Another avenue to making money besides what's already been mentioned here is by taking a 'paid program', such as any software title (Keywords Analyzer/SEO Elite/Etc., etc.) and create a 'video tutorial' yourself using the program and then offer the video(s) as a bonus to your subscribers....Or as a secondary back-end upsale. I'm seeing this done more and more every day for a lot of top selling software titles, so I for one know it works. I too believe in 'revenue diversification' and applaud anyone who is making money with Adsense, as this was an area that I wasn't willing to enter when I started my OM (Online Marketing) biz a few months ago, but do see the monetary benefits of eventually breaking down and putting together a few sites over the next few months to create even a small monthly income. Ray
i understand this part...which payment processor do you suggest which is friendly towards vendors vs. subscribers.. 2checkout will not do my business..(no it's not porn, hate or anything like that). it's providing a financial info service, not tangible....So, if someone gets the info, then wants a refund, it should not be allowed. that is what I want to avoid.
Sorry can't help you with that one PayPal and 2checkout are the 2 main ones as you probably already know and clickbank is for digital products.
Ernster your 100% right, and you can try to convince everyone else here, but it won't work. They have to just either figure it out themselves or simply give up. The key to online success IS building your lists. It's that simple. If you don't build a list, you truly can't profit the way you wish you could. It's about working smarter, not harder. With list building and what is needed to do it well is above many of the members here who are solely interested in getting lots of traffic and then doing nothing to convert it.
I totally think people arent being creative enough to attack different forms of sites and revenue sources. Generally adsense is the easiest form of revenue because Google literally does all the work for you. SEO and expanding your site is NEVER done, there will not be a time in your life where you will sit back and say "my site is as good as it can possibly be, now ill just sit back and wait" if you do say that it is a very poor business strategy and you wont make the money you hope to have. If you keep enhancing your site with new content and feature your site will grow with time and so will your money. I don't know a single person who doesn't want more money so your job is never done.