rfung - 6:01 pm on Aug 31, 2004 (gmt 0)

Thanks everyone!

I should say that my main site (I have 3 right now) is the major money maker, but it's also something I am highly interested in and it wasn't something I just built for building's sake. The other two are more strickly affiliate ventures and have a lot less links and therefore they yield me about a buck a day.

To go along with what I said above, one more advice is that as with any starting business venture, you really have to preserve, and really believe you can make this happen. It really helps a lot to keep your drive up if what you're building is something you're passionate about (I'm passionate about getting away from the rat race,eheh). Remember it takes a few weeks to a few months to get any sort of traffic (unless you go paid listings) and as such it is a lot easier on you if during that time you're having fun.

If you're not sure about what you'd like to do, take a good look at your background - I've just graduated, so my site caters to college students. Others with more expertise in finance might do finance related matters. Etc, and so on depending on what you know and where you are in life. Write down all these bits of info, and they will build themselves into a practical idea you can work on. Once you get your feet wet with the idea or AM, your brain will just expand into a thousand different avenues where you could be making money. My second site deals with infomercial products, and my third site sells inkjet cartridges :) - pretty 'unexciting' fields if you ask me, but they were quick mini sites and it took me just a couple hours to get them up... (again, anyone trying to 'copy' these ideas, go ahead..I'm probably the least of your worries, eh).

So for anyone trying their hand at affiliate marketing, hang in there, but don't go crazy like I did and quit your day job...