Gamble Fish is a series about a 16 year old "gambler" (really he's kind of a psychological savant with a little con artist mixed in) whose goal it is to yank 10 billion yen ( approximately 114.72 million U.S. dollars) from students in his new prep school which is filled with rich kids. I went through all 24 chapters that have been scanned earlier this week cause it was pretty short and while I won't say I'm disappointed or that it was a waste of time, I will say that the author should've tightened up the concept a little more and stuck to it. I really like puzzle manga and series so this one, which ended up being more about "how will Tom cheat his way out of this situation" was a let down on that level.But no one comes here to read my manga reviews (don't worry, one day I'll buy two separate domains, one for myself as a make money online guy and another purely for manga reviews and anime news. Probably around May of next year, at the rate I'm going with making money online), so I'll start with the topic and week in review.
Over the past week I've been hazing through ChaCha. They had a Thanksgiving contest which kept me up for a full 16 hours straight last Thursday (yes, I did nothing but ChaCha for Thanksgiving. I'm extremely poor), and even though my family had regrouped for the holiday we didn't do anything else but work. My sister on her grad school applications, my mom on writing articles for the fun of it (she still refuses to do keyword research or properly plug in affiliate products) and me on ChaCha. I did spend a little time writing on my latest niche, and tweaking my article campaign that has pretty consistently given me one sale per week. Actually this past week I got 2 sales after changing the product. I'm not sure if that means it'll definitely convert better, but the product I switched it out for had a higher gravity and pays out a few dollars higher than the old one, so I'd be happy even if the conversion rate was a little less. This is the same direct linking campaign I talked about earlier. I wrote up 3 more articles for it.
I'm finding it really hard to edge around the new FTC rules, though. I think one of my articles which states that I'm an affiliate as plain as day, but puts the spin "oh, and I found out you can get paid by selling xxxx too!" on that seems to be getting very few order form impressions. Not sure if it's because that article was basically crap or some other reason.
Also, my sniper site rankings are all over the place. I know people say you shouldn't check things daily, but I'm not going to lie: I do. Actually I do it hourly probably. Anyway, my current self owned domain site is ranking 40 for its main key term after I tossed some backlinks its way, and, some how, it's ranking for a shorter tail of that key term that gets over twice the traffic according to the Google keyword tool, at position 23! I'm going to keep targeting the long tail of the keyword, and hopefully move it into place on both the long and short tail.
My other site... Well, it's stabilized at result 14 of the SERPS for its main key term, and its shorter tail is hovering on page 4 at result 36. I have yet to make another sale since October from this site as well, which leads me to believe I should swap the product. But that would take too much effort for me now, so I think instead I'll just let it drown out.
Adsense wise my earnings are finally becoming consistent. Not consistently high, but now I rarely see $0.00 days, and I can generally expect about $0.10 a day. Of course, since it's from hubpages mostly, that's like, $0.005 per hub.... Regardless, I've made $0.55 today so it's been pretty good.
I'm not quite sure yet when I'm going to jump on the IM horse again. It seems like it's been forever since I wrote an article or did keyword research when it's just been 2 or 3 weeks since I seriously devoted time to IM. Oh, and my CPA stuff hasn't been a complete waste- I've now made $18.40 with combined work of several campaigns.
But enough about my earnings and now let's talk about my topic of the day. So this past week has also given me time to reflect on how I'm going to reach my magical goal of full time income in time for my junior year of college in September. I realized that I'll probably end up launching my own product. I've vowed to never sell anything except software or actual tools in the make money online niche (well, not anything I create myself- I obviously affiliate sell in this niche), just because it was so frustrating for me to have no money to buy the information when I started. But I do think I might be able to write something in the computer programming niche or something.
Anyway, when I realized this, I thought I should get started practicing this now. And so I'm now doing something I never thought I'd do: I'm writing an ebook. I think I'm going to make it a give away for free kind of thing full of referral/affiliate links. This ebook will be in the make money online niche. Which brings me to my next point: Have I really learned enough to teach people how to make money online?
Or, more importantly, how much do you need to know or have done to be qualified to be a "guru" or "teacher" or whatever of make money online? I've made over $1000 online in 6 months. Not terribly impressive, but better than those who make mere pennies, right? Now if all that was residual income that would be something, but anyway...
Most of the ebook I'm writing will be bare bones basics that people who have already been exposed to making money online will know about. I will have a section on affiliate marketing and CPA etc. but I will mostly talk about things like Neobux, treasure trooper, and more solid, guaranteed money makers for the beginning person seeking to make cash online. I don't have many readers/followers, but when I manage to put it together (so far I've mapped it out and I have 13 chapters planned, as well as the intro- I'm on chapter 2 now) I'll be sure to provide a review copy.
Another interesting thing about making money online is that I've made enough money that I feel proud actually telling people. However, two of my friends who can't find jobs are now asking me about how to make money online. This is great, but I'm not sure if I'm ready to teach more than my mom (who doesn't need to rely on making money online to put food on the table- my friends are still living with parents, so they don't need to yet, but I just don't want to be the guy who lures them into thinking they never need to go out and get a "real job").
Anyway, do you think you're qualified to teach people how to make money online, or where do you stand?
See you guys next week with an update (and hopefully a finished ebook draft!)
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It's a tough call man, what is the cut-off point, everyone is always learning.
ReplyDeleteBut as to your last comment, I am now firmly of the conclusion that Internet Marketing IS a full time or "real" job, just a little more flexible, and certainly full of some nice surprises from time to time.
So true. I don't think anyone would ever be able to stop just because of how fast the internet moves. Not to mention how the needs/desires of people all around the world are constantly changing.
ReplyDeleteAnd yeah, this is definitely a real job (I got the finger blisters to prove it, lol) but my comment was more how the newbies (my friends, in this case) come in and think they can just quit their day job and start making more than they did in a month.
No doubt this is a great business, though, and I do love the surprises (like when I woke up and had my first sale, lol!)