[klock75]

Originally Posted by ColinR

I made mine with clickbank. It was back when I was still in highschool and I read Bum Marketing (I think it was called..) and wrote a couple articles promoting a product. I didn't make anything within a couple weeks and gave up. 6-8 months later those 2-3 articles suddenly made me 300+ dollars, so obviously my first $100 was within that $300. I was kicking myself for giving up so quickly.

I was a student of the "bum marketing method" at one time too... Travis Sago.. he's the dude that said.. got no money? do something other people don't want to do... and he used "add sites to directories" as an example and he promoted RoboForm to help.. I still use RoboForm and I know people still making money from adding sites to directories...

[David Micheal]

Offer design service. I had my first $100 after two weeks working on design.

[heavysm]

Adwords PPC and Clickbank. Of course I spent quite a bit more than that $100 i made to get that money lol. But yes, that was my first $100 online

[Sue McDonald]

My first payment in excess of $100 was to rewrite a PLR book for someone who asked me would I do it. I didn't even apply for the job.

[supreme]

my first $102.97 check was from adsense

[Jensha]

Originally Posted by webskipper

It's quite a long time ago but I still remember the excitement I got that day... I made $237 by promoting a Clickbank product with Google Adwords. It was a lot easier running a profitable campaign those days... I Don't do PPC any more..

Does people who makes product reviews for CB or JV earn a lot more sales when they also promote the product their affiliated with to click bank?

Because I've just started out on promoting CB and JV products.
So... How do you guys do it? Do advertise your hop link to the sales page to ad words? Or do you advertise your blog/site that contains your review of the product and your hop link to ad words?

Either way, how much does it usually cost you with ad words?

Please bear with me, I really don't know much at all about ad words.

[Ladyinbiz]

Freebie Trading and it got bigger and bigger for 5yrs!

[Samuel McEdwards]

I see a lot of Internet Marketers old school and new school who seem to be very successful in this internet business.

Can you share in this forum how you made your first $100 to $1000 online?

I ask this because it must have been an eye opening, exciting and energizing when you made your first money online. Most of us are still waiting for that moment and will like to know how you did it.

Share please how you break the ice. Thanks!

[Warrior X]

Writing service in the 'for hire' section.

Actually come to think of it I did ok on Ebay in the early 2000's. Never
thought of it as 'internet marketing' back then. Just as selling stuff. But that
was when you could sell your gramma's doilies as priceless antiques.

Jeremy

[Malcolm Thomas]

I made by first $100 using fiverr but since then I have moved on to much better (and profitable) ventures.

[Steve Fleming]

The first money I ever earned online was brought about by
offering my coding services for free. I'd only just learned
the particular language I wanted to develop into a business
so the only way I was going to get clients initially was by
offering to do it for free.

Eventually I built some what of a 'name' for myself and then
I could start charging appropriately.

You've got to start somewhere... and there's worse things in
life you could be doing than helping people out so it wasn't
really wasted time for me. Helping and learning all at the
same time.

Take care

Steve

[Scrambler]

Our first online money came by selling physical products on E-bay, at first drop shipping then through buying wholesale and filling orders directly.

When we started building websites it came from Adsense and affiliate work.

[PrestonPilgrim]

haha this brings back memories of last year...

I made my first 100$ online selling ebooks... PLR ebooks

It was difficult and time consuming, I have moved on since then, but all in all it was a good experience.

The reason I remember this so well is because when you first start internet marketing and you get your first sale... BOOOM, excitement would be an understatement.

I don't think anyone would forget their first sale online... it's just an exciting time and the beginning of something new.

... and thats how I made my first 100$ online!

[howtogurus]

Here is one more Internet Marketer who started on eBay. To be fair I worked previously as a web designer for a Microsoft Partner. I started on eBay selling used paperback books, made an easy $20,000 that first year. Of course no one buys used paperbacks any more so that market is long gone. After a couple of years I came out with my first Internet Marketing title, based on eBay and sold on eBay as a computer CD. "Internet Auctions: Striking It Rich in the 90's" As you can see from the title, that was a long time ago. But eBay is still a good market for my product line. We currently also sell on Amazon, through our web site, through affiliates, etc.

[drewfioravanti]

I'll never forget the day I made my first $0.25 on AdSense. I was so stoked! Two months of long, hard work finally paid off!

Now, two months of work for $0.25 is a really crappy hourly rate. But...it proved to me that is was possible.

And so it began...

[Samuel McEdwards]

Originally Posted by PrestonPilgrim

haha this brings back memories of last year...

I made my first 100$ online selling ebooks... PLR ebooks

It was difficult and time consuming, I have moved on since then, but all in all it was a good experience.

The reason I remember this so well is because when you first start internet marketing and you get your first sale... BOOOM, excitement would be an understatement.

I don't think anyone would forget their first sale online... it's just an exciting time and the beginning of something new.

... and thats how I made my first 100$ online!

I want to do the same thing, I have about 100 already made "Turnkey" products. These are eBook together with their resellers websites. I got them as a bundle from a product I bought. I thought probably these are eBooks that might have been promoted by the original author. So, I have not tried to use them and they just taking space in my hard disk.

Do you think I should give it a try and promote them heavily?

Thoughts please!

[chrisj9ball]

Originally Posted by Samuel McEdwards

I see a lot of Internet Marketers old school and new school who seem to be very successful in this internet business.

Can you share in this forum how you made your first $100 to $1000 online?

I ask this because it must have been an eye opening, exciting and energizing when you made your first money online. Most of us are still waiting for that moment and will like to know how you did it.

Share please how you break the ice. Thanks!

I made my first £100.00 on ebay selling books, that i created.

[Niko A Berezkin]

Selling SEO services on various online sites such as Fiver, eLance, FreeLancer, etc.

[Momto5girls]

Writing. I am a former high school English teacher, so my hobby is writing. After that, I created my own sites on Wordpress , read everything I could get my hands on about affiliate marketing, and did product reviews. Before the Google hit, product reviews were my main earners.

[Gengis]

First 100 to 1000 and more was with ebay in the late 90s..

[PrestonPilgrim]

Originally Posted by Samuel McEdwards

I want to do the same thing, I have about 100 already made "Turnkey" products. These are eBook together with their resellers websites. I got them as a bundle from a product I bought. I thought probably these are eBooks that might have been promoted by the original author. So, I have not tried to use them and they just taking space in my hard disk.

Do you think I should give it a try and promote them heavily?

Thoughts please!

You are probably right... they have probably been promoted by the original owner, who has now given resell rights to them...

Like I said my days with PLR content and resell rights is long gone.

But if it something you would like to do then give it a shot... just don't expect quick results. This is something I struggled with and ended up jumping from idea to idea.

How do you plan on promoting them?

[Samuel McEdwards]

Originally Posted by PrestonPilgrim

You are probably right... they have probably been promoted by the original owner, who has now given resell rights to them...

Like I said my days with PLR content and resell rights is long gone.

But if it something you would like to do then give it a shot... just don't expect quick results. This is something I struggled with and ended up jumping from idea to idea.

How do you plan on promoting them?

I was thinking of using a low cost PPC campaigns.

[PrestonPilgrim]

Originally Posted by Samuel McEdwards

I was thinking of using a low cost PPC campaigns.

That would be better than what I did... All I did was post ads in digital point forum until I made some sales.

What I would recommend is having up sells, OTO, and follow up emails to make more sales.

... it's all in the follow up!

[skyjoe76]

My first $100 was from ebay too in 2003 - 2004.

[Auctiondebteliminator]

Selling on eBay, of course!

It's easy to leverage their traffic! So long as you're researching the market worth and researching the deductions from there, you ONLY list items that make a profit!

[rmolina88]

Adsense for my first $100, List Building for my first $1000.

[datingworld]

made it from members making payments on my dating site.

[Samuel McEdwards]

Originally Posted by PrestonPilgrim

That would be better than what I did... All I did was post ads in digital point forum until I made some sales.

What I would recommend is having up sells, OTO, and follow up emails to make more sales.

... it's all in the follow up!

Thanks, that sounds like a good idea.

[khooster1]

I made my 1st $100 with Adsense. Those days, competition wasn't that big and Google is not that strict. Nowadays, I used paid traffic to sell affiliate products.

[JasonBennet]

I make my 1st $100 and $1000 from List Building. I simply just put a simple squeeze page which is directly link to an affiliate product. Once my website is live online, i simply just focus the majority of my time on traffic generation activities. Not am I am making money from promoting affiliate products, I am building a list too

[mpluto]

It was time of GeoCities... I made my first $36.00 on eBay when I built and sold a website using free domain and free hosting. Next one sold for $66.00

I did some calculations. I worked at grocery store making minimum wage in California at like $5.00/hour or so... So I did the calculations that it takes me to work 7 hours to make $35.00 and only 4 hours to build a website plus it was "work from home".

My third website sold for $120+ and I was very excited.

Later I was selling websites for way, way more.

I quit my job.

It was interesting to come back to the store about 3 years later and see those same mean, backstabbing, butt-kissing, fake-smiling workers still scanning at cash registers.

Right now I make good living working online from Alabama.

[Warrior X]

Originally Posted by JasonBennet

I make my 1st $100 and $1000 from List Building. I simply just put a simple squeeze page which is directly link to an affiliate product. Once my website is live online, i simply just focus the majority of my time on traffic generation activities. Not am I am making money from promoting affiliate products, I am building a list too

Right on brother, you've got the right idea there.

[Steve Wells]

My primary income online is from graphic design services offered to Internet Marketers. I have made money selling marketing graphic products also.

[chocolatedog]

Selling a digital product to the audio production community. I was doing pretty good till my product got torrented to hell. And then Rapidshared, and then Mega Upload. Man..

[chocolatedog]

I remember my first check from Google. those were the days

[Shadowflux]

I busted my ass and worked harder than I ever did at any traditional job.

Honestly, it doesn't matter what you do to make your first bit of money, this is the key to actually making it.

[Mogly]

SEO Article writing... made $4,000+ from it over a year

Then I moved into my own site, and things have been on the up and up!

[danfac2012]

I made my first $100- a few thousands selling computer rams (those 32, 64, 128MB) back in early 2000.

[nicholasb]

I made my first $3,000 writing articles and linking them to a squidoo page which linked to a affiliate offer, then I took all that money and invested it in auto responder, hosting, some other various services and paid traffic.

That was 6 years ago and my business is booming still, I have more than doubled sales every year since I started.

[Realindaville]

My first money online was a online clothing store i made through Godaddy. I did really well with it , but for me the best part was the surprise of getting money when i put adsence on my site and found out that they paid me for clicks that was almost as rewarding as seeing all the sales from the store.

[Jensha]

Originally Posted by Malcolm Thomas

I made by first $100 using fiverr but since then I have moved on to much better (and profitable) ventures.

Mine is the same with Malcolm.
Though I'm still at the point where I'm stuck at working at fiverr.
I don't have any larger ventures yet.
Still, it excites me.
I mean it's a big help for me to earn some by just using the internet at the comfort of my beloved family at home.

[TradingExpert]

I made mine using a cheap local newspaper ads
couple with a 7 days eCourse (newbies plus)!

[alvinchua91]

affiliate marketing. I created a blog in a certain market/industry.

Within each post I post, I will ask readers to also check out my review of a certain program (this review is also found on my blog).

The review gives them the positive and negative sides of the product and gives a call to action.

I then created backlinks mostly from article, video and social media marketing. That's how I did it (:

Oh yes, and a H*LL lot of belief in yourself as well as discipline. <-- most important

[noypiamuel]

I made my 1st $100 dollars online in odesk you should try to get some contracts there

[msm24]

I made my first $1000 using product reviews on a blog, then spent about $15 on SEO from fiverr.com

[KevinChapman]

I made my first $100 building a list and selling clickbank products

[himanuzo]

Promoting affiliate products through SEO.

Each keyword is each blogpost and add backlinks toward blogposts.

[higherluv]

For me, it was selling affiliate products through google adwords. Then I went on the opposite side of google and tried adsense and made $100 time after time there.

If you want to do it Samuel, I suggest building an email list, for the money is in the list as they say.

[RedShifted]

To answer this more broadly, it was a form of focus.

An ultra specific, laser targeted focus, that fed off of nothing but anger. Why was I getting so angry?

I was getting angry for these reasons -

1) Being dependent on others to tell me what niches are good or what I should do.
2) Baring witness to a rotting slew of vague and non specific advice.
3) Criticism on every idea I was considering, regardless of how good or bad the ideas actually were.
4) Feeling lost and like I'd never make good money untill I started ignoring peoples advice.
5) Feeling angry at the concept that I'm probably smarter than most people I'm asking for help. So I stopped asking for help, and became really focused.

So for me, it was anger that led to focus.

I'm the type of person who believes it is perfectly healthy to get angry at yourself on a daily basis. The goal should be simple. Do whatever you have to do to get 1 step closer to money (short of robbing people). Visualize the system in your mind. How the wheels will turn, and what the end goal is.

Then implement your plan when you are angry enough with yourself.

Thats all I can really say.

Some people never reach that point. But I'm definitely happy that I did. =]

(btw, anger and happiness are just 2 sides of the same coin - you can never have one without the other)

[gonzotrucker]

Adsense And I made a few sales so far.