fidibidabah - 8:54 pm on Jun 4, 2004 (gmt 0)

Hell, I currently live with my parents. I have no car payment or car insurance, and basically no bills. $100 a day for me would be amazing

Anything I make online is purely cash in the bank. I also have a VERY part time real life job that brings in $50-$150 a week.

I started dabbling in the online market back in the day (yes, i was 13/14), and at one point was making about $300 a month (till the .com crash and CPM rates went to negative dollars :P, blah blah, you're probabaly sick of hearing this story). So I do have past experience. I however just started up doing this again last August, and so far I've about broke even, but earing steadly increasing. In other words, I might have been losing $100 a month, and then $50 a month, and then $25 a month, and then I was making $25 a month, and $50 a month, and then $100 a month, so my profits have made up for my initial losses, and I'm quickly getting into the green. There are two ways to truely succeed from my point of view.

1.) Stop ignoring eljefe's comments for christ sakes, the man is a genius. Make the quickest tiniest ugliest site you can littered with affiliate links and pictures all going to the same landing page (after you test and find out what works, of course). Do it again and again. Different products, different fields. SEO as best as possible, but don't sweat it. I suggest starting out by going through all 1 network, that way if you get $1 from 25 different programs, you still get a payout (ie: $25 minimum with CJ). Then just keep going. Get to 25, 50, 100 sites/products. The only thing negative about this tactic is it kind of litters the internet with crap. But at the same time, techincally you're helping customers who are looking for a product find the product. If you convert 1 out of 100, I'd say you're not that bad of a person :D

2.) Develop a network of sites. Don't slack in anything, time or money. If you have less money, make it up with long hours. Develop beautifuly user friendly pages and communities on topics people care about. Unique subjects and ideas that only come from your brain. Things you know about Make people come back, write articles, get links/buy links/trade links. Develop respect in the community as a whole. The advantage to this, is yes, there are a lot of cheesy 'one-man-networks' out there, but nothing compared to the amount of crap affiliate sites. At least these networks get somewhere. Don't underestimate content sites. Some aff markets will put them down because they've never experienced a successful one. Build yourself an empire, take advantage of the quickly rising CPM rates (i'm hitting 2.50-$4 with a major network now), and ride them all the way to the top. 100,000 page views a month at $5CPM is money, 1,000,000 page views at $10 CPM a month is even more money. Then develop another one. Then another.

Remember, the one thing that is CONSTANT about the internet is visitors. People browse, people look, people shop, people want information. More and more people every day for longer hours. There is no shortage of people. Use them to your advantage.