For years now I have been looking at all kinds of different ways of making money online. For me personally it has always been about getting as much as possible by spending as little as possible. And that's what I've done. I do not spend a dime on advertising anything myself, all my income is 100% revenue and nothing spent at all on anything. Everything can be done free these days, setting up a website for free is of the most easy things to do thanks to things like blogger etc. Anyone can make a blog, tweak it around some, and make it an interesting website on some niche that will attract a steady amount of visitors, and you're basically set. What I do is simply run a bunch of websites on different topics, including some forums. Some ads are placed around here and there, some of them adsense, some chikitia, some affiliate programs, some of the "get paid to watch ads" and "get paid to share links" and such. In addition to that I run a badly designed, yet profitable site, on how to make money online where I basically describe and review all the methods I use to make the money I do (see my signature). My experience and conclusion is that you dont need to spend any money, you can get everything for free, and you can earn some thousands of dollars a month pretty easily once you get things started - I have to admit the strongest revenue generators are the comission based and referral based affiliate systems where you get paid up to several levels down for anyone you get to join, meaning you will get a lifetime of monthly earnings from other peoples work. But the more the merrier, and there are some bucks to collect on many different systems - thanks to these forums among other places I found such systems and want to say thanks to all for that. And now, what is YOUR successful way of making money online and what is your major income system? -TL
For me, it's good to run a membership site and set up an affiliate program with affordable monthly fees so that people who will promote my site will have a much more determination to promote my site because they know that they will earn recurring commissions as long as the member that they referred stays as a member.