Hi Gary, this is my first comment here but I am reading your posts for a while already. Thanks to you I am getting interested in this field and I think that you provide very meaningful insights about MMO (unlike so many others in this niche). I just started with blogging and set up my own blog so I cannot really answer your question (just signed up for Adsense), but one thing I could tell for sure and that is that I am going to try to follow your advices and to keep subscription to your blog.
Cheers

Thanks for dropping the comment. It is great to have you reading my blog and I am glad that you find what I write helpful. Don’t be a stranger and drop comments again with your thoughts and feedback.

I have earned most of my money from Pay Per Post but am not that keen on it. Their new service Social Spark looks better. All paid links are NoFollow and are all marked clearly as sponsored. It claims to be Search Engine friendly….. If it truly is then it will be great.

I want to say Pepperjam….. sadly I have not managed to make one sale yet. My fault, not theirs!

For ME, selling Premium Membership content at my website has been my best earner for almost a year now - and it looks like April 2008 will be an all time record, generating over $14,000 ..

The keys have been getting a lot of good, targeted traffic and providing the “premium” content that people are looking for and are willing to pay for..

My 2nd best ways of earning are Adsense and Kontera, which combined generate $3,000 - $5,000/month ..

Outstanding Randy! I am very impressed. Can you talk to us more about the premium membership content that you provide? I am sure that many people are going to be all ears and eyes on this. You might end up picking up a few more membership subscribers as well. Additionally, I’ll admit, I wasn’t aware of your membership services. So please, I invite you to share more info.

I made a post a while back in my blog, answering what is a premium subscriber but basically, it’s charging for members to access certain areas of my website/forum.
Up until March members could purchase either “lifetime” membership for $25, or ongoing month-by-month access by paying (via PayPal) $5.99 for the first month, then $1.99 every month. If you can maintain the member’s interest and they dont cancel, that member base can grow - as it did in my case to approx 2,000 monthly paid subscribers. The hard part is keeping them interested - meaning you have to give them good value (content).. that’s the hard part. Last month, due to some problems with PayPal I dropped the month-by-month paypal subscription model and kept only the one-time-only fee of $25 via Google Checkout. Since my average subscriber only kept their subscription for 3 months (generating about $9) this one-time fee generates more, but since the cost is higher there is the potential for less people to make the purchase.. but, so far this month, they’ve been coming in record numbers.

of course I write about it all the other secrets in my blog

As for me the best money online that constantly send me a routine income is Sponsoredreviews, TLA & Text Link Broker, i know these kind of programs could harm my blogs & my PR, but considering the revenue they send me I careless about the risk.

Garry, do you think it is better to build:

One site, develop traffic and make a revenue off adsense or adbrite.
Or, develop 10 sites, build them to a level of $10/day from each sites and earn $3000/month?

Also, what do you think will be the average time frame it would take for both the plans.

What is your advise?

1. My bread and butter has been selling physical products online. 7 years ago, I sold my first dvd on eBay. I eventually began selling products on my personal site. 7 years and 10 employees later, my business is generating over 1.2 million dollars a year. That’s gross of course. Net fluctuates between 8 - 15% of gross each month.

I’m so burned out managing that business, I made the choice to sell it earlier this year. I am in the process of doing that now.

2. A few years ago, I read Corey Rudl’s Secrets to Marketing your Business on the Internet. I decided to put together an ebook teaching others how to sell physical products. I put it together in one day and drove some PPC traffic to it. I was amazed that I had sold 3 eBooks at $29.95 each in about 24 hours.

I still have this site today. The income has been as high as $3,500 in one week. This usually happens when Dateline runs that “How Great it is to Sell on eBay Show”. Those big weeks are mostly few and far between. For the most part, this site averages $2,000 - $2,500 a month.

3. One of the best affiliate programs I have ever participated in is the eBay Affiliate Program. I get a lot of traffic to my main physical product site. I placed a banner on the top of the home page with the eBay affiliate link. I’ve made as high as $1,500 a month from that banner. However, it usually averages $600 - $800 a month.

@Brent, wow that is inspirational.

I joined the Ebay affiliate program and have plans to use it on my new blog.

Do you have any tips, do static banners work best, or content relevant auction widgets?

Hi Forest,

I’ve never added eBay affiliate ads to any of my blogs. I ran across a wordpress plugin, but it costs $40. I’ve never used it myself.

http://bayrss.nichemoneysites.com/

There are two tips things that I have found helpful.

1. When I display eBay affiliate ads on my web pages, I usually try to do it using an RSS affiliate feed. You’ll need a RSS to HTML converter. Carp is a good one to use.

http://www.geckotribe.com/rss/carp/

The main purpose is the RSS feed converts to HTML and is search engine friendly content that auto updates.

2. 30% of my revenue still comes from eBay. I run 1,000+ auctions every week. Every 2 - 3 weeks, I’ll pick some items and list them with a starting bid of 99 cents. My email list now has over 35,000 subscribers. I’ll email the subscribers and direct them to my auctions through my affiliate link. A big portion of the money I make from eBay comes from this technique.

Be careful though. You can’t email out eBay affiliate links. It is against the TOS. And if you do and someone opens and clicks in a web based email program, I’ve tested it and the referral data will show where it came from. If you are using email, you better direct the subscriber to one of your web pages and have them click the eBay affiliate link from there.

is it a deja vu or i saw a simmilar post on dosh-dosh sometime back? may be maki was asking the same question in a different way .. to come up with 72 ideas ..

I never tried to sell physical products, but now I think I must consider in this line.

Hi! I have earned money off aisle 19. I went to aisle19.com signed up..pay 19.99 a month to own my own online mall and get a percentage of everything spent in the mall. Its absolutely genius! Talk about easy money…I didnt know it existed! Check it out…if you want to sign up you must enter a rep # the rep number is 507066. I have everything from Armani Exchange to Wal Mart in my mall http://www.aisle19.com/aisle19mall/lotsofgoodies

Hi Chandra,

Remember, I’m the guy who does sell physical products wishing I would have devoted more time to selling digital products and creating adsense sites. The problem with physical products is the same as being tied down to any job. You are tied down to a physical location and no matter how good the employees you hire, you are going to always need to be at the physical location to manage and pick up the slack.

The only exception would be if you used a drop shipper. In this case, you could have someone else managing the fulfillment. But IMO you’d still need to have an office with a phone number customer’s could call just to give some credibility.