How much do you make and how?

funguru · 07-24-2006, 01:20 PM

Please list how much you make from your website (1 or multiple but dont add the revenues from multiple)

eg. if you have just one website making money then $XXXX
if you have more than one then
1. $XXX
2. $XXX
....and so on

Second.. please mention from where are you generating this revenue..

e.g

1. google (50%)
2. Word of mouth (25%)
3. adbrite.com (15%)
4. others (10%)

please make a seperate list if are listing more than one website..

this would be good experiment for all the webmasters as this would give us a good idea about a good adversiting medium which gives from ROI as well..

funguru · 07-24-2006, 01:22 PM

i dont have a mmoney making website yet, otherwise i would have been the first to make a post. However i will soon be launching my website and this would give me a good idea of how i should go about advertising it.

JuggoPop · 07-24-2006, 02:33 PM

it's a bit bold to ask people to list this stuff, no?

funguru · 07-24-2006, 02:38 PM

sure... but i am not asking to list their urls.. besides i think this can benefit a lot of webmasters

JuggoPop · 07-24-2006, 02:40 PM

ahhhh... I thought you wanted urls listed as well.
well without the url requested, it's not as bad of a question.

I currently don't make anything woth mentioning on any of my sites.

visionedger · 07-24-2006, 05:41 PM

Just curious but why would anyone want to have a number of websites and NOT make any $ on them? Are you in it for your health or are you independently wealthy or have another career to pay the bills? If you have websites isnt it sensible to actually try to have them make some $ to cover overhead?

funguru · 07-24-2006, 05:48 PM

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Originally Posted by visionedger

Just curious but why would anyone want to have a number of websites and NOT make any $ on them? Are you in it for your health or are you independently wealthy or have another career to pay the bills? If you have websites isnt it sensible to actually try to have them make some $ to cover overhead?

sometime you stick with a website eventhough its not making any $$ coz you think someday it will.. i have been through that.. and i am sure most of the other webmasters have too..

Cylent · 07-24-2006, 10:05 PM

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Originally Posted by visionedger

Just curious but why would anyone want to have a number of websites and NOT make any $ on them? Are you in it for your health or are you independently wealthy or have another career to pay the bills? If you have websites isnt it sensible to actually try to have them make some $ to cover overhead?

I currently have my own servers and admin 18 websites for over 3 years now and to date I have not made one thin dime. I pump money every month into my colo servers and dont see anything come back.

Not because I am rich, far from it really, and not because I dont want to, its because actually I dont know how to make money with my sites. So if you want to show me, be my guest.

shahab6 · 07-24-2006, 11:50 PM

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Originally Posted by visionedger

Just curious but why would anyone want to have a number of websites and NOT make any $ on them? Are you in it for your health or are you independently wealthy or have another career to pay the bills? If you have websites isnt it sensible to actually try to have them make some $ to cover overhead?

Some people do it for fun, when I started out my website, I was not thinking I would make any money from it, I just did it because I liked it, but now its making decent money, almost as what I'm making at my regular job.

**John Scott** · 07-25-2006, 03:13 AM

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Second.. please mention from where are you generating this revenue..

e.g

1. google (50%)
2. Word of mouth (25%)
3. adbrite.com (15%)
4. others (10%)

Google as in Adsense?

Our income is from web directories, V7N advertising sales, web design, web hosting, and some link building work.

Julie · 07-25-2006, 06:54 AM

$60/month in adsense on my own sites.

I make money doing other stuff for other people online though.

imaginemn · 07-25-2006, 07:21 AM

I have 1 primary site and a handfull of other misc supporting sites.

I would say 90% of my sales come from networking and building relationships with other companies and word of mouth. The other 10% comes from my websites. I spend ZERO money on advertising. However I have offered some of my services for free in return of advertising.

I signed up for adsense and rarely use it. I would say I've earned $35 in the last two years. It does not make sense sending traffic to other sites when I can offer the services myself.

Like I said, it's all about building the relationship with the customer.

funguru · 07-25-2006, 10:28 AM

[quote=JohnScott]Google as in Adsense?

good questions John.. i should have been more clear..

money would come from google in two ways.

1. Conversions from Adwords advertising.
2. Adsense monthly revenue.

BinkyMelnik · 07-25-2006, 02:13 PM

visionedger:

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why would anyone want to have a number of websites and NOT make any $ on them?

Most of us DON'T want to have sites from which we make nothing. We *want* to make money from 'em. Just 'cause we don't doesn't mean we don't WANT to!

funguru:

From one of my sites, I make a little (very little) via Amazon and contextual advertising. On the other, I sell a service, which brings in about $225/week.

visionedger · 07-25-2006, 02:25 PM

It seems to me the people with sites that do (hopefully for their sake) make $ are the (established) directory masters and product or service re-sellers. The adsense, adwords and other SEO programs are implemented by those savvy enough seem to generate minimal $ / month to keep the sites running if done correctly.

Clyent mentioned above that they have 13 sites and their own servers and makes 0 $$. Can I ask why you do it then? I can see the sense of accomplishment factor and all but if you havent made $ in 3 years when many around you apparently are how can you keep going on the same track? I personally would get some help or dump it and move into an area where at least I would be compensated to some degree. I am not trying to infer anything personal against your methods and that money is the end all be all but in this day and age we need a ton of $$$ to just survive and time is crtical in doing so.

I believe I have a great idea I feel would be a great way for ANY site to implement easily and generate cash thru low cost paid memberships as well as adv sales, promos and ppc programs. From my naive position (webmastering is new to me and may be a good thing since I am looking in from another side of this business) I cannot see the downside at this point. With the potential upside for EVERY site owner that joins my main site.

Possibly I am missing something in the valuation of my idea and the potential I am estimating is not raelly as I calculate however with the huge demand today for sites looking to gain new exposure and clients I feel that the key to increased profits is new and intriguing marketing methods that draw traffic (pre-qualified that is) to sites with the intent on converting that traffic to paid customers.

In my mind some form of incentives are the key to make site traffic want to either join your site or buy your product or service. With the huge number of sites and constanly growing, niche marketing ideas will be necessary to direct traffic to sites. But as you agree you first have to get the traffic to your site.

The KEY #1 one question is therefore :

"HOW DO I CREATE A METHOD TO DIRECT ON-GOING PRE-QUALIFIED TRAFFIC TO MY SITE(S) AND HOW DO I CONVERT THEM INTO PAYING CUSTOMERS/MEMBERS?"

This is essentially what we are all trying to do, correct? (that is if you are in it for the $).

I am starting a new post with this very question as I am afraid I may have gone over the boundaries and hijacked this link and I apologize FunGuru if I have.

BinkyMelnik · 07-25-2006, 03:54 PM

visionedger:

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Clyent mentioned above that they have 13 sites and their own servers and makes 0 $$. Can I ask why you do it then?

Why does anyone have a hobby? Because we enjoy it. Folks don't typically make money from stamp collecting, playing chess, inline skating, dancing, or gardening, either, but that doesn't stop 'em.

It's a labor of love. Not everything hasta be monetized.

imaginemn · 07-25-2006, 04:14 PM

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Originally Posted by BinkyMelnik

visionedger:

Why does anyone have a hobby? Because we enjoy it. Folks don't typically make money from stamp collecting, playing chess, inline skating, dancing, or gardening, either, but that doesn't stop 'em.

It's a labor of love. Not everything hasta be monetized.

You could also add training/learning. I used to work for a company when I first started and it was easier for me to setup my own website and play, break, update on my own site than doing it at work and mess up our production website. Not everyone can probably afford to do that but it saved me a lot of headaches and made me look more advanced than I really was. I could also try new things I did not want to do at work just in case I couldn't figure it out or just didn't make sense to do it.

shahab6 · 07-25-2006, 06:59 PM

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Originally Posted by BinkyMelnik

visionedger:

Why does anyone have a hobby? Because we enjoy it. Folks don't typically make money from stamp collecting, playing chess, inline skating, dancing, or gardening, either, but that doesn't stop 'em.

It's a labor of love. Not everything hasta be monetized.

Exactly, for most people its a hobby, I mean some people do collect stamps, card, or other collictable hoping to make money of it, but most of them to it as a hobby. Most of my friends who have website do it for fun, thats how I started in my website, just for fun.

Buildingbodies · 07-26-2006, 11:26 AM

I got into this whole thing when I wanted to write a book on getting in shape.

This lead me to pdf and then to putting it online. It was a service to my personal training clients to offer advice through webpages that would be there 24/7. Then a friend told me about adsense. I was serving a need, writing about what I enjoyed and now adsense was paying me. Paying me enough to be in the low 4 figures per month from this site only.

Then a friend read my pdf book and told me about clickbank. I put the book on the site, the themes matched and now that is almost to 4 figures a month. Still from one site.

Seeing there was money to be made on the net, and liking the freedom it afforded, I started another site to show others how to do the same. As I learn I teach it by writing it, blogging actually. Another thing I enjoy doing and am getting paid well for it.

I did buy into the adsense game of high paying keywords for a while and got sick of writing about crap I didnt love or really care about....and making a site I wasnt proud of.

So for me it is google adsense and clickbank. I make some money through affiliate programs of supplements companies but its a trickle feed at most. CJ has given me no luck whatsoever.

Doing my best with a newsletter but it is more of a trust builder versus a money maker. Maybe I just market that one wrong.

Hope that helps.