How do you guys make money?

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I can start off, my main work is to build domains after keywords and putting adsense, and sometimes amazon affiliates.

The goal is to make 100 sites like that and eventually in 9 months get a full time income from adsense

What are you guys up to? whats your technique? you don't have to put your income.
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  • Profile picture of the author BloggingPro
    I make money online in four ways.

    Affiliate marketing (amazon, CJ and ShareAsale merchants). I only promote physical products in this manner. I have three sites dedicated to this and one craptacular site with a squeeze page that builds a list--which in turn promotes products through aff links.

    Product sales, both online and offline to local businesses looking for web design.

    Advertising (Adsense and CPA offers). I only have two sites these days that generate income this way.

    And my newest egg basket--site flipping! About to list my second site and I'm really excited to start scaling this up.
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  • Profile picture of the author Robert Brauer
    Right now I'm making most of my money from SEO, WSO's, JV deals (offline).

    Also, money comes from my list and from the occasional consulting fees.

    Life is good
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  • Profile picture of the author JavierElenes
    If you;re really into getting on IM, consider doing cpa using videos.
    sign up on ewanetwork.com, do some keyword research, make some videos, distribute them using pixelpipe.com (free) or trafficgeyser.com (paid)
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  • Profile picture of the author RichardF
    Right now, 90% affiliate marketing (almost exclusively Amazon).
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  • Profile picture of the author Charlotte Jay
    I write content for others. It's a Bowl Of Awesome. #winning
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  • Profile picture of the author Christian Little
    I run a web hosting company (see my sig).

    Before that I did a lot of affiliate marketing in various markets.
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  • Profile picture of the author Mike McAleer
    I have done a lot but now mainly offline stuff!
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  • Profile picture of the author sailor4528
    Selling my own ebooks
    Online Tutoring
    Adsense
    Affiliate Marketing
    White label site

    And it's not fast enough...

    so in the last couple of years I have also done

    - building repairs
    - bathroom installations

    And life is OK, but I'm still serving my IM apprenticeship!

    I was an ERP and software development project manager before that, but got tired of all the bull***t I heard. So I do IM now (and building work). It's a lot more fun, but still a lot of BS.
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  • Profile picture of the author mark healy
    mainly e books and affiliate marketing
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    • Profile picture of the author m2elite
      Coaching folks how to be successful in Network Marketing
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      • Profile picture of the author doorkicker13
        I have one site for physical products in the fitness niche (Amazon). Does OK.
        I have an Kindle Book on Amazon in the above niche. Does OK.
        I just put the above eBook on Smashwords (still converting).
        I have a butt load of adsense parked domains. Doesn't do much.
        I have a two websites that I abandoned to pursue other things, which I plan on selling shortly. Both market ClickBank products.

        None of that is on the forefront of my focus at the time. I am currently in the process of creating my first product which I devote the bulk of my time to.

        And I make a few bucks on Fiverr here and there - nothing I put any effort into anymore.

        Oh, and I am a full time student - Post 9/11 GI Bill is amazing.
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  • Profile picture of the author bnwebm
    Content development, website development, lots and lots of writing and a subsequent very nice passive income generating group of affiliate sites.
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  • Profile picture of the author Trent Raymond
    Originally Posted by charliesheen View Post

    I can start off, my main work is to build domains after keywords and putting adsense, and sometimes amazon affiliates.

    The goal is to make 100 sites like that and eventually in 9 months get a full time income from adsense

    What are you guys up to? whats your technique? you don't have to put your income.
    I have a portfolio of niche sites that all promote amazon products. I get my traffic all from organic SEO. I have 35 sites, just about 1/2 of which are now on page one of Google. I have a team of VAs that work for me to build new sites for a fixed fee of $27 per site INCLUDING the articles.


    I blog about how I do all of this so just click my sig links to get to my blog. I also give free training webinars that you can sign up for at my blog.
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  • Profile picture of the author TrumpiaTim
    Mobile Marketing is a great way to earn additional revenue and it's really a blooming industry. I'd encourage you to look into becoming an affiliate on Trumpia or even potentially become a white label reseller of Trumpia.
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  • Profile picture of the author ladywriter
    Writing. I'm in a huge crunch at the moment so it's hard to think long term, but I'm working on my own product and thinking about a lot of other possibilities too.
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  • Profile picture of the author tess47
    I am a ghostwriter first and foremost (write articles, web pages, blog posts, etc. for others). After that, I also make money through:

    Affiliate marketing (Clickbank and Market Health products)
    Blogging
    Creating my own information products

    That's enough to keep me plenty busy! Interesting thread
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    • Profile picture of the author jgant
      • I sell 1 ebook (does okay)
      • I do affiliate marketing - physical products, digital products, services, and software (affiliate marketing is my biggest earner by far)
      • I have one decent list in a focused market that earns okay - but will get better as it grows.
      I focus on a few niche sites that are large (300 plus posts) that earn the bulk of my income through affiliate marketing.

      Once I build up my traffic, I'll redirect my focus to listbuilding for long-term business strategy.
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  • Profile picture of the author SEO Agency
    I have a blog with adsense ads, syndicate it, promote my blog blog regularly, get more traffic, I usually do submit articles to different article directories.
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  • Profile picture of the author celente
    I sell stuff to people that want or are desperate to buy.

    When i realised that is how i should of done it since day one, my whole world changed and biz profits skyrocketed.
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  • Profile picture of the author caseyscreen
    Well i am getting money mostly from Google Adsense. It is the best source to get money online.
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  • Profile picture of the author Kecia
    My primary income stream is writing, whether it be for upfront pay from clients of writing and selling PLR content. I am hoping to make the shift from doing both to only writing PLR soon. I'm also getting into product creation and domain flipping a little bit.
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  • Profile picture of the author majay
    By writing articles for other people and posting them in article directories
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  • Profile picture of the author renegadetmj
    Almost exclusively Amazon. I figure that Amazon is very good at selling to a customer when they are on the site, so if i can just get people who have a need to visit Amazon via my sites then the rest will take care of itself...
    Moderate success so far... time will tell
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  • Profile picture of the author AmandaT
    I'm a writer. Currently that is my main source of income, which hopefully will improve when my Warriors for Hire thread goes live. I write mostly directly for clients but I also write for sites like Textbroker in between.

    I also have a blog where I make a small amount from adsense and amazon and am running a site to help work at home mothers.

    On top of that I am writing an e-book in my spare time I will be selling.
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  • Profile picture of the author windso0
    I am only managing a website, sells some tools
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  • Profile picture of the author paintbrush4u
    @charliesheen...(really)

    Anyways you got a good idea but i think you would need to modify your implementation...

    In any marketing the one rule that you should never break is "always test test test"

    SO instead of creating 100 sites for just amazon... create a smaller test sample and then test away....

    You will probably try 10-15 different things before one hits the chord and at that point..... take all the energy you got and DIG AWAY and spend 80% of you time on that and and the remaining 10% trying to improve your control and the last 10% diversify and test other methods...

    Hope that helps...
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  • Profile picture of the author rainso0
    I am a network writer, writing various articles
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  • Profile picture of the author ephame
    Making a few bucks here and there from Tweeting/ Twitter... Creating a business site over the next few months which is really where all my attention is. Still working normal offline type work to pay the bills.
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  • Profile picture of the author shireen
    Hi:

    Shireen here :-)

    I make money from:

    1) ebay (selling e products)

    2) clickbank (I'm both vendor and affiliates)

    3) google adsense (from my blog)
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  • Profile picture of the author bhatnaashish098
    Hi!

    I make money from my website. My website comes on number one position in google with certain keywords i got enough business from my website.
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  • Profile picture of the author faysal9
    own a website forum since long. promoting it all the time. making decent money via adsense. sometimes going blackhat for things
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  • Profile picture of the author Tad 100
    I make money from ebay selling products from China.

    Recently opened adsence account and was impressed how easy is to make money by using this method.

    At the moment I sell backlink packets to smart marketers who likes quality

    And do SEO for my personal clients.
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  • Profile picture of the author masterjani
    Me making some bucks through adsense and my seo services.
    Relying completely on adsense is bad idea always check and open multiple options.
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  • Profile picture of the author The Simpleton
    @OP: If you want to make money through adsense, then it would be better if you perfected your traffic generation techniques with a couple of sites first, instead of shooting for a hundred sites at the same time. You might think that the accumulated income for all the sites would be impressive, but if you perfect your traffic generation techniques first and then apply them on all the sites, the result would be even more impressive!
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    • Profile picture of the author OllieGo
      I started as a copywriter in 2005, then moved into managing product launches which I still do. Now creating products of my own, first one I just finished called Speedy Web Videos. It's free right now, btw. Click my sig link.
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  • Profile picture of the author totodeal
    too much concerned does not make sense but actions do.
    follow your own course-you will hit the target someday
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  • Profile picture of the author ramchat
    There are so many ways.

    SEO services
    Social Media Account creations
    Video Uploading jobs etc...
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  • Profile picture of the author Mike Ogbin
    I have just 5 websites, They make me around 50k monthly and sometimes much more when I did launch my products.

    I make money with:

    Clickbank hop links

    Adsense

    Website design service

    I have website integrated with affiliate program that people who sign up in my website automatically become affiliate and get commissions when they sell my products.

    thanks I think this will help you
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    • Profile picture of the author lexi21
      Originally Posted by Mike Ogbin View Post

      I have just 5 websites, They make me around 50k monthly and sometimes much more when I did launch my products.

      I make money with:

      Clickbank hop links

      Adsense

      Website design service

      I have website integrated with affiliate program that people who sign up in my website automatically become affiliate and get commissions when they sell my products.



      thanks I think this will help you
      can I learn from you, to get income from internet, Please PM me, thank you so much
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  • Profile picture of the author michaelmbrown
    Pretty much everybody make money from affiliate marketing (either it's CPA, ClickBank, Amazon, eBay etc) and/or adsense, some are writers so that's their main income source, others are driving targeted traffic to buy their services (like WSO) and so on. There are a lot of ways to make money.
    The last thing I would do would be to make 100 websites for adsense. Somebody just said before, you have to test all the time. With 20 websites you can do more than $3000/month if find the best solutions to monetize your sites. I don't think you can make that money only with adsense from 20 sites, but, depending on the niche, of course, you can for sure with affiliate marketing/adsense. Just mix these make money ways until you're satisfied.

    To answer your question, I only use affiliate marketing because adsense does not fit at all.
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  • Profile picture of the author Dann Vicker
    I create my own products and jv with other successful affiliates
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  • Profile picture of the author sbucciarel
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    Originally Posted by charliesheen View Post

    What are you guys up to? whats your technique? you don't have to put your income.
    I'm touring the US doing a Violent Torpedoes of Truth - Defeat is Not an Option Show.

    Actually, I sell websites and domains and create my own info products.
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  • Profile picture of the author Joe Benjamin
    Originally Posted by charliesheen View Post

    I can start off, my main work is to build domains after keywords and putting adsense, and sometimes amazon affiliates.

    The goal is to make 100 sites like that and eventually in 9 months get a full time income from adsense

    What are you guys up to? whats your technique? you don't have to put your income.
    Does selling my body count? -- from where i'm
    from it's not illegal.
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  • Profile picture of the author nagidr
    my first solid income online was and still is:
    Fiverr.com!
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  • Profile picture of the author kbgold
    I am with KB Gold. A new financial institution offering people the opportunity to open, manage and control a gold and silver backed savings account.
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  • Profile picture of the author Alan Ashwood
    Money Saving Newbie Marketer blog (that's not the name)
    IM Product and Vendor Review site (that's not either)
    New - Starting from scratch affiliate marketing site (nor that) - no content yet.

    I will agree with some of the advice above though. Concentrate on a few to get you started; create good content; master SEO/Keyword stuff; then List Building.

    Good luck in whatever you decide to do.
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  • Profile picture of the author JamieSEO
    Short term = Keyword research, site creation, SEO for clients

    Long term = Write ebook, create mini-site to direct sell ebook, publish to Kindle and Smashwords

    Short term approach is handy for paying the bills. Long term approach is great for setting up passive income streams.

    Really there is no right or wrong answer here. Find something you enjoy and are good at, then focus on monetizing that

    If you love what you are doing then it does not seem like as much hard work.
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    • Profile picture of the author Vanfenix
      I sell websites that are completely editable literally by "drag and drop"
      I include aweber like functionality, plus the ability to have customers manage their own features such as the "nav bar" to create squeeze pages within websites. The website, plus hosting, design, and the content management system run my customers a flat rate monthly fee. I also keyword each page individually which increases traffic. My affiliates make money every month by reselling my service.

      That's what I do. I have over 100 clients at the moment, 20 of which are warriors, and business is getting better.

      If anyone wants a tour of the engine, by all means - drop me an email and I'll be happy to show you this awesomeness! [vanfenix1] at [gmail] d0t [com]
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  • Profile picture of the author ajulius
    I do get my income online form paid advertising from my blogs, CPA and CB promotions from my list and offering services online. Would like to scale this up but dont have time for now.
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  • Profile picture of the author nicholasb
    I basically create and sell information products, both as the creator and as an affiliate.

    most of my traffic comes from ppc and affiliates.
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  • Profile picture of the author cryst
    I own an e-commerce site,. apart from this i earn from affiliate marketing and few sorts of advertising!!
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  • Profile picture of the author Dresden14
    debt consolidation sucka... Inhouse, no referrals or outsourcing.
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  • Profile picture of the author Bank
    products & affiliate income

    build for the long term
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  • Profile picture of the author davidfstyles
    Personally I find spreading out works best for me. Here's some of what I'm doing at the moment...

    SEO. AdSense. eBooks. Product launches. Audio's. Membership sites. Video's. ClickBank. Affiliate programs. CPA's.

    However out of all these, info products I create are the most lucrative.

    Hope that helps.

    David.
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  • Profile picture of the author Lilach
    I have 5 income streams (and a daughter, I'm a complete workaholic!):

    1. Consultancy work - I help companies with their marketing and/or social media, I either advise them on what to do or actually carry out the work for them.
    2. Mentoring - I help companies who are either starting out and not sure where to start, people who are in business but want to make more sales/generate more leads and more recently helping create exit strategies
    3. Workshops - I run social media workshops in the UK
    4. Speaking - I've been speaking for a while now (for free) and it's only recently that people are now paying me to speak
    5. Affiliate marketing - I promote one or two products each month

    Lilach
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  • Profile picture of the author Rockmanfl
    I also have a few different ways that I make money online

    -ebay
    -fiverr
    -freelancing
    -even some survey sites for a little extra cash (mturk at times as well)

    have done some affliliate marketing as well, like amazon (and a few clickbank products)
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  • Profile picture of the author Rob Walt
    Offline CPA offers, "How To" eBooks, and Kindle books.
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  • Profile picture of the author MikeMorgan
    At the moment , majority of my income come from CPA and I mostly focus on paid traffic sources .
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  • Profile picture of the author powercomm
    Hi, I have an online radio show, link below. I have an upsell for a subscription and sell my own and other peoples' products. Adsense, Amazon, offline consulting
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  • Profile picture of the author asankae06
    seems a pretty hard goal ha?
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    • Profile picture of the author rambrose
      Selling PLR
      Clickbank
      CPA
      Adsense
      My Job
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  • Profile picture of the author mondays
    I develop internet marketing tools (software) and i distibute them for free.
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  • Profile picture of the author shiqo
    Affiliate marketing is my way of making money. I use a system that will allow me to market all my affiliate links all together
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  • Profile picture of the author dagaul101
    I think your technique is pretty solid, most Internet marketers start off with the big guys in Adsense and Amazon, then move on to CPA, and then their own products
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  • Profile picture of the author mavmav
    Adsense, ebay and professional logo design.
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  • Profile picture of the author duglus009
    i started with cpalead then leadbolt but now iam looking for ways to make money
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  • Profile picture of the author RyanLow
    Affiliate marketing especially CPA marketing. In addition, offer writing services on elance
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    I make money with a machine
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