If you are making money online.... (this includes eBay sellers)

[JJOK93]

I just started making money online, never thought much of it but its amazing what the internet has to offer.

[doodlemagic]

Originally Posted by JJOK93

I just started making money online, never thought much of it but its amazing what the internet has to offer.

Internet is a crazy thing, when you stumble upon a money maker its amazing how much you can make and how easy it is but at the same time when your striking out looking for ideas it's amazing how difficult it can be lol. I had so many failed ideas before I stumbled upon a good one but now its like man how was this so easy to do and it took so long to figure out.

[Big-Bucks]

Originally Posted by doodlemagic

Internet is a crazy thing, when you stumble upon a money maker its amazing how much you can make and how easy it is but at the same time when your striking out looking for ideas it's amazing how difficult it can be lol. I had so many failed ideas before I stumbled upon a good one but now its like man how was this so easy to do and it took so long to figure out.

Too many people try the roads most traveled. For example they want to start a website and monetize it with ads or they want to have their youtube channel and monetize it with ads. You need about a million hits to earn $1,250 on YouTube.

[doodlemagic]

Originally Posted by Big-Bucks

Too many people try the roads most traveled. For example they want to start a website and monetize it with ads or they want to have their youtube channel and monetize it with ads. You need about a million hits to earn $1,250 on YouTube.

You make a good point, not only do you need huge traffic but something like a viral video will get you one time traffic but to continue monetizing and making money month over month you need a consistant engaged readership or viewership which is much more difficult than a one time hit.

I'm also surprised by how many people think they are just going to overnight become some internet celebrity in their niche.

one category people are specifically niever in this regard is the whole pickup artist or PUA community. Everyone has an ebook, everyone has a youtube channel. everyone thinks they are this player and people should be sucking up their advice. There's one particular guy rooshv who personally I think is kind of a doosh and a jerk but one thing I will say for him is he is a great marketer, has done a great job of getting a cultlike following and essnetially his business is traveling around being a player and picking up women and reporting on it and making videos sharing stories and giving advice to other guys, he also runs a forum where people discuss. I'm not really into the pickup stuff though I will say their forum has some good articles on business, self improvement, etc.

Anyhow I commonly see his readers be like I'm going to go travel eastern europe and party and start a blog and do you think I"ll be able to make like 2k a month and support my travels? This is people starting from scratch who apparently have little to no experience or knowledge of blogging, writing, SEO, affiliate marketing who think people are just going to tune in to be a part oftheir life week in and week out or day in and day out.

[sheezit]

As others have said those who make money online usually will not share their secrets. The people on here claiming to make $X are also likely lieing.

[Big-Bucks]

Originally Posted by doodlemagic

You make a good point, not only do you need huge traffic but something like a viral video will get you one time traffic but to continue monetizing and making money month over month you need a consistant engaged readership or viewership which is much more difficult than a one time hit.

I'm also surprised by how many people think they are just going to overnight become some internet celebrity in their niche.

Ultimately it comes down to great entertaining content and growing subscribers. Videos go viral because people are compelled to repost on Facebook and elsewhere. If you get enough subscribers then you can get away with posting just decent content and still get a good amount of hits.

I keep racking my brain trying to think of a great idea for a video. My favorites recently have been

Psycho Kid Ruins Thanksgiving


CoP - Cactus Body Slam