WOOHOO! First $1,000 month!!!

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  1. carl_in_florida

    carl_in_florida Active Member

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    #21
    How many of the sig lines that say "Click here to see how i made my internet millions" do you believe?

    I disagree. I found that I wasted time by constantly trying to chase other avenues that would have been better spent growing the site that was starting to become profitable.

    Think about it this way. Say you open a tire shop and it is your first month that you made a profit. You learned everything there is to know about the tire business so that you could get customers and keep them, deliver a good service so that people would come back. And as soon as you started getting customers you stopped spending any time at the tire shop and opened a hair salon next door because you heard someone else was making a bunch of money in the hair salon business.

    That's just plain stupid and that's what I did.

    A better approach is to keep working on the site that is making you money and find out a comfortable time investment / ROI ratio.

    I now see that if I work on my main site half hour to an hour a day is more than enough. Major updates once a week. Now I know how much time I have to invest in the next thing. And I am not chasing my tail trying to find the next thing.

    But I agree what I learned on (profitable) site 1 will be crucial for a successful site 2.
     
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    #22
    Congrats on making 1k/m from Google, but is Google your only revenue stream? I have seen so many people put all their eggs in the Google basket and overnight lose everything. The next step is to diversify your revenue streams to secure the income for the longer term.
     
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    #23
    $1000/14 months => $71/mo ==> $2.3/day ==> It's not a big problem. But you have a good job. Keep going man!
     
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    #24
    I wish that were it. It took me 14 months to make the first $100 and in all honesty the last $50 was made that month. Three months later I made $1,000.

    100 / 14 = 7.14 a month. $0.25 a day.
     
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  5. procrastinator

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    #25
    great work carl , and well put up post as well , best wishes , may you have your $1000 a day soon too , cheers
     
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    #26
    Some truly great advice from the original poster, particularly number 3.
     
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    #27
    Congrats carl. You are an inspiration to many publishers. I took 7 months for my first check. I hope to replicate your success.
     
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    #28
    lol , anyone will share their traffic getting idea ? i think NO
     
    leandar, Feb 1, 2007 IP
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    FireStorM Well-Known Member

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    #29
    Thats great , keep up the hard job :)
     
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    #30
    well done,it seems its more difficult to get the first check .
     
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    #31
    Congratulations! My best month was $650, I'm close to you :)
     
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    #32
    Give us your URLs friends...
     
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    #33
    Im getting around 200 USD per month now from my blogs... but ofcourse wish to earn more...
     
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    #34
    It seems you've already made up your mind on this topic. /shrug
     
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    #35
    Good work.
     
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    #36
    Very very good advice! Thanks for sharing!
     
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    carl_in_florida Active Member

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    #37
    Just sharing what worked for me.

    Thank you

    Thank you very much.

    Carl
     
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    #38
    well done, dear.
     
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    #39
    Great post!
     
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    #40
    Well done mate,

    it took me 24 months to get my first $1000 month and now I have made them 4 since last october. So keep up the good work and get even better results.
     
    Jude Vihervaara, Feb 2, 2007 IP