cb link and recieved over 30 sales.

making money for me online started out the wrong way. an associate taught me how to do incentive marketing with CPA offers on non-incentive offers. at first i didn't know it was bad, but once i did i kept going anyway. the money was addictive. eventually about 5 months later one of the networks caught on and then i quit.

after that i tried a variety of legit ways to drive traffic to my cpa offers, and clickbank offers. made a few hundred bucks but nothing to write home about.

this year i started looking into different ways to make money selling services. i started making real money selling facebook fans, but with all the facebook issues and various BS that came with it, i got out of it. i made some really good money there for about a month selling my business plan and facebook suppliers, but eventually i got out of the game all together.

this year i also started studying seo. i've learned quite a bit in that time but i can honestly say i'm still no expert, but i know enough to rank the sites i take on pretty well. it's been harder to sell seo services for me than facebook fans, but i've found once the client signs on and sees results they are loyal, and tend to tell their friends. so while i'm not growing at a rate i might like to, i am growing.

i'm now hooked. the software i use for seo i have learned through extensive study and testing how to use the RIGHT way to help a site's ranks. i must say i am a software junky. some of the time i spend is researching software i don't have, and testing software i had to have. overall i'm in a good place, and leaps and bounds ahead of where i started, cheating cpa networks. by the way, i wouldn't reccomend doing any black hat with cpa networks. i personally got threatened with legal action and ended up paying back a network over 2k dollars from my stupidity.

happy holidays
matt jersan

Article writing for People mag... quickly turned into a ebook ghostwriter and for the past two years have never had to look for a job online/offline. My previous clients keep coming back!

Venturing just now link into the affiliate marketing thing.

For me it was flipping websites.

My first one hundred dollars went with a product to be able to save gasoline with water four years ago. Ah, those times in which one thought than in the year 2010 global warming would have us destroyed.

My first $100 online was on eBay in '96 or '97. My first non eBay $100 was from an ebook I wrote about going from PR0 to PR4 in 90 days or less. That must have been in 2005.

John

I earned first $100 after selling a blog in 2007.

Looks like lots of people did affiliate marketing.That's cool. I'm seeing some methods here that maybe I should put into my marketing.

Bought 12 computer books at "Ocean State Job Lot" (a local store in Rhode Island ) for $7.00 each and sold them on eBay for $29-$39 each. Went back and bought about 300 more from 5 different stores and made about 5 grand profit within a few weeks.

From that I became an eBay seller (Close to $900k sold) and helped thousands of other people make money on eBay.

Even started a site to help people sell more on eBay called AuctionTNT

From small beginnings large trees grow :-)

rent-a-coder - first won bid was for $300 to install Article Manager.

Affiliate Marketing. Made less than $10 in my first 3 months that was how pathetic it was. Then it gradually increased and I can afford my own house and car now!

A combination of Adsense and CPA

My first $100 came from adsense from one of my google news sites. Takes a lot of work though, I'm currently outsourcing content but I'd like to put up affiliate sites for amazon, cb and another group purely for adsense.

The good ol Bum marketing method.

Clickbank was my first affiliate network I got started off with, big surprise there. And I mostly used article marketing for my traffic and backlinks. EzineArticles and UsFreeAds to be more specific.

I created a simple landing page for the my CB offer, which was in the "run your car on water" niche, then wrote my articles with links going to my LP.

My landing page converted insanely well, even though it looked like a 13 year old could make it. I had made several thousand that summer just from that simple landing page, even though I was brand new to internet marketing.

I just had gotten lucky by choosing the right affiliate offer to promote and at the right time. This was during the period when gas prices were sky high.

What I learned, the design and your presentation isn't nearly as important as your offer and getting the right traffic.

Just promote an offer that solves a problem to a targeted audience and the sales will surely follow.

good luck!

Mine came from creating an original product, and then marketing free tips related to those products on YouTube, and eventually building an authority site on that subject. People would see the free tips on youtube, and be encouraged to leave youtube to view a specific page on the site to see even more site-exclusive tips on that exact topic. Advertising for the product would be found somewhere on the page, but wasn't the purpose of the page.

My first 100$ was from making autoblogs for people. It was a real hard work.

My first $100 is come from Affiliate Marketing of course.

ebay! 2 Nintendo DSs = $140!

Cookie stuffing

My first $100 came from writing which I still do up to date

I mad my first $100 and many more of those $100 from taking paid surveys. Been doing it for a few years now. It wasn't much money, but it was something extra.
But then about 16 months ago or so I came across blogging which led to my first blog and joining WF. Then I started some affiliate marketing, cpa and freelancing. I haven't quite my day job but am making enough from a few different methods to consider it.

My first $100 came from affiliate marketing (CJ - Hostgator).

my first 100bucks comes from my first online store, but it was closed now

I did a logo for a guy and we had a deal on for 20$ but he was so happy that he paid me 50$ and gave me another logo work and I had like 100 buks in 2 days

It was from a googles adsense program and a forum posting site for me.

CPA + 4chan

Me? I get paid from my online job doing seo and bookmarking more on internet marketing.

I sold my adsense site. It is 150. Not too shabby, but I was happy.

Made mine as a freelancer

My first $100 was from investing in HYIPs way back 2003 (but not doing it anymore since 2004).. I thought is was legit back then... The next was through adsense started around $2006, then CPA..... until now, adsense, CPA and clickbank are my top 3 providers..

Clickbank and Squidoo page about world of warcraft

That lens (actually those 5 lenses) are totally not SEO friendly. They are targetting high competition keywords with low search value, they contain tons of grammatical errors. But they are bringing me money even by this day

Mine Was On Craigslist too! Promoting an affiliate program during the relaunch. I promoted everyday 5 times a day in one city. It turned into a $973 check first money I ever made online

im not proud to say the first money i made online was from incentive cpa marketing. it all worked out fine and dandy untill i got caught. had to pay one network back. that sucked. things are different now tho

Oh boy! Back in 05... Was a bricks and mortar shop, and my associates in other states wondered about my success. After getting enough "how are you selling so much, so fast" questions, I finally signed up for a free teleseminar service, ran a teleseminar, and for 3 hours straight answered about 100 of these people's questions!

After the teleseminar was over, I was hammered with emails from people who missed the training. "I'll pay you money for the recording!" Thus an idea was born... Hey! I can charge money for this!

One massively ugly website later, I was raking in sales from those who wanted the replay.

Ebay back in 03

took over management for the local ISP just before 56K modems hit the market... does that count?

Back in 1998 I promoted a affiliate dating site and earned over $300 in six months of promotion in free online classifieds.

Well, I used to build websites for people back in the late 90's but then took a break for a while. Most recently, my first $100 came from Adsense.

Hi:

Shireen here :-)

I made my first $100 from ebay, I list some resell rights product to sell on eBay.

Hope it helps :-)

My first $100 (actually, it was much more) came from PPC promotion of a high-end affiliate offer several years ago.

For people starting out who are strapped for cash, I still think that providing IM related services is probably the fastest and easiest way of earning your first $100 and beyond.

Paul

Made mine on Fiverr. I'm surprised no one has mentioned Fiverr on this thread yet - $5 at a time (well, minus their fees, $4 at a time) I made my first few hundred online before moving on to less time consuming methods of making money (though I definitely still dabble in Fiverr stuff).

Ebay.
Non ebay: writing

But I haven't gotten to $100 a day yet and that's where I want...no...that's where I need to be.

Cookie stuffing eBay, back in the day before eBay went postal on their affiliates.

My first money online was actually from spammy little blogs in the "adult entertainment" niche, but most of my money has come from frelance WordPress development.

adsense, took me 3 months to get my check. A year later and it's everyday

I made my first 100 dollars promoting wii console repair product on clickbank using Google Adwords in the days Google let you link directly to affiliate sale page .

Couldn't believe it .

I just bought Adam Horowitz 1st IM product Tycoon Cashflow which teaches you how to do
Google Adwords and I decided to execute .

Glad I did

From selling my own ebooks. Only last year I started selling also articles (full rights), but I cannot find enough time to do both.

If I only wanted to make money online I would only sell articles because this is easier than maintaining and promoting a business. However, my intention was not to ‘make money’, but to finally publish my books and help the public with this knowledge.

This is why the way I started working online was totally wrong. I had no idea about internet marketing, I spent a lot of money building my sites; I made many mistakes. In the beginning it seemed as if I was working online basically in order to spend money.

Now I've learned my lessons.

I advise all newbies to study very, very well internet marketing before building their own business. Making your first $100 is not such a big deal. What is really important is to keep making money in a regular basis.

Now that I know how everything works online I understand how naïve I was for believing that I would easily sell my ebooks only because they are valuable. The competition we face online is more than disappointing. I even wonder how I could start selling my ebooks (a few of them) from the beginning without any organization…

I made my first $100 from OTO offer. Single broadcast and made 3 sales for $67 each.

I think Affiliate marketing is a bit over-rated, I made my first cash from Adsense. Oh and hello I'm new here, nice to chat to you all.

got a blog. with a little linkbuilding i went up high in google and people started to click my hoplinks in google. That`s the way i made my first 100 $ online.

My first $100 was with ClickBank product, free Blogspot blog, and Ezinearticles to bring traffic.

My first $100 came from affiliate marketing, ClickBank product.

Mine came from Clickbank, was promoting this website about Russian brides via PPC. Spend more for the clicks though