I just tallied up the figures today and last month was my best yet for total online income earned at $5477.86!! Sweet!!
For those of you who follow this blog and my monthly earning statements you'll notice that's DOUBLE what I usually make online! I'll be providing the usual check scans as proof as they come in throughout May, but for now I wanted to celebrate by holding a contest here. I've never tried this before, so please be gentle with me :)
The rules are simple: Tell everyone about this site by linking to either http://adegreeofsuccess.blogspot.com (the "earn money online" homepage or any individual post you like) and the person who sends the most traffic by the end of the month will receive either a $10 USD Amazon egift certificate or the same amount direct to your Paypal account (your choice). To be eligible you must email me at the address listed in the sidebar to let me know your email and what site(s) your traffic will be coming from.
You may NOT send visits from any PTC's, exchanges or anything like that because it would be too easy to cheat simply by buying 1000 hits for a dollar and winning that way. I want to be recommended by people who sincerely believe in what I write and who want others to know about it too. That means the links to my blog should come from your own blogs as "recommendation" posts or links directly placed on your own websites.
When you send me the email I will add the sites you list to compare with my referrer stats to see that everything checks out. The one listed as the top referral during the 30 day contest period will be contacted by me to arrange payment to them. Just so everyone knows I run a fair game, I will request that the winner post a comment here in June to let everyone know they received their prize.
If everything goes according to plan, then I'll run more of these contests in the future for higher amounts, but this is basically a test run to see how it turns out. Good luck all!!
Sunday, May 2, 2010
Saturday, May 1, 2010
This Blog Does Not Make Money!!
I've had a few people contact me recently about how to earn from their blogs and the simple answer is "you don't". Blogs are traffic magnets because of the constant writing involved, so the best use of one is to bring in lots of visitors through it and then point them to your sites or products that DO make money!
Oh, sure, there ARE some exceptional cases of pro bloggers making gobs of dough, such as John Chow and Shoemoney and I'm sure you've heard of those people as well. Why? Precisely because they ARE EXCEPTIONAL! It's like a late night infomercial where the small disclaimer on the bottom says "these results are not typical". There are only a select few people who actually make money online by showing people how to make money online, because most people will never acheive the followers that are needed to make that strategy work.
When you have 10's of thousands of loyal followers, like they do, then you could sell bags of dirt on your blog for a dollar and at least SOME people would buy it, if you told them it would somehow benefit them. Well, I'm not like that. I have a small following who seem to appreciate my down-to-earth, realistic approach to earning online, without all the hype and promises of riches, and I prefer that too.
But, of course, that also means that this blog does not make money. My reward is simply in helping others succeed through what I write. If I've helped even just a few people make enough to survive in these tough economic times, then that makes me the richest person on the internet! To your success!!
Oh, sure, there ARE some exceptional cases of pro bloggers making gobs of dough, such as John Chow and Shoemoney and I'm sure you've heard of those people as well. Why? Precisely because they ARE EXCEPTIONAL! It's like a late night infomercial where the small disclaimer on the bottom says "these results are not typical". There are only a select few people who actually make money online by showing people how to make money online, because most people will never acheive the followers that are needed to make that strategy work.
When you have 10's of thousands of loyal followers, like they do, then you could sell bags of dirt on your blog for a dollar and at least SOME people would buy it, if you told them it would somehow benefit them. Well, I'm not like that. I have a small following who seem to appreciate my down-to-earth, realistic approach to earning online, without all the hype and promises of riches, and I prefer that too.
But, of course, that also means that this blog does not make money. My reward is simply in helping others succeed through what I write. If I've helped even just a few people make enough to survive in these tough economic times, then that makes me the richest person on the internet! To your success!!
Friday, April 9, 2010
Clickbank Sales Tip
Here's a quick Clickbank sales tip today: match your product to your audience!! Yeah, I know, it sounds obvious, but I've noticed an alarming number of sites recently that just don't follow that very basic marketing strategy. What are they thinking???
There are WAY too many websites with clickbank product ads on them that have nothing to do with the content of the site, like a gardening site with adverts for forex...WHAT????
You'll get a much better conversion rate if you match up similar advertisements to your own site's niche. Currently, my best CB sales are coming from selling Facebook game guides on my network of arcade sites that get traffic from gamers. It works!!
There are WAY too many websites with clickbank product ads on them that have nothing to do with the content of the site, like a gardening site with adverts for forex...WHAT????
You'll get a much better conversion rate if you match up similar advertisements to your own site's niche. Currently, my best CB sales are coming from selling Facebook game guides on my network of arcade sites that get traffic from gamers. It works!!
Wednesday, April 7, 2010
Google Adsense Payment Proof Check
I got my Google Adsense check for the month in the mail today, so I thought I'd do a quick scan of it to post here. As usual, all identifying information has been cropped out (such as bank numbers) or concealed due to privacy reasons (there are strict laws for that where I live in Canada). It's for $134.03
I only present payment proof like this solely to show you that a program is legit and does pay and to show my own proof of income to back up what I wrote in previous posts about it. There are so many "make money online" (MMO) blogs out there written by scammers who actually aren't making ANYTHING online, that I wanted to set myself apart from them by proving that I know what I'm talking about.
I'm truly amazed by complete newbies who start up an MMO site, but have no idea what they're doing. They've been told (lied to) that it's easy money to simply create a free blog and put up some links and banners on it and suddenly the money comes rolling in...WRONG!! How can you tell someone the RIGHT way to earn an income online if you haven't actually done so yourself? Think about it.
Creating a banner farm of ads trying to get others to join your various PTC's and MLM schemes is NOT going to earn you a living wage income! Sure, you may get a few sign ups and a few pennies here and there, but that's peanuts compared to what you COULD be making by reading and learning about what works and what doesn't from someone like myself who has tried pretty much everything there is on the net.
Read. Learn. Adapt. Survive.
Monday, April 5, 2010
Facebook Money Methods
How to make money on Facebook is easier than you might expect, and there are people who regularily make 4 figures DAILY using this site. While I haven't quite made it to that point yet, my best day so far was $561 last week and that's not bad at all, right??
To do well it's important to first understand that all the best Facebook money methods revolve around one basic concept: "have fun". People go on FB to have a good time, to play games, chat with friends, and post pictures of them having a blast at parties. This is your core audience...remember that. They don't want to be bored to tears with a sales pitch about some crappy program you are promoting that doesn't appeal to them at all. Leave the MLM junk at the webmaster forums. FB fans want fun!!
So, what can you do to make money on Facebook? Well, many things, including creating your own game application, and then monetizing that with Cpalead, Offerpal, Cubics, Rockyou ads, or even Adsense, although I only suggest something like that for extra income and not as your main source on the app. Now, before you scoff that you could never create a game yourself, let me just say that there are plenty of places where you can buy premade apps online that you can use for exactly this purpose.
I only paid $20 for mine and then another $15 for a nice looking landing page made to my specifications (I'm not a graphics guy, so I hired someone) and about $60 for initial promotion. So, for about $100 in investment I made so far over $2000 in revenue. Not bad at all. Setting up a Facebook app is a bit more complicated than installing a script for a normal website, but you'll get instructions with whatever one you choose, so follow them carefully.
One extra tip is to choose your application name wisely when signing it up at Facebook, as like Twitter, the url created to it will be whatever you choose and that should have a keyword in it. Do NOT call it "Myapp" or something similar, but instead call it "dragonrpg" or whatever, as the url created will get good SERP's in the SE's according to the name, since FB has strong authority.
Other methods you can try are creating funny groups and fan pages around either a cute picture, joke, quote, movie, tv show or anything like that. Think entertainment. You want to entertain people who will recommend your page to all their friends to give you that wonderful viral effect that FB is known for. This is how people gain massive amounts of traffic from members joining their fanpage or group. I've seen MANY of these with over 100,000 or even a million fans to a page that is just one funny pic...that's it! It's as simple as that!
So, once you have a few thousand fans, then what do you do? Well, a couple of important things. One, you can send messages to your new member base suggesting a website to visit (yours) or post a status update about the same thing. FB has a cool function in the status updates that automatically gives site info when you input a url.
Second, you can SELL these message spots and updates to others for good money. There are plenty of webmasters fighting to get good spots on a large group who will see their website ad posted in the status area. I know one guy who quit everything else he was doing online and selling FB updates is solely what he does now...at $60 a pop...several times every day. You do the math!
Basically there are several ways to take advantage of the viral functionality of Facebook...you just gotta be creative. Too many people complain that they can't make money there, but yet the only thing they've ever tried is paying for those ads on the side. Those don't work unless you have a huge budget behind you and are willing to take a loss at first, because people need to see them several times to become familiar with them before they're willing to support whatever it is you're selling. That's how marketing works. Everyone trusts a name they've seen many times before over something unheard of.
I'll leave you with one last thought. One game app, called Farmville, recently hit over 80 million players (probably 100 mill as I write this) and a few days ago had even surpassed Google for most hits on that day. The company behind it, Zynga, is raking in the dough...wouldn't you like a piece of that pie??? Sure you would!! Go get it!!
To do well it's important to first understand that all the best Facebook money methods revolve around one basic concept: "have fun". People go on FB to have a good time, to play games, chat with friends, and post pictures of them having a blast at parties. This is your core audience...remember that. They don't want to be bored to tears with a sales pitch about some crappy program you are promoting that doesn't appeal to them at all. Leave the MLM junk at the webmaster forums. FB fans want fun!!
So, what can you do to make money on Facebook? Well, many things, including creating your own game application, and then monetizing that with Cpalead, Offerpal, Cubics, Rockyou ads, or even Adsense, although I only suggest something like that for extra income and not as your main source on the app. Now, before you scoff that you could never create a game yourself, let me just say that there are plenty of places where you can buy premade apps online that you can use for exactly this purpose.
I only paid $20 for mine and then another $15 for a nice looking landing page made to my specifications (I'm not a graphics guy, so I hired someone) and about $60 for initial promotion. So, for about $100 in investment I made so far over $2000 in revenue. Not bad at all. Setting up a Facebook app is a bit more complicated than installing a script for a normal website, but you'll get instructions with whatever one you choose, so follow them carefully.
One extra tip is to choose your application name wisely when signing it up at Facebook, as like Twitter, the url created to it will be whatever you choose and that should have a keyword in it. Do NOT call it "Myapp" or something similar, but instead call it "dragonrpg" or whatever, as the url created will get good SERP's in the SE's according to the name, since FB has strong authority.
Other methods you can try are creating funny groups and fan pages around either a cute picture, joke, quote, movie, tv show or anything like that. Think entertainment. You want to entertain people who will recommend your page to all their friends to give you that wonderful viral effect that FB is known for. This is how people gain massive amounts of traffic from members joining their fanpage or group. I've seen MANY of these with over 100,000 or even a million fans to a page that is just one funny pic...that's it! It's as simple as that!
So, once you have a few thousand fans, then what do you do? Well, a couple of important things. One, you can send messages to your new member base suggesting a website to visit (yours) or post a status update about the same thing. FB has a cool function in the status updates that automatically gives site info when you input a url.
Second, you can SELL these message spots and updates to others for good money. There are plenty of webmasters fighting to get good spots on a large group who will see their website ad posted in the status area. I know one guy who quit everything else he was doing online and selling FB updates is solely what he does now...at $60 a pop...several times every day. You do the math!
Basically there are several ways to take advantage of the viral functionality of Facebook...you just gotta be creative. Too many people complain that they can't make money there, but yet the only thing they've ever tried is paying for those ads on the side. Those don't work unless you have a huge budget behind you and are willing to take a loss at first, because people need to see them several times to become familiar with them before they're willing to support whatever it is you're selling. That's how marketing works. Everyone trusts a name they've seen many times before over something unheard of.
I'll leave you with one last thought. One game app, called Farmville, recently hit over 80 million players (probably 100 mill as I write this) and a few days ago had even surpassed Google for most hits on that day. The company behind it, Zynga, is raking in the dough...wouldn't you like a piece of that pie??? Sure you would!! Go get it!!
Thursday, March 25, 2010
Cpalead Earnings Check
Here is another Cpalead earnings check that I scanned but forgot to post until now. I get paid every single month from them, but I don't always remember to scan it, so that's why I've only posted 2 so far. This one is for well over $600!
Their payment threshold is a very low $50, which is ridiculously easy to make and that means a nice extra monthly income with little effort. Isn't that what we all want? YES!! Of course it is!!
Oh, and forget everything I said in the past about Cpalead being difficult to get into, because now they have INSTANT approval! That's right! Every application is now automatic, so if you apply to Cpalead right away you can be literally earning money by the end of the day!
I can already see the dollar signs in your eyes...go for it!!! lol
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
I Am NOT A Guru!!
I'm sure most people reading this blog can understand why I am doing this, but I wanted to clarify my mission for those who aren't familiar with my numerous posts on webmaster forums all over the internet.
I HATE SCAMMERS!! I am extremely anti-guru and I loathe people who take advantage of newbies and rip people off online. You will NEVER, ever, see me making unreasonable claims of riches anywhere on the net. I am NOT a guru!!!
A "guru" will try to lure you in with a fancy looking landing page full of pictures of hot cars and expensive houses and then tell you it can all be yours, if you just pay him $XX amount of money for this "valuable" information. My site, on the other hand, is plain looking on purpose because I'm not trying to blind you with false promises. The info I present to you is FREE. I don't want your money. I want you to succeed!
To that end, I write posts about the actual methods I've tried when earning money online and I provide payment proof to show you when something is legit and pays on time. Sometimes I only make a few dollars and other times I make 100's. Sometimes I do well at a method and others I fail miserably.
I'm human. I'm not perfect and much of learning how to make money online involves constant trial and error. I try to show the mistakes I've made to prevent you from making the same ones and I also explain clearly (I hope!) what DOES work, so you don't waste time on what doesn't.
I don't make exaggerated claims of making $1000 overnight or $40,000 a month "passive income" (you DO know there's no such thing, right?? Everything involves at least some effort to sustain). I show REAL, achievable goals that ANYONE can attain, with patience, persistence and motivation.
My average monthly income online is around $2500, which is $30,000 a year. I'm not rich, but I'm not poor either. It's a comfortable amount that pays the bills while still working for myself at home, and to me that is important, since I cannot work a "normal" 9-5 job.
A few years ago I developed an intestinal condition which prevented me from continuing at my job in an office, so I started to look for alternative income possibilities. I didn't want to go on a government disability program, as I wanted to maintain my independence and "pay my own way", as they say. Earning online was the answer!
As a newbie, I made plenty of mistakes when I started, but I learned from them and kept going. This is my own journey of discovery, but I'm hoping that my story will inspire others to understand that it CAN be done.
You CAN be your own boss working from home, but only IF you stop listening to gurus and following their hyped up programs that never work. Instead, try setting a REALISTIC goal that can be met with effort and patience and you'll be amazed at the results! Don't let the poor economy force you out of a job...work for YOURSELF and leave the stress behind!! I believe in you!!! :)
I HATE SCAMMERS!! I am extremely anti-guru and I loathe people who take advantage of newbies and rip people off online. You will NEVER, ever, see me making unreasonable claims of riches anywhere on the net. I am NOT a guru!!!
A "guru" will try to lure you in with a fancy looking landing page full of pictures of hot cars and expensive houses and then tell you it can all be yours, if you just pay him $XX amount of money for this "valuable" information. My site, on the other hand, is plain looking on purpose because I'm not trying to blind you with false promises. The info I present to you is FREE. I don't want your money. I want you to succeed!
To that end, I write posts about the actual methods I've tried when earning money online and I provide payment proof to show you when something is legit and pays on time. Sometimes I only make a few dollars and other times I make 100's. Sometimes I do well at a method and others I fail miserably.
I'm human. I'm not perfect and much of learning how to make money online involves constant trial and error. I try to show the mistakes I've made to prevent you from making the same ones and I also explain clearly (I hope!) what DOES work, so you don't waste time on what doesn't.
I don't make exaggerated claims of making $1000 overnight or $40,000 a month "passive income" (you DO know there's no such thing, right?? Everything involves at least some effort to sustain). I show REAL, achievable goals that ANYONE can attain, with patience, persistence and motivation.
My average monthly income online is around $2500, which is $30,000 a year. I'm not rich, but I'm not poor either. It's a comfortable amount that pays the bills while still working for myself at home, and to me that is important, since I cannot work a "normal" 9-5 job.
A few years ago I developed an intestinal condition which prevented me from continuing at my job in an office, so I started to look for alternative income possibilities. I didn't want to go on a government disability program, as I wanted to maintain my independence and "pay my own way", as they say. Earning online was the answer!
As a newbie, I made plenty of mistakes when I started, but I learned from them and kept going. This is my own journey of discovery, but I'm hoping that my story will inspire others to understand that it CAN be done.
You CAN be your own boss working from home, but only IF you stop listening to gurus and following their hyped up programs that never work. Instead, try setting a REALISTIC goal that can be met with effort and patience and you'll be amazed at the results! Don't let the poor economy force you out of a job...work for YOURSELF and leave the stress behind!! I believe in you!!! :)
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