Making Money Online
I make this much in, like, months.
There’s some kids posting about Forex scams and link exchange and all this spammy bullshit. If the collapse taught us anything is that quick money off intangibles is just that. Quick, and dead. I still think the best way to ‘make money’ in the long run is to make good content, updated frequently. I see a lot of blogs devoted entirely to ‘making money’ which are essentially preaching to each other and peddling penis pills and useless eBooks. Yet the people I see online making careers tend to write about something of actual human interest and value. Like Kottke, or Andrew Sullivan, or Trent or Dooce. And if there’s anything I’ve learned recently, it’s that producing real tangible things of human value is far more important (and stable) than making a quick buck. Cause a quick buck is just that. It’s gone.
This is more in reference to an article I read about YouTube entrepreneurs than anything else. My own napkin calculations are that it would take about 10,000 to make anything that even approximates a living in Sri Lanka, from Google Ads. Seeing that we have like 430,000 Internet users, say 500,000 cause I suck at math. I think I could get like 1,000 a day if I sat and did it. I don’t and I don’t. But saying, there’s still a ceiling I hit, and have hit on everything I’ve done post-tsunami. And then you get bored and bail. I think it’s important to improve content or whatever, but in Sri Lanka we have to actually improve the infrastructure. In the main, that means getting more money and people online.
Google AdWords isn’t enough, and there simply aren’t enough people online. I’ve been feeling out technology (and organizations) to support some kinda local cash to bloggers, but it’s damn slow and complicated. I’m also really excited by HSPA (mobile broadband) and mobile internet. The growth is slow, but I think it’ll surprise us. That is, I think I have a shot at being able to quit my day-job someday, but I need about a million other people to come up first.
I have a humble Physics site that I am working on with a few of my friends. We do have ads on it and we have closer to 3000 visits a day (doubles or triples during exam times). Ad income averages around $450 a month(Google Ads only). We donate it to an small organization that provides books and supplies to the needy all over the world. The hosting fees are also paid with the income.
You are right about getting people online, I think ads will be a viable revenue stream in SL when that happens. Once a sizable portion is online and the rest will have to follow, I guess, like the rest of the world. Infrastructure, perhaps once the war ends (?) the rest will grow I guess!
May be you could start an AD-veture so when time comes, you will make money as well as help others make money. Just like you did with Kottu. Even though I got to know Kottu recently, I have got to know lot about SL bloggers through Kottu (Thank you for bringing Kottu about!) So why not an SLADWORDS.
Am a webmaster of few sites of developed by myself. And am happy to say I have made enuff money online for about 3+ years and am still making enuff as much an average SL executive’s salary. Anyway it does involve a lot of work.
Well, the problem with online money making crowd here is they try to make some quick buck, cheat and end up with their Google ads or whatever accounts banned.
you make 2000 rupees in months!!! machan, I checked ur site at http://www.cubestat.com/www.indi.ca … it says you can earn about 5$ a day from this site. I know cubestats is pretty accurate because the estimates it gives for some of my websites are correct. try placing a adsense 250X250 pixel panel in a more prominent place like in the top left hand side within ur blog posts than at the bottom. you’ll increase your Adsense CTR many times and increase ur revenue..