Money Making
Back from the dead…. with no profit
Hi All,
I’m finally back with another post, and there isn’t much to report really. I have been using adwords more with CJ and I am still focussing on sign ups as oppossed to buying products. I managed to find a $75 Adword voucher for $12 on Digital Point forums, so this helped me top up my adwords. So far I have managed to sell £19 worth in CJ and spend £13. However, I do have a lot left in my adwords so at the rate of 1 sign up per day (£1 per day) I can see what I will soon overtake Dan (Hopefully). At the moment I haven’t thought of any new ideas, but I will soon me trying something new no doubt and when I do I will be the first to post here. I have attached my statistics for CJ so you can see what has happened.
Still No Profit
I know what your thinking – ‘amazing blog title to inspire us Dan!’ – and yes, you’d be right! The fact of the matter is that myself and Gray are finding this very hard. We’ve been making mistakes and trying various things to get off the ground running…but I’ll let him explain what he’s been upto in his next post.
Myself, well I’ve been still working on the app I mentioned in my last post. I can reveal partially what it is, as it has been developed further than I originally planned! Exciting times no? The application itself is now an automatic keyword researcher – the basic functionality of which will query the google keyword tool automatically for a randomly generated list of keywords. It will then present you this list in an excel spreadsheet. And thats not all… › Continue reading
My First Day
Hi All,
I have also taken the affiliate route like Dan and I registered with Commission Junction (easiest to get accepted) and Adscend Media (Also easy to get accepted). I have decided in trying to sell sign ups (my leads) as opposed to selling products. I know most of you thinking, who will pay to sign up to something they may not have been looking for? All my sign ups are free and pay $6 per sign up!! The sign ups I choose to go for were all non English speaking websites due to Adwords being saturated on the US and UK sites for this particular website sign up. First off I was going to have a go at the German market, but as I don’t know anyone German speaking and translators are usually wrong, I changed to Swedish. I have a couple friends that are Swedish so I asked for them to translate for me for my advertisement. I checked to see what pops up for multiple key words and there were no sponsored links at all… YIPPEE!! I had to pay $5 for registration to Adwords and $5 for credit so I have spent around £6 so far. I placed 160 keywords/phrases that I thought would help in Swedish and English and submitted them.
Progress
I managed to get 33 clicks yesterday and 1 lead bringing my revenue for the day to £4 (around $6-$7)
I will post more in-depth information about what I am doing and the sign ups I am working on in due time.
The Competition is Looming
So the competition is a mere 12 days away, and I think we are both realising how daunting a task is ahead of us…
Not only are we to be trying to make money online, which in itself is a challenge, but we are also starting off with only £10 each. This eliminates a lot of avenues; for example, if we wanted to buy a .com domain name, half the starting amount is already gone! Then you have to think about hosting costs etc. Currently, I pay $25 a month in hosting costs, which is well over the starting limit, so I will have to find a way of making money without using any hosting (until I can afford it that is). Alternatively, I have to make over the $25 amount within the first month so that when I’m charged for my hosting I can afford to take it out of the money made! Yet getting up to that $25 amount could provide challenging.
My ideas are currently mostly in the long term, however this means I will be at a loss for a very long time, so I’m having to look at other options to get a good footing. I’ve already started looking in some areas to make money without having a website, and for very little collateral. One avenue I’m thinking of looking to is affiliate marketing. It’s something you don’t especially need a website for, and can be a very lucrative market – yet I’m going to have to research that a little bit more before I commit.
So do you guys have any tips for us? Things that we might want to try looking into at the start in order to get our feet on the ground? All ideas are welcome, and greatly appreciated 
Dan
I Can Has iPhone Money?
When I talk about the iPhone, I either meet two kinds of people – the ones who own it and love it, or the ones that don’t own it and hate it. I used to be the latter, and am now the former! Yet no matter your views on the iPhone, there is a great opportunity to be making money from it – the app store.
Now the immediate concern is that you might not know any programming skills in order to develop an application for the iPhone; it might be that you don’t own a Mac that you can actually do the programming on (as the development kit can only be used on Mac machines) or it just might be that you don’t have a good enough idea for an app! So, lets debuff these myths…
Selling eBooks With Paypal
So a lot of you know that I wrote a small eBook regarding little scams and cons that you could do to pick up an extra buck here and there – some of you may even hold a copy of the aforementioned book as a review copy – thanks to those who got back to me with their reviews! Well, today I put the book up for sale on the digital point forums as a starting place. You can see the created post here. At the minute its not going too well, but its pretty much as I expected. Hopefully I will be selling it on the warrior forum, and setting up a sales page to advertise it – but that’s not what I’m going to talk about. I want to talk about setting up a method of automatically delivering your product to the user after they have paid.
18 Steps To $180 | Free Champagne
So after the success of Mondays post, and everyone loving the $10 bet, I’ve actually written an eBook with 18 of these little tricks in (hence the late Wednesday post). Now I’m planning on selling this eBook for about $5 a piece, but for you my loyal readers, I’m offering some free copies! All you have to do is leave me a comment saying you would like a copy of the eBook and I will email it out to you asap. I am looking for some reviews of the book to put up with the sale of it, so if any of you who want a free eBook either mind writing a small review, or just sending me an email with some comments about it, that would be fantastic. I’d also like to know about the price I’m selling it at, if you think it’s too steep, or too low…
Make $10 (Or More) By The End Of The Day
As I sat in front of the computer screen, processing my daily thoughts, I thought to myself: how can I start 2009 (bar my new years entry) with a post that people would like, and appreciate. Then it hit me – if this is a money making blog, why not give your readers a way to make a definite cash sum by the end of the day! Pretty good idea no?
Well, its true, you can walk away from today with an extra $10 or more - if your willing to dive in to what I have to offer! Now its not a money making idea that you will profit from in the long term, however it will bring in little bits of cash here and there…and maybe even a few free drinks if you do it right! So what is it? Well, for this, your going to have to go…offline…
My Film Frame Results!
So as promised, I successfully completed my film frame, and have the photographs to prove it! You can see the starting photo here and the completed product here. I would embed the photos into the post, but sadly they are quite big, and quite blurry (thanks to my phone being a bit rubbish), but you should be able to see them ok.
As you can see, I started out with a variety of materials – some of which were standard; sellotape, scissors etc. The frame I bought for £1.50 in a cheap store, and luckily it came with a transparent back, meaning I didn’t have to somehow ‘hack’ the back of a picture frame out. So I decided I would only use one piece of black paper (cost of 20 pence), the film cells, and the postcard that came with them (approximately cost me £1.50). Plus the sellotape I bought, that comes to under £5. Not bad!
Craft Your Way To Success
I have just moved into my new apartment, so don’t have Internet unless at work, of which I will only be in today and tomorrow…you can keep up-to-date with my ‘issues’ by visiting the ‘my updates’ link above.
So, as you may know, I like to give you all ideas on how to make money – and not just hypothetical ideas. Real ideas that you could go out and make money on. Well, I thought I would share another technique I have found in order to give you guys a little bit more money this Christmas. It involves getting a little bit ‘crafty’, and can see you a very good return if you are good at it! Its also an ideal Christmas gift if you aren’t sure what to get someone this year, so you get the best of both worlds! I won’t go into the details of exactly how the item is made (as it should be pretty obvious), but we will go through how it can benefit you financially, which is what matters. Ok, so lets take a look at what it is we are going to sell…
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