Hello Everyone - My First Post :)
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Real talk time.
You've started ruby. Good. That's an in demand skill. Now write a shit load of it. Forget making money for a while, you don't have the skills to dropship etc yet. Learnt rails yet? Get started. In a while you'll be able to take on client work. You'll be getting paid to work. You'll then start to see the opportunities available to you when you can code well. Don't expect overnight monies though.
Oh, and protip: Bypass PHP, far too much competition from (mostly) lousy coders there. With ruby you'll be able to demand more per hour / project once you are solid at it.
inb4 rage9, hehejo etc
You've started ruby. Good. That's an in demand skill. Now write a shit load of it. Forget making money for a while, you don't have the skills to dropship etc yet. Learnt rails yet? Get started. In a while you'll be able to take on client work. You'll be getting paid to work. You'll then start to see the opportunities available to you when you can code well. Don't expect overnight monies though.
Oh, and protip: Bypass PHP, far too much competition from (mostly) lousy coders there. With ruby you'll be able to demand more per hour / project once you are solid at it.
inb4 rage9, hehejo etc
Dude just pick a niche and go at it 110%. There's no secret formula, there's no reasoning behind anything we do.
Lets say you're at the bunny ranch and they strut out 15 of the hottest women you have seen. All their pussy's are soaking wet for you. How do you choose in that situation?
AM is exactly like choosing a whore to bang. EXACTLY.
Lets say you're at the bunny ranch and they strut out 15 of the hottest women you have seen. All their pussy's are soaking wet for you. How do you choose in that situation?
AM is exactly like choosing a whore to bang. EXACTLY.
Just make sure to pick something you can make money in.
Something you can't make money in? Donating to charity. So don't make a website that compares charities.
Something you can make money in? Flogging credit cards. So you could make a website comparing credit card deals.
It's all common sense. The higher the profitability in a particular field and the greater the competition, the more money that there is to be made in it. Being successful at it is all about finding a balance between competition and $$$ potential.
So for your first site, don't go trying to compete in car insurance. It's dominated by people with 7 figure SEO budgets, who will shit on you.
Focus on longer tail, more niche specific stuff. So perhaps start a website dedicated to comparing car insurance deals for under 21's in the UK. Probably still a bad example (I'm not outing good niches), but you can at least see what I'm getting at.
Once you're actually getting good traffic for some stuff, you can start consider going for more competitive niches.
You'll have failures, and successes. You'll rank 1 website with one method, and utterly fail with another method for the next. Over time your success rate will increase, along with your profitability, providing you have in excess of a singular brain cell.
Oh and my first niche was online storage, I was a newbie PHP developer and hacked something together myself. I came across it by encountering a problem when I was a mid-teen with finding somewhere to host shit for my myspace page (lulz). The best ideas you have will be things you know the pain point for yourself. Failing that, you need to learn to empathise with the people trying to solve the problem you aim to solve, and understand what they want. I made it simple to host shit online for people looking to destroy their myspace pages, and networked with all the crappy myspace sites that gave you pretty pictures, slideshows and pretty widgets to put up on your pages.
http://i.imgur.com/QkgTv.jpg
Started in April 2006. Massive jump was when I secured my first partner website. Probably ended up that a vast majority of the spammy shit on Myspace was actually hosted on my 20-30 servers.. I can't post stats much further along than that, as I'm no longer the owner of it.
SEO'd it by chucking links into the embed codes people used to share their stuff. Acquired literally millions of links from all over the web, and ranked for most (if not all?) of the online storage / file hosting related terms for a few years until Box, Dropbox, Mediafire, etc etc *really* started to dominate. (I had no passion for the industry at all, and wanted to do new things.. My biggest mistake was not selling in 07/08 when I lost the passion for it, and it was at its peak. Could easily have converted into what Box/Dropbox etc are today, although saying that I was only a late teen and had other goals/things on my mind. The direction I was planning to take it in was more Box.net like than DB, mind.)
The site lost some of its popularity alongside myspace, but kept a solid premium userbase of DJ's, photo sharers and such.. Managed to somewhat convert it into a service that more targeted paying users as ad revenues went to shit over the years as people realised that putting banner ads up on online storage sites wasn't giving a positive ROI, so the ad potential wasn't there that was in 2006-2008 (mid-high 5 figure revenues were common in 07 just by shoving adsense, valueclick, tribal fusion, etc up....).
Not sure why I'm entertaining you, but there you go, a bit of genuine advice. For more, see my thread on the full story here.
Hey, man. I'm 15 and also work in Internet Marketing. We may have gotten off on the wrong foot bro. Next time read the rules and please have a good day. I have a blog if you want to check it out - I just got started with this as well. Thank you.
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You should really dive into these niches:
credits,credit card, finance, diet, gambling, loans, insurance...
Seriously now: find any niche you feel at least a little comfortable with. Try things out, work your way through paid / organic traffic until you find a winner. If you're unable to find a niche to start with, you're obviously on the wrong path going into AM... anything can work and anything can generate you a profit as long as you work your ass off and start to be creative and don't copy existing campaigns / stuff only... don't waste time with introduction posts and don't browse around shooting the shit... do something, make (or at least try to) money... you'll fail anyway but if you're somehow serious, you'll learn of your mistakes. Take the fails as a longterm investment, it can pay off easily later.
credits,credit card, finance, diet, gambling, loans, insurance...
Seriously now: find any niche you feel at least a little comfortable with. Try things out, work your way through paid / organic traffic until you find a winner. If you're unable to find a niche to start with, you're obviously on the wrong path going into AM... anything can work and anything can generate you a profit as long as you work your ass off and start to be creative and don't copy existing campaigns / stuff only... don't waste time with introduction posts and don't browse around shooting the shit... do something, make (or at least try to) money... you'll fail anyway but if you're somehow serious, you'll learn of your mistakes. Take the fails as a longterm investment, it can pay off easily later.
