Although this isn’t a make money online blog, I’ve talked a lot about various strategies I’ve used to make money - some people come here solely for the tips on making money and boosting their online business, and that’s fair enough.

Yesterday, I put out a post recommending a product - one that has worked for me. I did however state that if you were not making a certain amount of money - that is $1,000/month, you did not need the product.

I was contacted by a few people - those that bought, those that commented, those that asked me over instant messenger, a lot saying that they were not yet making the $1,000 per month I said you should be. Thought I’d write a post to make things easier for those of you that aren’t there yet to reach your goal.

First off, I get a lot of private questions every single day, asking what ways I recommend to start making money. For me, the best ways are also the simplest ways, that is ways that don’t require any / a lot of investment.

When I recommend simple things to make money, some people get shocked - tell me the secrets! they complain, not wanting to work. Those that do work, make money; I’m happy to have come across and personally helped complete newbies make their first money each this week, ranging from $100 - $500. I didn’t do any work, just pointed them on their way… it was completely them that was the reason for their success, and I see them replicating it again and again. One of the coolest things online is to see people that believed they couldn’t do it… surprising themselves even by doing what they thought impossible.

A few days ago (I’ve been behind), I got an email from a reader of this blog - speaking of his want to earn $1,200 monthly. Now that is an admirable goal, and I sent him some tips; but also thought that it would make a good topic for a post on here.

$1,200.

Now that is a big number, for a newbie. When I started out, it didn’t seem like I’d ever reach that number; these days if I don’t lazy about I can hit that in a day.

If you break it down, though…

$1,200 spread over a month (30 days on average) is only $40 daily.

I don’t know prices where you guys are, but over here that’s around four lunches.

Still difficult? Let’s break it down further…

If you break down that $40 into three methods - one main one, and two accompanying ones, you only need to earn $20 with the main one and $10 each with the accompanying ones.

Here’s exactly how you’re going to earn that $40. I’m putting here three standard ways, ones people are using daily, ones people are already making loads of money with. Each way, of course can bring you the amount monthly by themselves, but let’s start small.

- Services

- Website flipping

- Domain flipping

Again, nothing revolutionary in this post; some find it easier when everything is mapped out for them.

Now most people have some kind of skill - be it being able to write fairly well, being able to design, or being able to code. I can do the former, but fail completely at the latter two. If you don’t have any skill, learn! :)

You don’t need to be Shakespeare, Picasso, or the umm… coding equivalent of the two, just half decent.

Now - personally, I’ve found website flipping easiest, so we’ll take that as our main money maker, with the other two accompanying.

There are plenty of tips on here to get you building a website in less than thirty minutes that you can sell for $20… $20 is not a lot for a website. Remember to use a .INFO, to save yourself money (or a cheap .COM - you know where to get cheap domain names :) )

I’ve covered niche websites and proxies on here, however if you want to see a post dedicated to a specific type of website, let me know. I’m not going to go too much in depth on website flipping, as there is enough information on here to get started. If you need more - just ask and I’ll put a post up when free.

As for services; you need $10 from your services, and you can find work on the various webmaster forums.

If you’re writing articles for $5 each, you need to sell two articles.

If you’re doing designs for $5 each, you need to sell two designs.

If you’re doing coding jobs for $5 each, you need to take two jobs.

Of course, you can raise your prices, meaning less work, less time, same amount of money (or even more).

If you don’t want to do services, you can do something like forum posting. Something that everyone can do.

Remember, at $0.15/post (Forums First offered that when I was with them) you need 67 posts to get your $10. You can do that in 30 minutes, if you concentrate on the job and nothing else.

Now… the first two ways (services and website flipping) have been covered here, and are in depth. Let’s talk about domain flipping.

It is insanely easy to make $10 profit on a domain.

All you need is a half decent, two word .COM. Remember the cheap domain tip at Name.com ;)

You buy at $6, you need to sell at $16. Maybe add a couple dollars for Paypal expenses and the like.

A great place to find domain ideas is Namepros.

There’s a section called Available Domain Names. You might have to be a member to see it, it didn’t use to be like that but now it doesn’t allow you to view it without being registered.

Just browse through those threads and you’ll find something flippable. This is a tactic I have been using ever since I started the whole thing (sometime around September - November 2007) and it still works.

Remember, two words, related, brandable. Or a five letter, pronounceable  .COM.

Of course, you won’t always make $20 from your main method, and $10 from your other two. However, a downwards in one will usually (on average, across the course of a month) be offset in an upwards move in one of the others.

You’ll sometimes find that someone has taken an interest in your fresh website at $25, $50, or even $100. Or that someone thinks your domain is worth a lot more than you did.

If you want another idea to get to that $10/day, here’s one. Sell PLR.

PLR, especially ones that promise to make money (and are half decent… check them out, otherwise all you’ll get are refund requests) sell well on webmaster forums.

You can get cheap reports, aimed at this on the Warrior Forum - however, be careful in the WSO section as it is not for those which have loose purse strings. I once got caught up in the hype of sales letter after sales letter and was suckered into spending around $300 in less than an hour. This was at the beginning, when that was something like a quarter of which I made the full month! :)

Think like your average house burglar - quickly in, quickly out. Scan thread titles for mentions of ‘resale rights’ or ‘private label rights’ and pick a good report backed with solid testimonials and proof.

A decent report being sold to more than one person usually won’t cost you more than $20 - $30 to obtain resale rights to. Three sales and you’re even; four and you start seeing profits.

These are NOT set and forget income streams. However, they work well enough for you to get the $1,000 - $2,000 you need for bigger things.

My idea to start out and make money online is pretty simple - try everything (good, bad, evil), repeat what works, ditch or tweak what doesn’t.

Once you have that $1,000 - $2,000, you move on to bigger things. Bigger site flips, bigger service jobs (outsource, act as the middle man and take a lot of profit).

Apologies for the basic post, but I hope it helps a few of you out. I’ll be taking a bit of a break this week, and have a lot of guest posters organized; the post on the 12th will go out, as with announcing the contest winner on the 15th. If I don’t respond to emails, I’m not ignoring you on purpose - just enjoying the last few weeks of my holidays :)

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