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Here is a little positing about an Indian guy who is selling Parrot ebook and make $400,000 per year.

http://www.cringely.com/2009/03/parrot-secrets/

If you want to know more about how to make money with ebook, here is another posting which you should read:

http://blog.mixergy.com/sell-ebooks/

To sum up about how to sell ebook.

1. go one niche deeper
2. Target the news
3. recycle your content
4. court affiliates

How to sell online from Andrew Warner on Vimeo.

Following on from Mook-Jon’s excellent thread I thought I’d post something similar but with a different slant.

Above is a picture taken of 1 of the 5 pages from my business bank statement that relates to late December 2005, early January 2006. Obviously I’ve used Photoshop to key out some banking reference codes. I’ve only posted a picture of 1 page instead of all 5 as I don’t want to disclose exactly how much I earn in a month. (BTW the currency of my bank statement is £UK Pounds Sterling). As you can see the rough total on that 1 page alone is roughly £82,000 which works out at approx. $144,000.

For those of you in the US who aren’t familiar with the UK affiliate networks or merchants here is a brief breakdown of the ones listed in my bank statement.

Tradedoubler: Affiliate Network
ADS Europe: Merchant
Affiliate Window: Affiliate Network
Tiscali Network: Merchant
Webgains: Affiliate Network

The purpose of this post is to hopefully inspire people that they too can earn money online through Affiliate Marketing. I am not bragging but merely illustrating the type of money that can be earned. For example I have 1 particular merchant who regular earns me over £100k per month. But don’t get me wrong, my business hasn’t been instant. Back in 2001 when I started I almost gave up after about 6 months as I hadn’t earned a penny. It’s only with lots of hard work and research that you can fully realise the potential that is out there. I do remember though that back when I first started out I used to read posts about affiliates earning big money and that really did motivate me. After all I think everyone longs for financial freedom.

About me: I’ve been an affiliate since late 2001 and my main site is at www.ukoffer.com. I run maybe another 20 or so sites, some of which are bookmarked in my blog (see signature). As well as that I run many short term ppc campaigns via custom landing pages. These can be live for only a number of weeks then taken down.

My main focus is about 80% PPC and 20% SEO. I’m not very good at SEO but still do alright for some key terms. My Monthly ppc budget is around US $300,000 which equates to roughly UK £170,000. Although when I first started out my budget was approx. $50 a month

I’m happy to answer any kind of questions anyone may have as long as you don’t ask me what my best converting keywords are etc.

Almost forgot - sure the image above could be a big fat fake but what would be the point? I’ve been around long enough now that I’m well known in the AM community in the UK so am sure I can be “vouched” for.

source: http://www.sitepoint.com/forums/showthread.php?t=345974

This is from craigslist. It is interesting that you find a lot of stuff from craigslist.

Reply to: gigs-xrfqc-1068285965@craigslist.org
Date: 2009-03-10, 7:59AM PDT

I have a very high traffic site that crashed. I thought it was backed up but the backup drive died. I’m looking for someone that can post blogs of girl models on a daily basis. We cater to mostly import models, asian girls etc.

I’m willing to do some adsense profit sharing. I once made $150 on one day from adsense. This will take a little while to build up the blog because i’m starting over but think about it, in 3-6 months you’ll be hitting the residuals. My site gets indexed by google within a a few hours..

Here is a sample site, but be warned this has nudity. http://www.badgirlsblog.com/

Is it really possible to survive on your $2 per day earning from your blog? Probably not. But the potential is there. You can look at the following image where Jeremy Schoemaker, the internet marketing superstar, was holding a cheque of $132,994.97 from google. There was back in August 2005.

You certainly need an array of very popular sites in order to achieve that status.

If $140K per month is not impressive enough, check this out. PlentyOfFish.com, an online dating site, was reported getting $900K Canadian. Yes, $100K shy from $1,000,000 (One Million Dollars). And Yes, it is an online dating site. See it for yourself in the image below:

Both cheques were from 2005. Here is a cheque from MubinAhmed!

To see more cheques from Google, click here.

Adwords is Google’s keyword-based marketing tool to promote websites. A lot of people buy search keywords in the system so that their websites will be returned and listed along with the search results when doing Google search.

The system works under an auction scheme where the highest bid will get the top placement in the search results. Most Adword users will just pay by their credit cards within the system. But there is a cheaper way and this way sometimes is being used for making money.
Once in a while, Google promotes their Ad system by giving out free credits (ranging from $50-$100) for new users to try. There are couple ways to make money from this.

1) Some will sell the URL to the promotional page. They usually charge around $5-$10 for this information.

2) Another way is that the seller will sign up an account, and then sell the entire account to others. Usually, an account of $100 credit will be available for $25. They pocket $75!!

You can find these sellers on eBay and Digital Point forum.

Our experience tells us that not every adsense ad is created equal. There are couple tricks that can potentially increase your earnings.

1) Location: The Ads in the top half perform the best, as no suprises, they are the first to be shown to your visitors. So make sure you have some ads at the top.

2) Format: The best performing formats are 336×280 Large Rectangle, 300×250 medium rectangle, 160×600 wide skyscraper.

3) Color: Use your website’s background color as the background for your ad. This will blend your ad very well into your web site, which increase the chance of them being clicked.

4) Testing: Keep testing different types of ads on your site.

Nowadays, it is foolish for you to start a business that you need to stock inventories. Stocking up inventory is just too risky. It takes up space, and product cycle now is so short that your product such as MP3 player will be obsolete in 3 months. So in the internet age, what do you do?

The secret is to sell information. Information can be in many forms. A blog such as this is information. You write and publish some articles. You earn incomes by showing ads. The money will be flowing in while you are sleeping. No orders to take, no inventory to stock.

Directing peole to sites that offer products is a form of information selling as well. This is the affiliate model. You do not want to just sell other people’s product, the entry of barrier is just too low. You want to create your own products or services. You can consider to use site such as Cafepress. You can upload an image of your creation to the website, and the image can be added to products such as coffee mug, T-shirt. The site will handle all the transaction for you. All you have to do is marketing, directing traffic to your products.

We really like the internet business model where you create something in a couple hours and that something will start bringing you an income stream without additional works. We dont like to be work slaves. We want to spend time with our family and go travelling to see the world. So investing your time into businesses that have the internet business model instead of the traditional model.

A good and income-generating web site is like a good business. It gives you a steady income stream. The goal here is to own enough income streams so that you can retire. You can build your site from the ground up, but there is a lot of risks. Alternatively, you can consider to acquire one.

There are sites that are dedicated for buying and selling web sites. Digital Point has a Buy, Sell or Trade forum where you can find deals. For a complete list, you can access our directory.

Buying a site involves valuation. How much should you pay for a web site? We dont suggest to buy a site that makes no money for the beginners. You should buy something that is already established and have at least 3 month of proved revenue from Adsense or other mechanisms. Now, this kind of site will be less risky, but it will cost more. You can find a site that generates $2 per day or $60 per month. A very general rule is that you pay a multiple (i.e. 10 times is the current market multiple for a general site) of the monthly income. So for a site that makes $60 per month, its price probably will be around $600. Different kind of sites have different multiples. For example, proxy is currently at a multiple of 3.

Once you’ve acquired the site, you need to move the domain, the code, and the data to your own hosting. Sometimes, the seller is willing to do the migration for you. So, ask! After that, you just need to market your site, and grow your stream.

OK, once you’ve created your website such as a blog. What’s next? We recommend that you add your site to google’s search engine by going to Add your URL to Google, Add to MSN, and More. We also suggest to add Google analytics javascript to your site so that you can track your visitors and find out which pages are most popular.

You can also consider to use Google’s Adword to get traffic. Don’t buy Adword directly. You can save big by buying Adword credits from eBay or Digital Point’s Vouchers section.

To make money, you need to have either a product or a service. You can create a blog as your product. A blog is an online journal. What you are looking at here is a blog.

A blog can be on different topics. You can pick a topic that you have experience in or you have passion to talk about. The goal here is to build traffic to your blog so that you can monetize on it if you choose to. There are numerous ways to make money once you have a popular blog. You can, for example, participate ad network such as Google’s AdSense as a publisher, and show Ad on your blog. You can easily earn $3 dollars per day from ads. Click the following icon to create an adsense account.

Or, you can join affiliate programs to promote particular products. You can write reviews on them. Some products give up to 80% commission to you on successful transaction. And you can select to feature only the products that you like to market. Commission Junction is one of many affiliate program.

So how do you setup a blog? You can use blogger.com. Or, you can purchase an account in dreamhost, then create a wordpress application. Both solution requires no programming experience. The latter solution requires a bit more works and money, but the flexibility that it gives well worths the cost.

Owing your own product is very critical. Otherwise, you are just selling what everyone else is selling.