What has been your best source of income?

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Well, mine has been offering various services to people around the world. What has been your best source of income?
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  • Profile picture of the author JamesW3
    Originally Posted by howarddavidson View Post

    Well, mine has been offering various services to people around the world. What has been your best source of income?
    What type of services do you provide? Tell us more about your story and your success.

    It fluctuates. There have been times when it has been entrepreneurial endeavors and other times when investments trumped those earnings.
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    • Profile picture of the author howarddavidson
      Originally Posted by JamesW3 View Post

      What type of services do you provide? Tell us more about your story and your success.

      It fluctuates. There have been times when it has been entrepreneurial endeavors and other times when investments trumped those earnings.
      I work as a marketing guy, so it normally is marketing services. I also do help with advertisement and have a lot of experience in that.
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  • Profile picture of the author vishwa
    affiliate marketing works for me.
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    Techbizmasters.com- Blogging, Technology, and Digital Marketing
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  • Profile picture of the author dvduval
    I create web applications and market them to businesses.
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    It is okay to contact me! I have been developing software since 1999, creating many popular products like phpLD.
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    • Profile picture of the author Jason Stewart
      Originally Posted by dvduval View Post

      I create web applications and market them to businesses.
      If you don't mind, could you share your process for finding good niches for B2B apps? I'm a fellow developer. In the process of becoming a genius marketer
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  • Profile picture of the author Syed Raza
    Affiliate Marketing is proved the best one for me
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    • Profile picture of the author Karen Blundell
      technical support services has been my main money-maker
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  • Profile picture of the author focusedlife
    Coaching both other marketers and small business owners has done really well for me. FBA is freakin' brain dead easy but requires a bit of ramp up and actual elbow grease. I believe, the easiest type of sale is the product sale, though. I made thousands with FBA without even trying. I have to get better at bookkeeping though.
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  • Profile picture of the author JennySweets
    Surprisingly, my best source of income (in regards to effort in, money out) has been crazy simple little one page affiliate sites. Last year I set up 5 of them on a test run, using various domain name deals and paying no more than a buck per domain (most of them for 50 cents). I did some research on keywords that involved much different search volume results than people normally go for, spent between 30 minutes to 1.5 hours on the pages (the long one being refreshing my knowledge of basic html, by the last one I had that down pat, most time was with images and writing the 1 page of content). I threw out one Fiverr gig worth of backlinks per site, walked away and forgot about them.

    A couple of months later I got a commission check in the mail and was like "What's this for?" (in that same time I got monthly membership payouts into Clickbank as well).

    Of those 5 sites, 2 earn money. One in recurring memberships (with new signups all the time) and one gets a few sales a month.

    I have yet to do ANYTHING more with those sites, and they are consistently making money for me, completely passively. The $1 or so I spent per site (since I already had hosting) was made up on the first sale for each. In fact, the first sale on ONE of those sites covered my cost for all 5 experiments

    Why don't I do a million more of them? I will eventually. Right now I have stepped back from new projects because this year has been completely focused on getting my son on track (health / neuro / developmental issues and current clients make me greedy with my downtime - have been more motivated to spend that time playing Minecraft than doing keyword / product research).

    It's nice to see that money coming in slow and steady with zero effort though. Definitely going to build on that soon. Beats the heck out of the time I spend dealing with clients!
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    • Profile picture of the author unclederek
      Selling bundled social media starter packages to boost local businesses presence online. Customized Facebook Fanpage, Twitter, Google Plus, Youtube all for just $175.00. It takes me an hour to do one package I can bang out 10 a day if I want to hustle.

      If you dont know photoshop and dont want to be bothered, then outsource everything for $50-$75 on (fiverr, odesk, elance ) and your still making decent money.

      Since its such a sick deal for local businesses, I give them two options...

      1. show me something you like and Ill make yours similar and better

      or

      2. Give me carte blanche to design a sales message that will resonate with your ideal customer (99% of them choose this )

      The key is you tell them (no revisions)! Every time they want a revision its $50-$100 depending on how involved.

      I am currently using this model right now for my offline business and I have more business then I can handle... All referrals!

      Pro Tip: Just do it for one realtor and watch the rest flock your way


      Best,

      Derek
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      • Profile picture of the author prettysavvy
        Very interesting! I've been thinking about doing something like this for my local market (I'm a Finn). I've made most of my money by selling my services (I develop/ design WordPress sites) and from affiliate sales on my niche blogs.

        I use Gimp and Inkscape instead of Photoshop. I have to warn thought that there's a pretty steep learning curve involved with learning to create graphics.
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  • Profile picture of the author Sarevok
    I'm with Karen Blundell on this one haha.



    Also, affiliate marketing has been significant...

    (My own products come in dead last)...
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  • Profile picture of the author Danny Cutts
    Affiliate marketing and selling ad space :-) oooh and selling plr content
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  • Profile picture of the author Tonester
    Designing websites and SEO for other companies. Too many dynamics thought. Planning to start doing more for myself so there's on one else to answer to. I think life would be better that way.

    Tonester
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  • Profile picture of the author datingworld
    dating sites as well as selling domain names
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  • Profile picture of the author carlo_sim
    I make money offering these services: website development, ios app development, android app developement, social media management, logo design service, website design service,

    I also make money through affiliate marketing, product creation and ads
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  • Profile picture of the author Edlund88
    Affiliate marketing is the only thing that have worked for me
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  • Profile picture of the author bostjan33
    Banned
    aff. marketing
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  • Profile picture of the author hostdare
    Internet marketing
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  • Profile picture of the author cindypark
    Originally Posted by howarddavidson View Post

    Well, mine has been offering various services to people around the world. What has been your best source of income?

    more people are making a lot of money through online business.as i do also i am an SEO and starting to learn Internet marketing how it works and how to make a lot of money from it.
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  • Profile picture of the author MilenRachev
    Definitely Offline Marketing so far. That's my speciality and I got a special 2k training course done by timothy marc through it.

    If you have questions about offline marketing, outsourcing and webapplications message me.

    I have probably done 7000 Dollars so far but i am 21 years old and i was coming from a real poor background that moment.

    Right now I am shooting for a minimum 2700$ payment per project and service. I just don't want to mess around with small stuff anymore and buy my lambo finally.

    Just bought a jag around the 2002 x type today. Happy !

    Any questions about offline marketing, outsourcing and entrepreneurship and making
    money easily with little to none work sometimes message me.

    Sometimes you need to work hard, but sometimes little

    MSG ME!

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  • Profile picture of the author Leon Zykos
    I believe different people would have different methods with which they regard as their best source of income. For me, it has been selling solo ads. I have been selling solo ads for sometime now.
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  • Profile picture of the author Spacely
    Mostly just CPA for now...
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  • Profile picture of the author cyberzolo
    Definitley eBay so much easier to make money than through monetization of my blog.
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  • Profile picture of the author JensSteyaert
    Product creation and listbuilding, those are the two things that made me most money.

    Selling sites on flippa has also been profitable, but that's more of a temporary income source, something in between. But if done correct there's good money to be made there too
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  • Profile picture of the author Randall Magwood
    Pay per click advertising and promoting my own products. I do very little affiliate marketing. But when i do, i offer it to my customers and subscribers. But PPC is the main go-getter for me.
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  • Profile picture of the author mikrodotnet
    I say that we just let the OP figure this one out haha (jk)
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  • Profile picture of the author wesleywinter
    Teespring has made me some great money. Also started list building recently (should have started sooner) and it's going great for me as well.
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  • Profile picture of the author hostdare
    I am earning money from internet marketing
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  • Profile picture of the author EzamMarjan
    1. Internet Marketing (Affiliate Marketing) - Fast income
    2. Real Estate Investing - Stable & Long term
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  • Profile picture of the author barbling
    Product creation
    Affiliate marketing

    Sticking with those......
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  • Profile picture of the author magiclouie
    Offering my web services has been my best source of income. My adsense blogs are giving me additional income as well.
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  • Profile picture of the author Johnny Mathis
    I make my money by working with small businesses that have referral programs like ( roofing, home improvement, pool companies, collision centers even car dealerships ) and for every referral brought in I get a percentage.
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    • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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      ClickBank's always been my best since of income, since I started affiliate marketing back in 2008. I do some other things as well, including Amazon, so that I'm not entirely dependent on one income source. Article marketing is my main traffic-generation method (and that's a little bit easier in 2014 than it was in 2008). Email marketing is my monetization method (and even that's a bit more productive, these days, with more people now trying other, more gimmicky methods like video, texting, and so on).
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      • Profile picture of the author charbrown
        I've done very well creating PLR products, followed by Clickbank commissions. But my major source of income is one I want to get away from -- building websites for businesses. I have gotten to the point that I just hate dealing with people who keep changing their minds and want it all done for them (including content). That said, I see a big market in Done-For-You websites, where businesses can just buy existing websites for their businesses.
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    • Profile picture of the author BBryanB
      I have been working on the Internet for several years. if you want to make some money, you need to actually have a product that you control, in one fashion or another.

      I am not a big fan of affiliate marketing, to each is own though.
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  • Profile picture of the author Jimbrown123
    Affiliate marketing and internet marketing.
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  • Profile picture of the author programmer24j
    affiliate marketing is so far the best for me
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  • Profile picture of the author weezyfeesy
    Selling of products have worked really good for me.
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  • Profile picture of the author DesV
    My best source of income has been from marketing, promoting
    and selling high-ticket products and services - such as seminars,
    coaching programs, consulting, mentoring. Typically priced into
    4- and 5-figures per buyer or client.

    OK, it's certainly NOT passive income, but when you offer a
    quality package, along with a lucrative niche - it's about as
    good as it gets!
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  • Profile picture of the author christophercuna
    Article Content and Web Copy Services. I've been getting great clients lately and I'm quite happy I'll have a reliable amount of them in the near future.
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  • Profile picture of the author 1ebooks
    Lead Generation to professionals is huge income for us. Lawyers pay google 100 bucks a click now for stuff like car accident lawyer and we own the .com LOL

    eBooks been selling them in huge quantities for almost 20 years.

    Movies we sell them to niches like UFO freaks.

    Used to do design work like sites, logos and whatever, but we make too much now on our own stuff to do design work for any one but ourselves.

    HD Videos made a lot with that locally

    Local SEO make a lot with that

    The net is an infant, so just be good at what you do, then word of mouth takes over, you do a good job for whoever, they usually brag to their business owner friends, man I got this guru that did my whatever and I'm making money.

    Be good at what you do on the net and WOM takes over.
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    • Profile picture of the author Robin Grant
      I have had some success with Product creation - although it's a lot of work to create a really good product.
      Affiliate marketing but getting the search engine traffic is always the hard part
      Made my money in real estate before that.
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  • Profile picture of the author Evan H
    PPC, List Building and Youtube...

    But Youtube is my favorite!
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  • Profile picture of the author EsferaSoft
    affiliate marketing
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  • Profile picture of the author global money
    Lately I've been making money by finding niche expired domains for marketer's, and building automation bots.
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  • Profile picture of the author lionelfrench
    Hay Guys,

    My income success is all down to affiliate marketing!

    I hope this helps advice you in the right direction!
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