I have been looking for ways to make money on the internet for years.
A little bit about me:
I worked for MCI in Florida until about 2001 when we came into work one day and were advised that MCI would be closing it’s doors. Deciding to take a ‘break’ from punching a clock, I partnered up with a friend that also worked at MCI, and we opened up an FFA, Safelist and Mailer sites called IDS (Internet Distribution Systems).
The sites actually did pretty good for about 4 months pulling down about $2000 a month almost
immediately, and climbing. However working for yourself has crappy insurance and its easy to get drawn away from ‘working’ at home. After a while my partner started losing interest, which made me lose interest and then bills started piling up. To make a long story short, I had to go back to the ‘daily grind’ that many people (including myself) are trying to get out of right now. Yes, right about now, I’m kicking myself in the butt.
But I decided to get back onto the net to start creating income again and see how it goes. I’ve got 2 IM sites, this being one of them and a niche site in solar power that actually is the only site getting traffic lately, probably because its the only site I’m really marketing It pulls most of its income from PPC programs such as adwords, but I also sell the occasional e-book out on that site as well through Clickbank. It doesnt make a lot annually, but consistently makes about $5.00 a day from adwords, and $50 or so a month from CB.
The other IM site I have makes the biggest chunk of its money from Pay Per Post blog entries. That site actually makes the most money, but the site ends up being mostly an automatic blogging site that i make the money from PPP entries. Usually around $25-30 a day. Not bad, but the opportunities to post are not always regularly available.
Lately, both IM sites have all but died, and the solar site is just limping along. Regular job duties, and lack of focus lately have definately hurt the overall.
I have 1 week off from work, and I’ve decided to concentrate my efforts on making some form of forward momentum with all the sites.
**** Everything that I do in the next week will be the things that I’ve learned by trial and error, and even from other marketers. ****
I want to see what does and what doesnt work, and I’ll show my results at the end of the week.

