how you made your first $ online

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everyone has a different approach to making money online, whether that be to first launch a squeeze page or a forum, a static website or a completely dynamic content rich site or even starting out with CPA.


What was yours?

mine personally was an entertainment site in which i sold for 25k. I learned web design and just built a site, it took me about 1 month and 2 weeks.


Warriors lets help out the newbies!
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  • It was a niche eBook. Oddly enough, my first website online made a slight profit. Every website I made after that never made anything for years. lol
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      Wow years later, its good to see you never gave up. That is a very valuable lesson.
  • I set up a content license brokerage site, made about 5k per month until I sold it off in pieces for about 40k.
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      That sound like a really good idea. I might look into that. Thank you.
  • my first dollar was from promoting a clickbank offer as an affiliate. i completely forget what the offer was however!
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    • I have rather started off with clicksense. But I didn't face profit either.
  • There's another thread about this.

    First $ was writing articles on freelancer. That was a while ago...
  • First $ was on clickbank for an embarrassing niche product. I did simple SEO with bookmarks and a link wheel to a Blogger.com money page. It was back in 2009 when SEO was a whole different world.

    Then I tried out CPA offers and found they worked a whole lot better. I'd recommend starting out with CPA offers as a newbie since they were a whole lot easier to make money with, especially at that time. It really was my first experience with passive income. Very fun and exciting stuff!
  • Selling G-mail invites back when it was in beta. After that it was surveys..

    -JD
  • Adsense. Struggle with it today and have moved to bigger and better things.
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      yeah the traditional ad sense sites have been moving down. I have always had trouble developing these kind of sites. That's good you have moved on. In the words of Albert Einstein - the definition of insanity is doing the same thing and expecting different results.

      A lesson i learned when i first started out online.
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  • The first online business that made me good profit what selling domain names
  • It was $29 commission. It took me a year to get it and it was the sweetest sale I have ever made. It was goal setting software as I recall.

    Will
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      Nice lol i like that one!! Truly shows people not to give up!
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  • I made my first $ by selling web design service. It was about $300.
  • Pay per click selling Get Google Ads Free. Then the competition got stiff, CPC went up and my money ran out. Then I did article marketing and social media marketing.
  • I earned my first $$ through a press release submission job in oDesk. I am working at oDesk till now and earning my living.
  • I made my first $ online by selling my e-Book. That was back when I thought a $200 profit was impressive xD
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    • I filled in my own email submit (CPA)

      Does that count?
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  • I did the same, made my first money on e-bay. Now I am onto clickbank, I like the ways things look, with the right planning and preparation anything is possible.
  • Hey folks, haven't posted in awhile. My first dollar was selling the flight simulation package via clickbank. I got the $100 adwords signup and used that up making 4 sales in 5 days, realized it wasn't worth it, I guess I don't have the proper knowledge to utilize it yet.
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    My first money online, before I ever started my affiliate marketing business, was from writing articles for other marketers. I'd done some offline writing for people, and one of them told me he usually looked for writers online, so I investigated.

    Oooh, that got you off to a good start!!
  • In 08 with Harvey Segal's SuperTips. $10 straight to my Paypal. That kept me motivated.
  • I earn my first $ from CPA .I earn $125 in my first week
  • My first $$ came from fiverr.
  • I first started off with Ebay businesses here and there...a cool lil' Thrift shop bargaineering here and there...and thus, you know, various DVD sales,etc...Yet, since then...the mint is
    really in graphic designs since it's more in demand by a large margin now-a-days!

    All the best!

    - AllRoundBanners
  • My first $ is from AdSense, and in early days of AdSense, it is easy to earn its commissions.
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    • selling business info package .... in 2009, still make money for me until now... totally overhead free... free hosting n domain , free SEO traffic form google n yahoo, though the penguin n panda updates hurts the traffic but manage to get back the traffics ....
  • My first IM dollar came from affiliate marketing. Been doing it ever since.
  • Selling virtual items in online games back in 2000. I wish i had the foresight to start a company like some of the other doing it had.
  • my first IM venture was pretty lucky with my WP skills I was hired by the admin of LegitHYIP.com as webmaster/content maker/customer support. I was only paid $70/wk during my first month but that's still cold cash in Paypal account. I've worked for 2years then eventually the site got sold.
  • I sold a Nintendo DS through Amazon. $90! I was also going to sell my Nook Color, but my (ex)girlfriend smashed it! ...and the books I was going to sell all are now each missing 20 pages. :-(
    Lesson learned: Keeping physical inventory in your home can have drawbacks...
  • Adsense on my simple hobby site.








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      This could not be more true. A very valuable lesson. Thank you for sharing that!
  • Technically my first online income was from adsense, but this was under $1 haha.

    My first real monthly income was from article writing.
  • My very first bit of money was made by writing and selling articles. I'm still doing that today, although I would love to make more money than I actually am. I'm not making anywhere near the amount that many people love to boast about around the forum.
  • My first $ was from adsense. I spent around $25 for Domain and Hosting.
  • I start my online career by CPA. I started it at least two years ago. Initially it was hard. I did not make $1 within first couple of month. But it was a continuous process. I did learn from my mistakes. After couple of month later i did manage to earn $221 by CPA within one week.
  • Mine with Adsense from an artificial intelligence site. Later I discover that talking about products gives better results.
  • The first time I ever made money online is when I took a program that was recommended by my mentor and added it to my site. That program was sold for $39 and I earned $27.30. That was after 5 years of struggling to make any money while spending over $10,000 in stuff that made me $0.
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      5 years of hard work and persistence. That shows the level of dedication and performance from a true entrepreneur. Everyone should take your knowledge and utilize it. You are a great man my friend. Thank you for sharing that.
  • My first sale online is from a affiliate sale when I get started online by building my first affiliate website. I made money pretty quick. It was very encouraging sign for me. That's why I am still with IM. But my tactics and focus change!
  • Google Adsense, my first website on a tiny product... It has made $1-3 a day ever since I made it back in 2010
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    • The very first cent came from adsense, but that was when IM it was a hobby 4 years ago. The first sale was an affiliate sale through adwords and clickbank. The next consistent sales came through SEO and various affiliate programs.
  • Selling an almost banned weight lifting supplement on ebay. For the short time I did it, it was very profitable. Then it got banned lol.

    Then later booking leads off CL, and now doing both CL and YT.

    BTW. Very impressed that you built a $25,000 website in only 6 weeks.
  • I made my first online commission with Clickbank using a product review site targeting the product name keyword on Google.

    Nowadays my marketing is based around driving traffic and building an email list more for the long term rather than one off affiliate sales.

    Still get a few affiliate Clickbank sales pop up and I just take those commissions and put them back into my main business for paid ads etc.
  • I sold my own product through a jv with a guru to his list.
  • First sale came from promoting a raunchy product. Not too proud of it... very profitable though.
  • I remember my very 1st dollar online, it was Google adsense.
  • mine was a content site with a low ticket OTO, physical package that sold for $197 and a $25 per month membership site. Did massive article marketing to drive traffic. This got me close to 25k visitors, 8k leads and over $30k in sales...
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    • I wrote a couple articles for a clickbank product. A couple months later, got a check which was a nice surprise.
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  • My first dough online was some banner ads around 2000. I also sold ebooks on the original Clickbank--it was nothing like it is today!
  • the best way to make your first $ and a lot more online is blogging
    so simple and so powerfull.....
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    • Would you please explain on blogging and how blogs turns into money.... very simply please...
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  • Adsense...then ClickBank...then direct affiliate programs...now direct affiliate programs + services + some top secret stuff which is slowly becoming a darkening agenda
  • Mine was through my writing gig.
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  • First Dollar from PTC (Paid To Click). Neo Bux
  • lol the first money i made was by selling a gmail account on ebay with a certain niche name like playstationgames@gmail! i saw other people doing it! i sold it for like $10 back then. I just could not believe that people would buy a free gmail account like this! but it worked!!
  • My first dollar came from fiverr. That is the great way to starting earning money for noobs, in my though.
  • My first dollar was promoting trial offers. It was not much, but it got extra money in college.
  • my first $ from adsense
  • I'm earning $2,400 monthly from odesk doing SEO jobs (I have two longterm employers). Then I just started promoting affiliate products from Clickbank after doing some research. I've made 5 sales (total of $175) as of today. Sweet!
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  • rent a coder
  • I sold ebook, after getting lots of viral traffic , I built list with that traffic, then do lil private launch on my own ebook I wrote. I made my first money online that way.
    I felt the first "automated" income that way. =)
    thx for asking.
  • the very first money I made was $3.50 on neverblue but I spent more money to drive traffic to that CPA using 7search so that doesn't count.

    I guess the first real profit I made was from my prego stroller site back when EMDs and review sites still worked (thank u matt cater!). Oh my sweet amazon...

    I also had a couple of other three page sniper sites that I slapped adsense on, collectively those three pagers brought in about 150 bucks a month.

    then all of my little sites where mauled by a 500 pound panada...

    these days I rock it with shareasale and my baby shower authority site but thats another story.

    if you are gonna build a site. make it an authority site.
  • I made my first money promoting products through my blog.
  • Promoting a biz opportunity product, i made $11.99.

    P.S. I had to spend $7 dollars on the traffic but still there was at least some ROI :p
  • Here is an old thread, hope can give you some inspiration:

    http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...first-1-a.html
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    • I made my first $75 promoting PokerStars.
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  • selling collector stamps on eBay! That was about 5 years ago and still doing it!

    Now, I am spreading out into various other things tho and they have proved very profitable.
  • Article marketing about 5 years ago, promoted Satellite to PC product on CB. Made around $400 dollars a month.
  • Yup, I did I got my first check from Neverblue
  • I was very young and I made a website about "how to make money" haha I had the crappiest website ever and the first thing I ever put on there was a "donate" button from paypal. It was just a blank website template with the donate button.

    I learned all my coding doing that an other things, and then after google adsense banned me for clicking my own ads, I decided to try something else.

    I signed up for a cpa network because I saw a gateway one time. It was a last resort type deal.

    There are some other parts to this story that I wont get into, but I made xxx,xxx that year from cpa.
  • I created a a bunch of blogger blogs, loaded it with sexy girls and celebrity images, syndicated entertainment news and put adsense on it.

    Was a good ole adsense days.
  • My 1st sale came from creating a squeeze page and having a high converting affiliate product in the welcome email. That was back in 1999 when geocities web hosting was a hit.
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    • When I reached my first 75$ payout from selling photos online via microstock sites (Late 2007).
  • Affiliate marketing for a product in a VERY embarrassing niche. For obvious reasons I won't mention what

    The sale was for $40. Made the sale 2 hours after doing some video marketing, looking back now it was beginner's luck.
  • Made my first $10 writing on oDesk. Still working on oDesk, for a much higher rate these days I'm making more profit as time goes on, albeit at a slow rate!
  • Quite interesting thread. My first earning was from adsense, I think
  • Mine was selling video games on ebay - buying 3 for 2 @ HMV then selling them on ebay! Got banned from 5 HMV shops for buying too many games!
  • I made my first dollar online by selling on clickbank. Don't do this anymore, but was a good start.
  • Ebay back around 1997 is when i made my first money online. I used to fly to NYC and buy tons of watches, sunglasses and other stuff and sell them on Ebay..
  • Pure luck but it amounted to roughly $20,000 in a few weeks.
  • My first $$ was from one of those paid survey sites. I can't recall the name of the site, but I had a few referrals, if I remember correctly I made about $75

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