You wanted to start making money online, earn some side revenue online. What do you do?
You did some re-search and found a few programs (often promoted by some self-proclaimed famous marketer). You decided to hold on buying and so signed up for their free information.
Very soon you had signed up for a handful newsletter and you started to receive recommendation almost daily. You sign up for more programs, affiliates, income sources and received more recommendation newsletters.
Now you have an inbox choked full of newsletters you have no time to read.
Sounded familiar?
You are not alone. I had just tagged and archived hundreds of such email and this got me thinking. I doubt I will ever read me, but hey, GMail says archive, don’t delete.
The real challenge of earning revenue online is not that there are no opportunities. It is too many opportunities!
How do you find the right program? What works for me may not work for you.
More importantly, what marketers recommeded to you definitely did not work for them. (Think about it, what make the marketers more money? Using the program or receommending the program to you?)
Often the first criteria I use is this, if someone is describing good result from a program and at the same time recommending the program, I would discount the recommendation.
This is not fool proof because I fell into the same pattern, like for enMarketing.
So I use this next criteria. If there is no sign of how they are using the program, they probably make more money recommending it then using it.
Finally, there is experience and judgement. How can someone tells it is going to rain by smelling the air? Just by doing it often and long enough. There is not subsititute for trying and finding, which leads us back to the original challenge. Too many programs ,too little time.
And this goes round and round.
You may think all these amount to saying nothing. Well you may be right. It is mostly common sense which paradoxically isn’t that common.
You need to try something, learn, try more, eliminate useless programs, try again, learn, find more programs, work on existing programs, learn… and on and on…
You can’t possibily try everything.
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Downside to the trial/error is that often you’ve made “some” money with a program, just not enough to get paid. Now, if you stop using that program, you loose the money (even though it’s not much). That makes it harder for people to cancel a program and try a new one, even though the new program might actually work for them.
I tried text-link-ads,and was lucky enough that it started working for me, at least on that specific website. Since I don’t make too much money through that site using Google Adsense, I might remove that one, which creates more space for another program. Ah well, we’ll see what happens.
You brought up a very good point. I believe some of the new revenue sources are trying to serve this group better by offering payment via Paypal and with very low limit.
The other side of the coin is that if a site is not able to hit the minimum limit, then it might not really be offering any value to the program or advertiser.
Furthermore, for someone that is somewhat motivated to create income online, the minimum limit should be viewed as a target to hit.
For example, how do you hit the $100 Adsense target?
Well, find ways to make 1 web make $100, create 100 websites to make $1, or any other strategies.
The point is, try.