Okay guys. Let me share a story with you. I hope the title got you interested..LOL It all started in 2004 when I became interested in Internet Marketing. I was a newbie and I was fascinated into making money online. I was scammed so many times and spent so much on hyped up Internet Marketing products. I began to buy domain names, began to experiment with Adsense. Believe it or not Adsense was my first stop....I could not believe Google actually paid you to CLICK ads? Adsense I registered on Adsense in the hope of making lots of money. I started lots and lots of websites, fan forums and slapped lots of Adsense ads. Dont forget this was 2004 and I was a complete newbie then. So what did I do? I told all my friends to click on the ads, told my entire email contacts to click on all the ads - HEY click my ad because I will get paid by Adsense.... Then I began to see my earnings rise, day after day...until one day Google sent me an email for "Violating their terms for click fraud"...so then Google banned me from Adsense...and I had learnt my lesson... By 2005 I was in so much debt it was unbelievable. I was in $5000 in total debt, I had no job. All I had was my University education and I could not even go to University. I remember only having $4 in my wallet when I went to University. I did not have enough money to even afford to buy something to eat!! The summer of 2005 was the worst summer of my life. I became depressed, lonely, lost my call centre job, lost my girlfriend and had thousands of dollars of debt to pay off... How could I manage to solve this crisis? A Full time job was NOT going to help because that would mean working a good 12 hours a day and I was not prepapred to do that...so I TURNED into the wonderful world of Internet Marketing... Adsense had pissed me off but I was not going to give up. I deleted everything from my computer, cleared my head..and began to think of ways to pay off this $5000 debt... So heres what I did.. Domain Names I remember in 2004 I bought several domain names that were related to WWE Wrestling and Formula 1 and BOXING. 4 out of 9 of these domain names were so brandable and popular that I had people emailing me asking if I was going to sell them. At first I refused, told them I had plans for these domains..but then I saw my bank and this huge debt was having a burden on me... So heres what I did...I sold ALL of these domain names for $2000.. on a popular domain marketplace forum...(you guys know which one it is). I could not believe it. These domains did not even have that much traffic and yet these guys were prepared to pay big bucks...Why?? Then I found out that the domain names I actually owned were actually once expired domains, the owner had forgot to renew them...and that meant I made $2000 from these domains...I invested just $8 each buying these domains at that time... So now I had $3000 left to pay to the bank.. This was still a huge burden to pay off..I had phone call after phone call from the banks... I remember once telling the bank manager that I was going to manage and the bank manager said "How are you going to do that? You need to work at least double the amount of hours... So then I turned to E-books... And this is where I had the most success. I had one talent which was writing, and marketing. At University I was actually doing a Marketing degree and that helped me so much that I began to absorb all the Internet Marketing information everyday. I read and read and read. I bought Mike Filsaimes courses, I bought Joel Comms courses and I bought all the major popular hyped up courses because I wanted to learn all the so called secrets and the money making methods...... But it was still not working for me because I had no money to invest...I needed to do something fast... Then one day I came across a few forums and thats where my luck changed... I offered something for free on a popular forum and this free information hit off...people began to enquire about this free e-book.... (this free e-book was all about traffic and thats my first ever product I had managed to write something on!)...it was only 9 pages but boy everyone loved it so much that they actually encouraged me to turn it into a product, hype it up with a sales page..and sell it... I remember doing my first ever offer on this forum and within a day I sold 150 copies of this little 8 paged report, priced at $12...yes I made ... $1800 which meant I only had just over $1000 to pay to the bank and I WAS DEBT FREE... Then I tested so many strategies, found out so many methods, wrote about these methods, wrote e-books, used Ebay as my leverage and Clickbank and then I was hooked onto Internet Marketing....... and here's the best part.... Whilist doing this I did not call myself Mr X, or Rich Jerk, or use my REAL name... No.. I used A PEN NAME - So one day I was Mrs, Susan Hughes, married with 2 kids...and the next day I was a 39 year old retired, married man with 2 kids.... Either way can you see how powerful this was? If you use Pen Names on the Internet it can get you far. Who says you cant make money online? BULL SHIT. OF COURSE YOU CAN. The INTERNET is my cash machine and it saved my life.. IF I can do it, so can you... Peace. Kushi
Nice inspirational story there. Hope you've found another girlfriend 'cause girlfriends can be fun Common problem with a lot of people is they stall, they don't take action. Bit of action here and there and there would be more people earning money online. But you can't force someone into action, right? Well, nothing legal I mean To the internet ! Let it be profitable for many more years! all the best, jobic
I agree, I took action in the end and now I had a major project in the pipeline with the money I make on the Internet.
Congrats on the success! I do find it pretty funny when people say you can't make money online, much less a LIVING. =)
Congrats Kushi, great story. Don't worry what some people might say, there will be skeptical people but it's their loss really.
wooooooow.... i think you can even sold this story for something anyways... it worth the time i spent to read this.. thanks for sharing
Hey...I am curious with domain names, can give us more information about it? How can you bought it and sell it? where? One more, kind I know the website of your ebook?
There is always good money to earn from the Internet, it's just up to people to think of ideas. One example is the one million pixel advertisement... but that died off soon after. Nonetheless, the creator of that site eventually became a multi-millionaire over night.
I see...nice story but what are you currently concentrating on now to earn a living? selling ebooks, affiliate marketing, domain names, selling on ebay???...