How long until you got your 'big break' in AM?

been reading since june, and now i tried my first idea (being a middleman) and so far ive made $47 bucks (just this month) and trust me, this is easy shit that anyone can do, and i've only worked for 2 hours.

maybe i should write an ebook...

anyways, just....

makemoniesonline.
 


The most frustrating part is asking for help and not receiving it. I've made countless posts on other forums, with people on AIM, and it's just really hard to get solid answers. Everyone is so selfish in this business. God, all I want to do is make like $5 a day and I'll be fucking happy. Been trying since June btw.


what do you mean selfish?

look at me

i just started making money, with a way thats easily scalable, and i could be making thousands a month (i would have to work my ass off though, and i have college, maybe next summer) but of course nobody is going to find out my secret; because i would like to make money off of it, and i dont want any competition (because a 5 year old can do what i'm doing).

its not selfishness, its being smart


$5 a day? Set up a minisite.
 
I was doing $5 a day my first day , it took me like 2-3 months to do $100+ a day , then in April is when I hit my stride at 1-2k/day , now i'm back down to $600 a day or so and really need to hussle..


People aren't selfish at all in this business, they're protective, and having said that I've got more advice from people on WF and a few chats than I'd ever imagine. We all are competing against eachother, yet plenty of people help out others.
 
what surprises me is the number of lazy assholes out there.

Here's what I mean by that- asking for help is common, and asking for specific help usually warrants great answers on here, I know I've gotten many and really appreciate it even to laughably stupid questions. I've also given a lot out to DIRECT competitors.

However what amazes me is the people who ask "what are the hot offers" or "why doesn't this work" and won't grind out to learn. Many of these people can barely setup/fully use prosper and it's various tools (LP split test script, etc), and don't spend the time forcing themselves to learn.

I started not really knowing anything about how wordpress worked, basic html, zero php, and virtually no css. I told myself however that I refused to outsource design/development and instead needed to force myself to learn. Through many late nights and stupid sites and following the PHPBAY tutorial post that a member here was so gracious to post I figured out the technical side of things. Since I had been in the industry on the business side for years this completed the package. It was a hard several months with near zero revenues however once I had this knowledge I could execute ideas rapidly and in a manner that allowed statistical analysis of what worked/didn't. In this game he who has the most data/cleverness wins. Protect your risk and maximize your return. Not your revenues, but this ratio, and tune it as needed to get to whatever revenue level you want/need.

To this day I still do things myself, simply because it's faster and more effecient for me to 'waste' my time doing it RIGHT, and understanding how things are built/setup than to go in half-assed and then wonder why nothing is working.

Don't throw darts, bet on sure things.
 
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I've been killing it since 1984 when Al & I invented teh interwebz. Gravy ever since.
 
No big break. Just constant progress. My first month I made $16, my second month I made $160.... It took me about 4 years to go full time, and I make progress, hit a wall, slide back, go forward..... Mostly it's just work and learnin'
 
8 years losing money from websites. October last year I made $15k for the month, then the next month I made $22k, I now make between $45k and $80k(my best month) a month. took 8 years in the web related business from spamming myspace comments/bulletins with my website, to trying to get my arcade website ranking in google for "free online games" and myspace sites to rank for "myspace layouts". Affiliate marketing has worked for me...took about 6 months of trial and error to figure it out.
 
8 years losing money from websites. October last year I made $15k for the month, then the next month I made $22k, I now make between $45k and $80k(my best month) a month. took 8 years in the web related business from spamming myspace comments/bulletins with my website, to trying to get my arcade website ranking in google for "free online games" and myspace sites to rank for "myspace layouts". Affiliate marketing has worked for me...took about 6 months of trial and error to figure it out.

if you're lying, then fuck you.

if you're not, then WOW. that's fucking sweet.
 
I don't know how old you are, but here's how I started off one of my teenagers:

(Note: I don't think Adsense is the way to make the most money, but IMHO it is one of the easiest ways to make SOME money and get some gratification)

Put up a blog about something that interests you. Of course, I prefer self-hosted wordpress, but a blogger blog will work in a pinch.

Make a dozen posts. You can write about stuff you tried that did not work, some resources you found helpful, what a bunch of jerks people on forums are, etc.

A good subject for you might be your frustrations with internet marketing.

Some free research on keywords might be a good idea. You can use that to help you craft titles and other onsite SEO stuff.

Stick on Adsense (just for quick gratification).

Submit your feed to a bunch of feed directories, write a few keyword targetted articles, do social bookmarking, do forum posting with a sig, etc. I also suggest feedburner, technorati, and a couple of other blog resources you may find.

Try to do one thing every day (or at least 3x a week), even if its just for 30 minutes to an hour - i.e. get backlinks, write a post, etc. GIVE IT A MONTH, and you should have some regular money coming in.

Look at your stats, see what's working, and then build on that.

My (teenage) kid's learning a programming language for fun and just made a blog with some sample scripts, free resources, etc., and makes a few bucks a day while working on it a couple of times a month. And he never does any keyword research...just writes about what he's working on....and somebody's bound to be searching for it.....

We all agree it beats flipping burgers when you're a student with a busy schedule and outside activities.

Of course, MOM steps in once in awhile to tweak it and handles the backlink submissions. He's not old enough for his own Adsense account (I guess), so I just set up a campaign to track it.