The Big Day Is Tomorrow!! Monday, August 31st No Comments

So tomorrow is the big day! I still am unsure on my route to take so I will have to decide quickly….

All shall be revealed in a few hours!

The Competition is Looming Tuesday, August 18th 6 Comments

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? Friday, August 14th 6 Comments

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…

Pwnage 101 Wednesday, August 12th 3 Comments

Hi All,

This is my first post and is a sort of response to Dan’s last post. Having read Dan’s post I will be taking a different route to (hopefully) making money online, I have tried out different methods before and they have worked for short periods of time but I want something more long term. I currently have a traffic selling website that used to make more money when I was promoting but with extreme competition at prices that you can’t even buy a double cheeseburger for, I decided to stop this. I used to flip websites as well and this was profitable for many months but costs have increased on this and it is very time consuming; I could stick with this because it does work and there are always more “Omg if I buy this I will be a millionaire” people out there to buy from me.

Currently I’m into proxy websites and this I can tell you has the potential for making lots of cash, especially as school season is upon us. The sites are easy to promote and I can get 200,000 page views a month per site, if you are willing to pay for some promotion that is. Get accepted to a CPM publisher site and BLAM 1000 views = $1+ .  Only problem is my hosting company just folded and I didn’t have new back ups of my site

My plans for this competition are to learn more skills as well as beat Dan’s ass!! I’m thinking of moving into CPA as soon as I can get accepted, although I have to be careful to stay within the white hat area. Other than this I have a few other ideas up my sleeve which will remain secret until tried and tested.

That’s all from me from the moment,

Gray

My Plans for Domimation Saturday, August 8th 9 Comments

Hey all. So the competition start date is looming, and so I’ve started to think of ways that I can win this competition hands down. Now I know my strengths lie in my creativeness and programming, so I have come up with a few good ideas around those points. However, my weakness lies in my marketing abilities. I’ve been able to come up with off the wall ideas and design them to as I want, but never been able to drive the traffic to them.

So I plan to try and learn as much as I can about marketing so that I can effectively put my ideas and plans out there. Marketing is key to any business structure, wether we like it or not.

That said, Im planning on focusing my attention on the long term goals – I have couple of websites in mind that could potentialy go viral, and Im also thinking of branching out into the iPhone app industry, as there is a great money making potential there. I have a couple of kick ass ideas in this area also, which I will talk about in later updates.

If I could give anyone any advice about making money online, I would strongly suggest doing your research on advertising. You could have the greatest thing in the world, but if no-one knows about it, you’ll struggle.

Dan

Oh Boy, We’re Back! Tuesday, August 4th 3 Comments

The town of mmo has been over-run with injustice. The cookie stuffer gang is spreading its roots, and the recycled content group are busy posting the same flyers all over town. Dead bloggers lie in the streets, shot down by website flippers and the page rank crew. The sheriffs ‘tips’ department has become corrupted, offering little to no help to new visitors, bribed by the luxuries of keeping their knowledge for themselves.  People are packing up their bags out of mmo town, admitting defeat in their quest to make their mark.

Yet out of the darkness, two heroes arise…

In case you were unclear, I am one of those heroes. Lol. YES! We are officially back after a stupidly long hiatus. I’d like to say I have used the time wisely to increase my knowledge about the mmo market and industry, but then I would be lying. In fact I have used my time off to work, go to the gym, and try and sort out much of my life, lol. However, over the past couple of months I have been brushing up on my techniques and research, and so we are opening the flood gates again ready to share the knowledge…

How To Get Stuff Done Monday, January 19th 2 Comments

So last week I had a lot on my plate – I wasn’ having the best week at work, I was falling behind in my posts and my projects, and the one project that I was focusing on fell flat on its face. Not great. It was about this time I decided I needed to sort myself out – that, or get very, very drunk. Seeing as I had no alcohol and an extreme lack of funds to even buy alcohol…I opted for the former…

Advertising And Selling Your Ebook Wednesday, January 14th 7 Comments

So a lot of you know about the eBook that I wrote, providing some little scams and tricks to earn you a bit of money (offline). Well, in order for me not to have been wasting my time, I needed a way to sell the eBook – enter in the advertising stage! Over the past couple of days I have tried a few different ways to sell the eBook, of which I will describe here – along with some other things that I plan on trying in order to boost sales further….

Selling eBooks With Paypal Saturday, January 10th 18 Comments

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 Wednesday, January 7th 27 Comments

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…