Hey guys, Can anyone give me some ideas on how to make sites/pages which make just $1 per day, but on autopilot. Is this easy? Everyone talks about huge inflated numbers like $500 a day - but I figure if I can do something that generates regular income of $1 per day, and takes only a few hours max to set up, then I could repeat everyday and that would be $66,000 in the first year and after 2 years I would have earned $267,000 in total, which aint bad. So anyone currently do anything, whitehat and legal, which generates this? I'm interested in hearing about people that actually do it, and, it would be better if it's something which has a long life (so that the first ones I do are still around in 3+ years. Cheers! Dave
Yeah, $30 per month is fine too, I mean approx a dollar a day on average over the course of a year. Providing that I can create a site/page that makes £30 per month in less than eight hours so I can build one every day. Important thing is that is has to be on autopilot once set up and bring regular profit for at least 2 years.
Please insert $30 here, and I will give you a detailed plan It sounds like you kind of have a plan, you just don't how to do it. How would these sites make money? Do you plan on selling ad space, products, or services? If it's advertising, then you will need quality sites that get a lot of traffic, and that sound like something you have no plans on doing. If it's a product or service then I guess you will have to do some work to support them. Also, selling ad space yourself can be way more profitable, but again, that is not autopilot work. If your plan is to simply optimize a site for search engine, slap in some Google AdCents code, and hope for the best, know that you are in for some serious competition and challenges. I've heard of the not so common stories of people making $200 a day doing this. If you read much of DP though, or search the web, you will find this is not a common scenario. I call Google's AdSense program AdCents for a reason. I'd suggest trying to make $100 in three months with your first site. Before you start it though, come up with a solid business plan, do a market analysis, and if you can break $100 I'd bet you are on your way.
If it was as easy as you want it to be everyone would be doing it?? I'm not saying its not possible...it is possible...but if you have never done it before good luck trying to repeat something you've never even done once. People could tell you how to do it (good luck finding someone here to do that buy the way) but its not as easy as building a site and auto-pilot it for $30 bucks a month. Trust me...its not that easy until you've got a few years (and profitable) websites under your belt. I have about 5 sites that I consider "auto-pilot" that I still spend 10+ hours on a month....that isn't much but its not like you can just ignore sites these days...people can tell for the most part. You still have to promote them someway and drive traffic...or wait for SEO to kick in. My advice: don't think about the money, think about the site. The best (and biggest money making) sites on the internet are thoughtful, useful, updated, and fun to use.....people are always looking for short-cuts in this business, the people that don't take shortcuts end up making the most money. Trust me, my top affiliates work 8+ hours a day on a regular basis and I think that is common.
Thanks guys, just kinda fishing for an honest idea. I've spent weeks reading about general Internet Marketing and I guess when you have read hundreds of people promising you £1000 per day if you follow their plan, you think that a dollar a day can't be too hard. To be honest, I have a ecommerce business that works like this, I can spend all day researching, photographing and added a couple of products and it will generate, on average, a couple of dollars a day revenue on "autopilot". Thing is I want to spread the risk in case something happens to the main company. Also, if I double the amount of products I have to double my staff and double the warehouse space, which isn't really that bad but it is extra work with all the admin, so it becomes less autopilot. Reason I thought of a dollar a day internet marketing sites is because I have a site from about 4 years ago. Took me a week or 2 to make and promote and I'm still getting cheques for $80-$100 per month. Now I know if I put systems in place I could reproduce that site, and probably make a new one every day with different content, but... it's adult. I now have a daughter and a more respectable business and I don't want 365 adult sites in a year... Doesn't matter if my first site/page takes a month instead of a day to research and build, as long as I can eventually template it/outsource to get my work to <8 hours a day. (I'll still be working another 4+ hours on the ecomm) Anyway... thanks again for your replies. Enough of my ramblings... I'll come up with something - just after ideas really.
I wouldn't listen to much of that eBook and marketing stuff that says they can make you $1,000's a month on your couch. That's their way of making $1,000 a month...buy selling people on the idea that it can be done. Sounds like you have some experience so you could probably make this happen. My advice....build a site around lead offers and PPC ads. At least for me (non-adult) that's the 'easiest' way to make money. Hope this helps, good luck.
No. Or everyone on this forum would have already done it. I don't think anything is truly on "autopilot" - even the less-involved strategies require some time monitoring and tweaking things. And those people who already make good money probably wont give you detailed information. You need to do the research to figure things out for yourself.
Just thought of a classic example of a site without a business plan. Twitter. Even with a great idea, no solid business model = no money. These guys had a great idea for a site, it does get a ton of traffic, and they are not making $30 a month. Even if Twitter is pulling in some money on the back end right now, you can bet investors are still in a very deep hole.
Don't you think Twitter's investors were given some kind of a monetizing proposal? We don't know yet what it is, but they do. There're some really bright investors betting their money on Twitter, so they must have some plan to make money and profit. Right now they're not making profit like Facebook was not a year ago, but that can all change once they start providing ads or paid services and features.
I know there is a plan now. They even posted some of it on TechCrunch a while back, but that is not how Twitter started. It was the creation of a simple brainstorming session that was quickly put into action with no real plan of attack. That part was obvious because they had no revenue stream.They may already be pulling in some money by selling data. That is part of the reason they "decided" to not delete old posts. I'm betting it's to beef up their data market value. Point basically is, making money online is not as simple as turning on a website, and collecting the money.
True. No business can survive without constant involvement. I just wish I started earlier my website. I'm pretty sure I would have made much more money 4 or 5 years ago than I make now.
Thanks for the replies guys! Interesting stuff to read. The reason I'm looking for autopilot stuff isn't because I'm lazy, it's so that it's scalable. After 2 years there would be 700 sites/pages all making a dollar a day and managing them all would be full time job in itself. I think I have come to the conclusion that 1 site/individual a day is going to be too much to manage after a few months. I reckon the plan might be to start a single site (or a handful of sites) and try to add enough content/links each day that will increase traffic by a dollar. If I can't meet my dollar a day after a few months, but if I am increasing value) then I will have to reduce the amount of time I put into it personally and outsource content writing etc. Incidentally, I don't think it's quite as hard as people make out to make a lot of money online. I think the problem is that 95% of people never start, 95% of them don't have a clue what they are doing (or are just not business minded) and of the ones that do stand a chance, and go get started they find that they aren't making big money after a month or 2 and get bored or give up.
That is sort of accurate. However, based on this thread, you seem like someone who wont be one of the 5% who succeed. When you make a thread asking for people to give you answers, rather than doing the research for yourself, it sure doesn't seem like you'll be able to make much online. But maybe I'm wrong, there is a first time for everything
You could also try the affiliate marketing route by adding affiliate products contents and writeups to your website. Even if somebody buys a couple of products every week or so you will easily end up with some commission in your pockets.
Maybe... but as I say I already have a successful ecommerce business with a couple of members of staff. Also, if you read over one of my previous posts you will see that I already have a site which does basically what I was asking about. The only problem is that it isn't in a market that suits me. I've actually done a lot of research on internet marketing. There's so much info though it's hard to tell what's working, what's out of date, what's just lies. I was really just after ideas, I don't have any personal friends or colleagues who are in the know about net marketing so I'm brainstorming on a forum instead. I've already learnt the theory on PPC, SEO and Article marketing. I'm not so good on writing copy etc, but that's on the agenda. I'm now at the brainstorming and working out which of the many different types of site and traffic generation I should concentrate my efforts on. When I have decided on a small amount of business models it's time to put the theory I've learned in to action. Maybe I won't do it, but it will only be because I'm busy with other business stuff. Maybe the question I should have asked would have been: What's a good whitehat/legal way to make a small amount of money each month, but which is repeatable and scalable and which should continue to give regular revenue for 24-36 months.
Nice one! Hadn't thought about that. I actually know of a affiliate product which I can sell alongside my physical products with ease - in fact we are asked occasionally if we sell it. Thanks a lot. Should be an easy sell and I can even blast my list with it.
Here is how it goes: Buy a cheap .info (1$) or a cheap .com (9,50$) Buy hosting for one year for a cheap price Register a Twitter account for the website Start installing the free WordPress CMS. Make a nice blog, and add 1 or 2 articles daily. Since you should work on it 1 hour per day use the time you have left to promote the articles. Visit Buzzom.Com and follow as many people as you can. After 5 days flush all users who aren't refollowing. And start following new people again. This takes almost no time, and meanwhile the list loads you can do other stuff. Now everytime you wrote 1 or 2 articles, you should have 20 minutes left. Tweeting the new posts to Twitter takes only 30 seconds, and eventually you can schedule some tweets through the free HootSuite website. Now you have a little bit over 15 minutes left, which is more than enough to post on some forums, and include your link into some posts. Make sure it doesn't look like spam, but make it so that people should actually click on the link to read more about it. You can find niche-related forums on ForumURL. Do this daily, and instead of getting 1$ per day, you'll get 0,20$ the first day and after a few weeks you'll get 20$ per day doing nothing (You can keep updating your blog, but if you earn enough with 40 articles you can just keep promoting those articles and write a new article every 10 days) which will make you even happier Hopefully this post will help you Greetz!
I don't think affiliate marketing is autopilot. That stuff needs in updating often. Many say adsense is the easiest way of money making, but it not works for some niches. Best way, having your own product/s to sell, but again that's no autopilot.