How did you earn your first buck online?
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I sold a floppy disk of 'Business Opportunities' on bulletin boards. Receiving those checks in the mail was fun but it was kind of hard work posting-out the floppy disks and the bank took a large slice of the check. That was around 1995.
I wrote articles in the year 2010 for the first time as a freelancer for someone and I got $50 in my PayPal account for the first time. I was so happy at that time as it was my first earning also.
Are we going to be featured on TV?
My first buck came from a pretty ordinary source: Adsense clicks.
This is the part where I say for the last 15 years I've been underground honing my IM skills and am secretly making 8 figures a year, and I'm going to teach you how to do it all for the low, low, price of $37.
Sorry to burst the fantasy but what happened next was that I turned 13 and went to high school. Not wanting to be a social leper, I quit playing a lame ass game like pokemon. While there were tons of money making opportunities I could have had along the way, I had limited internet time due to only 1 family computer + dial up internet on a single line. My hormone-controlled teenage self was not about to waste my limited internet time making massive amounts of $$ when I had priorities like AOL instant messenger.
"Hey you can build websites can't you?" started the itch
"Hey you know guys that make leads don't you?" first time I saw the revs(for someone else)
"Hey lets just do this for ourselves" around 2002 a friend and I launch a biz-opp offer, my first real taste of what was possible. Haven't looked back since.
"Hey you know guys that make leads don't you?" first time I saw the revs(for someone else)
"Hey lets just do this for ourselves" around 2002 a friend and I launch a biz-opp offer, my first real taste of what was possible. Haven't looked back since.
kw in domain.com with wp robot reposting youtube videos related to the kw... site used to make $1500 a month 
Can't remember if it was the first way or not, but me and a buddy used to go around downloading image sets of hot naked chicks, then censoring one to use in the auction and selling the bundle as a zip file on ebay for like $4.99 and sell them all day. Lasted a good a while before ebay decided that our business model was not a good fit for their platform.
I remember we had way too many redhead sets cause he was super into redheads.
I remember we had way too many redhead sets cause he was super into redheads.
I sold a floppy disk of 'Business Opportunities' on bulletin boards. Receiving those checks in the mail was fun but it was kind of hard work posting-out the floppy disks and the bank took a large slice of the check. That was around 1995.
Me too, right around 1995...except it ended with me getting in trouble because all the email spam killed my hometown's ISP for a day or so. They were run out of a singlewide trailer in the middle of a cornfield, though, so it's not like it took much.
I sold Neopoints on eBay for like, 2 days until it was removed - then 12 year old me had word of mouth referrals for months and months until I got a c&d from mickey mouse (or whatever company? i don't remember) so I c'd and I d'd and paid for year's worth of weed.
I had a business that needed leads. So I figured out how to get to page one.
Then for fun I made an ebook that took about 6 total hours to create in my niche, six months later it sold about 30k worth.
I was like; hey!
Then for fun I made an ebook that took about 6 total hours to create in my niche, six months later it sold about 30k worth.
I was like; hey!
wrote dating tips for an email "newsletter" that pre-sold pheremone sprays to socially awkward neckbeards who wanted to get chicks.
no joke.
no joke.
I'll bite.
Mom had just got a computer and we had AOL dial up.
I would get on AOL chat and fuck around, and realized I could get dudes to sign up to porn sites and get a % of it. Learned to setup an AVS site and told dudes to sign up for it to get free nudes.
Got my first check that way.
Years later I got my first non adult check via Adsense and building websites for others.
Mom had just got a computer and we had AOL dial up.
I would get on AOL chat and fuck around, and realized I could get dudes to sign up to porn sites and get a % of it. Learned to setup an AVS site and told dudes to sign up for it to get free nudes.
Got my first check that way.
Years later I got my first non adult check via Adsense and building websites for others.
I was 12 years old at the time.
1. Bought a book that contained thousands of retired and active Major League Baseball players addresses.
2. Used my dial-up AOL account to hit up the various AOL baseball bulletin boards to post up ads offering $5 per address (this was prior to PayPal).
3. People would send $5 cash to my HOUSE and I'd then email them their selected baseball player's home address address.
I probably sold a few until I got scared and was flamed by people for selling supposed "private" info. $5 - dat's gangsta.
1. Bought a book that contained thousands of retired and active Major League Baseball players addresses.
2. Used my dial-up AOL account to hit up the various AOL baseball bulletin boards to post up ads offering $5 per address (this was prior to PayPal).
3. People would send $5 cash to my HOUSE and I'd then email them their selected baseball player's home address address.
I probably sold a few until I got scared and was flamed by people for selling supposed "private" info. $5 - dat's gangsta.