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Your Online Earning History - Let's Share it!

by ednri871
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Thought it would be interesting to get a brief history from some of the Warriors who do not mind sharing. Please reply with a similar message as mine below:

My Name is Brian. I'm 28 years old and have been marketing online running websites, and advising clients for just over 13 years now. Yep I started young, back when there really wasn't an internet. I started off at 15 selling baseball cards on Bulletin boards on Prodigy. From there I created my first website in 1997 selling cards. From 1997-2003 I dabbled in affiliate marketing, selling posters, video games etc. In 2003 I started my First of many forums. Currently I run over a dozen forums, 2 in the Top 5,000 in Alexa, another in the top 12,000. 3 of my forums have in excess of 100,000 members each. I now Run several blogs as well as invest and monetize domain names, of which I own approx 3,000.

Anyway thought it would be interesting to get everyone else's backgrounds.
#earning #history #online #share
  • Profile picture of the author Louise Green
    I started with a Geocities site (remember them?) back in the 90's.

    It didn't do too well..

    Then I moved onto affiliate marketing.. again it didn't do too well, did a bit better, but nothing to write home about.

    When Google Adsense came out I jumped on, and did OK with it after a few months. It gave me a decent "start", by which time I had been messing around for years, but at least I could just about feed myself.

    Tried Ebay and dropshipping.. nothing major there either.

    Then the penny dropped. I started selling digital products and Bingo. Here I am.

    Now I don't bother with Adsense, affiliate marketing, list building, article marketing or boring stuff that takes ages anymore.

    These days I work with selected leaders in my chosen niches and split the profits.
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  • Profile picture of the author Trisha_Morgan
    I haven't started yet but I am dying to start earning.

    I am still trying to work out a plan LOL
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  • Profile picture of the author MisterMunch
    I started with Spedia. I think the site is down now, but it was a toolbar you had at the bottom of the screen (like a banner add) that gave you $1 an hour. It was an MLM (free to join) system so I tried to reffer more people.

    I build a website, one dude signed up, but never used it. Did not know about SEO or traffic generation at that time, but it was a start.
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  • Profile picture of the author John Romaine
    Originally Posted by ednri871 View Post

    Thought it would be interesting to get a brief history from some of the Warriors who do not mind sharing. Please reply with a similar message as mine below:

    My Name is Brian. I'm 28 years old and have been marketing online running websites, and advising clients for just over 13 years now. Yep I started young, back when there really wasn't an internet. I started off at 15 selling baseball cards on Bulletin boards on Prodigy. From there I created my first website in 1997 selling cards. From 1997-2003 I dabbled in affiliate marketing, selling posters, video games etc. In 2003 I started my First of many forums. Currently I run over a dozen forums, 2 in the Top 5,000 in Alexa, another in the top 12,000. 3 of my forums have in excess of 100,000 members each. I now Run several blogs as well as invest and monetize domain names, of which I own approx 3,000.

    Anyway thought it would be interesting to get everyone else's backgrounds.
    What topics are you forums in?
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    • Profile picture of the author sdentrepreneur
      I started with AOL and Online radio from 1997 to 2007. Then I changed careers and learned Internet Marketing from Carbon Copy Pro in October 2007, made $3,000 my first month and haven't look back since. Created my own Internet Marketing Company in 2008, rest is history, still working and evolving weekly.
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