Is Google AdSense the best money maker on the internet?
You read a lot about people saying that Google AdSense is the best money maker on the internet. So, can you make money with AdSense? And more importantly, can you make a lot of money with AdSense?
Using examples like ProBlogger, John Chow and Shoemoney the overwhelming response would be yes, and lots of it. But there are a lot of people that are making pennies with AdSense.
So, what gives?
Well, according to a post on Blogger Unleashed, you can make some hella cash with AdSense if you know how to use it. Check out the video at the link for more info. After my crappy AdSense month last month I have definitely already watched this video.
The key to making money online success - passive income
I have previously identified that I need to average around $250 a day to meet my goal by the end of the year. I will be a peso millionaire!
So far this month my pitiful average per day is around $65. Disgraceful isn’t it? The good news is that I seem to be hitting my stride. That past few days I have made about $120 average per day. And I have been working hardcore!
So, what does this mean?
It means that I need to figure out how to get passive income working for me. And pronto!
Luckily I came across a list of over 20 passive income resources. If you are trying to work on your passive income you will want to check it out as well.
Peso makin with baby steps
I mentioned that I was going to ramp up my affiliate program usage. And I have. I have been testing out some links with CJ.com and trying to find things that perform good for me.
I found a lot of stinker links that did nothing.
And I found one that is getting clicks and earning me a little bit of money each time someone sign ups. The performer is MyPoints. But the earnings are muy pequeño.
I have been reading that a lot of people are making major bucks from ClickBank though. Maybe I’ll check into that.
Looking for new ways to make money online?
I certainly know that I am looking for some new ways to make money online. In fact, I am trying to quadruple my online income, like pronto.
If you look at my January online income report you will see that I made $1865.09. There were 31 days in January, so that has be making about $60.16 per day. That is downright shameful. My target per day average is $250.00
Needless to say this gringo is looking for more way to make money online. And as luck would have it, I just came across a list of 101 Ways to Make Money Online.
Unfortunately though I do not really see a lot of things on that list that are particularly appealing. But check it out, you might find something that interests you.
I Want To Make Money Online Faster!
Yes I do.
In fact, this gringo needs to make more money online faster. I recently discovered that I need to basically quadruple my online income. And pronto!
So I was mucho excited to come across the post Here’s How You Can Make Money Online Faster… at Gather Success. Apparently making money online faster is as simple as uno, dos, tres.
What are uno, dos and tres? Traffic, leads and sales (according to señor Gather Success). Wow, it’s so simple, I wish I had thought of it before.
He suggests paid traffic. Um, no thanks, trying to make pesos here hombre, not spend them. I’d rather rely on the powers of The Secret. Okay, not really. But I like the sound of free traffic more.
Are ebooks a good way to make money online?
One thing that is a supposed money maker is the ebook.
I admit it though - this gringo does not really get ebooks. Granted, I have never purchased one. But I get the impression that ebooks are basically a bunch of blog posts all wrapped up in one compact little PDF. However, people make money on them. Maybe I should try it too.
I have Microsoft Word. I have Adobe Acrobat. And I have some tequila. So it looks like I am ready to go with this whole ebook thing.
Money Saving Mom had a post on writing, producing and selling an ebook. Actually it appears it is a series and the link I have provided is to the first part of the series.
What could I write about? Well, I suppose I could write about how I went from a broke gringo to a peso millionaire. Of course, that would fall more along the lines of fortune telling since I am not actually a peso millionaire yet.
I could always write an ebook on how to effectively communicate in Spanglish. Do people buy snarky humor ebooks? Cause I’d hate to put in all of that work and have no pesos to show for it.
Buy crap from Cafe Press; I make pesos - how beautiful
In my quest for more passive income I have added a couple of new designs to Cafe Press.
Introducing the Peso Millionaire Cafe Press store:
Everyone needs this yard sign. Or you could go with a more conservative t-shirt or button. Whatever.
Just buy some of the Cafe Press crap so I can make some pesos. Or trick your friends into buying it.
Will I be making more pesos soon?
This gringo just got word today that I was approved for both of the programs I mentioned. Yes, Smorty and Blogsvertise showed this gringo a little lovin’ today.
I signed into Smorty and got excited to see three $6.00 opportunities. Then I read a comment by lulugal11 that rained all over this gringo’s parade. Lulugal11 mentioned that the sites did not pay much. Do you know how sad that is to this gringo? Imagine breaking open a piñata and having dentures falling out when you were expecting loads of candy. Used dentures at that.
Yet, this gringo will be okay. Used dentures have uses too. So, in other words, I’ll take those $6.00 opportunities while they are there.
Passive income with Cafe Press
I think the real key to being a successful online money maker is creating a large stream of passive income. Unfortunately this is not the kind of thing that can be done over night. Yet it is something that I have been working on this past month.
One of the quickest and easiest ways to create some passive income is through Cafe Press. The bad part about using Cafe Press for passive income is that it is such a small stream that it is almost a trickle.
However, creating an image and uploading it to Cafe Press does not take much time at all. At least for me, but I am doing simple designs. Something a bit more complex would take longer but it would also probably sell better. So, go figure. For now though I am fine with simple designs and a trickle of passive income.
Take this design for example.
I threw this together in about a minute and uploaded it to Cafe Press last Thursday. By the weekend I had re-uploaded it because someone had flagged it as inappropriate and made $2.00 off of it. The whole “flagging things as inappropriate” is really the only problem with Cafe Press. Apparently some douchebag Republican took offense to it and flagged it which just meant that I had to rename the file and re-upload it. A pain but not a deal breaker. I made $2.00 for about 5 minutes worth of total work.
Whenever I hear a funny phrase on TV or in real life I make a design like this and throw it up on Cafe Press. That’s where this design came from. I heard someone say it and thought it might be something that would sell pretty well. Looks like I might have been right.
More ways to make more money online
After realizing that I needed to up my online income by five I have been looking for new ways to make more money online. Like all of the other schmucks that are trying to make money online I read a bunch of other people’s blogs that have to do with making money online. Sadly though I seem to be the only one on the quest for one million pesos. Don’t people have goals anymore?
Well, after reading the latest post on Mike’s Money Making Rants & Raves I saw a lot of things that he is doing that I am not. So, I got to work. I signed up with
and I am hoping to get approved for that for my blogs. It would only let me submit one blog though, which is kind of a bummer. From what I can tell it seems like a good way to make some cash. What I like most about it is that they seem to send you the opportunities for peso makin’ by email. That’s great as it means I do not have to sit and hit refresh all day long to snag an opp. And I also signed up for
However I found their rules to be a bit over the top. I do not see us having a lengthy love affair, but I thought I would give it the benefit of the doubt.
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I'm trying to get to one million pesos by 12/31/08.
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The exchange rate
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The goal? 1,000,000 Mexican Pesos.
Current exchange rate as of 4/15/08 is 1.00 MXN = 0.10 USD.
So, 1,000,000 MXN = 95,350.23 USD.
Check out the Currency Converter at XE.com.
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