Making money online
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- benfal99
What project would you start to make money online? (Serious question)
You know like, seeling your art, offering downloads such as photoshop brushes, textures and layouts.. making ugly logos ;) What else?
- eegrek0
Sell cheap Nikes. But seriously, I think about this too, a way to make some cash on the side.
- benfal990
I think about this since about 2 years... Didn't find the good project yet.
- benfal990
I started this helpmypixels.com a couple of weeks ago, but now I see that this kind of thing everywhere on the web, so its very hard to find your place in a saturated area... I have almost no visitors in a day. And i tried to promote it here and there without real success.
- benfal990
I made like 200$ with Google Ads on a tumblr I have, in about 3 or 4 months. That is the best I have accomplish yet.
- bjladams0
i started selling my own prints a few weeks ago. made enough to cover Christmas for the wife and kids. and already have pre-orders to start out the next year for pieces to go to the printer.
- Nice. Link?benfal99
- http://www.benjadams… only 2 for sale currently, 2 more in the que for new yearsbjladams
- Cool!! And how do you promote it? How much visitors each day?benfal99
- people laugh at fb+twitter, but it gets word out fast.bjladams
- truebenfal99
- Nice project. I was thinking about something similar. How much did you make,iam curious.benfal99
- i sold a couple dozen over the last 3 weeks. $25 each. put some towards new prints, most for christmas
bjladams - super coolbenfal99
- These are great!riskunlogic
- If you submit to poster blogs like omgposters.com, and they decide to post you up, it could result in more sales too :)Jaline
- CALLES0
fuck benfal i thought you were the china spammer
- plash0
When i look into the crystal ball, i see tablets being a major force.
you want to forecast the next 5 years?; mobile devices. tablets, phones even TVs are all going online. mobile devices in general are coming to age. and for the first time we really have the set of tools that can cater to it (html5, jquary, and adps).the wave of dual and quad core tablets are out. more and more people are ditching netbooks in lure of tablets. TVs with internet connection are multiplying. it's a gold rush out there, first to show up gets the big loot.
- honest0
porn
- Amicus0
porn with SPAM product placements - optimised for tablets of course.
- BattleAxe0
photo gallery i have of night clubs gets me $175 avg / month best month I got over $1200 with adsense plus cold calling to sell web bannwrs to local busnisses , that was before fb, twtr, mys , etc
now im back to only ad sense
- So people pay for prints of themselves in a club? Do you give the club a cut?toodee
- monNom0
@ the helpmypixels website.
You hardly have any content on the website.The best content you do have (the icons imo) is hidden behind an almost laughable $0.25 fee wall. Why do you even want $0.25 for them?
You'll pay all of that to paypal for the transaction.You'd be better off to just flesh out the icons, pack them up nice and promote just the icons for free. sort of like famfamfam and their silk icons.
offer them FREE for non-commercial use, some nominal fee for commercial use -- but make it EASY to buy.
Giving away free (and promoting them), will help spread your service organically by a the community, charging for commerical use hopefully pays off in the end as once icons are in a project, they can be difficult to switch out.
That said, the money you make is probably going to be in proportion to the time you invest. You can bang out some icons in a day, not promote the collection very much, and maybe make a couple of bucks, or you can dedicate a great deal of time to marketing some icons/website/whatever that you poured your blood sweat and tears into, and maybe earn a decent wage if your product is good.
- monNom0
bottom line: good content attracts users/dollars. If you don't have a lot of time or skill to produce that content, you need to figure out a way to make a little off of someone else's work. (ie: facebook, youtube, google, digg, tumblr).
- toodee0
It's not creative but I'm always meaning to do some affiliate marketing stuff. The idea would be to set up loads of sites that don't need any maintenance and try to make some passive income.
- benfal990
I think iam gonna produce nice tshirts and prints my drawings and sell them on a cool lil' website
- benfal990
Anyone ever tried Cafepress Shop to sell stuff?
- Hue0
I am in the same situation, I have been working on a personal site http://www.thriftandthistle.co.u… for a while as a creative outlet. And trying to build some exposure by giving away free resources http://www.thriftandthistle.co.u… but not getting many hits. I am looking to showcase it in some way and spread the word but not sure on the best route.
- benfal990
A website like http://www.printfection.com wich is an alternative to Cafepress gives you 2$ for each tshirt you sell... thats a low profit.
- benfal990
I always make the simple calcul in my head that "If I sell 5,000 items per year at the price of only 2$, I would make 10,000$"
I have to figure out what should I produce that 5,000 persons would like to pay 2$ for...
:P
- bjladams0
a friend and i started our business with sales thru spreadshirt.com and lulu.com - those types of places are good resources.
- Link thru your shop? And, what is the profit on each shirt?benfal99
- classic tees are 12€ you set the price you want above that, they do everythingernexbcn
- 12€ at least once I tried, 1 color print though.ernexbcn
- the shop no longer exists, it's been a couple years. just made enough to get capital to start our studio.bjladams
- our profit was around $3-5 per item- sold a lot to local sports clubs and for bands.bjladams
- raf0
I know people who make quite decent money on stock photos. It takes time to learn what and where to sell, how to promote your work and to build up your library but after that—it's pretty much passive income that you keep increasing with continued uploads.